DIALECTICAL DIVERSIONS China's New Materialism by norman gelb Beijing It may not specialize in the snake stew or armadillo broth popular in southern China, but the La La Cafe in Guilin, a...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Britain, Iran and the Third WorldWar Forty Years after the end of World War II some Western Europeans are asking not only "Could it happen again?" but "What would it be...
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FATHERS AND SONS Austria's Brown Shadow BY PADRAIC SWEENEY Vienna After more than four decades in Italy, Walter Reder returned home to Austria late last January. No expatriate businessman or...
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States of the Union HUNGRY IN THE EIGHTIES BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Strolling up Sheridan Road in Chicago one April morning, I come upon a silent queue of elderly women and men leaning into the...
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Writers & Writing ALIEN VOICES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Dante consoled himself during his political exile from Florence by writing The Divine Comedy. This gave him the satisfaction of imagining his...
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A Family in Conflict This Real Night By Rebecca West Viking. 266 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Anita Susan Grossman Contributor, New York "Times Book Review," "Times Literary Supplement" Anyone...
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Dusting Off Revisionist Stereotypes The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s By Richard H. Pells Harper & Row 468 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by William L....
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On Stage LIFE ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI BY LEO SAUVAGE Almost all of the flags on the Great White Way have gone up to salute Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues as the first "comedy hit" of the current...
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On Dance CUNNINGHAM'S DEBT TO KANDINSKY BY LAURA A. JACOBS By a fruitful coincidence, Vas-ily Kandinsky's Paris oeuvre was the focus of a show at New York's Guggenheim Museum not long ago while...
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