A LITTLE NEW DEAL Carter's Economic Doodling BY SIDNEY WEINTRAUB After dumping our country's economic cart deep into the recession ditch, President Carter late last month unveiled a plan to...
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THINKING OF MRS. THATCHER Britons Waffle on the U.S. Elections BY NORMAN GELB London Though it goes against their grain to brag, for a while the British claimed an advantage over Americans in...
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UNEASE IN ISRAEL Europe's New Scapegoat BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Avrv Israeli officials and private citizens alike tend to focus their concern primarily on the United States, since its actions and...
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States of the Union LETTER FROM CAMBRIDGE BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS It's been a long, difficult summer for us Cambridgians, what with the heat and humidity, the on-again-off-again Red Sox, and the...
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Writers & Writing CONSTRICTED EXPECTATIONS BY DAPHNE MERKIN The Middle Ground (Knopf, 277 pp., $10.95) is Margaret Drabble's ninth novel in almost twice as many years. She also has written a...
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Appealing to the Public Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights By Joshua Rubenstein Beacon. 304pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Donna Arzt Director, Soviet Jewry Legal Advocacy...
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A Restoration Lady of Letters Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn By Angeline Goreau Dial. 339 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Author, "The Writer and Politics,"...
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On Screen VICTORIAN BESTIARY BY ROBERT ASAHINA According to the credits, The Elephant Man is "based upon the true life story of John Merrick . . . and not upon the Broadway play of the same title...
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On Music PIRATES'IN THE PARK by john yohalem At first blush (and all Victorians blush, you know), it seemed an idea sure to trample on everything Savoyards hold dear. For a hundred years the...
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Dear Editor 'Carter and the Jews' All writers should be inspired to write "without any pretense of personal detachment," as you put it, if that is the clue to Cynthia Ozick's magic!...
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