correspondents' corresponaence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Chicago's Rusty Machine Chicago—The Windy City's...
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THAT OLD TIME RELIGION The Balanced Budget Amendment BY SIDNEY WEINTRAUB It is easy to understand why the self-interest mossbacks call for a constitutional amendment to compel the Federal...
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STRUGGLING WITH AUTONOMY Voices of the West Bank and Gaza BY MICHAEL TANNENBAUM Tel Aviv Under the terms of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, one month from the date of ratification...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Long^Playing BigLie The Basque country is a billowing land of green hills and woods, lonely white farmhouses and grimy towns. Travel-poster glimpses of ocean and mountain...
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Writers & Writing JEWISH JOKESTERS BY DAPHNE MERKIN ood as Gold (Simon & Schuster, 447 pp., $12.95) is a novel in which the milk of human kindness has permanently soured and all one can hope for...
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Literature and Middlebrow Idealism_ Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers By Henry Nash Smith Oxford. 204 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Harvey Curtis...
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Reappraising the Depression Chief Herbert Hoover: A Public Life By David Burner Knopf. 433 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of History, Columbia University Herbert Hoover's...
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On Television PRAISING CAESAR BY MARVIN KITMAN It's not easy to confess that for most of my life, I have secretly hated Shakespeare. It's not nice for an important critic of the most important...
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On Stage SLICES " OF LIFE BY DEAN VALENTINE Qweeney Todd is a Broadway musical with a difference, and the difference is that it's good. There is one problem, for writer Hugh Wheeler seems not to...
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On Music BAROQUE PRACTICES BY M. ANATOLE GUREWITSCH u nttl roughly the '50s, au-diences at large knew the baroque only as reflected in scores available from the 19th century, or at least in the...
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On Art BIENNIAL FASHIONS BY MARION MULLER The Whitney Biennial is 47 years old. For much of that time it was a prestigious event, and any artist invited to participate was regarded as having...
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