WILSON'S TURNING POINT BY BARRY GEWEN To anyone familiar with Edmund Wilson's Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972, the project to publish his persona] notebooks and diaries must so...
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Anatomy of a Fanatic A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy By David M Oshinsky Free Press 597pp $19 95 Reviewed by Joseph P. Lash Author, "Eleanor and Franklin" I encountered Joe...
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A Man in the Fray Marxism and Beyond By Sidney Hook Rowman & Littlefield 225 pp $19 95 Sidney Hook- Philosopher of Democracy and Humanism Edited by Paul Kurtz Prometheus 360 pp $18...
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Old World Wisdom The Europeans By Luigi Barzini Simon & Schuster 267pp $14 95 Reviewed by Isa Kapp There is a conspicuous difference between the dominant style of political commentary in America...
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On Poetry INTELLECTUAL DELIGHTS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL John Hollander's Powers of Thirteen (Atheneum, 103 pp , $13 95) is a sequence of 169 poems (13 x 13) of 13 lines each, followed by five pages...
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Excess Without End Ancient Evenings By Norman Mailer Little, Brown 709 pp $19 95 Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University This is a work of...
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Triumph of the Artist Chronicle of a Death Foretold By Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated by Gregory Rabassa Knopf 120 pp $10 95 Reviewed by Selden Rodman Author, "South America of the Poets,"...
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Portrait of a Shallow Genius_ The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock By Donald Spoto Little, Brown 594 pp $20 00 Reviewed by John Simon The one time I had lunch with Francois...
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In the Fascist Shadow 1934 By Alberto Moravia Translated by William Weaver Farrar, Straus, Giroux 297 pp $14 50 Reviewed by John Shepley Short story writer, translator Durer's famous angel,...
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On Television NAZIS FROM OUTER SPACE BY MARVIN KITMAN T he most extraordinary and provocative minisenes of the year, I could tell from the way NBC was promoting it, would be V "The Visitors are...
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