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IssueVol. 036 Issue 009 (September 1 1972)
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Paid article'COME HOME, AMERICA'
The PROGRESSIVE 'Come Home, America' "Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America," Thomas Paine wrote in the first of his Crisis papers almost 200 years ago. This was the dream: a new...
Paid articleNOTES IN THE NEWS
Notes in the News Hope for the Middle East No prudent person can ever allow himself to lapse into optimism about the prospects for peace in the Middle East, but developments in recent weeks have...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
The Word from Washington During the last week of July, while millions of Americans anxiously debated whether a man who had been hospitalized for nervous exhaustion could stand first in the line of...
Paid articlePOLITICS '72/PRACTICAL POLITICS
Knoll, Erwin
POLITICS '72 PRACTICAL POLITICS "Above all else," one of George McGovern's closest campaign aides recently told reporters, "above all else George McGovern is a very practical, pragmatic man." For...
Paid articleTHE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Knoll, Jeremy Rifkin and Erwin
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH JEREMY RIFKIN and ERWIN KNOLL The November 1971 issue of The Progressive featured an article—"The Red, White, and Blue LEFT"—by a young radical named Jeremy Rifkin, who...
Paid articleMOODS OVER MIAMI BEACH
SAYRE, NORA
MOODS OVER MIAMI BEACH NORA SAYRE Miami Beach The Laocoon: outside the Eden Roc Hotel, statues of the Winged Victory, the Apollo Belvedere, and an unidentified goddess were momentarily looped...
Paid articleTHOSE HEALTH INSURANCE BOOBY TRAPS
Denenberg, Herbert S.
THOSE HEALTH INSURANCE BOOBY TRAPS HERBERT S. DENENBERG People are funny, as Art Linkletter's old radio and television show told America for more than two decades. But one doubts if Linkletter was...
Paid articleTROUBLE SHOOTERS FOR THE PUBLIC
Dickson, Paul
TROUBLE SHOOTERS FOR THE PUBLIC PAUL DICKSON The idea is simplicity itself. One person is appointed to the position of ombudsman, essentially that of a high-level receiver of citizens' complaints...
Paid articleSENATOR HANSEN'S CATTLE IN THE PARK
Shanks, Bernard D.
SENATOR HANSEN'S CATTLE IN THE PARK BERNARD D. SHANKS Cattle don't belong in national parks, especially in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, one of the great landscapes of the West. The Grand...
Paid articleLAST MAN THROUGH THE LOOPHOLE
Mayer, Milton
LAST MAN THROUGH THE LOOPHOLE MILTON MAYER A while ago my admirers convened in a kayak and sent me a cable to Europe: "Why don't you come home and save the country?" I replied that the country...
Paid articleSEXUAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA
Whitten, Ian Robertson and Phillip
SEXUAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA IAN ROBERTSON and PHILLIP WHITTEN Although South Africa operates what is probably the nastiest regime on the face of the earth, it usually manages to do so...
Paid articleART IS POSSIBLE IN CHICAGO
McDaniel, Charles-Gene
ART IS POSSIBLE IN CHICAGO CHARLES-GENE McDANIEL Chicago artists, for the most part, have remained outside the mainstreams of art and have worked in artistic and geographic isolation. They have...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM A Hopeful Blow Daniel Zwerdling's report in your August issue on the United Nations' Stockholm conference on the environment is an admirably lucid statement of the moral and...
Paid articleLOUIS D. BRANDEIS: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Kutler, Stanley I.
BOOKS LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS STANLEY I. KUTLER With the opportunity to appoint two new Supreme Court justices last autumn, President Nixon tantalized us with all sorts of...
Paid articleTHE CRUCIAL STAKES IN FOREIGN POLICY
Cantor, Milton
THE CRUCIAL STAKES IN FOREIGN POLICY Iroots of war, by Richard J. Barnet. Atheneum. 350 pp. $10. reviewed by Milton Cantor Every once in a while that overworked encomium, "a major contribution,"...
Paid articleELEANOR ROOSEVELT ALONE
Lasch, Robert
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ALONE eleanor : the years alone, by Joseph P. Lash. W. W. Norton. 368 pp. $9.95. reviewed by Robert Lasch "Without my husband's advice and guidance I feel very inadequate,"...
Paid articleEVOLUTION OF A FASCIST
Gersh, Gabriel
EVOLUTION OF A FASCIST Imy life, by Sir Oswald Mosley. Arlington House. 521 pp. $12.95. reviewed by Gabriel Gersh The contrasts in Oswald Mosley's political career are as extraordinary as any in...
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