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Looking after virtue

After Virtue, by Alasdair MacIntyre

by Roger Kimball

The New Criterion, September 1988, pp. 64-71

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    4. Yves Bonnefoy by Joseph Frank, pp. 27-32
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    6. The Rosso exhibition by Creighton Gilbert, pp. 38-42
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    15. Letters, pp. 87-94
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    2. Poetry on PBS by Bruce Bawer, pp. 11-18
    3. Sartre and "Les Temps Modernes" by David Gress, pp. 19-29
    4. The Flagstad legend by Samuel Lipman, pp. 30-36
    5. the anguishes of E.M. Cioran by Roger Kimball, pp. 37-44
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    4. Marsden Hartley by Karen Wilkin, pp. 23-29
    5. Is Moma attempting suicide? by Roger Kimball, pp. 30-38
    6. New poems by Leslie Norris, pp. 39-41
    7. Insomnia; The sun rising by David Sofield, pp. 42-43
    8. On a theme of X by Henri Coulette, p. 44
    9. Belvedere by Charles Edward Eaton, p. 45
    10. Summer beyond the garden by John Edward Sorrell, p. 46
    11. "Helga" and other problems by William C. Agee, pp. 47-52
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