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Man in a Comic Mask

The Comedy of Survival, by Joseph W. Meeker

by Hugh Mercer Curtler

Modern Age, Winter 1975, pp. 109-111

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    Winter 1975 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Liberal Learning, Moral Worth, and Defecated Rationality by Russell Kirk, pp. 2-8
    2. The Wane of Property by C.P. Ives, pp. 9-19
    3. Gold, Monetary Crises, and a Free Society by Arthur Kemp, pp. 20-29
    4. Sacco and Vanzetti by Francis Russell, pp. 30-41
    5. On Poetry by Ralph De Toledano, pp. 42-47
    6. Educational Secularism by Robert Beum, pp. 48-60
    7. Prosser Hall Frye by R.D. Stock, pp. 61-70
    8. How Much Justice? by Ernest Van Den Haag, pp. 71-75
    9. Mrs. English by Robert Drake, pp. 76-82
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      The Islands of the Damned by J.M. Lalley, pp. 83-89 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
      2. Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam
      3. Let History Judge by Roy Medvedev
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      The Recovery of the Past by C.P. Ives, pp. 90-92 - 1 Review
      1. Tradition and Reform in Education by Stephen J. Tonsor
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      The Politics of Defeat by Mario Pei, pp. 93-94 - 1 Review
      1. Will America Surrender? by Slobodan M. Draskovich
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      Retreat from the Gospels by Edward J. Berbusse, S.J., pp. 95-98 - 1 Review
      1. Pagans in the Pulpit by Richard S. Wheeler
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      The Imperial Penman by Clyde Wilson, pp. 99-101 - 1 Review
      1. The Imperial Presidency by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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      1. The Imperial Republic by Raymond Aron
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      The Modernist Impasse by George A. Panichas, pp. 103-105 - 1 Review
      1. An Inquiry into the Human Prospect by Robert L. Heilbroner
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      A Critical Communion by Robert D. Stock, pp. 106-108 - 1 Review
      1. The Literary Correspondence of Donald Davidson and Allen Tate by John Tyree Fain, Thomas Daniel Young, and Donald Davidson, ...
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      Man in a Comic Mask by Hugh Mercer Curtler, pp. 109-111 - 1 Review
      1. The Comedy of Survival by Joseph W. Meeker
    19. Notes on Contributors, pp. 112-114
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    Spring 1975 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. The Age of Liberalism by Henry Regnery, pp. 114-126
    2. Willmoore Kendall by George H. Nash, pp. 127-135
    3. The United States as a "Revolutionary Society" by Stephen J. Tonsor, pp. 136-145
    4. The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton by Leo R. Ward, pp. 146-156
    5. On the Teaching of Ancient and Medieval Political Theory by James V. Schall, pp. 157-166
    6. Power and Purpose in American Foreign Policy by James E. Dornan, Jr. and Peter C. Hughes, pp. 167-179
    7. Henry Kissinger's Philosophy of History by Thomas J. Noer, pp. 180-189
    8. On the Teaching of Ancient and Medieval Political Theory by Marion Montgomery, pp. 190-198
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      Of Heaven's First Law by J.M. Lalley, pp. 199-202 - 1 Review
      1. The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk
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      1. Accelerated Development in Southern Africa by John Barratt, Simon Brand, David S. Collier, and Kurt Glaser, ...
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      Prophet Without Honor by Felix Morley, pp. 206-207 - 1 Review
      1. Charles A. Lindbergh and the Battle Against American Intervention in World War II by Wayne S. Cole
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      Caution or Conquest? by G. Paul Holman, Jr., pp. 208-210 - 1 Review
      1. Soviet Conquest from Space by Peter N. James
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      A Paranoiac Panorama by Thomas H. Etzold, pp. 211-212 - 1 Review
      1. Cold War America by Lawrence S. Wittner
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      Politics versus Science by Martin Plax, p. 213 - 1 Review
      1. The Unheavenly City Revisited by Edward C. Banfield
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      Kant as a Proto-Hegelian by Thomas Molnar, pp. 214-216 - 1 Review
      1. Kant by Alexandre Kojeve
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      Metaphysics of Freedom by Thomas Auxter, pp. 217-218 - 1 Review
      1. Struggle for Synthesis by L.E. Loemker
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      The Alien Observer by Gabriel Gersh, pp. 219-220 - 1 Review
      1. The Pattern of Maugham by Anthony Curtis
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      The Redeemable South by Clyde Wilson, pp. 221-223 - 2 Reviews
      1. Time on the Cross by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
      2. Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
    19. Notes on Contributors, pp. 224-226
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    Summer 1975 Issue = 19 Articles
    1. Teachers and "Teachers" by Eliseo Vivas, pp. 226-235
    2. Willmoore Kendall by George H. Nash, pp. 236-248
    3. The King by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen, pp. 249-259
    4. Ethics, Ecology, and the Rights of Future Generations by Robert L. Cunningham, pp. 260-271
    5. Roosevelt's Foreign Policy Decisions, 1940-1945 by William L. Neumann, pp. 272-284
    6. Aristocide under Fuehrers and Commissars by Nathaniel Weyl, pp. 285-294
    7. Economic Differences and Inequalities by Peter T. Bauer, pp. 295-307
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      On Putting it All Together by J.M. Lalley, pp. 308-312 - 1 Review
      1. The Human Potential by William Terry Couch
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      Presidential Hypertrophy by Felix Morley, pp. 313-315 - 1 Review
      1. The President Is Calling by Milton S. Eisenhower
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      The Courage of Judgment by George A. Panichas, pp. 316-317 - 1 Review
      1. F. R. Leavis: Letters in Criticism by John Tasker and F.R. Leavis
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      The Death Throes of Art by Richard B. Hovey, pp. 318-320 - 1 Review
      1. The Use and Abuse of Art by Jacques Barzun
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      Interpreting the Sage by Claes G. Ryn, pp. 321-323 - 1 Review
      1. The Inner Check by Folke Leander
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      Of Ethics and Freedom by Tibor R. Machan, pp. 324-325 - 1 Review
      1. The Morals of Markets by Harry Burrows Acton
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      1. Economic Growth and Stability by Gottfried Haberler
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      1. L'Animal Politique by Thomas Molnar
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      The Other Russia by G. Paul Holman, Jr., p. 330 - 1 Review
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      The Breaking of the Bond by Haven Bradford Gow, pp. 331-333 - 1 Review
      1. Divorced in America by Joseph Epstein
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      The Triumph of Priapus by Tommy W. Rogers, pp. 334-335 - 1 Review
      1. The Politics of Pornography by Rousas John Rushdoony
    19. Notes on Contributors, pp. 336-338
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    Fall 1975 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. Richard M. Weaver by John P. East, pp. 338-354
    2. Alonzo as "Teacher" by Eliseo Vivas, pp. 355-363
    3. The Soviet Concept of Coexistence and the European Security Conference by Boris Meissner, pp. 364-374
    4. Maritain and the Tradition of Natural Law by Leo R. Ward, pp. 375-380
    5. The Humanity of Art by Robert Beum, pp. 381-387
    6. British Tories and the Failure of Conservatism by William Murchison, pp. 388-396
    7. Mr. "X," Russia, and Vietnam by Eric Weise, pp. 397-406
    8. Commentary by Hugh Mercer Curtler, pp. 407-411
    9. Tell Him to Wait Until I Get My Shoes On by Robert Drake, pp. 412-415
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      A Jailbreak from Utopia? by J.M. Lalley, pp. 416-419 - 1 Review
      1. From Under the Rubble by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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      Blight in the Olive Grove by Jonathan L.A. Leigh, pp. 420-422 - 1 Review
      1. The Balancing Act by George C. Roche III, Alan Reynolds, and Ernest Van Den Haag, ...
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      The Aims of Education by Hugh Mercer Curtler, pp. 423-425 - 2 Reviews
      1. Education and the Taming of Power by Sidney Hook
      2. The Uses of a Liberal Education by Brand Blanshard
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      An Academic Album by R.D. Stock, p. 426 - 1 Review
      1. The Professors by Herbert B. Livesey
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      1. Order and History, Vol. IV: The Ecumenic Age by Eric Voegelin
      2. From Enlightenment to Revolution by Eric Voegelin and John H. Hallowell
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      1. Edmund Burke: His Political Philosophy by Frank O'Gorman
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      The Founding Godfather by Frederic M. Fenger, pp. 432-433 - 1 Review
      1. Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism by Thomas L. Pangle
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      The Minimal State by Tibor R. Machan, pp. 434-435 - 1 Review
      1. Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
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      Eliot and his Critics by David Levy, pp. 436-437 - 1 Review
      1. T. S. Eliot by Stephen Spender
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      1. The Soviet Union and the October 1973 Middle East War by Foy D. Kohler, Leon Goure, and Mose L. Harvey
    21. Notes on Contributors, p. 443
    22. Index to Volume 19, pp. 444-450
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