UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM Why Deficits Hardly Matter BY PAUL DAVIDSON The conventional economic wisdom being dispensed this election year by Democrats and Republicans alike is that the current size...
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THE JELLYBEAN ELECTION Britain Looks Across the Atlantic BY NORMAN GELB London The British are of two minds about the United States. That was true 21 decades ago, when the upstart American...
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A STAR IS BORN Indira Gandhi's Andhra Adventure BY DARRYL D'MONTE Bombay The abrupt dismissal of the government of Andhra Pradesh State only five months before a general election must be held...
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CHOOSING A PRESIDENT Election by Indirection in Brazil BY MARC LEVINSON Rio de Janeiro It is far easier to take a democracy apart than to put one back together, the generals who run Brazil have...
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Countdown '84 IS THE GOP AMERICA'S PARTY? BY GUS TYLER The many political analysts who are already persuaded that the November election, like this summer's Dallas convention, will be something...
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Writers & Writing THROUGH MEMORY AND MINIATURES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The title poem of Charles Wright's latest collection, The Other Side of the River (Random House, 74 pp., $11.95), flows easily...
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Rebuilding the 'Great Engineer's' Reputation An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover By Richard Norton Smith Simon & Schuster. 488 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Herbert S. Parmet Professor of...
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The Drama of an Idealist Slings and Arrows: Theater in My Life By Robert Lewis Stein & Day. 369pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Matthew S. Wolf Contributor, Chicago "Tribune," "Plays and Players,"...
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On Television SEASONAL SMOG BY MARVIN KITMAN Several weeks before the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, I read that the British polo team was thinking of sending over oxygen masks for its...
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