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IssueVol. 053 Issue 002 (February 1 1989)
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Paid articleMEMO
MEMO from the Editor Spry Octogenarian When this issue of The Progressive goes to press on January 9, it will be eighty years to the day since Volume I, Number 1 appeared. It was called...
Paid articleLETTERS
LETTERS to the Editor Grandmother as Lawbreaker One expects better from The Progressive than the headline Grandmother as Lawbreaker (Datelines, January issue). How many male activists are...
Paid articleCOMMENT
The Progressive Comment George Bush's Opportunity lot for many decades, perhaps never before in I American history, has a new President entered the White House under such potentially auspicious...
Paid articleNO COMMENT
NO COMMENT Silver Lining Department Insurance agent David Richman, a vice president at Associated Benefits, Inc., of Plainville, Connecticut, as quoted in The Hartford Courant: "AIDS is the best...
Paid articleDATELINES
Koeppel, Diana Claitor, Jane Slaughter, Allen Hornblum, and Barbara
DATELINES The Homeless Take to the Water AUSTIN, TEXAS The capital city of Texas prides itself on being a green and pretty place, especially in its central district. Thousands of tourists walk...
Paid articleJUST INSIDE THE DOOR
Jordan, June
JUST INSIDE THE DOOR June Jordan Finding the Way Home On a cold night, more than twenty years ago, Bucky Fuller was explaining why he always wore three watches, simultaneously, on his left wrist....
Paid articleREFLECTIONS
Zinn, Howard
REFLECTIONS Howard Zinn A Murderous Word In 1948, the House Committee on Un-American Activities distributed a pamphlet entitled One Hundred Things You Should Know About Communism. (I found a...
Paid articleTHE UNION-BUSTING POST
HANRAHAN, JOHN
The Union Busting Post BY JOHN HANRAHAN Labor Pains at a Liberal Paper When Washington Post reporter Tom Sherwood heard that the newspaper's executive editor, Ben Bradlee, had torn from a union...
Paid articleEL SALVADOR: BEHIND THE LINES WITH THE REBELS
SMYTH, FRANK
EL SALVADOR Behind the Lines with the Rebels BY FRANK SMYTH With an old straw hat, a soiled yellow shirt, ragged pants, and sandals, my weathered-skinned guide could easily have passed for the...
Paid articleHER MAJESTY'S CENSORS
FRIEDMAN, MEL
Her Majesty's CENSORS Margaatet Thatcher leads an Inglorious Counterrevolution BY MEL FRIEDMAN Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park stands on the site of the old Tyburn gallows, where condemned...
Paid articleDOING THE LORD'S WORK
COLLUM, DANNY DUNCAN
DOING the Lord's WORK BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM Several years ago, a friend who worked at one of the more prominent progressive lobbies on Capitol Hill told me that a co-worker had asked him, in a...
Paid articleNAGUIB MAHFOUZ: FIFTEEN MINUTES WITH EGYPT'S NOBEL LAUREATE
Steif, William
THEP ROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW Naguib Mahfouz Fifteen minutes with Egypt's Nobel laureate BY WILLIAM STEIF Though I'd made seven trips into the Arab World in the past fifteen years, from Casablanca...
Paid articleSMALL FAVORS
Ivins, Molly
SMALL FAVORS Molly Ivins Dallas Does It Again The Big D, that darlin' Dallas, has been in the headlines again, once more drawing national attention with its fatal tendency to flash ass. The...
Paid articleThe Rhetoric of Empire
Landau, Saul
BOOKS The Rhetoric of Empire BANANA DIPLOMACY: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987 by Roy Gutman Simon & Schuster. 404 pp. $19.95. by Saul Landau Roy Gutman's Banana Diplomacy...
Paid articleThe Young G.B.S
Holroyd, Michael
The Young G.B.S BERNARD SHAW: Volume I, 1856-1898: The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd Random House. 486 pp. $24.95. Horatio Smith once commented on Voltaire: "He was born, so to say, with one...
Paid articleLand Lasts
Erdrich, Louise
Land Lasts TRACKS by Louise Erdrich Henry Holt. 226 pp. $18.95. Where the modern American novel is concerned, reading the fiction of Louise Erdrich often poses as many problems as solutions....
Paid articleConstant Rebel
Lamont, Corliss
BOOKS BRIEFLY Constant Rebel investigations, the U.S. Passport Office, and other agents of repression. More than a quarter century ago, Lamont wrote, "As we grow older, we dissenters should grow...
Paid articleOur Recent Past
Cooke, Alistair
Our Recent Past AMERICA OBSERVED By Alistair Cooke Alfred A. Knopf. 223 pp. $9.95. Now eighty years old, Alistair Cooke recently announced that he has no intention of retiring. The genial host...
Paid articleBright Light on the Left
Wang, Christopher Hitchens Hill and
Bright Light on the Left PREPARED FOR THE WORST: Selected Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens Hill and Wang. 357 pp. $19.95. Christopher Hitchens has a lively mind and easy style...
Paid articleBravery Before the Bench
Irons, Peter
Bravery Before the Bench THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court by Peter Irons The Free Press. 420 pp. $22.95. "I'll take you all the...
Paid articleMiddle East Reappraisal
Harkabi, Yehoshafat
Middle East Reappraisal ISRAEL'S FATEFUL HOUR by Yehoshafat Harkabi Harper & Row. 256 pp. $22.50. Yehoshafat Harkabi formerly headed Israeli military intelligence, advised Prime Minister Menachem...
Paid articleTHE LAST WORD
Seldes, George
THE LAST WORD George Seldes The FBI and I My first inkling that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was taking an extraordinary interest in me came from the commanding officer of a U.S. Army...
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