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 Vol. 049 Issue 001 (January 1 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Letters
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LETTERS to the Editor Political Nit-Picking consider myself a center-leaning Democrat. I know that The Progressive's policies are somewhat to the left of my position. Nevertheless, I have been an...
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Comment
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A Call for Justice After a Presidential election campaign de-pressingly bereft of substantive debate about fundamental economic issues, the Catholic bishops' latest pastoral letter constitutes a...
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No Comment
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SO COMMENT Praying for Profits An invocation delivered by Chaplain William E. Crews to a session of the Kansas state senate: "Almighty God, You have called us to work in Your vineyard: Guide us to...
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Datelines
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al., Marcia Z. Nelson et.
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Santa's Angry Helpers CHICAGO This Christmas, the role of Ebenezer Scrooge is being played by Hasbro Bradley, the giant toy manufacturer. The company plans to shutter a Playskool factory in...
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REAGAN II
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REAGAN II *You ain't seen nuttin* yet* BY THE EDITORS OF THE PROGRESSIVE bout half way through his raucous act, the late Jimmy Durante would rasp out, "You ain't seen nuttin' yet!" That meant the...
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THE LAY OF THE LAND
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Aufderheide, Pat
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The Lay of the Land_ A way of life that once worked no longer does BY PAT AUFDERHEIDE At 4 a.m., the air is crisp and the skies are clear. The moon, almost full, shines on the fields of southern...
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SISTERHOOD UNDER SIEGE
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Marsis, Richard Moore and Elizabeth
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Sisterhood Under Siege Business has its own 'feminist* agenda BY RICHARD MOORE AND ELIZABETH MARSIS You'll find it at Macy's. In the basement of New York City's famous department store, chefs...
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POLAND WAITS
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WAITS, POLAND
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Poland Waits Hope flickers in the ashes of despair BY DAN SHANAHAN We were standing in the gray light of dawn on the platform of the Poznan railroad station, bound for a weekend in Gdansk, when...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC , Nat Hentoff The Fabled Blue Notes The two partners were of indeterminate age, unfailingly polite, and passionately knowledgeable about black jazz. Since 1939, they had operated...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Michael H. Seitz Remembering in Hungary Each one of us is formed by our childhood and past. At the time when my country's new society was in its childhood, I was a child too. Once an adult,...
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Imperial Adventures
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Nossiter, Bernard D.
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BOOKS Imperial Adventures UNMANIFEST DESTINY by T.D. Allman Doubleday. 468 pp. $19.95. by Bernard D. Nossiter Great powers expand through force and violence, treachery and guile, hypocrisy and...
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Pioneer
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Sicherman, Barbara
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BOOKS Pioneer ALICE HAMILTON: A LIFE IN LETTERS by Barbara Sicherman Harvard University Press. 460 pp. $25. Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters, by Barbara Sicherman, is a sensitive and...
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Too Many Beads
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Pell, Eve
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Holocaust THE QUALITY OF MERCY by William Shawcross Simon and Schuster. 464 pp. $19.95. One day in November 1979 I stood with Henry Kamm of The New York Times along a refugee camp fence in...
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Books Briefly
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Elliott, Fred W. Friendly and Martha J.H.
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Books Briefly Great Debates THE CONSTITUTION: THAT DELICATE BALANCE by Fred W. Friendly and Martha J.H. Elliott Random House. 339 pp. $17.95. Designed to accompany a public television series by...
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Puzzle
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Rathvon, Emily Cox and Henry
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THE PROGRESSIVE PUZZLE by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon Letters of 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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Index for 1984
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INDEX TO VOLUME 48,1984 SECTION I lists authors and subjects, followed by date of issue and page number. For example, Dec 19 is Page 19 of the December issue. SECTION II lists books reviewed,...
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The Last Word
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GAILLARD, FRYE
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THE LAST WORD Frye Gaillard An Untimely Life We feel mournful not only for Velma and her family, but because of what the state of North Carolina has decided to do. No one is saying this is a...
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