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 Vol. 073 Issue 016 (December 10 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 A Slippery Business
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DRAPER, ROGER
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A SLIPPERY BUSINESS BY ROGER DRAPER In 1856, standing in front of a drug store in New York, a former pedagogue and journalist named George Bissell saw an advertisement for a medicine derived...
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Still Separate and Distinctive
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OSHINSKY, DAVID M.
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Still Separate and Distinctive The American South: A History By William J. Cooper Jr. and Thomas E. Terrill Knopf. 835 pp. $50.00. Reviewed by David M. Oshinsky Professor of History,...
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Rational Choices
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GEWEN, BARRY
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Rational Choices Technological Risk By H. W. Lewis Norton. 353pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Barry Gewen New York "Times Book Review," preview editor Occasionally a volume on some controversial...
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The Happy President
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GRAFF, HENRY F.
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The Happy President An American Life By Ronald Reagan Simon and Schuster. 748 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of History, Columbia; editor, "The Presidents: A Reference...
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Emily Bront?'s Prison
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry EMILY BRONT?'S PRISON BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL Somebody always seems to be writing another study of the Brontes. In Cold Comfort Farm, her brilliant satire of the rural British novel,...
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Laura Riding and Her Traveling Circus
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SIMON, JOHN
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Laura Riding and Her Traveling Circus Robert Graves: The Years with Laura, 1926-1940 By Richard Perceval Graves Viking. 380 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by John Simon Forme, the Arch Poet of the...
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Hilda's Last Supper
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GOODMAN, WALTER
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Hilda's Last Supper Symposium By Muriel Spark Houghton Mifflin. 192 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman "They will constitute an interesting cocktail," remarks the American painter...
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An Excess of Talent
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BERMEL, ALBERT
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An Excess of Talent Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America, 1931-1940 By Wendy Smith Knopf. 482 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Professor of Theater, Lehman College;...
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The Return of 'The Magician'
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STEIN, SOL
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Perspectives THE RETURN OF 'THE MAGICIAN' BY SOL STEIN I became a novelist by accident. Over the years, I'd written plays, essays, poetry, reviews, but not fiction. In the late '60s, a play...
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Fast Backward
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KANFER, STEFAN
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Fast Backward Being Red By Howard Fast Houghton Mifflin. 370 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Contributor, "Time," "New Republic" Thanks to such works as Lillian Hellman's memoirs,...
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Years of Terror
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KENEZ, PETER
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Years of Terror Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 By Robert C. Tucker Norton. 707pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Peter Kenez Professor of History, University of California,...
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A CBS Mystery
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HERMAN, GEORGEE
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A CBS Mystery In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle By Sally Bedell Smith Simon & Schuster. 782 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by George E....
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Clip My Coupon
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KITMAN, MARVIN
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On Television CLIP MY COUPON BY MARVIN KITMAN Ihaven't been appearing regularly in these pages over the past few years (pedants would say I haven't been appearing at all). So I think I owe...
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INDEX FOR 1990
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INDEX FOR 1990 This Index of New Leader articles for 1990 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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