Chronicles Archives Chronicles • 34 Years,
359 Issues,
9,427 Articles,
18,430pp

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Screen: Percussive Expressionism, Little Women Update & the Triumph of Idiocy
The Tin Drum, by Volker Schlondorff
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Issues of the 1970s = 3 Years, 14 Issues, 302 Articles-
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Issues of 1977 = 2 Issues, 27 Articles
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Issues of 1978 = 6 Issues, 136 Articles
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Issues of 1979 = 6 Issues, 139 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 102 Issues, 2,832 Articles-
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Issues of 1980 = 6 Issues, 167 Articles-
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January 1980 Issue = 24 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-6
- Liberal Culture, p. 7
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La Ronde, or the Dance of Labels by Paul Gottfried, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review- The Neoconservatives by Peter Steinfels
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Conventional Unconventionality by Earl Hilton, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review- Letters by John Barth
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The Vicissitudes of Effect and Style by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review- The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
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Political Literariness by Dain A. Trafton, pp. 14-15 - 2 Reviews- A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
- Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
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Lawful Killing in the Barbaric Present by Clarence B. Carson, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- Sentenced to Die by Stephen H. Gettinger
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Some Very Special Truths by Erich Eichman, pp. 18-20 - 1 Review- Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach
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Timelessness and the Itch of Modernism by Christopher Manion, pp. 21-23 - 1 Review- Catholicism and Modernity by James Hitchcock
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Between Two Chairs and into Phonyland by Lev Navrozov, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review- The Top of the Hill by Irwin Shaw
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For the Intelligent Noneconomist by William E. Cage, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- The Government Against the Economy by George Reisman
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Co-opting the Beat Generation by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review- Desolate Angel by Dennis McNally
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Perfectly Awful by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- Schultz by J.P. Donleavy
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Commendables, p. 32 - 2 Reviews- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Dimitrov of Bulgaria by Charles A. Moser
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Waste of Money, p. 32 - 1 Review- The Brethren by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
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Screen: A Big Bang and Small Change by Eric Shapearo, pp. 33-34 - 5 Reviews- Apocalypse Now (1979 Film) by Francis Ford Coppola
- Starting Over (1979 Film) by Alan J. Pakula
- "10" (1979 Film) by Blake Edwards
- Yanks (1979 Film) by John Schlesinger
- La Cage Aux Folles (1979 Film) by Edouard Molinaro
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Building Inspectors and Criticism of Music by Tom Bethell, p. 35 - 1 Review- Music of Three Seasons, 1974-1977 by Andrew Porter
- Keeping Time with the CLU and Other Thoughts by Douglas A. Ramsey, pp. 36-37
- Letter from London by Francis Donahue, pp. 38-39
- Rock Music in Cincinnati, p. 40
- Polish Joke, p. 41
- The Lincoln Review by Allan C. Brownfeld, p. 41
- Antitoxin, p. 42
- The ACLU and the Conservative Impulse by Henry L. Mason III, pp. 42-44
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March 1980 Issue = 33 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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To Think Despair and Live Hope by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Albert Camus: A Biography by Herbert R. Lottman
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Double Destruction of the CIA by Lev Navrozov, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review- The Man Who Kept the Secrets by Thomas Powers
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The Scavenger's Novel by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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Rethinking Linguistics and Liberalism by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review- Liberty and Language by Geoffrey Sampson
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The Thin (Liberal) Man by Otto J. Scott, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review- Enemies by Richard Harris
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As Secret as Christmas Day by Alan J. Levine, p. 18 - 1 Review- Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story by Peter Wyden
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Has the Prodigal Returned? by Edward A. Wynne, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- Teaching as a Conserving Activity by Neil Postman
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Outdated Gomorrahs by Allan C. Brownfeld, p. 21 - 1 Review- Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
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Alienation a la Howard Elman by Christina Murphy, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review- The Dogs of March by Ernest Hebert
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Regulation Blues by Harold C. Gordon, p. 24 - 1 Review- The Future of Business Regulation by Murray L. Weidenbaum
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The Colonel & the Trib by David Pietrusza, p. 25 - 1 Review- The Colonel of Chicago by Joseph Gies
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Happiness, Luck and Social Science by William E. Cage, p. 26 - 1 Review- Who Gets Ahead? by Christopher Jencks
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Musing on Capitalism by William F. Campbell, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review- Capitalism: Sources of Hostility by Ernest van den Haag
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Commendables, by Mary Ellen Fox (8 Reviews) -
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The Attractiveness of Literary Depth by Mary Ellen Fox, p. 29 - 1 Review- A Coat of Varnish by C.P. Snow
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Shakharov's Rectitude, p. 29 - 1 Review- Alarm and Hope by Andrei D. Sakharov, Efrem Yankelevich, and Alfred Friendly, Jr., ...
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Libby's Matter-of-Factness, p. 30 - 1 Review- The Uranium People by Leona Marshall Libby
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Bradford's Vade Mecum, p. 30 - 1 Review- A Better Guide Than Reason by M.E. Bradford
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Who Did What?, p. 31 - 1 Review- Russia's Road to the Cold War by Vojtech Mastny
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Nahas's Warning, p. 31 - 1 Review- Keep Off the Grass by Gabriel G. Nahas
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Defying History, p. 31 - 1 Review- The Forbidden Forest by Mircea Eliade
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Seton-Watson's Analysis, p. 32 - 1 Review- The Imperialist Revolutionaries by Hugh Seton-Watson
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In Focus: Epstein's Honest Effort, p. 32 - 1 Review- Love Affair by Seymour Epstein
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Waste of Money by Becki Klute, p. 33 - 2 Reviews- Goodbye Un-America by James Aldridge
- New Age Blues by Michael Rossman
- Stage: Puny but How Great, p. 34
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Screen: An Anti-Era Statement from Manhattan and Other Poignancies by Eric Shapearo, pp. 34-35 - 3 Reviews- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979 Film) by Robert Benton
- The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979 Film) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- American Gigolo (1980 Film) by Paul Schrader
- Correspondence by Thomas Molnar, pp. 36-37
- The American Proscenium, pp. 38-39
- What's Going On?---Actors & Images , p. 40
- Journalism, p. 41
- Liberal Culture, p. 41
- The Superior Mind of Mr. Jon Voight Oscar Winner , p. 42
- Alcoholism Revisited , pp. 43-44
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May 1980 Issue = 25 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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Morals & Manners by Paul Gottfried, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Breaking Ranks by Norman Podhoretz
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Letters from Analusia by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review- The Habit of Being by Flannery O'Connor and Sally Fitzgerald
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Law Enforcement & National Schizophrenia by Charles A. Moser, pp. 10-13 - 2 Reviews- The Bureau by William C. Sullivan and Bill Brown
- The FBI Pyramid from the Inside by W. Mark Felt
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The Meaning of Darkness by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review- Darkness Visible by William Golding
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The Classic Standards of Truth and Virtue by Otto J. Scott, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review- With No Apologies by Barry M. Goldwater
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A Wistful Warning by Becki Klute, p. 19 - 1 Review- Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
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Prophylactics as Medium and Message by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review- Vida by Marge Piercy
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Forbidden Tales by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review- Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire by Martin B. Green
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A Cowboy in a Sex Utopia by Lev Navrozov, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review- Passion Play by Jerzy Kosinski
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The Young, the Radical and the Ugly by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 27-28 - 2 Reviews- White Kids by Michael Wolff
- Vanguards and Followers by Louis Filler
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The Culting of America by Roger W. Fontaine, pp. 29-31 - 1 Review- Karma Cola by Gita Mehta
- Commendables by James B. Whisker, p. 32
- In Focus, p. 33
- Waste of Money, p. 33
- Screen by Thomas Molnar and Eric Shapearo, p. 34
- Music: A 'Yurodivy Composer' by John Hastings, p. 35
- Music: In the Spirit of Boileau, p. 36
- Correspondence by E. Stake Salisbury, p. 37
- The American Proscenium, p. 38
- Scholarly Responsibility , p. 39
- Teen-age Pregnancy and the Media , p. 39
- Journalism, pp. 39-40
- It's Time for Male Brothels , p. 41
- Liberal Culture, pp. 42-44
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July 1980 Issue = 27 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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The Beauty of Order & the Chrisma of Mess by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 6-7 - 2 Reviews- Philosophy and Public Policy by Sidney Hook
- The Emerging Order by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard
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Style and a Single William F. Buckley, Jr. by Mary Ellen Fox, pp. 8-10 - 3 Reviews- Saving the Queen by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Stained Glass by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Who's on First by William F. Buckley Jr.
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Sex Almanac for Protozoans by Herbert I. London, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review- Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese
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Those Tedius Extremist Victories by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review- Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
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Thanatos for Two by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 15-17 - 2 Reviews- The Passion Artist by John Hawkes
- Devil Take Him by Ralph de Toledano
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Boring from Within by Gordon M. Pradl, p. 18 - 1 Review- Popism: The Warhol Sixties by Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett
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Gothic Feminism by Becki Klute, pp. 19-20 - 1 Review- The Bleeding Heart by Marilyn French
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Squanto the Eurocentric or the Great Liberal Textbook Muddle by Alan J. Levine, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review- America Revised by Frances Fitzgerald
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The Mysteries of Syntax & Punctuation by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- Night Studies by Cyrus Colter
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Blind Insight by William E. Cage, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review- Fire in the Streets by Milton Viorst
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Explorations in Materialist Metaphysics by Juliana Geran Pilon, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review- Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky by Vladislav Krasnov
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Tele-debasing Politics by Edward J. Lynch, pp. 29-30 - 2 Reviews- The Televising of Heller by John Bartlow Martin
- Face Value by Ron Powers
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On Masculinity & Manhood by Otto J. Scott, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review- Of Men and Manhood by Leonard Kriegel
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Gottfried's Lore by Thomas Molnar, p. 34 - 1 Review- Conservative Millenarians by Paul Gottfried
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Smith's Difference, p. 34 - 1 Review- The Watcher by Kay Nolte Smith
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Tales from a Communist Reality, p. 34 - 1 Review- The Old Man and the Bureaucrats by Mircea Eliade
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Seriously Speaking, p. 35 - 1 Review- Conservatively Speaking by Rene A. Wormser
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In Focus: Discourse & Power, p. 35 - 1 Review- The History of Sexuality, Vol. I by Michel Foucault
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Screen: Sylish Void by Eric Shapearo, p. 36 - 1 Review- The Long Riders (1980 Film) by Walter Hill
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Music: Diz---or: On Creative Dignity by Douglas A. Ramsey, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review- To Be, or Not to Bop by Dizzy Gillespie and Al Fraser
- Decline & Fall---Anderson, pp. 38-40
- Lest You Be Mistaken Mr. President, p. 41
- First Amendment, p. 41
- The Message Business Wisdom & Merriment, p. 42
- What Have We Lost?, p. 42
- Liberal Censorship, pp. 43-44
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September 1980 Issue = 27 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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That Hollow Core by Edward J. Lynch, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Authority by Richard Sennett
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Sunken Souffles by James Hitchcock, p. 8 - 1 Review- Annals of an Abiding Liberal by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Can Any Good Thing Come out of Sociology? by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 9-10 - 1 Review- A History of the Idea of Progress by Robert Nisbet
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The New York Times's Game of Colors by Lev Navrozov, pp. 11-13 - 1 Review- Without Fear or Favor by Harrison E. Salisbury
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Direct Clarity & Elliptical Subtlety by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 14-16 - 2 Reviews- The House of the Prophet by Louis Auchincloss
- The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
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Our Betters by John O'Sullivan, pp. 17-19 - 2 Reviews- Barefoot in Babylon by Robert Stephen Spitz
- Up and Down with the Rolling Stones by Tony Sanchez
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Knowledge & Our Totalitarian Democracy by Charles A. Moser, pp. 20-22 - 1 Review- Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell
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Ariadne Without a Clew of Thread by Edward J. Walsh, p. 23 - 1 Review- The Woman Who Lived in a Prologue by Nina Schneider
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Lips Sealed or Alluringly Parted? by Otto J. Scott, pp. 24-26 - 1 Review- The Dream of the Golden Mountains by Malcolm Cowley
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Bridge over the River Why by James V. Schall, pp. 27-28 - 1 Review- How to Think About God by Mortimer J. Adler
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Wien, Wien, nur Du allein... by Paul Gottfried, p. 29 - 1 Review- Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture by Carl E. Schorske
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On Evil, Devil & Despair by Earl Hilton, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- Freddy's Book by John Gardner
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America Through the Funhouse Mirror by Alan J. Levine, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Power on the Left by Lawrence Lader
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The Senior Executives' Drivel by Clarence B. Carson, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review- Takeover by Herb Schmertz and Larry Woods
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How True... by Philip F. Lawler, p. 36 - 1 Review- The Spike by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss
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...but How Inept, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review- The Spike by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss
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Commendables, p. 39 - 4 Reviews- A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell
- The Art of Vogue Covers 1909-1940 by William Packer
- The Tree by John Fowles and Frank Horvat
- William Robinson Leigh: Western Artist by D. Duane Cummins
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Rooseveltiana, p. 39 - 1 Review- Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945 by Robert Dallek
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Perceptibles, pp. 40-43 - 4 Reviews- Three by Irving by John Irving
- The Bad Communist by Max Crawford
- Men, Women and Other Anticlimaxes by Anatole Broyard
- Sex in History by Reay Tannahill
- Journalism, p. 44
- Intellectual Fairness , p. 45
- Responsible Reliable Unbiased Trustworthy Honest , p. 45
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Screen: Percussive Expressionism, Little Women Update & the Triumph of Idiocy by Eric Shapearo, pp. 46-48 - 6 Reviews- The Tin Drum (1979 Film) by Volker Schlondorff
- Foxes (1980 Film) by Adrian Lyne
- Being There (1979 Film) by Hal Ashby
- Coal Miner's Daughter (1980 Film) by Michael Apted
- Agee (1980 Film) by Ross Spears
- Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978 Film) by Bertrand Blier
- Correspondence by Gary Vasilash, p. 49
- The American Proscenium, p. 50
- Conventions---Reorientation , pp. 51-52
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November 1980 Issue = 31 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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Questioning Mr. Percy by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 6-8 - 1 Review- The Second Coming by Walker Percy
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God, Reason & the Redistribution of Income by William E. Cage, pp. 9-10 - 2 Reviews- Marxism: For and Against by Robert L. Heilbroner
- Decade of Decision by Michael Harrington
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Our Poky Little Universe by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 11-15 - 3 Reviews- Falling in Place by Ann Beattie
- O My America! by Johanna Kaplan
- Childhood and Other Neighborhoods by Stuart Dybek
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The Weltanschauung Mishmash by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- Will by G. Gordon Liddy
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Questions Unanswered and Left Hanging by Juliana Geran Pilon, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review- Plains Song by Wright Morris
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A Connoisseur's Recipe by Alan J. Levine, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review- The Real War by Richard M. Nixon
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Two Married Pronouns by Christina Murphy, p. 22 - 1 Review- He/She by Herbert Gold
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Updating the Doctrine of the Two Spheres by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 23-25 - 2 Reviews- At Odds by Carl N. Degler
- Marriage and Family in a Changing Society by James M. Henslin
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Paltry Secrets by Michael W. Albin, pp. 26-27 - 1 Review- Ropes of Sand by Wilbur Crane Eveland
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Of Marxian Bondage by Clarence B. Carson, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review- Unrepentant Radical by Sidney Lens
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On Men & Marines by Otto J. Scott, p. 30 - 1 Review- To Keep Our Honor Clean by Edwin McDowell
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Coercive Utopians Then and Now by Arthur E. Hippler, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- A Dream of Islands by Gavan Daws
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The Dangerous Edge by Robert C. Steensma, pp. 33-35 - 1 Review- Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
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In Focus by Becki Klute, p. 36 - 3 Reviews- The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Donald Symons
- The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
- Dangler by Charles Gaines
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Waste of Money (5 Reviews) -
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Bargain-Basement Kafka by William O'Brien, p. 37 - 1 Review- Neighbors by Thomas Berger
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A Friday of Manhattan Island, p. 38 - 1 Review- Men in Love by Nancy Friday
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Toffler's Hokum, p. 38 - 1 Review- The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler
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That's Entertainment, p. 39 - 1 Review- The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader
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Cap-Gun Noises Somewhere, p. 39 - 1 Review- Thunder on the Right by Alan Crawford
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Screen: The Portrait of the Artist as a Kvetch and Other Trivia by Eric Shapearo, p. 40 - 3 Reviews- Stardust Memories (1980 Film) by Woody Allen
- My Bodyguard (1980 Film) by Tony Bill
- Hopscotch (1980 Film) by Ronald Neame
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Screen: Kelly? by Stephen Macaulay, p. 41 - 1 Review- Xanadu (1980 Film) by Robert Greenwald
- Art, p. 42
- Music by Doug Ramsey, p. 43
- Correspondence by Thomas Molnar, p. 44
- Letter from Central America: Breathtaking Vistas and Gloomy Perspectives by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 45-47
- The American Proscenium, p. 48
- Blessed Complacency---The Nobel Prize , p. 49
- The Religious Heritage Award , p. 50
- Journalism, p. 50
- Time's Hypocrisy: The Continuing Saga; Correct , pp. 51-52
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Issues of 1981 = 6 Issues, 163 Articles
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Issues of 1982 = 8 Issues, 219 Articles
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Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 384 Articles
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Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 348 Articles
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Issues of 1985 = 11 Issues, 295 Articles
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Issues of 1986 = 11 Issues, 308 Articles
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Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 309 Articles
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Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 321 Articles
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Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 118 Issues, 2,935 Articles-
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Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 286 Articles
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Issues of 1991 = 12 Issues, 314 Articles
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Issues of 1992 = 11 Issues, 259 Articles
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Issues of 1993 = 12 Issues, 284 Articles
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Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 292 Articles
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Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 311 Articles
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Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 321 Articles
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Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 293 Articles
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Issues of 1998 = 12 Issues, 283 Articles
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Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 292 Articles
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Issues of the 2000s = 10 Years, 113 Issues, 3,065 Articles-
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Issues of 2000 = 12 Issues, 320 Articles
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Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 356 Articles
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Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 331 Articles
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Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 316 Articles
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Issues of 2004 = 12 Issues, 335 Articles
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Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 320 Articles
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Issues of 2006 = 12 Issues, 314 Articles
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Issues of 2007 = 11 Issues, 289 Articles
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Issues of 2008 = 9 Issues, 224 Articles
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Issues of 2009 = 10 Issues, 260 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 12 Issues, 293 Articles-
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Issues of 2010 = 12 Issues, 293 Articles