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 Vol. 047 Issue 012 (December 1 1983)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Solidarity Forever Frank Wallick's letter to the Editor (Letters, October issue) revealed what may be a major cause of labor's weakness and, in fact, the weakness of...
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Comment
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COMMENT Tomorrow the World Should the American Empire last a thousand years—fortunately a very dubious proposition—its military conquest of the tiny island of Grenada might well be recorded as...
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No Comment
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NO COMMENT How Low Can You Get? Headline in The Wall Street Journal: Adventurers Club Redefines Adventure in Seeking Members/Chicagoans Lower Standards, But Not So Far as to Let Women Join Their...
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Reflections
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Wennersten, John R.
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REFLECTIONS JohnR. Wennersten The Jury Is Out A century and a half ago, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the existence of the jury system gave Americans tight control over their civic affairs....
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Datelines
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al., M. Welsh et
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DATELINES Signs of the Times DAVIS, CALIFORNIA A gray Corvette driving along Interstate-80 braked suddenly and pulled off to the shoulder of the busy highway. A man stepped from the car and gaped...
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What's a Woman's Work Worth?
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al., R. Moore et
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What's a Woman's Work Worth? BY RICHARD MOORE AND ELIZABETH MARSIS Pay equity—no other feminist issue speaks so directly to working women, so clearly to their needs, so forcefully to their...
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Buried Alive
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Quigg, Catherine Thiel
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Buried Alive Doomed nuclear reactors will require perpetual care BY CATHERINE THIEL QUIGG Decommissioning. The word evokes the quaint image of a faded, majestic ship in repose at dockside, her...
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A Splice Of Life
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Peck, Keenen
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A Splice of Life If biotechnology has answers, it's time to start asking questions BY KEENEN PECK Some of these are genetically engineered," Winston Brill said casually as we walked past rows of...
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Castro's Quarter Century
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Steif, William
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Castro's Quarter Century BY WILLIAM STEIF The tropical rain pelts my window at Havana's Capri Hotel, where actor George Raft was the gambling boss in the 1950s, but I am thinking about the "new...
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Breaking the Anti-Law Text
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Berrigan, Philip
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VIEWS REVIEWS BREAKING THE ANTI-LAW TEXT BY PHILIP BERRIGAN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY SKIP SCHIEL Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison," Henry...
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Film
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Seitz, Micheal H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Chilling Effect It is my fantasy that The Big Chill, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, was not really financed by Columbia Pictures but by the editors of Commentary....
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Life After Rock The first time I heard the prophecy was in the late 1960s, when Teddy Wilson, the classically graceful jazz pianist, told me: "Some of these kids who...
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Beyond the Waste Land
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BOOKS An Economic Bill of Rights BEYOND THE WASTE LAND by Samuel Bowles, David M. Gordon, and Thomas E. Weisskopf by J. Patrick Lewis The economic art of darkness is a wondrous thing,...
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Slander in Court
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Medsger, Betty
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Slander in Court FRAMED: THE NEW RIGHT ATTACK ON CHIEF JUSTICE ROSE BIRD AND THE COURTS by Betty Medsger The Pilgrim Press. 284 pp. $17.95. Our court system, New Right pundits claim, is too...
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The Philosopher's Pupil
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Murdoch, Iris
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Catalyst at Large THE PHILOSOPHER'S PUPIL by Iris Murdoch The Viking Press. 576 pp. $17.95. In The Philosopher's Pupil, her twenty-first novel, Iris Murdoch reemerges as one of our most...
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The Tale of KIEU
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Translated, Nguyen Du.
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Viet Hymn THE TALE OF KIEU
by Nguyen Du. Translated and
annotated by Huynh Sanh Thong.
Yale University Press. 211 pp. $17.50.
R ene Crayssac, a French orientalist, wrote in 1926: "Blessed...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Blueprint for the Future LOOKING FORWARD: PLANNING AMERICA'S FUTURE by Charles Hatch Stoddard Macmillan. 305 pp. $15.95. In this comprehensive survey, Charles Stoddard examines...
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Report Card
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REPORT CARD Waste Not, Want Not WORLD MILITARY AND SOCIAL EXPENDITURES, 1983 by Ruth Leger Sivard World Policy Institute, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017. $4.00. Few publications...
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The Progressive Puzzle
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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...
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The Last Word
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HILL, EDGAR
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THE LAST WORD Edgar Hill Better Late than Ever Emile Zola, writing at the time of the Dreyfus Case, offered his compatriots some advice on how to prepare themselves for the ordeal of reading a...
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