CARTERIZING THE DEMOCRATS Convention Notebook BY CALVIN FENTRESS Shhhhh. Soft-spoken Jimmy Carter is soft-speaking Meet the Press on convention eve, 1976. Even old Larry Spivak, who has heard...
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Countdown '76 THE SPIRIT OF '76 BY GUS TYLER By way of preface, this is how the post-Bicentennial dialogue ran: "What did you do on the Fourth of July weekend?" a young friend asked me. "I...
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MOVING TOWARD POLITICAL UNITY The EEC Is Alive and Plodding BY ELIAHU SALPETER Having read the prophecies of the European Economic Community's impending disintegration, I set out for my...
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Writers & Writing TOYS AND FICTIONS BY RUTH MATHEWSON In her commencement speech at Vassar this June Mary McCarthy—whose literary stock in trade has often been the comedy of women's hospitality...
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Taken In by the Fuehrer Spandau: The Secret Diaries By Albert Speer Macmillan. 463 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Victor Baras Assistant Professor of Political Science, the New School for Social...
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Alienated from Liberal Democracy The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 By George H. Nash Basic. 463 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Fred Baumann One group described in this book...
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On Stage ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH BY JOHN SIMON c Curious indeed are the vagaries of our theater. Years may pass between productions in New York of Shakespeare's Henry V; then, all of a sudden...
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On Screen SUFFERING IN SILENCE BY ROBERT ASAHINA -I have never been an admirer of Mel Brooks, although I enjoyed Young Frankenstein when it came out a little over a year ago. To be sure, his...
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On Art HAILING THE TAXICAB BY VIVIEN RAYNOR A Automotive engineering buffs will have the best time at The Taxi Project (Museum of Modern Art, through September 7). But the show, co-sponsored by...
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Dear Editor Can Reagan Win? Alan H. Tonelson's seemingly sensible analysis ("Why Reagan Came Back," NL, July 19) notwithstanding, I'd like to venture a prediction that Ronald Reagan won't come...
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