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Correspondents' Correspondence
LIPPMAN, SYDNEY COFFIN; SALPETER, ELIAHU; HENEGHAN, TOM
Correspondents Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Feast and Famine Cairo There it was before me, the...
Tongsun Park: The Man Behind the Smile
HOWE, RUSSELL WARREN
SOUTH KOREA'S SECRET WEAPON Tongsun Park: The Man Behind the Smile BY RUSSELL WARREN HOWE Washington The South Koreans certainly get around, the average U.S. citizen must be thinking these days....
Settling Down in Paris
JACOBS, NORMAN
NOTES FROM A NEW YORKER Settling Down in Paris BY NORMAN JACOBS Paris "Meshugana, meshugana," I could hear my father crying out from the other world, "what are you doing? Stop before it is too...
Redlining Rural America
MARGOLIS, RICHARD J.
States of the Union REDLINING RURAL AMERICA BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Washington Rural-based congressmen here are distressed that President Carter's $4 billion public works planthe centerpiece of...
The Whole Gestalt Catalogue
MATHEWSON, RUTH
THE WHOLE GESTALT CATALOGUE BY RUTH MATHEWSON Cyra McFadden's The Serial: A year in the life of Marin County (Knopf, 111 pp., $4.95) does not look like a novel; with outsized pages and a bright...
Attacking Welfarism
KELMAN, STEVEN
Attacking Welfarism The Future that Doesn't Work: Social Democracy's Failures in Britain Edited by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. Doubleday. 208 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Steven Kelman Author, "Push Comes...
Science and Showbiz
LIPSET, DAVID
Science and Showbiz The Visible Scientists By Rae Goodell Little, Brown. 242 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by David Lipset Relations between contemporary American scientists and the press particularly...
To Terrify and Comfort
MADOFF, STEVEN
To Terrify and Comfort Henry's Fate By John Berryman Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 94 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Steven Madoff The tumults, joy and agonies that governed the life of John Berryman who...
Totting up the Critics
SIMON, JOHN
On Stage TOTTING UP THE CRITICS BY JOHN SIMON One of those perennial posers, "How much power do theater critics have?" rears its battered head again in two articles in the July/August issue of...
Bravos for Von Stade
GUREWITSCH, M. ANATOLE
On Music BRAVOS FOR VON STADE BY M. ANATOLE GUREWITSCH Given her talent and her looks, Frederica von Stade could have launched a "promising" vocal career without bothering to learn to sing. But...
The Dealer as Superstar
RAYNOR, VIVIEN
On Art THE DEALER AS SUPERSTAR BY VIVIEN RAYNOR Kurt Valentin and now Ambroise Vollard: In the art world, the dealer seems to be assuming the same degree of importance given to movie directors by...
Dear Editor
Endless Desire Ruth Mathewson's explanation for the staggering success of Colleen McCullough's novel is ingenious ("Putting Down 'The Thorn Birds,' " NL, July 4). Using Northrop Frye's mythic...
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