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IssueVol. 040 Issue 009 (September 1 1976)
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Paid articleThe Politics of Conformity
COMMENT The Politics of Conformity President Ford's most significant contribution to the Bicentennial hoopla, judging from the way it was promoted by the public relations experts on the White...
Paid articleThe Word from Washington
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON The halls of Congress echo an eerie silence. Gone are the gnome-like Congressional aides toting stacks of important-looking file folders through the corridors. Gone are...
Paid articleThe Democrats: Winning Is the Only Thing
SAYRE, NORA
The Democrats: Winning Is the Only Thing NORASAYRE New York Some swore that Madison Square Garden still reeked of elephants just before it was cleansed for the Democratic festival; as one circus...
Paid articleReflections: On a Nation that Endures
Dinh, Tran Van
REFLECTIONS On a Nation that Endures TRAN VAN DINH When a final history of the Vietnam war is written, it will be judged the most barbaric of all wars. It was barbaric not only because Vietnam...
Paid articleBack to Basics
Egerton, John
Back to Basics JOHN EGERTON Of all the institutions in American society, education is the most susceptible to trends, fads, innovations, and panaceas. Governments change leaders, but the immutable...
Paid articlePh.D.-The New Migrant
Spitzer, Daniel C.
Ph.D.—The New Migrant DANIEL C. SPITZER The specter of a new species of migrant stalks our land. The new migrant's work—if he or she can find any—is seasonal, like that of the fruit-picking...
Paid articleWasting Black Minds
Golsan, Lucy B.
Wasting Black Minds LUCY B. GOLSAN "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," intones the deep voice on a recent radio and television commercial designed to raise money for black colleges. A young man...
Paid articleOil on the Campus
Dyne, Larry Van
Oil on the Campus LARRY VAN DYNE When the Shah of Iran visited Washington in 1949— back in those easeful days before he assumed, with a CIA boost, the time-consuming burdens of dictatorship —he...
Paid articleTim Thompson's Private Cold War
Viorst, Milton
Tim Thompson's Private Cold War MILTON VIORST Kabul, Afghanistan Tim Thompson is a slight, blond, intense young man who, for a year, has been a target of a private cold war waged against him by...
Paid articleOut There in America
Hogan, Marcus J. Albrecht, Mark Pinsky, Kris Kridel, and Paul M.
OUT THERE IN AMERICA Labor Day in a Miners' Town St. Louis There is a famous drawing of the first Labor Day parade in New York City. The artist has recorded history—the streets packed with a...
Paid articleAlmost Making It
Mayer, Milton
Almost Making It MILTON MAYER The disclosure that American newspapermen in communist countries have been moonlighting for the CIA, and free-lance newspapermen especially, hits me where I live....
Paid articleEurope's Central Issue: The Communists' Role
Rossi, Mario
Europe's Central Issue: The Communists' Role MARIO ROSSI The Italian election held in June has not resolved the problem of Communist party participation in the governments of Italy, France, and...
Paid articleThe Summer Revolution
Borland, Hal
The Summer Revolution HAL BORLAND Bicentennial Summer: That's what we kept hearing it called, as though that made the days longer or the grass greener or the moon brighter. Here in lower New...
Paid articleArt: Spumoni Village
McDaniel, Charles-Gene
Spumoni Village CHARLES-GENE McDANIEL Spumoni Village does not appear on any map, and probably never will. It existed only briefly as a tangible place—a place of joy and celebration. It doubtless...
Paid articleMovies: The Future Revisited
Turan, Kenneth
MOVIES The Future Revisited KENNETH TURAN For reasons that are probably best left unexamined, a man named Walt Lee has spent a good part of his life compiling a three-volume Reference Guide to...
Paid article'Socialism and Marx Deserve Better'
TAYLOR, RICHARD K.
'Socialism and Marx Deserve Better' RICHARD K. TAYLOR Take the following test as a clue to your enjoyment of Michael Harrington's new book; if, like me, you score under five, your reaction will be...
Paid articleTalking Back
McAULIFFE, KEVIN
Talking Back THE GOOD GUYS, THE BAD GUYS, AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT, by Fred W. Friendly. Random House. 269 pp. $10. KEVIN McAULIFFE When James Madison and the framers of the First Amendment...
Paid articleA Giant's World
Rubin, Morris H.
A Giant's World THE WORLD OF A GIANT CORPORATION, by John Woodmansee and colleagues. North Country Press, P.O. Box 12,223, Seattle, WA 98112. $1.95. MORRIS H. RUBIN Few institutions are so...
Paid articleThe Legal Elite
BERNSTEIN, BARTON J .
The Legal Elite UNEQUAL JUSTICE, by Jerold S. Auerbach. Oxford University Press. 395 pp. $13.95. BARTON J. BERNSTEIN It is a socially useful myth, proclaimed in bar association addresses and...
Paid articleAfrica's Niger
WARRENHOWE, RUSSELL
Africa's Niger THE STRONG BROWN GOD, by Sanche de Gramont. Houghton, Mifflin. 350 pp. $12.50. RUSSELL WARREN HOWE Africa has produced no explorers or navigators of its own, unless one counts an...
Paid articleNumb Americans
CANTOR, DANIEL
Numb Americans BEYOND OUR CONTROL, by Tom Engelhardt. Photographs by Peter Whitney. Riverrun Press, 2636 Regent Street, Berkeley, CA 94704.189 pp. $4.95 paperback. DANIEL CANTOR We are, it is...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Books Briefly FBI: AN UNCENSORED LOOK BEHIND THE WALLS, by Sanford J. Ungar (Atlantic-Little, Brown. 682 pp. $14.95). On late-night television you can still catch the reruns of the old,...
Paid articleLetters
LETTERS The Political Spectrum I am writing this in hopes of waking up at least The Progressive to the active independent candidacy of Eugene McCarthy for President. It is a legitimate campaign,...
Paid articleEnd Game: Remedies
Llpez, Richard
END CAME Remedies RICHARD LIPEZ Doc Fitzgerald's Laboratories (a division, since 1971, of Hurtlebutt-Snopesack International Industries of Houston and Djiboutie) has just released its midyear...
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