Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. PersonalizingDiplomacy Washington-the personalization...
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A MATTER OF RIGHTS? Talking with American Nazis and their Defenders by Leo Sauvage Chicago So there I was, inside the small, decrepit building far south of the Loop, near Marquette Park, that...
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A GLOBAL SURVEY The Troubling Summer of '78 BY Eliahu Salpeter Brussels There are times when history seems to accelerate, compressing into a brief period a multitude of events, and thereby...
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A Response to the Responses BY GUS TYLER Since its publication, our special issue on "The Other Economy: America's Working Poor" (NL, May 8) has elicited an unprecedented number of responses. A...
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States of the Union A NEW CHALLENGE TO LABOR BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS American labor unions have been struggling to grow in stony capitalist soil ever since the journeymen cordwainers of...
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Writers & Writing THE CULT OF PARODY BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL "The cult of parody, in fact, belongs to that literary culture which, in its obtuse and smug complacency, is always the worst enemy of...
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A Problem of Images The White Man's Indian By Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. Knopf. 261 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Andrew L. Giarelli Very early in its conquest of the Americas, Spain required that its...
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Eros and Exile Shosha By Isaac Bashevis Singer Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 277 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Alex Szogyi Professor of French Literature, Hunter College, City University of New York In...
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On Screen GOOD THINGS IN SMALL PACKAGES BY ROBERT ASAHINA Although it is widely believed that a critic can quickly rise to fame and fortune by attacking one movie after another, the evidence...
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On Music MONTEVERDI IN ZURICH BY M. ANATOLE GUREWITSCH Zurich Over the past three seasons, the Zurich Opera House has mounted the three surviving operas of Claudio Monteverdi-l'Orfeo (1607),...
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On Art TRIUMPH OF THE PAST BY MARION MULLER. Left to our own devices, we have tended to plow past mummy cases and Grecian urns without batting an eyelash. From grade school on, we had been...
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