GRAY FLANNEL CABALISTS BY BARRY GEWEN when Theodore Draper, the author of two outstanding volumes on the early years of the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA), began his researches, he expected to...
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Browsing Among the Brainy Set A Partisan View: Five Decades of the Literary Life By William Phillips Stein & Day. 312 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman There must be one or two notable...
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An Unpleasant Charmer Brecht: A Biography By Ronald Hay man Oxford. 388 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John Simon The paradigm of the artist as monster is Richard Wagner. This dubious honor should...
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On Poetry DIFFERENT REVELATIONS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The lives of Modernist poets are rapidly becoming as well known as their poems. Indeed, better known, because readers who have scarcely...
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Zuckerman at the End of the Line The Anatomy Lesson By Philip Roth Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 291 pp. $14.95. Reviewed by Isa Kapp Whatever the critics have said about a previous novel by Philip...
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Wresting Life from the Void The Cannibal Galaxy By Cynthia Ozick Knopf. 216 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Max Apple Author, "The Oranging of America," "Zap" In one of his most often quoted...
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Perspectives REMEMBERING BERTRAM WOLFE BY SOL STEIN In the early '50s, I came upon a publishing failure called Three Who Made a Revolution. Though Edmund Wilson, then the dean of American...
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A Return to First Principles Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead By Irving Kristol Basic. 226 pp. SI9.95. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Author, "A Better World: The...
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Politics and the Public School The Troubled Crusade: American Education, 1945-1980 By Diane Ravitch Basic. 384 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Nathan Glazer Professor of Education and Social...
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The Liberal's Financier The Twenty-Year Century: Essays on Economics and Public Finance By Felix G. Rohatyn Random. 168 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman In at least one respect,...
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