Correspondents' correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Fighting Pests with Pests London—A group of worried...
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GORBACHEV'S SUCCESSION The Making of a Kremlin Transition BY ROBERT V. DANIELS Last year's most popular joke in Moscow may no longer be heard for quite a while. A Soviet citizen was trying to get...
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IN THE LIGHT OF THE STATE ELECTIONS Rajiv and the Regionalists by DARRYL D' MONTE Bombay India's 300-million-strong electorate, the largest in the world, never fails to astonish thepundits. In...
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AFTER THE COAL STRIKE Britain at War with Itself by NORMAN GELB Seen from London, American politics appear to be positively serene. The row over the budget deficit, the anger of the downtrodden...
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THE NEW ARGENTINA-3 Alfonsin's Experiment by ARTHUR M. SHAPIRO This is the final installment of a three-part series on "The New Argentina" by ArthurM. Shapiro, a zoology professor at the...
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Writers & Writing A CENTURY OF POETIC DIVERSITY by PHOEBE PETTINGELL The canon of 18th-century poetry seems firmly established. Most of us know what works are likely to make up any anthology. The...
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The Torah According to a Social Democrat Exodus and Revolution By Michael Walzer Basic Books. 192 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia...
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Lost North of the Border The Canadians By Andrew H. Malcolm Times Books. 385 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock What should a writer do when another writer steals his title? Rush to his...
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On Stage BROADWAY SPRING QUARTET by LEO SAUVAGE Although it had a part in bringing Eugene O'Neill the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature, Strange Interlude is not among the relatively few titles...
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On Dance FROM BALANCHINE TO PETER MARTINS by LAURA A. JACOBS Agon, a New York City Ballet (NYCB) signature piece choreographed in 1957, has never been long out of repertory. Moreover, as the...
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Dear Editor Westmoreland Marvin Kitman overlooks one point in his perceptive and witty comment on General William C. Westmoreland's abandoned effort to sue CBS News for libel ("Westy's Last...
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