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 Vol. 049 Issue 007 (July 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 What Price Glory? Two misconceptions underlie The Progressive's Comment "What Price Glory?" (June issue), in which you fault four peace activists for damaging a nuclear...
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Comment
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Comment Labors of Love, Jobs of Despair For more than five years now, the official unemployment rate has never dipped below 7 per cent. To many economists, politicians, and business leaders, this...
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No Comment
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no Comment Kill 'em with Kindness Associated Press dispatch from Huntsville, Texas: "Stephen Peter Morin, thirty-seven, convicted of killing three women in a five-week spree, was executed by...
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Reflections
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Collins, Frank
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REFLECTIONS Frank Collins Nonviolent Struggle in the Middle East To propose nonviolent action for the Middle East may seem naive, given the bloody history and the continuing daily toll of death,...
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Datelines
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al., Frank Clancy et.
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This Is America? LOS ANGELES The attack started with obscenities and racial slurs. By the time it ended, the victim, a seventeen-year-old Chinese man, had suffered a broken nose, bruises, and...
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STAR WARS: THE FINAL SOLUTION
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Peck, Matthew Rothschild and Keenen
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STAR WARS ????????**??*?*???*???????????? THE FINAL SOLUTION BY MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD AND KEENEN PECK 'I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to...
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PRAYER TO A DISPLACED PERSON
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Stone, I.F.
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Prayer to a Displaced Person O'ur Father Who art in Heaven Where shall we find You When contending armies Build battle stations In the skies, jostling For the high ground In outer space? Where,...
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THE MIRACLE WORKERS
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Morrison, David C.
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The Miracle Workers They aim for the stars—and miss BY DAVID C. MORRISON Ireally believe in technology in this country," said Lieutenant General James Abrahamson, director of the Star Wars...
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FIRST STRIKE, YOU'RE OUT
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Peck, Keenen
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First Strike, You're Out AN INTERVIEW WITH |B DANIEL ELLSBERG BY KEENEN PECK Although he is best known for releasing The Pentagon Papers in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg is also a prominent peace...
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POLITICS ON THE MEND
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Boyte, Harry C.
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Politics on the Mend BY HARRY C. BOYTE Cora Tucker, daughter of a black sharecropper, child of the Deep South, has always fought for what she believes in. As a Virginia high school student in the...
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Indigenous Music
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Hentoff, Nat
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INDIGENOUS MUSIC Nat Hentoff Seeing the Sound of Jazz Ihave been waiting for someone to ask me what my most satisfying achievement has been. When the question comes, the answer is: my work on a...
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Film
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Seitz, Michael H.
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FILM Mlchael H. Seitz Trivial Pursuits It is 1913," the pressbook for The Shooting Party announces, "and Edwardian England is about to vanish into history." The film, based on the novel by Isabel...
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A Chip that Changed the World
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Judis, John B.
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BOOKS A Chip that Changed the World THE CHIP by T.R. Reid Simon and Schuster. 243 pp. $15.95. by John B. Judis TR. Reid, a staff writer for The Washington Post, has written about one-tenth of...
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Activist's Warts
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Cummings, Richard
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Activist's Warts THE PIED PIPER: ALLARD K. LOWENSTEIN AND THE LIBERAL DREAM by Richard Cummings Grove Press. 569 pp. $19.95. Al Lowenstein was the prototypical white liberal activist of the 1960s...
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A Long Whine
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Nixon, Richard
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A Long Whine NO MORE VIETNAMS by Richard Nixon Arbor House. 240 pp. $14.95. Richard Nixon, master of the half-truth, the selective culling of facts, and the art of blaming his own mistakes on...
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Uncivil Jibes
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Trillin, Calvin
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Uncivil Jibes WITH ALL DISRESPECT by Calvin Trillin Tichnor and Fields. 230 pp. $14.95. There is an ugly rumor going around that Calvin Trillin is not a serious person. Trillin, mind you, writes...
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Books Briefly
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Books Briefly Daily Dangers ACCEPTABLE RISKS by Pascal James Imperato and Greg Mitchell The Viking Press. 286 pp. $15.95. Certain risks like earthquakes and violent storms are beyond our...
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Report Card
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Doughty, Carrie Rothburd and Roger
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REPORT CARD Carrie Rothburd and Roger Doughty Empty Cure INDUSTRIAL POLICY: CAN IT LEAD THE U.S. OUT OF ITS ECONOMIC MALAISE? by Kim Scipes Box 5036, Berkeley, CA 94705.32 pp. $5. In this...
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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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The Last Word
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Steif, William
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THE LAST WORD William Steif An American Original The obituary writer almost always has the last word in American journalism. But not this time, not about Ralph McAllister Ingersoll. I was a...
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