TIME FOR A CHOICE Reagan's Two-Track Policy in Central America BY PAUL E SIGMUND ONLY 18 MONTHS ago, I published an article in Foreign Affairs arguing that during its first year in office, the...
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END OF THE MARATHON A Kind of Victory in Madrid BY WILLIAM KOREY Damon Runyon might have called it the oldest established permanent floating talkfest in the Western world The Madrid review...
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The Dismal Science THE WAGES OF EXPLOITATION BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY Last summer I wrote a couple of columns questioning the Atari Democrats' notion that we should write off our "sunset" industries...
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States of the Union DELIBERATE PLEASURES BY RICHARD J MARGOLIS This is what Diane and I did on our summer vacation First we attended a wedding in the Maine woods, the guests wore Dacron slacks,...
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Writers &Writing STATES OF DESPAIR BY BARRY GEWEN NEAL R PIERCE and Jerry Hagstrom's The Book of America Inside Fifty States Today(Norton,910pp ,$25 00), is a hearty bouillabaise, rich in fact...
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Half a Mystery The Philosopher's Pupil By Iris Murdoch Viking 376pp $17 95 Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe At what point does a novelist attain the power...
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An Ambiguous Evolution Reflections of a Non-Political Man By Thomas Mann Translated by Walter D Morris Ungar 435 pp $29 50 Reviewed by Sol Gittleman Academic Vice President/ Provost, Tufts...
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On Screen SENTIMENTAL BERGMAN BY ROBERT ASAHINA Ingmar Bergman has announced that Fanny and Alexander will be his last movie, although he will continue to direct operas and plays for television...
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On Television TRASH ON THE BEACH BY MARVIN KITMAN YOU'RE RIGHT-The Hamptons, that festival of miserable TV on ABC this summer-smelled And I don't mean from the sea or the fish The five-part...
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