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 Vol. 083 Issue 002 (May 1 2000)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Nuclear Politics
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SCHORR, DANIEL
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Washington Notebook By Daniel Schorr Nuclear Politics In the twilight of their White House days, most recent Presidents have looked forward to that last big-power summit and the chance for a...
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Campaign Sideshow in Mexico
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WITT, ADDISON DE
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Presidential Election Imponderables Campaign Sideshow in Mexico By Addison De Witt Mexico City Picture two swordsmen in a duel they must intermittently interrupt—to ward off assaults by...
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Hungary Ten Years Later
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KENEZ, PETER
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Letter from Budapest Hungary Ten Years Later By Peter Kenez Budapest Like many another great European metropolis, this is fundamentally a late 19thcentury city. Back then it possessed...
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The Death of Cultures
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CLAUSEN, CHRISTOPHER
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Second Thoughts The Death of Cultures By Christopher Clausen Whenever you put your foot in your mouth, my Texas grandmother used to say, just spit out your shoe and keep talking. People...
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Secrets of State
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DRAPER, ROGER
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SUMMER BOOKS Secrets of State By Roger Draper American relations with the Soviet Union were bad from the first: The United States participated in the Western force that attempted to...
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Life with Father
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SHUB, ANATOLE
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Life with Father ikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a Superpower By Sergei N. Khrushchev Penn State. 765 pp. $54.95. Reviewed by Anatole Shub Author, "An Empire Loses Hope, "The New...
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Failing to Give the Devil His Due
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O'NEILL, WILLIAM L.
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Failing to Give the Devil His Due MacArthur's War: Korea and the Undoing of an American Hero By Stanley Weintraub Free Press. 386 pp. $27.50. Reviewed by William L. O'Neill Professor of...
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Revisionism vs. Rejection
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GROSSMAN, LAWRENCE
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Revisionism vs. Rejection Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? By Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman California. 300 pp. $27.50. Reviewed...
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The Rise of Group Rights
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HOTTELET, RICHARD C.
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The Rise of Group Rights The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices By Elazar Barkan Norton. 464 pp. $29.95. Reviewed by Richard C. Hottelet Former CBS News...
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On the Post-Zionist Battlefront
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ROSENFELD, ALVIN H.
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On the Post-Zionist Battlefront The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul By Yoram Hazony Basic. 433 pp. $28.00. Reviewed by Alvin H. Rosenfeld Professor of English and director of...
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Coloring Public Opinion
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YAGODA, BEN
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Coloring Public Opinion The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America By Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki Chicago. 292 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Ben Yagoda Author, "About...
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Twilight Triumphs
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ALLEN, BROOKE
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On Fiction Twilight Triumphs By Brooke Allen That at the age of 68, and with 25 books behind him, Philip Roth still has so much to say and still says it as well as he does in his new...
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Race and Reunion
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HASKELL, MOLLY
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Race and Reunion Half a Heart By Rosellen Brown Farrar Straus Giroux. 402 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Molly Haskell Rim critic and author Rosellen Brown's best-selling novel, Before and...
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The Allures of Form
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SCHWARTZ, LYNNE SHARON
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The Allures of Form Dressing Up for the Carnival By Carol Shields Viking. 210 pp. $23.95. Reviewed by Lynne Sharon Schwartz Author, "In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy," and "Faceto...
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All Those Lost Voices
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REICH, TOVA
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All Those Lost Voices Anil's Ghost By Michael Ondaatje Knopf. 312 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Tova Reich Author, "Mara, "The Jewish War" All the signature features of a Michael Ondaatje...
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The Power of Laughter
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PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
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On Poetry The Power of Laughter By Phoebe Pettingell One of the happier developments in postmodern culture has been the disintegration of hard and fast boundaries between "high" and "low"...
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Venturing Provocative Judgments
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MEYER, KARL E.
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Venturing Provocative Judgments From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life By Jacques Barzun HarperCollins. 816 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Karl E. Meyer Co-author, with...
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In Defense of Literature
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SHECHNER, MARK
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In Defense of Literature The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent By Lionel Trilling Edited by Leon Wieseltier Farrar Straus Giroux. 576 pp. $35.00. Reviewed by Mark Shechner Professor of...
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Rebel on the Right
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BRUNN, JACOB HEIL
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Rebel on the Right My Love Affair with America By Norman Podhoretz Free Press. 256 pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Jacob Heilbrunn Contributor, "Times Literary Supplement," "Wall Street...
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Snobs for All Seasons
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GREENFELD, JOSH
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Snobs for All Seasons Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Café Society By Ralph Blumenthal Little, Brown. 296 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Josh Greenfeld Novelist...
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On Television
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FRANK, REUVEN
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On Television The Final Hours By Reuven Frank No one knows yet what the next mass communication and entertainment medium will be called, will look like, will provide. Growing out of...
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On Stage
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KANFER, STEFAN
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On Stage Defining Broadway Down By Stefan Kanfer Applied to the stage, "Broadway" has but one definition: A specific group of large theaters in midtown Manhattan offering big productions...
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