Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS American Visitor TEL AVIV—AS IS usual with American VIPs...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Arms and the Men PITY THE citizen who tries to make sense of the data on nuclear weaponry being launched from all sides Who has more missiles, we or the Russians9...
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CHARTING AMERICA'S FUTURE BY GUS TYLER UNDOING THE NEW DEAL (1939-1981) We learn from history that we do not learn from history. HEINRICH HEINE This is the third at tide in a projected...
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Writers & Writing THE BUSINESS OF BOOKS BY BARRY GEWEN THERE IS PROBABLY no more popular pastime among literary Americans than bemoaning the state of our national culture "A tawdry cheapness...
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Britain's Literary Labor Leader_ Debts of Honour By Michael Foot Harper & Row 240 pp $13.95 Reviewed by Nathan Glick Former editor, "Dialogue" OVER THE PAST four decades Michael Foot has been...
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A Child of Her Times Braided Lives By Marge Piercy Simon & Schuster 480 pp $14 95 Reviewed by Maureen Foley JILL STUART, the narrator of Marge Piercy's latest novel, is a successful poet who...
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On Screen SORTING OUT THE FILM GLUT BY ROBERT ASAHINA EVERY YEAR'S END there is a rush of new film releases, presumably to qualify them for the Oscar nominations Surely a strange ritual, since it...
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Dear Editor Hostages Raymond H Anderson closes his discussion of two recent books on Iran ("Before and After the Shah," NL, December 14, 1981) by saying that "a reader cannot help wondering how...
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