Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS. Hobbesian Albania Tirana—The Rogner Europark...
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GRUMBLING THROUGH PROSPERITY Britain After 18 Years of Tory Rule By Norman Gelb London Avery strange thing has been happening in Britain. After having long been jealous of Germany's...
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STRUGGLING FOR INDEPENDENCE A Murder in Kashmir By Anna Husarska It was all supposed to be so different. I had been looking forward to meeting Jalil Andrabi, the Kashmiri human rights...
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LETTER FROM FLENSBURG Germany's Klezmer Craze By Ruth Ellen Gruber Flensburg I don't remember ever hearing of the north German town of Flensburg until shortly before my recent trip there....
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Perspectives CAN PHILOSOPHERS HELP THEIR CLIENTS? By Richard Rorty Philosophy began as an attempt to escape into a world in which nothingwouldeverchange.Plato, who pretty much founded the...
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Writers & Writing BUCKLING THE BIBLE BELT By Roger Draper The kind of ascetic Evangelical Christianity that impinges so forcefully on our politics today is strongly associated with the...
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Rewriting the Zionist Narrative Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel By Yaron Ezvaht Farrar Straits Girmtx. 308pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Hanan Cohen Soon after Mordechai...
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The Politics of American Gothic Beyond Left and Right: Insurgency and the Establishment David A. Horowitz Illinois. 440 pp. $49.95. Reviewed by Rick Perlstein Contributing editor, "Lingua...
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On Art SCULPTURES FROM A MARRIAGE By Karen Wilkin Sculpture can make people nervous. It demands to be perceived through our awareness of our own bodies—of how it feels to occupy space, to...
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Culture Watching 'THE HAIRY APE' AND THE FBI By John Patrick Diggins Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, now appearing in New York's Selwyn Theater, was first performed at a turning point in...
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On Stage FIASCO ON THE POTOMAC By Stefan Kanfer Given the headlines, it becomes increasingly difficult to view Hillary Rodham Clinton as a dupe. Unless, of course, you live in Barbra...
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