Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Roads to Progress Geneva-In the 14th century, when West...
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NO CLEAR READING How Israel Sees Reagan BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Anyone overhearing the initial reactions of some of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's faithful to Ronald Reagan's victory could...
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Thinking Aloud FOREIGN POLICY IN A BIPOLAR WORLD BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Before his old broom sweeps it all away, Ronald Reagan should give careful thought to the possibility that some of Jimmy...
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COPING WITH HIGH COSTS What Ails the British Health Service BY NORMAN GELB London Several years ago, an ambitious young American free-lance journalist recently settled in Britain heard there...
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Writers & Writing Alices Vanishing Act BY DAPHNE MERKIN Alice James, the younger sister of Henry and William James, passed much of her life coveting death. She considered suicide most seriously...
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An Intruder Makes Good Loon Lake By E.L. Doctorow Random House. 258pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg To review this bestseller, even after the initial fanfare has subsided, is to risk...
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Shaping of the Metropolis City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America By Gunther Barth Oxford. 289pp. $19.95. Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United...
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On Screen A SORRY SEASON BY ROBERT ASAHINA One would scarcely from the recent slew of smarmy sex farces that we were living in the '80s, not the late '50s or early '60s. With their insufferably...
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On Television TASTELESS, FROM NEW YORK BY MARVIN KITMAN The first episode of the new Saturday Night Live on NBC this season (November 15, 11:30 p.m. EST) was a total disaster, the worst thing to...
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Dear Editor Tyler Gus Tyler is one of the wisest, most insightful of all political philosophers I know. The Democrat Party would be well advised to listen to this most sagacious man. His article...
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