Washington-USA BUSH'S POLITICS OF EVASION BY ANDREW J. GLASS Washington In 1947, when it looked as if Greece and Turkey were about to be drawn into the Communist orbit, a forceful Harry...
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A COUNTRY UNDER SIEGE Fighting Anarchy in Colombia By Ron Chepesiuk Bogota On the surface, this capital appears normal. Everyone is excited about the fortunes of the Colombian national...
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WILL THE PARTY SURVIVE? Hungary On the Way to Democracy BY RUDOLF L. Tokés Budapest For Hungarians this summer has been a brief pause between the year-long disintegration of the Jânos...
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AS SERVICES LANGUISH London Loses Its Luster By Norman Gelb London ?he first large group of Americans to come to London had a wretched time. Colonists of rank and position who wanted...
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The Dismal Science SOMETHING SEEMS UNBALANCED BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY I have waited in vain for editorial comment on one of the most astounding public pronouncements of recent times,...
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Writers & Writing BRITISH ECCENTRICS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL The British Isles have always been fertile with eccentrics. Those peculiar bipeds are familiar to us from the pages of Charles...
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Curling Up with a Good Text The Pleasures of Reading: In an Ideological Age By Robert Alter Simon and Schuster. 250 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Lee Siegel Robert Alter's fine reply to...
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When Manhattan Worked You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II By Jeff Kisseloff Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 622 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Irving...
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On Screen POLYPHONY OF PREJUDICE BY JOHN MORRONE In Do the Right Thing Spike Lee returns to the setting of his 1983 short feature, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, and offers a...
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On Dance EXQUISITELY ORIENTED BY LAURA JACOBS TENSION, momentum and modulation, the "primary colors" of dance, make movement meaningful even as it unfolds in an unfamiliar artistic...
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