ANOTHER CHANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES How Aquino Can Recoup BY RICHARD J. KESSLER Manila Yeats' poem "TheSecond Coming," written in 1920, well captures the mood in the Philippines...
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THE LEGACY OF MYOPIA British Trade Union Blues BY NORMAN GELB London At the annual conference of Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC), held in Blackpool September 7-11, a union...
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Euro vista BY RAY ALAN Down Among the Backwoodsmen The setting was a small French restaurant beside the Mediterranean, but the man I was having lunch with was an officer in the English...
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THE NEW ALTERNATIVE Canada's Sober Socialists BY HAROLD M. WALLER Montreal Those members of the Reagan Administration who have been obsessed with Daniel Ortega and his Nicaraguan comrades...
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Perspectives THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BY PUBLIUS I Publius, intended to write only one posthumous. Federalist paper when I composed "To Form a More Perfect Union" (NL, July 13-27), on the...
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The Dismal Science OF DEFICITS AND TAXES BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Another budget deadline has come and gone and that old devil deficit is still there. What can we do about it? First, we had...
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Writers & Writing SIXTIES' RADICALISM REVISITED BY BARRY GEWEN Sttxdents for a Democratic Society (SDS), was a blip of the '60s. Originally ayouth arm of the little-known League for...
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A Mystery Readily Solved Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America By Phillip Longman Houghton Mifflin. 308 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Phillip Longman looks at the...
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The College Kaleidoscope Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the 18th Century to the Present By Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Knopf. 330 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Joseph E....
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On Dance TRISHA BROWN'S EMPTY FLASHES BY LAURA A. JACOBS You can go a whole season without thinking about how a choreographer gives meaning to a dance. Then a curtain goes up, the dancers...
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Dear Editor For the Record Thank you for Gus Tyler's comprehensive and understanding review of my book, Up 'Til Now (NL, July 13-27). I can object only to two points Tyler makes,...
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