Washington-USA THE BABY BOOM RACE By Andrew J. Glass Washington Every year, a radio station here produces something called Christmas in August. This time around the festival of unseasonal...
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PRIME MINISTER DU JOUR Court Politics in Russia By Robert V. Daniels During his official visit to Washington shortly before he was fired this past August 9, Russia's latest ex-Prime...
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AS A BRITON TAKES OVER Rethinking Europe's Defense By Norman Gelb London Troubling questions are being asked here about Europe's role in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), now...
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LETTER FROM ROME Trouble on the Overnight Sleeper ?y Ruth Ellen Gruber Rome I enjoy long distance train trips and frequently take overnight sleepers across Europe. Generally I travel...
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The Dismal Science WHY WE MUST HAVE A RECESSION By George ? Brockway Probably at least once in every one of the 18 years I've been writing this column, I have made fun of an obiter dictum of...
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Writers & Writing TWO APPROACHES TO SUFFERING By Brooke Allen It no longer seems remarkable that the events of the closing century have, for violence and sheer grotesqueness, outstripped...
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A Reformer Through Idiosyncratic Eyes Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs By Marguerite Young Knopf. 624 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Gus Tyler Former national...
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Revising a Tricky Politician's Image The Contender—Richard Nixon: The Congress Years, 1946-1952 By Irwin F. Gellmnam Free Press. 590 pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Henry E Graff Editor, "The...
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On Music SOME RECENT FAVORITES By John Simon In the piano concerto field you will not find a more exciting record than the one coupling two supreme Polish masterpieces: Karol Szymanowski's...
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On Stage VICTORIAN VANITIES By Stefan Kanfer The great Victorians, as G. K. Chesterton sagely observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg shorter than the other."...
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