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Vol. 063 Issue 022 (December 1 1980)
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Vol. 063 Issue 023 (December 15 1980)
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Welty's Shimmering South
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KAPP, ISA
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VVEIIYS ffookjssuc SHMMERNG SOUTH BY ISA KAPP w ? Ye have grown so accustomed to the sad faces of our famous writers, to their saturnine bearing and melancholy histories of drink and disarray,...
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Liberals, Stalinists and HUAC
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Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
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Liberals, Stalinists and HUAC Naming Names By Victor Navasky Viking. 482 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Naming Names is essentially two books. They can be dealt with...
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The Novelist as Political Traveler
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GLICK, NATHAN
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The Novelist as Political Traveler John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey By Townsend Ludington Dutton. 568pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Nathan Glick Former editor, "Dialogue" Why was a...
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An Original from Missouri
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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An Original from Missouri Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman Edited by Robert H. Ferretl Harper & Row. 448 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of History,...
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Bracing Ridicule
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry BRACING RIDICULE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL C atire seems to have originated out of primitive rite. At ancient Greek festivals, the leaders of Phallic songs heaped abuse on the bystanders...
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Trials of a Radical Folksinger
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GEWEN, BARRY
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Trials of a Radical Folksinger Woody Guthrie, A Life By Joe Klein Knopf. 476 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Barry Gewen Contributor, "Commentary," "Viva" The radical folksinger Woody Guthrie was a...
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A Cross Between Dickens and Runyon
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RASKIN, A.H.
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A Cross Between Dickens and Runyon Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling By Raymond Sokolov Harper & Row. 354 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by A.H. Raskin Associate Director, National News...
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Remembering the Levitas Salon
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ROCHE, JOHN P.
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Perspectives REMEMBERING THE LEWAS SALON BY JOHN P ROCHE My assignment forthis Christmas Book Issue was simply to review Burnett Bolloten's monumental study The Spanish Revolution: The Left and...
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From Sensibility Toward Sense
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SIMON, JOHN
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From Sensibility Toward Sense_ Under the Sign of Saturn By Susan Son lag Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 204 pp. $10.95 Reviewed by John Simon According to an adage that often performs also as an...
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When Good Old Boys Crack Up
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ROMANO, JOHN
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When Good Old Boys Crack Up Ray By Barry Hannah Knopf. 113 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English, Columbia University, author, "Dickens and Reality In its peculiar way—and...
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Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac The Book of Laughter and Forgetting By Milan Kundera Knopf. 228 pp. SI0.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman We begin with a funny, frightful contemporary political...
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Dreams and Haunting Grotesques
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GIBIAN, GEORGE
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Dreams and Haunting Grotesques The Sky Above Hell and Other Stories By Yuri Mamleyev Translated by H. W. Tjalmsa Taplinger. 160pp. $7.95. Reviewed by George Gibian Professor of Russian...
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Vol. 063 Issue 024 (December 29 1980)
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