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Vol. 060 Issue 024 (December 5 1977)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Edmund Wilson's Instructions
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MATHEWSON, RUTH
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EDMUND WILSON'S INSTRUCTIONS Christmas Book Issue BY RUTH MATHEWSON From Princeton, when he was 17, Edmund Wilson wrote to a friend that he had just seen "Shaw's new masterpiece, Fanny's First...
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Romance out of Tragedy
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KAPP, ISA
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Romance out of Tragedy Delmore Schwartz: The Life of An American Poet By James Atlas Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 417 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Isa Kapp For many who read Partisan Review in the...
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Words of Our Fathers
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SIMON, JOHN
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Words of Our Fathers Caught in the Web of Words By K. M. Elisabeth Murray Yale. 416 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by John Simon Would you expect the biography of a man who edited a dictionary to be...
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Lives of the Mystery Writers
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DAVIS, HOPE HALE
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Lives of the Mystery Writers Agatha Christie: An Autobiography Dodd, Mead. 529 pp. $15.00. Rex Stout: A Biography By John McAleer Little, Brown. 621 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Hope Hale...
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A Writer Talking to Herself
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MERKIN, DAPHNE
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A Writer Talking to Herself The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume I (1915-1919) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 384 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Contributor, "Commentary," "Midstream " The...
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Irony, Tragedy and Violence
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry IRONY TRAGEDY AND VIOLENCE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL In his Collected Poems (Chicago, 516 pp., $20.00), Howard Nemerov beautifully justifies Allen Tate's dictum that all of a poet's books...
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Coexistence of Opposites
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SHABAD, THEODORE
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Coexistence of Opposites The Russian Mind By Ronald Hingley Scribners. 307 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Theodore Shabad Member, foreign news staff, former Moscow correspondent, New York...
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Unsupported Assertions
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PIPES, RICHARD
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Unsupported Assertions The Giants: Russia and America By Richard J. Barnett Simon & Schuster. 190 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Richard Pipes Professor of History, Harvard University; author, "Russia...
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Russia's Free Press
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SOSIN, GENE
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Russia's Free Press The Samizdat Register By Roy A. Medvedev (editor) Norton. 314 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Director of Program Planning, Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty, New...
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Limited Reading in Moscow
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GREEN, ASHBEL
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Perspectives LIMITED READING IN MOSCOW BY ASHBEL GREEN By any standard it was an extraordinary event: Eight of the Soviet Union's most prominent writers gathered in a private room of a downtown...
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The Making of a Terrorist
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SAUVAGE, LEO
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The Making of a Terrorist Dim Memories of a Polish Jew Born in France By Pierre Goldman Translated by Joan Pinkham Viking. 320 pp. SI0.00. Reviewed by Leo Sauvage Author, "Che Guevara," "The...
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Back in the Press BOX
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LINCOLN, PETER
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Back in the Press Box Clearing the Air By Daniel Schorr Houghton Mifflin. 301 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Peter Lincoln Assistant Editor, "New Times" "1 don't like work—nobody does—but 1 like...
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Between Irony and Desire
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WOODCOCK, GEORGE
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Between Irony and Desire Baudelaire and Freud By Leo Bersani California. 176 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by George Woodcock Editor, "Canadian Literature"; author, "The Writer and Politics" Charles...
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Life of a Vanishing Breed
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MELLOW, JAMES R.
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Life of a Vanishing Breed The Finest Kind: The Fishermen of Gloucester By Kim Bartlett Norton. 251 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by James R. Mellow Author, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein &...
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Little Women
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ASAHINA, ROBERT
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On Screen LITTLE WOMEN BY ROBERT ASAHINA The big news this fall from Hollywood was the rediscovery of women—as serious subjects for movies, as artistically important stars, and as directors....
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Searching for Jasper Johns
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RAYNOR, VIVIEN
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On Art SEARCHING FOR JASPER JOHNS BY VIVIEN RAYNOR The first chapter of Michael Crichton's Jasper Johns (Abrams, 276 pp., $28.50) ends with this composite portrait of the artist: "The contrasts...
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