THE POLITICS OF CULTURE Love and Hate Across the Atlantic By NORMAN GELB London Almost every major international development since World War II appears to have triggered a resurgence of...
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ZHAO ZIYANG'S TWO-FOLD TASK China Passes the Torch By Mark Hopkins Beijing Deng Xiaopino's political finale could not have been bolder or more dramatic. In leading an entire...
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FOCUSING ON THE ECONOMY Israel Without Television BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv According to psychologists here, the 52-day strike of broadcast journalists that blacked out TV screens and...
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States of the Union AMERICA'S NEW ENTREPRENEURS BY RICHARD J. MARGOUS My grandchildren, you are living in a new path. In the future your business dealings with the whites are going to...
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Perspectives PRESCRIPTION FOR A SLUMP BY WALLACE C. PETERSON In one of his earliest and most successful books, The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith coined the phrase "the...
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The Dismal Science BURSTING THE SUPPLY-SIDE BUBBLE BY GEORGE ? BROCKWAY One listens with astonishment to the explanations of the Great Crash of 1987. With unprecedented unanimity, pundits...
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Writers & Writing TRUTHTELLING TROPES BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL JOHN Ashbery inspires more conflicting opinions than any poet of the post-Lowell generation. His detractors complain loudly that it...
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Ivy Spooks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1938-1961 By Robin W. Winks Morrow. 607pp. $22.95. Reviewed by John P. Roche This is a tough book to review. It is delightful,...
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Requiem for a Bygone Era Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill With William Novak Random House. 387pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman British Labor...
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Uneasy Success Rebecca West: A Life By Victoria Glendinning Knopf. 300pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Carole Cleaver Co-author, "Horace Pippin: The Artist as a Black American " Victoria...
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On Dance THE NIJINSKY LEGACY BY LAURA A. JACOBS At that infamous Paris premiere on May 29, 1913, all ears could hear what sensibilities were not yet willing or able to...
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