Correspondents^ orresponaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Funny Economics single innovation of President Carter's...
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Carter Seesaw Washington—Unexpected triumph when all seemed to be going wrong, surprise defeat when things seemed to be going right. Yet oddly enough it is adding up to a year that will close on a...
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IN A TIME OF CHANGE ATalkwith Israel's New UN Ambassador Gertrude samuels Yehuda Z. Blum, 47-year-old international lawyer and professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, took up his duties as...
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States of the Union HAVE A GOOD DECADE by richard j. margolis Let us pause now, as we head into the final year of the Nixon-Ford-Carter decade, to draw up a preliminary balance sheet for the...
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Writers &Writing GETTING SMART by daphne merkin T he eight stories in Susan Sontag's /, Etcetera (Farrar Straus Giroux, 246 pp., $8.95) are all tricky, in the sense of being stunts—highwire acts...
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Overstepping Science_ On Human Nature By Edward O. Wilson Harvard. 260 pp. $12.50. Reviewed by Bernard E. Segal Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College The best thing about On Human Nature...
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Victims of Revolution A Tomb for Boris Davidovich By Danilo Kis Harcourt Brace. 135 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Ludmilla Thorne Translator, freelance writer Although small and unassuming, this...
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On Screen FILM FANTASIES by robert asahina Magic, the recent movie based on William Goldman's best-seller, Ben Greene (Burgess Meredith), a high-powered agent, gives a capsule definition of the...
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OnDance THE JOFFREY COLLECTION by robert greskovic JL ^^obert Joffrey commands attention with the number of seldom performed ballets he has amassed over the years for the repertoire of his...
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Dear Editor Bismarck's Appropriation Richard J. Margolis' "Battle of Pill Hill" (NL, October 23) seems a true account of what is happening in North Dakota. But the author errs when he gives to...
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INDEX FOR 1978 This Index of The New Leader articles for 1978 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all The New Leader contributors, whether writers of...
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