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IssueVol. 046 Issue 010 (October 1 1982)
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Paid articleLetters
LETTERS to the Editor The Power and the Glory Ihope the readers of The Progressive don't think all Episcopal priests agree with the Reverend William Grosvenor Pollard that nuclear energy is...
Paid articleComment
COMMENT Peace through Honesty An advertisement placed in The New York Times by Friends of the Earth, the environmentalist organization, urges us to send identical messages to Ronald Reagan and...
Paid articleNo Comment
NO COMMENT All the Comforts of Home Marc Leeds, vice president of the American Pet Motel in the Chicago suburbs, says the clientele of 10,000 animal boarders a year includes "a cat who drinks...
Paid articleO Washington
Jones, Arthur
O WASHINGTON Arthur Jones Politics for the Post-ERA Era The Equal Rights Amendment failed. But that didn't affect the quality of the bread at the Women's Community Bakery on Seventh Street SE in...
Paid articleReflections
Mayer, Milton
REFLECTIONS Milton Mayer Just Like the Gentiles To be a Jew is to be conscious of being a Jew and of being called one; conscious, too, of the world's disorder and degradation and the odds that...
Paid articleDatelines
al., Alexander Hiam et
DATELINES Sending DNA to War BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA The new genetic engineering techniques allow scientists to manipulate the genes of microorganisms, and eventually plants and animals as well, to...
Paid articleTHE LEFT
Parenti, Michael
BY MICHAEL PARENTI any of us despair of solving the problems of this society within the confines of the capitalist system that created the problems in the first place. So we advocate an alternative...
Paid articleTHE NEOLIBERALS
Judis, John
NEOLIBERALS High-tech politics for the '80s? BY JOHN JUDIS The workshop was entitled 'issues for the '80s." It was held at the Hilton Hotel, across the street from Philadelphia's Convention Hall,...
Paid articleTHE CITIZENS' PARTY
Jezer, Marty
CITIZENS' PARTY Can it live up to its name BY MARTY JEZER After its disastrous 1980 Presidential campaign, the Citizens' Party seemed to fade from the progressive political spectrum. Its...
Paid articleTHE BLACKS
Kotler, John Conyers Jr. and Neil
THE BLACKS In the South will the numbers add up? BY JOHN CONYERSJR AND NEIL KOTLER I think we're going to be able to deliver in the South____I think the direction of this nation is going to be...
Paid articleBUYING VOTES
MILLER, ARTHUR S.
BUYING VOTES Is politics the last free market BY ARTHURS. MILLER Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States plunged into the political thicket of legislative representation: One...
Paid articleRUNNING
Walsh, Lawrence
BY LAWRENCE WALSH The idea was to find John Judis and go over our coverage of the Democrats' mid-term conference. He had come to Philadelphia from Chicago to inspect the neoliherals, so called, who...
Paid articleMedia
Crawford, Alan
MEDIA Alan Crawford More Right than Reagan New Right fundraiser Richard Vi-gucric seems bent on making George Steinbrenncr of the Yankees look like a model boss. For the fourth time in five...
Paid articleIndigenous Music
Hentoff, Nat
INDIGENOUS MUSIC , NatHentoff Count Basie: Putting Wheels on the Beat He comes on stage in a motor scooter because—with his arthritis, diabetes, and two heart attacks—walking is something of a...
Paid articleFilm
Seitz, Michael H.
FILM Michael H. Seitz Scheming Flyboys and Honest Outlaws t isn't news that Hollywood panders to the least sophisticated mass tastes, and that the studios play on the desires and expectations of...
Paid articleThe Heat and the Chill
al., Vincent Harding et
BOOKS The Heat and the Chill THERE IS A RIVER by Vincent Harding Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 416 pp. $19.95. HEARTS AND MINDS by Harry S. Ashmore McGraw-Hill. 512 pp. $15.95. For as long as...
Paid articleTrail's End
White, Theodore H.
Trail's End AMERICA IN SEARCH OF ITSELF by Theodore H. White Harper & Row. 465 pp. $15.95. This is a book liberals will not like, but they should read it anyway. It tells a basic and unpleasant...
Paid articleCleaned-up Twain
Neider, Charles
BOOKS Cleaned-up Twain THE SELECTED LETTERS OF MARK TWAIN edited by Charles Neider Harper & Row. 328 pp. $16.95. Mark Twain has had more than his share of troubles with editors. In 1963 Twain...
Paid articleThe 1950s and Now
Jezer, Marty
BOOKS The 1950s and Now THE DARK AGES: LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1945-1960 by Marty Je/er South End Press. 335 pp. $17.50 hardcover. $8 paperback. Memories of the 1950s have generally evoked...
Paid articleReport Card
Corson, Ross
REPORT CARD Ross Corson The Knowledge Factory GOING FOR BROKE: THE UNIVERSITY AND THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX by the Committee for Non-Violent Research 1401 S. State Street, Ann Arbor,...
Paid articlePuzzle
Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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 spell out the name of the...
Paid articleThe Last Word
Ambrosio, John
THE LAST WORD j John Ambrosio Charlie's Way We were waiters and waitresses. We had been working in restaurants for years. But our collective experience had not prepared us for what Host...
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