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IssueVol. 040 Issue 005 (May 1 1976)
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Paid articlePatty and Jerry and Ron and Jimmy and Scoop and Mo and...
Lens, The Editors and Arthur S. Miller, Lewis J. Paper, Murray Kempton, and Sidney
COMMENT Patty and Jerry and Ron and Jimmy and Scoop and Mo and... A reader writes: "Now that the trial of Patricia Hearst has ended in a guilty verdict, perhaps The Progressive will condescend to...
Paid articleThe Word from Washington
THE WORD FROM A university professor testifying at House hearings called it "a vast, shadowy world of an estimated 100,000 to 300,000 bureaucrats, intellectuals, agents, and thugs" which spies on...
Paid articleBuilding a New Democracy
Boyte, Harry
Building a New Democracy HARRY BOYTE George McGovern lost the 1972 Presidential election, ending the era of "the New Politics." Then came Watergate, the "energy crisis" and recession, disclosures...
Paid articleThe Middle East: A Way to Peace
Waskow, Arthur
There is a way to break the Israel-Palestine deadlock The Middle East: A Way to Peace ARTHUR I. WASKOW The U.N. Security Council's January debate on the Palestine problem came closer than has any...
Paid articleThe Middle East: An Obstacle to Peace
Lear, Leonard
The Middle East: An Obstacle to Peace LEONARD LEAR "The Arab World is not anti-Jewish. It is anti-Zionist." This message was the essence of an unusual half-page advertisement placed by the Iraqi...
Paid articleReflections: On the Viable Thrust of Massified Dialogue
Newman, Edwin S.
REFLECTIONS On the Viable Thrust of Massified Dialogue EDWIN S. NEWMAN I believe that the best method of communicating remains language—for us, the English language, straightforward, concrete,...
Paid articleJimmy Carter: A Smile and a Shoeshine
Ottenad, Thomas W.
'He's selling only two products— his personality and the image of the outsider. . ..' Jimmy Carter: A Smile and a Shoeshine THOMAS W. OTTENAD Jimmy Carter is a nifty, shifty politician. Perhaps...
Paid articleBritish Columbia: What Went Wrong?
Achtenberg, Ben
British Columbia: What Went Wrong? BEN ACHTENBERG "The election of a humanist, democratic socialist government was inevitable," Premier Dave Barrett told delegates to last year's convention of...
Paid articleThe Privacy Act : More Confusion than Protection
Miller, Judith
The Privacy Act: More Confusion than Protection JUDITH MILLER American Express, with more than six million credit card holders throughout the world, routinely supplies information about its...
Paid articleCountry Slicker
Mayer, Milton
Country Slicker MILTON MAYER Ms. Baby ("My name is Jane") Mayer believes in busing as a first resort, so we took the bus down to New York a couple of months ago and I still have the shakes. New...
Paid articleCharade in the Philippines
Schirmer, Daniel B.
Charade in the Philippines DANIEL B. SCHIRMER On April 12 the Republic of the Philippines is scheduled to open negotiations with the Ford Administration over the U.S. military bases in the...
Paid articleTom Hayden Goes Legit
Lazzareschi, Carlo
Can a founder of SDS find happiness in the U. S. Senate? Tom Hayden Goes Legit CAR LA LAZZARESCHI In the spring of 1967, Jerry Rubin—then just a former journalist with a strong belief in...
Paid articleMovies: Not Swept Away
Turan, Kenneth
MOVIES Not Swept Away KENNETH TURAN A sister of mine lives deep in rural California, far from the madding crowd, where movie-going is not a way of life. Yet even the tallest trees cannot muffle...
Paid articleThe Search for a Public Philosophy
WITTNER, LAWRENCE S.
The Search for a Public Philosophy LAWRENCE S.WITTNER The modern era has been hard on those who have sought to plumb its ethical and political imperatives. Torn loose from their ideological...
Paid article1954 Landmark
MEYER, HOWARD N.
1954 Landmark SIMPLE JUSTICE, by Richard Kluger. Alfred A. Knopf. 823 pp. $15.95. HOWARD N. MEYER Richard Kluger's book, Simple Justice, centers on the Supreme Court's 1954 school segregation...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly WHAT WOMEN WANT: THE IDEAS OF THE MOVEMENT, by Gayle Graham Yates (Harvard University Press. 230 pp. $10). Too often "women's lib" is discussed by both supporters and detractors as if...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS The Mysterious Mountain A quotation contained in Richard Pollock's article "The Mysterious Mountain," in the March issue, shocked me because the implications were missed. "The [nuclear...
Paid articleEnd Game: Remainders
Lipez, Richard
END GAME Remainders RICHARD LIPEZ Now is the time to buy oversized gift books for next Christmas. Bookstores have slashed—and in some instances flayed, pummeled, and repeatedly punctured—prices...
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