Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Irony in Ethiopia Washington—The People's...
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KINNOCK'S GAMBLE British Labor Pains BY NORMAN GELB London The British Labor Party somehow manages to sustain a level of excitement that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's ruling...
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KEEPING THE SHULTZ PLAN ALIVE The Politics of Not Saying No BY ELIAHU SALPETER Tel Aviv The "uprising" of West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians against Israel, now in its fifth month,...
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Perspectives WILL REAGAN RESIGN? BY ROGER D. MASTERS Lastfall, it was widely rumored in Europe that Ronald Reagan would resign. As long as the 1988 Republican Presidential...
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AND NOW DE MITA Italy's Rudderless Prosperity BY SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome Contrary to the belief of some foreign observers appalled by the endless political crises here, Italy is actually...
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States of the Union A MOVING VIOLATION BY RICHARD J. MARGOLIS ?? ??? eve of our wedding anniversary—known to some asthesecond Seder night and to others as Easter weekend—Diane and I were...
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Writers & Writing FAUSTUS AND THE CRITIC BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The legend of Doctor Faustus, who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, has intrigued readers since...
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From the Shtetl to Ellis Island Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration By Ronald Sanders Holt. 673 pp. $27.95. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Director of...
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Fortunate in His Biographer Oscar Wilde By Richard Ellmann Knopf. 680 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by George Woodcock Oscar Wilde loved poets and was willing to admit critics into the ranks...
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Distaff Doormat s. By John Updike Knopf. 279 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" Literary critics tend to treat John Updike the way porcupines are...
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On Stage SPRING SALAD BY LEO SAUVAGE IF a real-life episode whose salient quality is its bizarreness is being milked for a Broadway theatrical production, one hopes that those responsible...
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