December 1983 Issue, CHRONICLES

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- Comment
  Stephen Tanner
  , p. 4
- "Social Register", p. 5
- Jorge Luis Borges; James Burnham, pp. 6-7
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  Writing Poetry & Striking Poses (2 Reviews)
  Robert C. Steensma
  , pp. 8-9
  Auden: A Carnival of Intellect, by Edward Callan
  1. Auden: A Carnival of Intellect by Edward Callan
  2. Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Poet-at-Large by Larry R. Smith
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  Self-Indulgence Made Simple (Review)
  Lee Congdon
  , pp. 10-13
  America's Quest for the Ideal Self, by Peter Clecak
  1. America's Quest for the Ideal Self by Peter Clecak
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  One Way Out (Review)
  Joseph Schwartz
  , pp. 14-15
  Lost in the Cosmos, by Walker Percy
  1. Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
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  A Flounder and the Shark (Review)
  Henry L. Mason III
  , pp. 16-19
  Dangerous Relations, by Adam B. Ulam
  1. Dangerous Relations by Adam B. Ulam
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  Dark Contract (Review)
  Ronald Berman
  , pp. 20-21
  James Gould Cozzens: A Life Apart, by Matthew J. Bruccoli
  1. James Gould Cozzens: A Life Apart by Matthew J. Bruccoli
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  Making Hay with the Southern Sun (2 Reviews)
  Clyde Wilson
  , pp. 22-23
  Faulkner's Search for a South, by Walter Taylor
  1. Faulkner's Search for a South by Walter Taylor
  2. Welcome to Our City by Thomas Wolfe
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  A Dubious Discourse (2 Reviews)
  Gary S. Vasilash
  , pp. 24-26
  Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, by Christopher Norris
  1. Deconstruction: Theory and Practice by Christopher Norris
  2. Poetry as Discourse by Antony Easthope
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  Twinkle, Twinkle (3 Reviews)
  Alan J. Levine
  , p. 27
  High Frontier, by Daniel O. Graham
  1. High Frontier by Daniel O. Graham
  2. The New High-Ground by Thomas Karas
  3. War in Space by James Canan
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  Getting & Spending (3 Reviews)
  Gavin D. Arbuckle
  , pp. 28-29
  Working-Class America, by Michael H. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz
  1. Working-Class America by Michael H. Frisch and Daniel J. Walkowitz
  2. The Entrepreneurial Life by A. David Silver
  3. Roughneck by Peter Carlson
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  A Man Among Mice (Review)
  Allen G. Weakland
  , pp. 30-31
  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. I, by William Manchester
  1. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Vol. I by William Manchester
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  Open---Or Empty? (2 Reviews)
  Guy S. Brown
  , pp. 32-35
  Political Philosophy and the Open Society, by Dante L. Germino
  1. Political Philosophy and the Open Society by Dante L. Germino
  2. Hannah Arendt: For the Love of the World by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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  Commendables (3 Reviews) , p. 36
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    Life in the Happy Lane (Review) , p. 36
    1. Overdrive: A Personal Documentary by William F. Buckley, Jr.
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    Real Fiction (Review) , p. 36
    1. Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
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    Stunning Scrimshaw (Review) , p. 37
    1. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
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  In Focus (7 Reviews) , p. 37
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    Red-Eye Express (Review)
    Richard de Mille
    , p. 37
    1. Flashbacks by Timothy Leary
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    Of Clerics and Cults (Review) , p. 38
    1. By What Authority by Richard Quebedeaux
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    Faltering Christian Soldiers (2 Reviews) , p. 39
    1. Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America by Mark A. Noll
    2. A Documentary History of Religion in America by Edwin S. Gaustad
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    At the Abyss (Review) , p. 39
    1. Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons by Sidney D. Drell
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    Conservative Imagination (Review) , p. 40
    1. Disraeli by Sarah Bradford
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    Westward Direction (Review) , p. 40
    1. Our Country and Our Culture by Steven C. Munson
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    Perceptibles (Review) , p. 40
    1. Why Poe Drank Liquor by Marion Montgomery
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  Waste of Money (3 Reviews) , p. 41
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    Self-Actualizing Mammon (Review)
    Steven Hayward
    , p. 41
    1. Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfillment by Mary Lutyens
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    Of Sonnets and Slogans (Review) , p. 41
    1. Before and Beyond Harlem by Faith Berry
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    Derailed Thinking (Review) , p. 42
    1. The Celestial Steam Locomotive by Michael Coney
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  Screen (2 Reviews) , p. 43
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    The Murdered City (Review) , p. 43
    1. Mr. Mom (1983 Film) by Stan Dragoti
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    The Incertitude of Self (Review) , p. 43
    1. The Return of Martin Guerre (1982 Film) by Daniel Vigne
- Music
  Robert R. Reilly
  , p. 44
  Power, Passion & Performance
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  Strange but Suggestive (Review)
  Stephen Macaulay
  , p. 45
  1. This Is Not a Pipe by Michel Foucault
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  Misconceptions Art in the Seventies, by Edward Lucie-Smith (6 Reviews) , pp. 46-47
  1. Art in the Seventies by Edward Lucie-Smith
  2. The Way of the Masks by Claude Levi-Strauss
  3. Eskimo Masks by Dorothy Jean Ray
  4. Northwest Coast Indian Graphics by Edwin S. Hall, Jr. and Margaret B. Blackman
  5. Kwakiutl Art by Audrey Hawthorn
  6. Eskimo Art by Dorothy Jean Ray
- Correspondence
  E. Stake Salisbury
  , p. 48
  Letter from Hilton Head Island: Enjoy & Reflect
- The American Proscenium
  High Technology
  , p. 49
- Time's Precision, p. 49
- Epistemological Chutzpah , p. 50
- Significance of Silence , p. 50
- Fideism , p. 51