PRESSING FOR PEACE The Next Step in El Salvador BY PAUL E. SIGMUND IN WHAT APPEARS to have been the first clean national election in their history, the citizens of El Salvador went to the polls...
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LEAVNG THE SINAI Israel's Withdrawal Syndrome BY ELIAHU SALPETER TEL AVIV LIKE ANY good drama, Israel's final withdrawal from the Sinai is a multilevel affair. A tragicomic element has been...
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The Dismal Science LET'S PUT INDEXING ON THE INDEX BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY THE REAGAN Administration is finally taking a sensible and practical (though partial) step toward solving the inflation—and...
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CHARTING AMERICAS FUTURE Below we present another contribution to the NL's year-long series aimed at stimulating debate on setting a new course for the country. RESPONSES-3 RELATIVE PRICES AND...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN "Time to get up, Ron. The press conference starts in an hour, and your hairdresser is waiting." "Thanks. I was having a nightmare. There was this Nicaraguan, Mao...
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Thinking Aloud REAGANISM AND MANAGING THE GOVERNMENT BY STEVEN KELMAN TWO IMAGES of the Federal bureaucracy have fueled the popular resentment against "big government" that the Reagan...
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On Poetry A HELEN FROM BETHLEHEM BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL THERE ARE SO many vignettes of symbolic significance in Janice S. Robinson's enlightening H.D.: The Life and Work of an American Poet...
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Missing the Boat on Socialism The Impossible Dream: The Rise and Demise of the American Left By Bernard K. Johnpoll, with Lillian Johnpoll Greenwood. 373 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Stephen J....
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'Bringing Up Baby' and Others Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage By Stanley Cavell Harvard. 283 pp. SI 7.50. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "TheDark Way to the...
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