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IssueVol. 045 Issue 011 (November 1 1981)
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Paid articleMEMO
MEMO from the Editor CENSORS AT WORK No current member of The Progressive's staff remembers when or in what circumstances we first received the Cuban communist newspaper Granma. It began arriving...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Moral Dilemmas Ihave been reflecting on the differing reactions of two kinds of people confronted with moral dilemmas, as described in your August issue. Ronald D. Coleman...
Paid articleCOMMENT
COMMENT Voodoo Revisited When Ronald Reagan took to the airwaves late in September to explain the "second phase" of his economic program to the American people, he delivered his first truly...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT All Quiet on the Military Front The U.S. Army is testing the use of video games ("Battle Zone," "Space Invaders," "Asteroids") as combat training devices. Says Captain Steven Cox of the...
Paid articleTHE WORD FROM WASHINGTON
Stein, Jeff
THE WORD FROM WASHINGTON Jeff Stein TWO WOMEN On the day before the Senate confirmed the appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, I went down to...
Paid articleREFLECTIONS
Parenti, Michael
REFLECTIONS Michael Parenti THE HIGH COST OF EMPIRE The growth of American corporations from modest domestic enterprises to multinational giants with vast overseas holdings has been matched by...
Paid articleDATELINES
DATELINES GOING IN STYLE THE BRONX, NEW YORK Like Henry James's Man About Town, they had to be seen in all the right places: They dined at the most expensive restaurants and lived on the most...
Paid articleThe Palestinians
Steif, William
The Palestinians They are the dynamite that threatens to blow up the Middle East and the glue that holds it together BY WILLIAM STEIF | Rashidieh is a Palestinian refugee camp, established by...
Paid articleStrange Bedfellows
Zunes, Stephen
Strange Bedfellows BY STEPHEN ZUNES When it became clear last June that the U.S. response to Israel's attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor would be one of surprise and indignation, not approval,...
Paid articleFor Old People, A New Kind of Neglect
For Old People, A New Kind of Neglect It's just an indignity that we have to go through this. Why should we have to call and plead and beg like this just to get my father in a nursing home?" says...
Paid articleThose most in need of nursing home care are least likely to find it
BRAIT, SUSAN
Those most in need of nursing home care are least likely to find it BY SUSAN BRAIT stringent regulations, and nursing home quality improved to a significant degree. Today, the issue is not quality...
Paid articleDoes Anyone Care?
Does Anyone Care? Since the 1971 White House Conference on Aging, legislators and medical experts have been discussing ways to reduce the demand for institutional care. The full range of...
Paid articleHooker's Other Love Canals
TALLMER, MATT
Hooker's Other Love Canals Chemical dumping as a corporate way of life BY MATTTALLMER If you head south for ninety miles or so from Sacramento, California, you get to Lathrop, a town of about...
Paid articleCancer and the Way We Live
Cancer and the Way We Live It became ever more apparent, in the early 1970s, that 70 to 90 per cent of all human cancers have environmental causes. Yet the cancer establishment, in its "war on...
Paid articleChemicals in the World of the Unborn
Chemicals in the World of the Unborn When young women who lived beside the Love Canal chemical dumpsite tell the press of the repeated miscarriages they have suffered, when Vietnam veterans exposed...
Paid articleHungary and Hope
Lens, Sidney
Hungary and Hope The tragedy of 1956 remains in the national consciousness BY SIDNEY LENS It will be twenty-five years on October 23. There are no statues or historic markers in Bern Square to...
Paid articleFear in the Prague Air
Fear in the Prague Air In 1968, twelve years after the failed revolt in Hungary, Soviet troops crushed the "Prague Spring" government of Alexander Dubcek. Today, Czechoslovakia presents the visitor...
Paid articleTHE GAY WRITER
POWELL, LESLIE
VIEWS REVIEWS THE GAY WRITER BY LESLIE POWELL Slow to ripen." The review I was reading applied those words to a Nineteenth Century novelist. The rest of the article proved to be dull and...
Paid articleINDIGENOUS MUSIC
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC. Nat Hentoff PEE WEE RUSSELL TAKING RISKS Part of the mythology has been that the jazz player always improvises. Good or bad, each note is freshly imagined. In real life, most...
Paid articleFILM
Seitz, Michael H.
FILM Michael H. Seitz TOWN AND COUNTRY Recent motion pictures have portrayed the Big Apple as rotten and full of worms. This was the image of New York City that held sway in the late 1960s and...
Paid articleBOOKS:ATOMIC VETERANS
Freeman, Leslie J.
BOOKS ATOMIC VETERANS NUCLEAR WITNESSES: INSIDERS SPEAK OUT by Leslie J. Freeman W.W.Norton. 330 pp. $16.95. From every link in the nuclear chain, radiation escapes—from mines and mine tailings,...
Paid articleRED SCARE
Bayley, Edwin R.
RED SCARE JOE MCCARTHY AND THE PRESS by Edwin R. Bayley University of Wisconsin Press. 295 pp. $16.50. From 1950, three years after Joseph R. McCarthy took his seat in the U.S. Senate, to 1954,...
Paid articleWARRIOR ADRIFT
McFeely, William S.
WARRIOR ADRIFT GRANT: A BIOGRAPHY by William S. McFeely W.W. Norton. 591 pp. $19.95. Although he was one of the country's greatest military warriors, Ulysses S. Grant has never occupied an...
Paid articlePOLITICAL WAR
Cook, Blanche Wiesen
POLITICAL WAR THE DECLASSIFIED EISENHOWER: A DIVIDED LEGACY OF PEACE AND POLITICAL WARFARE by Blanche Wiesen Cook Doubleday. 432 pp. $17.95. Beneath the sphynxlike exterior of Dwight D....
Paid articleNEW SPY
Mitgang, Herbert
NEW SPY THE MONTAUK FAULT by Herbert Mitgang Arbor House. 285 pp. $12.95. The old spy thrillers sound naive and dated these days. Herbert Mitgang has redefined the espionage novel for the 1980s....
Paid articleQUEBEC VISTAS
Jacobs, Jane
QUEBEC VISTAS THE QUESTION OF SEPARATISM by Jane Jacobs Random House. 134 pp. $8.95 hardcover. $3.95 paperback. n her first book in more than a decade, Jane Jacobs, the distinguished author of...
Paid articleBooks Briefly
Mille, Agnes de
Books Briefly Fighting Back REPRIEVE by Agnes de Mille Doubleday. 288 pp. $14.95. In May 1975 Agnes de Mille suffered a massive stroke on the opening night of her carefully planned Heritage...
Paid articleLife in Television
Reason, Harry
Life in Television BEFORE THE COLORS FADE by Harry Reasoner Alfred A. Knopf.207 pp. $10.95. In a breezy, amiable memoir Harry Reasoner looks back at some of the highlights in his television...
Paid articleNo Alternative
No Alternative NUCLEAR WEAPONS: REPORT OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL Autumn Press (1318 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02146). 223 pp. $12.95 hardcover. $7.95 paperback. In 1978 the U.N. General...
Paid articleThreesome
Gray, Francine du Plessix
Threesome WORLD WITHOUT END by Francine du Plessix Gray (Simon and Schuster. 314 pp. $12.95). "The Love of Three Francines" might have been a less resounding but more descriptive title for...
Paid articleTHE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE
Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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. The first letters of the clue answers...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Leopold, George
THE LAST WORD George Leopold DEAD END It is exquisite boredom. We arrive for work at 8 in the morning and stuff envelopes until 4:30 in the afternoon. To help get us through a day of mindless...
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