Washington Notebook BY DANIEL SCHORR Trial by Television MY FIRST DAY on the job as a CBS Washington correspondent, in 1953, I covered a hearing of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's Red-hunting...
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MAJOR'S REVENGE Silly Season in London BY NORMAN GELB LONDON SUMMERTIME is called the "silly season" in Britain. The appellation is a relic of the time when women responded to the short period...
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MAGNATE WITH A CAUSE Turkey's New Reformer BY JOHN DOXEY ISTANBUL WHEN THE two-year-old New Democracy Movement (YDH) became Turkey's 23rd officially registered political party last December,...
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Perspectives LIVING TOGETHER BY JEANNETTE VALLS-RUSSELL SOREDE FOR CENTURIES, wars and massacres were rooted mainly in religious and/or seigniorial disputes. You might be English, your feudal...
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The Dismal Science WHAT GREENSPAN REALLY TOLD CONGRESS BY GEORGE R BROCKWAY TODAY'S LESSON will be in two parts. The first will be an exhibition of a complaint; the second an exhibition of a...
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Writers & Writing RECASTING OUR ICONS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL WALT WHITMAN and Ralph Waldo Emerson are two members of a 19th-century New England trinity (Emily Dickinson is the third) that continues...
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An Inside Outsider Varieties of Fear: Growing Up Jewish under Nazism and Communism By Peter Kenez American University Press. 214 pp. Cloth $58.50/Paper $26.50. Reviewed by Josephine...
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Purely Human Growls Fire: From "A Journal of Love," the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1934-1937 Harcourt. 434 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Melissa Knox Assistant professor of English Literature,...
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On Television IS IT GOOD FOR NEWS? BY REUVEN FRANK UNTIL THE dizzying Week of the Billion Dollar Mergers, this summer's principal broadcasting phenomenon was the earliest departure ever of...
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On Stage WHEN LESS IS LESS BY STEFAN KANFER SOME WRITERS are masters of the exit line. The Argentinian Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a genius of the opening paragraph. Who, perusing the first words...
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