Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr The Problem of Privilege The odds on impeachment, never very great for President Bill Clinton given his high poll ratings, have sunk to near zero...
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Fair Game By Walter Goodman Paul Robeson Remembered The centennial of Paul Robeson's birth is being much celebrated. A Grammy lifetime achievement award has been made, and Rutgers...
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TAKING TO THE STREETS The Legacy of May '68 in France By Janice Valls-Russell Paris The students who in May 1968 briefly took over the center of Paris, defying their elders from behind...
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Euro Vista BY RAY ALAN A Spanish Carnival The seafront was pleasantly lit and lined with hundreds of chairs. Choosing a pair, Jeannette and I found ourselves surrounded by three generations...
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Thinking Aloud THE LIBERAL SEARCH FOR A USABLE PAST BY MICHAEL LIND I recently took part in a conference at the University of Virginia that addressed the question, "Does America Have a...
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Writers & Writing McCLATCHY'S PASSIONATE PURSUIT BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL It's hard not to wax valedictory about 20th-century poetry with the millennium staring us in the face and pundits...
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Russia: The Awful Truth Autopsy for an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime By Dmitri Volkogonov Free Press. 572 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire...
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?A Cannon from Abroad Chopin in Paris: The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer By Tad Szulc Scribner. 444 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Senior editor, "New Republic" In his...
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On Television THE PRICE IS WRONG By Reuven Frank American commercial television as we know it began on May 1,1948. A half century later, it is going through the early stages of a typical...
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On Stage BACK TO THE FUTURE By Stefan Kanfer Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood...from what...
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