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Vol. 082 Issue 015 (December 13 1999)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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The Game Continues
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DRAPER, ROGER
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Winter Books THE GAME CONTINUES By Roger Draper Until the 1980s the West seemed, even to many of its most ardent defenders, at a disadvantage in relation to the Communist East. It was not...
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Aristotle Had It Right
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RORTY, RICHARD
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Aristotle Had It Right The Trouble with Principle By Stanley Fish Harvard. 328 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Richard Rorty Professor of philosophy. Stanford University; author, "Achieving Our...
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Unchangeable Absolutes
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JACOBY, TAMAR
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Unchangeable Absolutes One Nation, Two Cultures By Gertrude Himmelfarb Knopf. 180 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Tamar Jacoby Senior fellow. Manhattan Institute; author, "Someone Else's...
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Progress in Fits and Starts
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DOLMAN, JOSEPH
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Progress in Fits and Starts The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America By Philip A. Klinkner with Rogers M. Smith Chicago. 418 pp. $32.50. Reviewed by Joseph...
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Looking Backward
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GRAY, PAUL
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Looking Backward About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made By Ben Yagoda Scribner. 480 pp. $27.50. Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker By Renata Adler Simon & Schuster. 252 pp....
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Tuning Out
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STARR, ROGER
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Tuning Out Republic of Denial: Press, Politics, and Public Life By Michael Janeway Yale. 216 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Roger Starr Former member, New York "Times" editorial board This...
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A Stubborn Meditation
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KRAMER, DAVID J.
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A Stubborn Meditation Gorbachev: On My Country and the World By Mikhail Gorbachev Columbia. 300 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by David J. Kramer Associate director, Russian and Eurasian Program....
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A Crisis of Conscience
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POWELL, DAVID E.
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A Crisis of Conscience Political Will and Personal Belief: The Decline and Fall of Soviet Communism By Paul Hollander Yale. 368 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by David E. Powell Shelby Cullom Davis...
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The Unpoetic Pound
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry THE UNPOETIC POUND By Phoebe Pettingell Twenty-Seven years after his death, Ezra Pound still manages to generate controversy. A new book by Leon Surette, Pound in Purgatory·: From...
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Exodus from Vichy France
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Exodus from Vichy France A Quiet American: The Secret War of Variati Fry By Andy Marino St. Martin's. 403 pp. $26.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope." "The New...
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Restaging the Red Scare
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Restaging the Red Scare Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman Free Press. 382 pp. $26.00. Reviewed bv William L....
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Prototype of a Gutenberg Man
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MORROW, LANCE
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Prototype of a Gutenberg Man Twilight: Losing Sight, Gaining Insight By Henry Grunwald Knopf. 132 pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Lance Morrow Essayist, "Time" magazine; author, "Heart: A...
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A Commitment to Memory
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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A Commitment to Memory And the Sea is Never Full: Memoirs, 1969By Elie Wiesel Knopf. 434 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English and director of the Borens...
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Political Myth and Reality
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HERMAN, GEORGE E.
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Political Myth and Reality In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy By Ronald Steel Simon & Schuster. 220 pp. $23.00. Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography By Adam...
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Unraveling A Historical Moment
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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Writers & Writing UNRAVELING A HISTORICAL MOMENT By Brooke Allen When J. M. Coetzee's eighth novel, Disgrace (Viking, 220pp., $23.95), was awarded the Booker Prize in Britain, where it was...
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Minifictions in Diverse Voices
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BROWN, ROSELLEN
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Minifictions in Diverse Voices My Century By Günter Grass Harcourt, Brace. 276 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Rosellen Brown Author, "Cora Fry's Pillow Book." and the forthcoming "Half a...
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Art and Life in Apposition
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BERMEL, ALBERT
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Art and Life in Apposition Eugene O'Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy By Stephen A. Black Yale. 544 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Albert Bermel Playwright, translator and professor emeritus of...
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Godfather of Service
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SHECHNER, MARK
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Godfather of Service Monsieur René By Peter Ustinov Prometheus. 320 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of English. State University of New York, Buffalo There is no...
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Murder Most Droll
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KLEIN, MARCUS
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Murder Most Droll Nightmare Town: Stories By Dashiell Hammett Edited by Kirby McCauley Martin H. Greenberg and Ed Gorman Knopf. 406 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Marcus Klein Professor emeritus...
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On Music
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SIMON, JOHN
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On Music LEADERS IN THE LIED By John Simon Although all cultures have their art songs, the German lied may well be the most famous: I once received a shipment of records addressed to The New...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage VOUDON ECONOMICS By Stefan Kanfer Most singers undergo a long apprenticeship in their climb to the top, but Andra McDonald arrived as a star. She won a Tony award for her debut in...
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Index for 1999
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INDEX FOR 1999 This index of New Leader articles for 1999 is divided into three sections: Section 1, Index of Authors, lists the names of all New Leader contributors, whether writers of articles,...
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