THE TAIL THAT MAY WAG THE DOG China's Hong Kong Experiment BY WILLIAM MCCORD Hong Kong Communist China's recent draft agreement with Britain reportedly promises to preserve "all the rights and...
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States of the Union THE BIG LIE IN IOWA BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Populist anti-Semitism was entirely verbal. It was a mode of expression, a rhetorical style, not a tactic or a program. —Richard...
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PLUS CA CHANGE... Controlling Worker Control in France BY NORMAN BOWEN Paris The Socialist government of France has so far produced three years of nearly constant surprises: From his hard...
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PROMISE IN THE CARIBBEAN Democratic Breezes on St. Kitts-Nevis BY FORREST D. COLBURN Tucked into the eastern Caribbean are the tiniest nations in the world—St. Kitts-Nevis, Barbados, St. Lucia,...
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The Dismal Science A BAD IDEA FROM BROOKINGS BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY A couple of months ago I had occasion to mention Gary Hart's search for "a better title" for the radically new form of taxation...
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Writers & Writing ADVANTAGE ON THE RIGHT by barry gewen Thomas Byrne Edsall, a journalist with the Washington Post, has written a small volume that shines a large light on the political history...
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By Guilt Possessed James Agee: A Life By Laurence Bergreen Dutton. 467 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Selden Rodman Author, "Artists in Tune with Their World," "The Eye of Man," "Tongues of Fallen...
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Sculpting Cables and Concrete_ The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering By David P. Billington Basic Books. 306 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Joseph E. Illick Professor of...
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On Stage PARISIAN THEATRICS BY LEO SAUVAGE As I made my way through the Left Bank to see Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?—the current production of an English-language company that squeezed itself...
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Dear Editor Woodcock George Woodcock's travelogue, "Australia: Mirage and Reality" (NL, June 25), was a very pleasant, informative description of a now oft-mentioned country. During four months of...
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