Washington-USA AUTUMN'S POLITICAL WINDS BY ANDREW MOLLISON All spring and summer we political camp followers were snarling about the namby-pamby positioning and boring podium style of the...
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A STORY WITH NOHEROS The Rosenbergs Revisited BY DAVID M. OSHINSKY In the summer of 1949 an American spy plane returned from Asia with photographs revealing strong traces of radioactive material....
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The Dismal Science THE SAVINGS BUST BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Constant readers of this column have foreseen since The New Leader issue of March 8,1982, what last month burst like a paper bag full of...
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Writers & Writing JUDGING PRIMITIVE CULTURES BY BARRY GEWEN Henry Stanley's 1887 mission to rescue a British official stranded in the southern Sudan was typical. After leading a company of...
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In the Financial Fast Lane The World's Money: International Banking from Bretton Woods to the Brink of Insolvency By Michael Moffitt Simon and Schuster. 284 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Leonard A....
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A Master of Possibilities The Name of the Rose By Umberto Eco Translated by William Weaver Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 502 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Gregory A. Schirmer Assistant Professor of...
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On Screen FLIMSY FALL LINEUP BY ROBERT ASAHINA The Big Chill opened 21st New York Film Festival (September 23-Oc-tober 9) with the dull fizz of a deflating balloon. Lawrence Kasdan's tale of...
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On Television MACNEIL/LEHRER: TWCE AS LONQ HALF AS GOOD BY MARVIN KITMAN I don't understand the scheduling of the Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) new MacNeil/LehrerNewshour, launched last...
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On Stage A KEAN WITHOUT DARING BY LEO SAUVAGE Edmund Kean died on May 15, 1833, less than two months after his last appearance at Covent Garden in Othello . That swan song won a place in theater...
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