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IssueVol. 045 Issue 010 (October 1 1981)
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Paid articleMEMO
MEMO from the Editor HATE MAIL Among the many letters addressed last month to the editors of The Progressive was one from a reader who took strong exception to Sidney Lens's reflections, in the...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Peace Challenge The article by Samuel H. Day Jr., "Captain Coleman's Challenging Job and Why He Decided to Leave It" (August issue), is important because it shows that...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT A House Divided When public employes go out on strike in Poland, they can count on sympathy and support in the United States—even (or especially) from the Reagan Administration. When...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Frontiers of Free Enterprise A sex manual called Interlude is being marketed in cassette and diskette form by Syntonic Software Corporation of Houston, which describes it as "the most...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeff
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON , Jeff Stein CRIME WAVE Agroup of police.officers on motor scooters gathers at noon daily at an intersection in my neighborhood to swap stories and run out the clock. One...
Paid articleREFLECTION
POLSGROVE, CAROL
REFLECTIONS Carol Polsgrove CITIZEN SCIENCE n an advertising campaign earlier this year, Commonwealth Edison—proprietor of seven nuclear power units in the Chicago area—introduced readers to...
Paid articleDATELINES
DATELINES GETTING SHAFTED BASIN, MONTANA Got an ache in your shoulder? A pain in J your back? Having trouble breathing? Here's a novel cure—go sit in an abandoned! mine and breathe some...
Paid articleMEMORIES OF THE WITCHHUNTS
Dennis, Peggy
MEMORIES OF THE WITCHHUNTS A survivor sifts through the rubble and finds the ashes still smoldering BY PEGGY DENNIS It happened some thirty-five years ago and lasted, in its virulent form, for...
Paid articleNATURE'S BANNER
Jackson, Anne
NATURE'S BANNER BY ANNE JACKSON AND ANGUS WRIGHT There's no subject more on our minds than the preservation of our environment and the absolute necessity of > waging an all-out war against the...
Paid articleA PLACE IN THE SUN
Talbot, David
A PLACE IN THE SUN We're the same people, but we're not on welfare any more' BY DAVID TALBOT AND RICHARD E. MORGAN It is an all too familiar scene: Rows of sun-bleached stucco houses line the...
Paid articleFIGHTING HERBICIDES
Johnson, Phillip
FIGHTING HERBICIDES BY PHILLIP JOHNSON There is a striking analogy between the anti-nuclear and anti-herbicide movements. At one time, opposition to nuclear power was founded almost exclusively on...
Paid articleEARTH FIRST!
Foreman, Dave
EARTH FIRST! BY DAVE FOREMAN Move out the people and cars, reclaim the roads and plowed land, free shackled rivers The early conservation movement in the United States was a child—and no bastard...
Paid articleTHE PROMISE OF SELF-MANAGEMENT
Lens, Sidney
The Promise of Self-Management Yugoslavia may have found the way to make socialism work BY SIDNEY LENS My return to Yugoslavia, after an absence of more than ten years, did not have an...
Paid articleTHE BALM OF POLITICAL LAUGHTER
Shanahan, Dan
The Balm of Political Laughter Yugoslav jokes about the system help to ease the pain BY DAN SHANAHAN Early in April of last year, as Josip Broz Tito entered his eighth week in a coma, the Voice...
Paid articleTOMFOOLERY
Lehrer, Tom
VIEWS REVIEWS TOMFOOLERY Every evening, an hour or so before midnight, a young mathematician out of Harvard used to sit down at the piano in a New York club called the Blue Angel and pound out...
Paid articleINDIGENOUS MUSIC
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC, Nat Hentoff CAN THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? One of Merle Haggard's musical epiphanies has a guy saying: "Someone told my story in a song. He told it all and never missed a line. He...
Paid articleFILM
Seitz, Michael
FILM Michael E. Seitz POLISH CAMOUFLAGE, AUSTRALIAN DISASTER By American standards, not many feature films are made in either Poland or Australia. Nonetheless, these two countries have produced,...
Paid articleFAITH IN THE FUTURE
Fuller, R. Buckminster
FAITH IN THE FUTURE CRITICAL PATH by R. Buckminster Fuller St. Martin's Press. 471 pp. $15.95. If Reaganemia has you wondering what happened to the United States we used to believe in—the one...
Paid articleGLOBAL ROLE
Chace, James
GLOBAL ROLE SOLVENCY: THE PRICE OF SURVIVAL by James Chace Random House. 115 pp. $9.95. The refurbishing of the Cold War by Washington policymakers may give observers the impression that, among...
Paid articleGUNG HO
Fallows, James
GUNG HO NATIONAL DEFENSE by James Fallows Random House. 204 pp. $12.95. The new book, National Defense, by James Fallows, is destined to be popular among liberals and conservatives alike. Fallows...
Paid articleNo Cobwebs Here
LIEBLING, A . J .
Books Briefly No Cobwebs Here THE PRESS by A.J. Liebling. (Pantheon Books. 555 pp. $6.95 paperback). This is a welcome reissue of a book first published in 1961 and revised in 1975 by novelist...
Paid articleModern Art
Hughes, Robert
Modern Art THE SHOCK OF THE NEW by Robert Hughes (Alfred A. Knopf. Illustrated. 423 pp. $29.95). In his survey of 100 years of modern art, Robert Hughes's method is "to tackle themes" rather than...
Paid articleBizarre Political Lives
Naipaul, V.S.
Bizarre Political Lives THE RETURN OF EVA PERON by V.S. Naipaul (Alfred A. Knopf. 228 pp. $10). Few writers show the Third World to the West with the imaginative power of V.S. Naipaul, who was...
Paid articlePUZZLE
Cox, Emily
THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE By Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters to clue answers, when put in the appropriately numbered squares, will spell out a quotation and its author. The first letters of the...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Day, Samuel H. Jr.
THE LAST WORD Samuel H. Day Jr. THE UNION CARBIDE SIX f you were looking for the corporation that best symbolizes the role of business in the manufacture of hydrogen bombs, you wouldn't be far...
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