Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Common Culture London-the European Community (EC) has...
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SURPRISE IN JAPAN How Ohira Failed BY DONALD KIRK Tokyo The apathy of the crowds along the campaign trail marked out by Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira two days before Japan's national elections...
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FEAR OF BEING FORGOTTEN Rosh Hashanah in Kiev BY SELWYNRAAB It was the evening rush hour in Kiev. On a main street hundreds of passersby clogged the sidewalks while long queues gathered in front...
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Thinking Aloud EXPORTING ANTI-SEMITISM BY DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN Iwould like to discuss one aspect of Israel's present role in the world. It is an important as well as difficult point that I shall...
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Life Among the Refugees A PHOTO ESSAY BY JOHN K. ISAAC Last July 14, JOHN K. ISAAC, a 36-year-old native of Madras, India, and an award-winning United Nations photographer, packed his four...
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Writers & Writing MAKING POLITICS SIMPLE BY JOHN ROMANO There appeared, recently, on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, a very amusing account of a disease called Sixtomania. The sufferer...
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Nasty Thoughts on Nice Places The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas By Paul Theroux Houghton Mifflin. 404pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Selden Rodman Author, "Mexican Journal," "The...
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Dispelling a Dangerous Illusion Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare and the Politics of Communism, 1941-1945 By Vojtech Mastny Columbia University. 409 pp. $16.95. Reviewed...
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On Poetry MIDLIFE JOURNEYS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL "Iin mid-journey through life," wrote the Florentine poet, "I discovered myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost." Before Dante...
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On Screen NOVELS INTO FILMS BY ROBERT ASAHINA The Europeans, one of Henry James poor novels, has been made into an even poorer film by James Ivory and Ismael Merchant, the director-producer team...
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On Television THECRUELEST SEASON BY MARVIN KITMAN Although it already seems like ancient history, only a few weeks have passed since the three networks presented their fall lineups with trumpets...
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Dear Editor Cuba Roger Fontaine's invocation of the Monroe Doctrine in defense of the United States' right to demand withdrawal of the Soviet troops in Cuba is ill-founded and self-serving...
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