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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Congress in Confusion George Gobel, a favorite television comedian of mine in a past generation, reported one Labor Day evening that fatal accidents on...
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LETTER FROM CIVIDALE Celebrating Mitteleuropa By Ruth Ellen Gruber ClVIDALE DEL FRIULI It was a warm Saturday summer afternoon. I sat with Italian scholar Claudio Magris on a café...
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Thinking Aloud THE RISE OF MISGUIDED MEMORIALS By Michael Lind "What fresh horror is this?" Dorothy Parker was known to exclaim. The fresh horror from Germany is that Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
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Writers & Writing OUR TABOO By Brooke Allen A. N. Wilson will never be a first-rate novelist, but in the course of his extraordinarily prolific career—not yet 50, he is the author of 17 novels...
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Nothing But a Conquistador Dr. Freud: A Life By Paul Ferris Counterpoint. 480 pp. S30.00. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English, State University of New York, Buffalo; author,...
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The Rational World's Dilemma Inside Terrorism By Bruce Hoffman Columbia. 288 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Richard McGill Murphy Contributor, "New Republic," New York "Times Magazine" With the...
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On Television THE MAMOULIAN FACTOR By Reuven Frank When radio was still young, it depended a lot on live broadcasts of string quartets or visiting speakers done from hotel dining rooms. Home...
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On Screen A BLOODY CROWD PLEASER By Raphael Shargel There is no denying the intensely visceral power of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. In depicting combat on D-Day and during...
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On Stage TIME WARPS By Stefan Kanfer William Faulkner once told the Paris Review, "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of...
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Vol. 081 Issue 010 (September 7 1998)
Congress in Confusion
