STEERING A MIDDLE GROUND Craxi's Thousand Days BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome With the celebration of its 1,000th day in power April 28, the Italian Center-Left coalition government headed by...
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States of the Union LONG-TERM CARING BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS I'm getting rather too old to live alone in winter and I'd rather live in community. At Oxford, I should be missed if I failed to turn...
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THIRD WORLD REPORT-VI A Third Way BY WILLIAM McCORD This article concludes an intermittent series comparing the records of various Third World governments, both liberal and authoritarian....
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The Dismal Science JUNK BONDS AND WATERED STOCK BY GEORGE P BROCKWAY In the 1920s, bond salesmen were admired and envied. Later, when Wall Street laid its egg, they became butts of bitter jests...
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Writers & Writing TOO SUBTLE BY HALF BY BARRY GEWEN The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928(Oxford, 307 pp., $24.95) Michael E. McGerr tackles an interesting question: Why...
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Blundering Over the Parallel The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command By Burton I. Kaufman Temple. 390 pp. $34.95. Reviewed by Wiliam L. O'Neill Professor of History,...
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Frontiers of the Creative Mind_ Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 By Jerrold Seigel Viking. 453 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by George Woodcock In terms...
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On Stage ARTFUL" MANEUVERS BY LEO SAUVAGE Twenty years ago, Joe Orton's Loot opened to many takers in London's West End. It reached Broadway in 1968—one year after the author's murder by his...
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On Television BLURRING THE TYPE BY MARVIN KITMAN There was a violent reaction last summer to the launching of the TV magazine called (after the location of CBS News' headquarters) West 57th....
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Dear Editor The New Economists Two questions for Marc Levinson regarding his article on t(The New Interventionist Economists" (NL, February 10), 1. He writes that "the events of the 1980s have...
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