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Vol. 025 Issue 003 (March 1 1961)
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THE COUNTRY IS READY
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PROGRESSIVE The Country Is Ready In this space, last month, we attempted a tentative assessment of the beginnings of the Kennedy Administration. It turned out to be much more of an...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Memo to the President President Kennedy has shown a heartening willingness to appoint, or reappoint, some of the ablest men who served under his predecessor— Charles E. Bohlen, C. Douglas Dillon,...
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THE FOUND GENERATION
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Mayer, Milton
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THE FOUND GENERATION by MILTON MAYER "We have also seen a sharpening and refinement of abusive power. The legislative investigation, designed and often exercised for the achievement of high ends,...
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MEDICAL CARE BECOMES A RIGHT
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Chase, Edward T.
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Medical Care Becomes A Right by Edward T. Chase Not all important public events are detected by the press even when it is on the scene. Nor can all important events even when observed be...
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THE PRESIDENT IN PERSON
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McGrory, Mary
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The President in Person by Mary McGrory The new President of the United States is a man who wastes nothing—time, money, or emotion. Everything in his life for the past four years has been bent to...
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A SPRIG OF LAUREL FOR HUGO BLACK AT 75
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Rodell, Fred
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A Sprig of Laurel for Hugo Black at 75 from FRED RODELL It is risky to say of a man who is still so vibrantly alive that he is destined for immortality. Yet the risk seems small when the man is...
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NEW FRONTIERS IN AFRICA
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Moss, Senator Frank E.
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New Frontiers in Africa by SENATOR FRANK E. MOSS The emergence of sixteen new, independent African nations in a single year is shaking to their very foundations both the continent of Africa and...
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CHINA AND THE U.N.- TIME FOR REAPPRAISAL
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Bailey, Sydney D.
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China and the U.N.— Time for Reappraisal by SYDNEY D. BAILEY Last October, the General Assembly decided by forty-two votes to thirty-four (with twenty-two abstentions) not to consider any proposal...
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OUR IMPERFECT ENCYCLOPEDIAS
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Einbinder, Harvey
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Our Imperfect Encyclopedias by HARVEY EINBINDER Almost everyone has been approached at one time or another by a persistent salesman who has promised to deliver, for a few dollars down and a few...
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AFRICA'S SOUTHWEST HELL
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Griswold, Sheridan
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AFRICA'S SOUTHWEST HELL by SHERIDAN GRISWOLD Go into the bush anywhere in Africa, into the simplest village, the most isolated hinterland, and you will find there is one white man who is...
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THE HIGH COST OF DYING
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Harmer, Ruth Mulvey
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The High Cost of Dying by RUTH MULVEY HARMER During recent years there has been much vigorous protest against the high—and rising—cost of living. Yet little has been said—publicly, at any...
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TRIUMPH AFTER DEATH FOR MODIGUANI
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Werner, Alfred
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Triumph after Death for Modigliani by ALFRED WERNER The first large Modigliani show in New England—it opened at the end of January in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and will be exhibited later in...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM The Professors Ride Again The Editors of The Progressive sent advance proof of the editorial note in the February issue, "The Professors Ride Again," to a group of...
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Wallace in 1948
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NYE, RUSSEL B.
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Wallace in 1948 Henry A. Wallace: Quixotic Crusade 1948, by Karl M. Schmidt. Syracuse University Press. 361 pp. $5.50. Reviewed by Russel B. Nye The story of a third party always makes...
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Fighting Liberal
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Thomas, Norman
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Fighting Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard. Liberal of the 1920's, by D. Joy Humes. Syracuse University Press. $4.50. Reviewed by Norman Thomas In our noisy and tumultuous world, men who have...
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Dilemma in Germany
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Mosse, George L.
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Dilemma in Germany Germany Divided: The Lecacy of the Nazi Era, by Terence Prittie. Little, Brown. 381 pp. $6. Reviewed by George L. Mosse Has the old German "restlessness" been dissipated by a...
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Society without Aim
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Schickel, Richard
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Society without Aim Growing Up Absurd, by Paul Goodman. Random House. 296 pp. $4.50. Reviewed by Richard Schickel The first thing that strikes the reader of Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd is...
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Dour Sholokhov
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Gibian, George
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Dour Sholokhov Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. Knopf. 367 pp. $5. Reviewed by George Gibian Two years ago a French journalist questioned Mikhail Sholokhov about his reputation as a...
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Our Timid Press
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Jaffe, Jacob H.
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Our Timid Press The Fading American Newspaper, by Carl E. Lindstrom. Doubleday. 283 pp. $3.95. Reviewed by Jacob H. Jaffe With the fierceness of H. L. Mencken and the contemporary pace of Vance...
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Paperback Plums On the Civil War
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McCann, William
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Paperback Plums On the Civil War by William McCann The number of authors who will ultimately write a book about the Civil War is increasing so rapidly, says humorist Frank Sullivan, that "it is...
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