AMID A BLOODY WAR The Good Life in the Persian Gulf By Donald Kirk Bahrain The hulks of gutted freighters rising at crazy angles from the Shatt-al-Arab dramatize the waste of the...
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UNDONE BY PROSPERITY Britain's Opposition Regroups BY NORMAN GELB London Britain's midyear break in political activity comes to an end early each autumn with the convening of week-long...
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A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Midsummer Leningrad Dreams BY ANNA HUSARSKA Leningrad Describing the White Nights of his native Leningrad in "A Guide to a Renamed City," Joseph Brodsky says: "On such...
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RECOVERING THE ABSOLUTE A Talk with Leszek Kolakowski BY MIHAJLO MIHAJLOV ?olish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was chosen last year by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver...
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States of the Union WHEN IRISH SKIES ARE FROWNING BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS Bantry Diane and I have spent much of the summer here sampling the beer and the blarney and admiring the many hues...
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Writers & Writing TAKINGON TERRORISM BY BARRY GEWEN TERRORISM is one of those slippery concepts that recede the closer one tries to get to them. Governments and scholars regularly tie...
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The Springs of Perelmania Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman Edited by Prudence Crowther Viking. 288 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way...
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Cruising on Nothingness Sartre: A Biography By Ronald Hayman Simon & Schuster. 572 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock "If one man towered above the postwar intellectual ferment and...
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The CEO Follies Running American Business By Robert Bowden Lamb Basic. 315 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Lekachman Robert Lamb, aprofessor of finance and management at New York...
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Dear Editor Ultimate Politics How charming—a T-shirt if I guess who is Publius. Even more charming is the fact that your Publius, practically alone among all the zillions of writers on the...
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