FALSE OPTIMISM Avoiding the Obvious in Italy By SILVIO F. SENIGALLIA Rome In the years immediately following World War I, when both Germany and Austria were in dire straits, a Viennese...
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Thinking Aloud LESSONS OF THE THOMAS AFFAIR BY MARK KELMAN Clarence Thomas has taken his seat on the Supreme Court. He may well fill it competently, and he could even prove something of...
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SANYA'S DYING MAVERICKS A Look at the Other Japan BY CHRISTOPHER SEYMOUR Tokyo ?t is 5:30 a.m. on a Monday. The main drag in Sanya, often described as Tokyo's Bowery, is crowded...
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RESPONSES - 1 RESPONSES TO Below we present the first section of responses to our Special Issue entitled "LeninNyet! TheRevolution that Failed" (NL, September 9-23). Theissueconsisted of...
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Writers & Writing FROM FAR LEFT TO FAR RIGHT BY ROGER DRAPER During the 1970s, Paul Johnson departed the immoderate Left of the British Labor Party for the immoderate Right of the British...
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Religion American Style The Search for God at Harvard By Ari L. Goldman Random House. 283pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Lawrence Grossman Director of Publications, American Jewish...
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A Humanist at Heart Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History By Stephen Jay Gould Norton. 524 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Arthur M. Shapiro Professor of Zoology, University of...
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On Stage GHOSTS OF THE THIRTIES BY STEFAN KANFER In a 1985 New Yorker cartoon by Sidney Harris, men acknowledge the influences on their careers. A baseball player salutes his high school...
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