MOSCOW ON THE SEINE BY ABRAHAM BRUMBERG Paris According to an editor of the Paris-based weekly Russkaya mysl (Russian Thought), there are about 20,000 Russians living here today, more than...
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\\friters &\^iting PRIVILEGED UVES BY DAPHNE MERKIN c all her, in this instance, Natasya. It happens that she likes her real name—it is one of the nicer attributes her parents have bequeathed...
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Delicious Trifles_ The Swoop and Other Stories ByP.G. Wodehouse Seabury Press. 205 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Isa Kapp A foreign cynic who saw Americans mired in the nougaty entanglements of maids...
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Artless Morality_ Sophie's Choice By William Styron Random House. 515 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman Can it be that Sophie's Choice is a daring effort at parody, a take-off not only on...
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On Poetry THE FACE OF ChflSTNA ROSSETTI BV PHOEBE PETTINGELL ^•wn their portraits, Victorian poets always seem to look like overstuffed furniture—monuments to the bourgeois prosperity of their...
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Abandoning the Good Fight The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing America's Politics By Peter Steinfels Simon & Schuster. 344 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Steven Kelman Assistant professor of...
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The Menace of Mediocrity The Secretary Martin Bormann: The Man Who Manipulated Hitler By Jochen von Lang Translated by Christina A rmstrong and Peter White Random House. 430pp. $15.95. Reviewed...
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IRVING HOWE: A TRIPLE PERSPECTIVE BY JOHN SIMON Irving Howe is a one-man triumvirate. The first member is a Jewish belletrist, a student and translator of Yiddish literature, but also very much a...
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Anecdotes from the Press Club Bar_ The Powers That Be By David Halberstam Knopf. 771 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Reuven Frank President, NBC News, 1968-73 This book aims to tell how the major...
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Keeping Up with Einstein_ Einstein By Louis De Broglie, Louis Armand, Pierre-Henri Simon, and others. Peebles Press. 219pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Martin Gardner Staff writer, "Scientific...
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Portrait of an Imperial Governorship Rockefeller of New York: Executive Power in the Statehouse By Robert H. Connery and Gerald Benjamin Cornell University. 480pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Steven R....
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Onlelevision WHY JOHNNY CANT LEAVE BV MARVIN KITMAN w ? ? hen Johnny Carson announced last month that he wanted to leave NBC's Tonight Show in September—or earlier, whichever came first— it was...
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