Correspondents Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Wertmuller at Home Rome—Italian movie director Lina...
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FRAGMENTING THE MAJOIRTY Where the House Democrats Went Wrong BY BRUCE FREED Bruce Freed reports on Congress for the Congressional Quarterly. Liberal Democrats eagerly anticipated the...
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Countdown '76 THIRD-PARTY CAPERS BY GUS TYLER REAGAN and WALLACE A third-party ticket of Ronald Reagan and George Wallace could make this year's Presidential election an unpredictable jumble....
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Thinking Aloud THIRTY YEARS OF THE NEW ORDER BY LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI Leszek Kolakowski, the Polish philosopher, was expelled from the Communist party in 1966, lost his job at the University of...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Goodbye to All That I spent a couple of hours the other day doing one of those book-reshufflings that are required every few years in the interests of safety and...
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Writers & Writing IDYLLS OF THE TRIBE BY PEARL K. BELL On the assumption that literature cannot be both lucid and profound, many modern writers actively seek to mystify their readers. In the...
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Memoirs of a Schizophrenic The Eden Express By Mark Vonnegut Praeger. 256 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by David Lipset Mark Vonnegut, the novelist's eldest son, suffered three schizophrenic episodes...
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A Perilous European Choice The Socialist Left and the German Revolution: A History of the German Independent Social Democratic Party, 1917-1922 By David W Morgan Cornell. 520 pp....
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On Stage LOST LADIES BY JOHN SIMON Starting in 1877, when he produced Pillars of Society, Ibsen was to turn out one of his great, late plays every two years. The exceptions were An Enemy of the...
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On Screen PORTRAITS OF THE ARTIST BY ROBERT ASAHINA In Salut l'Artiste, a 1973 film directed by Yves Robert that only recently opened in New York, middle-aged Marcello Mastroianni plays a...
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Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Conservatives Walter Goodman suggests that conservatives have failed to...
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