SITTING ON A POWDER KEG Mideast Economic Sparks BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv Side events that briefly divert attention here from larger worries seem never to be in short supply, ut late (hey have...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Europe's Pop Ideologist "Ronald Reagan wouldn't recognize an idea if his horse tripped over one," an English politician said soon after the President's first election....
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RUNNING OUT OF FUEL Britain's Fading New Jerusalem BY NORMAN GELB London Not even the prospect of a Royal wedding this summer has been able to lift the British out of the doldrums they have been...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Marcos, Machiavelli and the Media As Ferdinand Marcos was slipping out of history, I turned to a new translation of The Prince to discover how the shrewd, tough...
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A GENERATION IN SEARCH OF A FUTURE Growing Up BY BRYAN L. ZIMBLER Brasilia A short while ago, I drove down a main thoroughfare of this capital city with a 26-year-old law student and friend...
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Writers & Writing TACKLING THE FINAL FRONTIER BY BARRY GEWEN The immediate question raised by Roland Huntford's Shackleton (Atheneum, 774 pp., $29.95) is whether anyone should spend the time to...
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Washing Away the Truth The Birth of the Propaganda State: Soviet Methods of Mass Mobilization 1917-1929 By Peter Kenez Cambridge. 308 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Gene Sosin Former Program Planning...
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Sex and Syntax Grammar and Gender By Dennis Baron Yale. 249 pp. $23.50. Reviewed by John Simon The stated purpose of Dennis Baron's Grammar and Gender is to "attempt to place the present debate...
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On Stage ACTS OF INSANITY BY LEO SAUVAGE LEAVING ASIDE the popularity Sam Shepard has gained from his other activities, strictly as a playwright he seems to have achieved a status near the top in...
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Dear Editor Murrow Marvin Kitman scores again. His "Seeing Murrow Now" column (NL, January 27) was an apt demolition of the HBO1 'docudrama" on the man who, as Kitman put it, was "the end of the...
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