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 Vol. 036 Issue 012 (December 1 1972)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 WE HAVE MUCH TO DO
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The PROGRESSIVE We Have Much to Do There is a powerful temptation after every national election to draw bold and sweeping conclusions about the "mood" of the American people and about the course...
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IS PEACE AT HAND
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Is Peace at Hand? Are we finally at the end of the tunnel? As these pages go to press, the more hopeful reports from Washington, Paris, and Saigon suggest that the cease-fire agreement recently...
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NOTES IN THE NEWS
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Notes in the News Nixon's Dozen Vetoes Immediately after the Ninety-second Congress adjourned, President Nixon vetoed a round dozen of the 120 measures it had enacted in its final spasm of...
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THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
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The Word from Washington Riffling through the notes and texts and handouts and clippings accumulated in the course of a long and dismal Presidential election campaign, we find the phrase that best...
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THE MIGHTY MEKONG: FORCE FOR PEACE
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Sewell, W.R. Derrick
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THE MIGHTY MEKONG: FORCE FOR PEACE W.R. DERRICK SEWELL There is finally a brightening of hope on the horizon that the war in Vietnam is ending, and that peace will gradually be restored to all of...
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A NEW APPROACH TO REGULATION
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Denenberg, Herbert S.
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A NEW APPROACH TO REGULATION HERBERT S. DENENBERG In 1921 the Pennsylvania legislature denied the state's Insurance Department regulatory authority over life insurance rates, granting it power...
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FIVE CRISES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION
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Knoll, Erwin
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FIVE CRISES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION ERWIN KNOLL The perennial controversy over public education in the United States has entered a new and important phase with the publication of Inequality—A...
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THE NEXT FOUR YEARS
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Duscha, Julius
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THE NEXT FOUR YEARS JULIUS DUSCHA Who will dominate the second Presidential term? The old Nixon? Or the new Nixon? The good guy or the bad guy? Once again, Washington correspondents, Senators and...
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THE TEST IS TRUTH
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Mintz, Morton
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THE TEST IS TRUTH MORTON MINTZ News, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. News, to strip the point of euphemism, is what we journalists say it is. We decide what to cover and what to...
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EUROPE'S NEW PROLETARIANS
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Power, Jonathan
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EUROPE'S NEW PROLETARIANS JONATHAN POWER London "Judging from the way you British talk," one European bureaucrat said to me over coffee, "one would think you were the only country in the world...
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LETTER FROM THE SOUTHWEST
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STEINER, STAN
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LETTER FROM THE SOUTHWEST STAN STEINER Santa Fe On the night, at least I think it was night, that I finally escaped from New York under the shadow of the smog to the clear skies of New Mexico,...
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SOROLLA: PAINTER OF LIGHT
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Werner, Alfred
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SOROLLA: PAINTER OF LIGHT ALFRED WERNER It is customary to say that no painting of any significance was produced by Spaniards between the death, at eighty-two, of Goya in 1828, and young Picasso's...
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
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THE PEOPLE'S FORUM German Political Lesson We Americans would do well to take a lesson from the West Germans on how to conduct an intelligent and civilized election campaign. The deception,...
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DAN BERRIGAN'S 'TILTINGS'
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Neuhaus, Richard John
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BOOKS DAN BERRIGAN'S 'TILTINGS' RICHARD J. NEUHAUS The subject is Father Daniel Berrigan, S.J. The subject matter also covers peace and war, imperialism and poverty, jails and illusions of...
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HARRUBURG AFTERMATH
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Mitgang, Herbert
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HARRUBURG AFTERMATH the fbi and the berrigans, by Jack Nelson and Ronald J. Ostrow. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 317 pp. $7.95. the harrisburg 7 and the new catholic left,by William...
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ROSZAK'S GREAT ADVENTURE
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Anderson, Fenwick
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ROSZAK'S GREAT ADVENTURE where the wasteland ends, by Theodore Roszak. Doubleday. 465 pp. $10. reviewed by Fenwick Anderson Theodore Roszak is a seeker. Like many others in a land that...
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EDMUND WILSON
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McCann, William
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EDMUND WILSON to the Finland station, by Edmund Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 590 pp. $15. a window on Russia, by Edmund Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 280 pp. $7.95. reviewed by William...
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GREECE: MYTH AND REALITY
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Gersh, Gabriel
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GREECE: MYTH AND REALITY that greece might still be free, by William St. Clair. Oxford University Press. 412 pp. $14.95. Greece without columns, by David Holden. J. P. Lippincott. 336 pp....
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INDEX FOR 1972
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The Progressive • Volume 36 • 1972 Section I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec. 19 is page 19 of the December issue. Section II...
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