Correspondents correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Hands-Off Inspection London—The world's first...
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THIRD WORLD REPORT-V Venezuela's Determined Democracy BY WILLIAM MCCORD This article continues an intermittent series examining the records of liberal and authoritarian Third World governments....
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FACING THE REAL WORLD The New Interventionist Economists bymarc levinson It's been a dismal decade for the dismal science: In the shadow of monetarism, economists have found little to do except...
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States of the Union IS THE NEXTSTEP PENN STATION?' BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS One rainy morning Dorothy Lykes, not knowing where else to turn, telephoned the Gray Panther office in New York City....
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Writers & Writing AMERICA'S CROSS-EYED DIPLOMACY BY BARRY GEWEN Two recent books, a Carnegie Endowment collection of essays entitled Estrangement: America and the World (Oxford, 347 pp., $19.95),...
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Balancing Biology and Equality A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America By Sylvia Ann Hewlett Morrow. 256pp. $16.95 Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and...
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A Portrait of Two Sisters_ Still Life By Antonia Byatt Scribner's. 348 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Oliver Conant Contributor, "Dissent," New York "Times Book Review" The talented English writer...
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On Screen TWISTED HISTORIES BY DAPHNE MERKIN of Africa is the sort of brash, "give-'em-everything we've got" picture that makes other movies look piddling and timid by comparison. It strides on...
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On Stage MIXED MANNERS BY LEO SAUVAGE MICHAEL FRAYN occupies a major place in today's British theater. His superb farce, Noises Off, was also enjoyed in New York and in Paris as much as in...
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Dear Editor Take Your Choice After Paul Davidson explains in the January 13 issue of The New Leader why it is that deficits really do not matter ("Can We Afford to Balance the Budget?"), Forrest...
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