ANOTHER VIETNAM? The Danger in Iran BY HANS J. MORGENTHAU CYRUS R. VANCE History offers no consolation prizes for failures animated by good intentions and immaculate planning. Napoleon would...
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LIFE ON A CARE BY DAPHNE MERKIN In the archives of literary history the files on F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald must be crammed to bursting. His drinking and her madness have become the stuff of...
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More Simple than Love Great Friends By David Garnett Atheneum. 240 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by John Simon What is friendship? Socrates admitted, at the end of the Lysis, to "have not as yet been...
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Worshiping a Cruel God The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s By Malcolm Cowley Viking. 328 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the...
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The Torment of the Liberal Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics By William M. Chace Stanford. 224 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English, Columbia University; author,...
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On Poetry AMBASSADOR OF THE FRAGMENTED BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Ever since the children of Israel sat down and wept beside the waters of Babylon, exiled poets have wrestled with the problem of...
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On the Art of Writing in the USSR The Oak and the Calf By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Harper & Row. 540 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Tomas Venclova Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA;...
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History vs. Prophecy The Two Marxisms By Alvin W. Gouldner Seabury. 397pp. $17.50. Reviewed by Dennis Wrong Professor of Sociology, New York University; author, "Power: Its Forms, Bases and...
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Perspectives SARTRE'S OPTIMISM BY FRANCOIS SAUZEY JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We had to hide to read him. We would smuggle in his books. When the lights were turned out, we read them under our blankets...
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Sheltering the Elderly Unloving Care: The Nursing Home Tragedy By Bruce C. Vladeck Basic Books. 305 pp. $13.95. Reviewed by Lowell E. Bellin Professor of Public Health, Columbia University...
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Homage to Andalucia Shadows and Wolves By William Herrick New Directions. 160 pp. $9.95. Reviewed by Thomas Berger Author, "Little Big Man," "Arthur Rex," "Who is Teddy Villanova?"...
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On Television BRING ON STEVE ALLEN BY MARVIN KITMAN When The Big Show (NBC, Tuesdays, 9 p.m.) had its premiere the night of March 4, it unveiled an enormous stage half a football field long with...
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