Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Belgium on Strike Brussels—On Friday, February 25, life...
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A VICTIM OF CASTRO The Case of Huber Matos by LEO SAUVAGE Following a succession of developments moving toward what Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had described as Washington's desire for "early...
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A WHOLE NEW BALL GAME? Cyprus and the Turkish Elections BY RUSSELL WARREN HOWE now question Turkey's 50-year-oUt commitment to the Occident. Leftists look to Moscow, Rightists seek a nationalist...
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ON HANDEL'S 292nd BIRTHDAY A Letter to Uncle Lenin by WILLIAM HERRICK February 23, 1977 Tovarich V. I. Lenin The Sarcophagus Red Square Moscow, USSR Dear Little Uncle, Please forgive the...
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States of the Union SELLING THE LAND BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS "The land was ours before we were the land's," intoned Robert Frost at JFK's damp Inaugural. "Not quite," the corporations might have...
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Writers & Writing CU LTU RAL CONNECTIONS BY RUTH MATHEWSON The noisy "Two Cultures" debate on science and literature between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis in 1959 drew from Lionel Trilling a...
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Voices from a Troubled Community Everything in Its Path By Kai T. Erikson Simon and Schuster. 284 pp. $8.95. Our Appalachia Edited by Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg Hill and Wang. 397 pp....
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An Obsession with Privacy Selected Letters of William Faulkner By Joseph Blotner Random House. 488 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Charles Deemer Playwright, short-story writer The literary giant dies,...
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On Stage IF YOUTH BUT KNEW, IF AGE BUT COULD BY JOHN SIMON John Guare's latest, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, is, I am afraid, every bit as cute as its title. It takes place in the future, when an...
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On Art DEGAS' ESTHETIC OF INTELLIGENCE BY VIVIEN RAYNOR It takes several minutes to adjust to the fact that Degas at the Metropolitan (through September 4), is surprisingly free of either...
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Dear Editor On Unemployment As Lane Kirkland has argued ("Putting America Back to Work," NL, February 14), the Carter Administration economic package is too small and ill-focused to promise the...
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