Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Why Saddam Still Rules The New Order in the Middle East seemed off to a most unpromising start after the victory over Iraq in the six-week air war plus...
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THE MOOD IN QUEBEC Is Canada Falling Apart? BY HAROLD M. WALLER Montreal Canada may be on the verge of breaking up. Only 11 years after the defeat of Quebec's sovereignty-association...
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Fair Game BY WALTER GOODMAN Tabloid Tidbits For fullest satisfaction from those stories about the Reagans and the Kennedys, you have to be able to lick your lips and cluck your tongue at...
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Perspectives OUR AMATEUR HOUR GOVERNMENT BY STEVEN KELMAN After the United States' successful manned lunar mission in 1969, it became common to hear, "If the government can send a man to...
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AFTER THE HONEYMOON Test Time for John Major By Norman Gelb London John Major has received one of the highest forms of recognition an individual can be accorded in Britain. An effigy of...
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The Dismal Science WHERE KEYNES AND KALECKI WENT WRONG BY GEORGE P. BROCKWAY Every now and then a learned journal carries an article, or a think tank issues a report, that effects a...
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Writers & Writing AN AMERICAN EXODUS BY ROGER DRAPER The current configuration of the American race problem has a false air of permanence about it. Yet as Nicholas Lemann shows in The...
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? Brave New Global Economy The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st-Century Capitalism By Robert B. Reich Knopf. 331 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Leonard Silk Economics...
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What Opera Can Do for You Opera and Its Symbols: The Unity of Words, Music, and Staging By Robert Donington Yale. 248 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by John Simon What is opera? Why, despite its...
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On Stage STAR WARS BY STEFAN KANFER GRAHAM Greene predicted that long after the war was over, Americans would be paying a high price for their Vietnam adventure. He was right. They are now...
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On Dance REMEMBERING FONTEYN AND GRAHAM BY LAURA JACOBS Two important chapters in the history of dance closed during the early months of 1991 when Margot Fonteyn and Martha Graham, a Dame...
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