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359 Issues,
9,427 Articles,
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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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Issues of 1981 = 6 Issues, 163 Articles-
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January 1981 Issue = 25 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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From Robespierre with Love by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 6-7 - 2 Reviews- Friendly Fascism by Bertram M. Gross
- Small Town America by Richard R. Lingeman
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In Defense of Infamy by Alan J. Levine, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review- The Political Economy of Human Rights, Vol. II by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
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Of Morals & Manners by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 10-11 - 2 Reviews- Conrad in the Nineteenth Century by Ian Watt
- Marquand: An American Life by Millicent Bell
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Ineptitude, Mendacity & Ignorance by Paul Gottfried, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review- Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
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All in the Family by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review- The Whole World is Watching by Todd Gitlin
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FDR and His Iago by Otto J. Scott, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review- Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance by Michael R. Beschloss
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Familial Pluralism by Joseph Schwartz, p. 19 - 1 Review- Rounds by Frederick Busch
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On Economic Dreams and Facts by William E. Cage, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review- The Zero-Sum Society by Lester C. Thurow
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Desperation Transformed into Transcendence by Allan C. Brownfeld, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review- Arna Bontemps-Langston Hughes Letters, 1925-1967 by Charles H. Nichols, Arna W. Bontemps, and Langston Hughes, ...
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Speculating About Justice by Clarence B. Carson, p. 25 - 1 Review- The Law of the Land by Charles Rembar
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A Captivating Jeremiah Amidst Us by Philip F. Lawler, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review- Solzhenitsyn at Harvard by Ronald Berman and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Commendables: Podhoretz's Monition by Alan J. Levine, p. 29 - 1 Review- The Present Danger by Norman Podhoretz
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In Focus by Mary Ellen Fox, p. 29 - 2 Reviews- Beaton by James Danziger and Cecil Beaton
- The Rise and Fall of the Shah by Amin Saikal
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Waste of Money: Hypocrisy as Heroism by Edward J. Walsh, p. 30 - 1 Review- Newsreel by Irvin Faust
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Screen: Pride and Prejudice and Cliche People by Eric Shapearo, pp. 31-32 - 3 Reviews- Kagemusha (1980 Film) by Akira Kurosawa
- Private Benjamin (1980 Film) by Howard Zieff
- Ordinary People (1980 Film) by Robert Redford
- Stage: The Bard Bowdlerized, p. 33
- Art: Hopper at Whitney, p. 34
- Correspondence by Thomas Molnar, pp. 34-35
- Letter from New York: Atonality and Der Blaue Reiter by Joshua Gilder, pp. 36-37
- The American Proscenium, p. 38
- No Honeymoon for Mr. Reagan , p. 39
- Mr. Anderson---Suggestion---Mega-Abortion , p. 40
- Journalism, pp. 40-41
- Gurus & Pundits; Liberal Logic , pp. 42-44
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March 1981 Issue = 36 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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Innate Depravity & the Nature of Man by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times by James R. Mellow
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The Juicy Fullness of Being by Joshua Gilder, pp. 8-10 - 1 Review- Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow
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Choices & Self-Definition by Christina Murphy, pp. 11-12 - 2 Reviews- Between Two Worlds by Linda Gray Sexton
- Sex and Fantasy by Robert May
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Oily Politics by Alan J. Levine, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review- Arabia, the Gulf, and the West by J.B. Kelly
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Marginal People by Robert C. Steensma, pp. 16-17 - 2 Reviews- The Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble
- Aberration of Starlight by Gilbert Sorrentino
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Dreams Adulterated by Propaganda by Mike Lavelle, p. 18 - 1 Review- American Dreams: Lost and Found by Studs Terkel
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Grand Allusions by John O'Sullivan, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review- Fortune's Child by Lewis H. Lapham
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Hi! How Free Are You This Morning? by Lev Navrozov, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review- Freedom in the World by Raymond D. Gastil
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Pop Intellectuality by John C. Caiazza, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review- Entropy by Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard
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Our Age of the Derriere by Mary Ellen Fox, p. 27 - 1 Review- A History of Fashion by Madge Garland and J. Anderson Black
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Tales of a Columnist by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 28-31 - 1 Review- Changing of the Guard by David S. Broder
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Of Love for Meliorism and Upheavals by Paul Gottfried, p. 32 - 1 Review- Fire in the Minds of Men by James H. Billington
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Insanity Revisited by Juliana Geran Pilon, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- A German Love Story by Rolf Hochhuth
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Porgy & Bass by Tom Bethell, p. 35 - 1 Review- The Americans by Alistair Cooke
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Teleology and Murder in a Candy Store by Louis Ehrenkrantz, p. 36 - 1 Review- Kabbalah by David Scott Milton
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Charm of Quiet Leadership by James J. Thompson, Jr., p. 37 - 1 Review- Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia by E. Digby Baltzell
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Of Love Between God and Man by Barbara Worden, p. 37 - 1 Review- Praise of "Sons of Bitches" by James V. Schall
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In Focus, p. 38 - 1 Review- The Inquisition in Hollywood by Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund
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Perceptibles Against the Gates of Hell, by Stanley R. Rader, p. 39 - 2 Reviews- Against the Gates of Hell by Stanley R. Rader
- Fall of the Peacock Throne by William H. Forbis
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Waste of Money (3 Reviews) -
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All Possible Candour, p. 39 - 1 Review- Fanny by Erica Jong
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O'Reilly's Ravings by Sharon M. Mullis, p. 40 - 1 Review- The Girl I Left Behind by Jane O'Reilly
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Journalist as Darling, p. 40 - 1 Review- Floater by Calvin Trillin
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Screen: Fun, Anyone? by Stephen Macaulay, p. 41 - 2 Reviews- Nine to Five (1980 Film) by Colin Higgins
- Seems Like Old Times (1980 Film) by Jay Sandrich
- Art: Merciless Realists of the 20's, p. 41
- Music: Records by Doug Ramsey, p. 42
- Polemics & Exchanges by Jeffrey St. John, p. 43
- Mr. Walsh's Last Words by Edward J. Walsh, p. 44
- The American Proscenium, p. 45
- Hostages---Professional Solace Caterers , p. 46
- Environmentalist Chutzpah , p. 47
- Journalism, p. 47
- More Anticapitalism , p. 48
- The Sin of Incoherence , p. 49
- Humanness , p. 49
- Liberal Culture, pp. 50-52
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May 1981 Issue = 29 Articles- Comment by Thomas Molnar, pp. 4-5
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Prefabricated Self-Irony & Pneumatic Praise by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 6-8 - 2 Reviews- Side Effects by Woody Allen
- Darlin' Bill by Jerome Charyn
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Passion's Paradoxical Slave by Edward J. Lynch, pp. 9-11 - 2 Reviews- The Court Years: 1939 to 1975 by William O. Douglas
- Independent Journey by James F. Simon
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The Vicissitudes of Nonconformism by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 12-14 - 2 Reviews- Wayward Reporter by Raymond Sokolov
- On Mencken by John R. Dorsey
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She Who Can't Stop Talking by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review- Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag
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On Chodorov by Charles Moser, pp. 17-21 - 1 Review- Fugitive Essays by Frank Chodorov and Charles H. Hamilton
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Solzhenitsyn at Large by John W. Cooper, p. 22 - 2 Reviews- Solzhenitsyn: The Moral Vision by Edward E. Ericson, Jr.
- Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir by Vladimir Lakshin and Michael Glenny
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Intelligently Liberal by Alan J. Levine, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review- Facing Reality by Cord Meyer
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The Beautiful Person of Pleistocene by Robert B. Eckhardt, pp. 25-27 - 1 Review- The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
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A Reluctant Return by Robert C. Steensma, pp. 28-29 - 1 Review- Ways of Escape by Graham Greene
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The Costs of Survival by Will Morrisey, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review- The Survivor of the Holocaust by Jack Eisner
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Living Within Our Means by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 32-33 - 1 Review- Over Here by David M. Kennedy
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Real Romance and Bogus Theology by Becki Klute, pp. 34-36 - 1 Review- Emmeline by Judith Rossner
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Sentimental Journey, p. 37 - 1 Review- Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939 by Jean-Luc Daval
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Refreshing Simplicity, p. 37 - 1 Review- The Pursuit of Simplicity by Edward Teller
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Remembering Truman, p. 37 - 1 Review- Off the Record by Harry S. Truman and Robert H. Ferrell
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In Focus (3 Reviews) -
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Economics of Elitist Fine-Tuning by Michael W. Hodin, p. 38 - 1 Review- Revitalizing America by Ronald E. Muller
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What to Make of a Diminished Thing, p. 39 - 1 Review- Man in the Holocene by Max Frisch
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Perceptibles, p. 39 - 2 Reviews- Answer to History by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
- Women on Love by Evelyne Sullerot
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Waste of Money: Phillips's Philter, p. 40 - 1 Review- Sexual Confidence by Debora Phillips and Robert Judd
- Liberal Culture, p. 40
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Screen: The Profundity of Grossness and Pretentiousness as Art (2 Reviews) -
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Review Raging Bull (1980 Film), by Martin Scorsese by Eric Shapearo, p. 41 - 2 Reviews- Raging Bull (1980 Film) by Martin Scorsese
- Heaven's Gate (1980 Film) by Michael Cimino
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Review Excalibur (1981 Film), by John Boorman by Stephen Macaulay, p. 42 - 1 Review- Excalibur (1981 Film) by John Boorman
- Music: Records - Bechet, pp. 42-44
- Polemics & Exchanges by Bertram Lippman, pp. 45-46
- The American Proscenium, p. 47
- Kid Lib---"I love being an animal..." , pp. 48-49
- Journalism, p. 50
- Adieu; Rather vs. Gilder , pp. 51-52
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July 1981 Issue = 26 Articles- Editor's Comment by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 4-5
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Nixon Is the One or The Giant Clash of Ethics by John C. Caiazza, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- All Things to All Men by Godfrey Hodgson
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Salvation by, of & for the Self by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 8-9 - 2 Reviews- The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
- Nuns and Soldiers by Iris Murdoch
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Wait a Moment, George... by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 10-12 - 1 Review- Wealth and Poverty by George Gilder
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The Melancholy of Idealism by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review- Merton: A Biography by Monica Furlong
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Let Us Return to First Principles by Paul Gottfried, p. 15 - 1 Review- Ambition: The Secret Passion by Joseph Epstein
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Chatting About Evil by Christina Murphy, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review- Ghost Waltz: A Memoir by Ingeborg Day
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Subverting History & Tradition by Edward J. Lynch, pp. 18-24 - 3 Reviews- Explaining America: The Federalist by Garry Wills
- The Backyard Revolution by Harry C. Boyte
- Radical Principles by Michael Walzer
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Counterfeiting Scholarship & Idealism by Charles R. Kesler, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review- Empire as a Way of Life by William Appleman Williams
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Kiddycult & Newsense by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 27-30 - 2 Reviews- The Frog Prince by Maurice Girodias
- The Men Who Invented Broadway by John Mosedale
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The Carter Story as Vaudeville by Mike Lavelle, pp. 31-32 - 1 Review- Jimmy Carter by Betty Glad
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Of Randomly Savage Human Molecules by Betsy Clarke, p. 33 - 1 Review- A Sentimental Education by Joyce Carol Oates
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Reality Probed & Pitied by Charles A. Moser, pp. 34-37 - 2 Reviews- A Question of Reality by Kazimierz Brandys
- Tito: The Story from Inside by Milovan Djilas
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Robber Barons Reconsidered by Frederick R. Dempsey, pp. 38-40 - 1 Review- Power and Morality by Saul Engelbourg
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Commendables: A Respectable Effort, p. 41 - 1 Review- The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes
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In Focus (2 Reviews) -
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Comparative Frolics by Alan J. Levine, p. 41 - 1 Review- White Supremacy by George M. Fredrickson
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Partnering in America by Art Petersen, p. 42 - 1 Review- Finding a Girl in America by Andre Dubus
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Waste of Money, by Barbara Worden (5 Reviews) -
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The Idyllic Life of Sabotage by Barbara Worden, p. 43 - 1 Review- Road to Resistance: An Autobiography by George R. Millar
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Inane Revisionism, p. 43 - 1 Review- The Road to Gdansk by Daniel Singer
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The Traps of Symbolism, p. 44 - 1 Review- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
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Liberal Soft Tyranny, p. 44 - 1 Review- Beyond Adversary Democracy by Jane J. Mansbridge
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Trash, p. 45 - 1 Review- The Hite Report on Male Sexuality by Shere Hite
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Screen: Pasolini's Retrospective by Eric Shapearo, p. 46 - 3 Reviews- The Decameron (1970 Film) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The Canterbury Tales (1980 Film) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Arabian Nights (1974 Film) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- The American Proscenium, pp. 47-48
- A Matter of Perspective---Nelson Algren RIP---Dimwits Back at Work , p. 49
- Journalism, pp. 50-52
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September 1981 Issue = 21 Articles- Comment by Allan Carlson, pp. 4-5
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The Civil War as Seen by a Kangaroo by Otto J. Scott, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Confederates by Thomas Keneally
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Spiritual Snobbery & Demi-Intellectual Bluster by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 8-12 - 2 Reviews- The Letters of Evelyn Waugh by Mark Amory and Evelyn Waugh
- Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917-1961 by Carlos Baker and Ernest Hemingway
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More on Existential Neuroses by Christina Murphy, pp. 13-16 - 3 Reviews- Ray by Barry Hannah
- The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
- A Presence with Secrets by W.M. Spackman
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Why Terorism? by Ernst Halperin, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review- The Terror Network by Claire Sterling
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Tales of Virtue and Excellence by Becki Klute, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review- The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority by Carol Felsenthal
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How to Be Selective with Ideas? by Stephen L. Tanner, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review- Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy
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What Faulkner's Life Was All About by Earl Hilton, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review- William Faulkner: His Life and Work by David Minter
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Pedlar Without Customers by Robert C. Steensma, p. 26 - 1 Review- The Alcotts: Biography of a Family by Madelon Bedell
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Ideological Femacho by Carson Daly, pp. 27-29 - 1 Review- Growing Up Free by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Commendables (2 Reviews) - The Provincial Press, p. 30
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Kid Stuff, pp. 30-31 - 4 Reviews- Know About Weather by Siegfried Linke
- Extraordinary Stories Behind the Invention of Ordinary Things by Don L. Wulffson
- Brewster's Millions by Richard Greaves
- Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
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In Focus: Perceptibles, p. 32 - 1 Review- Deep Blues by Robert Palmer
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Waste of Money: In Pulitizer Prize's Tradition by Gavin D. Arbuckle, pp. 33-34 - 1 Review- The Cola Wars by J.C. Louis and Harvey Z. Yazijian
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Screen: Let's Hope for More Indiana Joneses by Eric Shapearo, p. 35 - 2 Reviews- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 Film) by Steven Spielberg
- History of the World, Part I (1981 Film) by Mel Brooks
- Music: Records by Robert R. Reilly, pp. 36-38
- Correspondence by James Hamilton, p. 39
- The American Proscenium, p. 40
- Nonproliferation , p. 41
- Journalism, p. 41
- We the Hypocrites; Precision of Thinking & Writing , pp. 42-44
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December 1981 Issue = 26 Articles- Comment by Paul Gottfried, pp. 4-5
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Clear Voices from Darkness by Edward J. Walsh, pp. 6-7 - 1 Review- Everything We Had by Al Santoli
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Chastened Liberals and Concerned Conservatives by James J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 8-10 - 2 Reviews- Governing America by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
- Ronald Reagan by Bill Boyarsky
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Permissive Muddle & Egalitarian Mugging by John C. Caiazza, pp. 11-13 - 2 Reviews- The Pursuit of Inequality by Philip Green
- Limits by Maxine Schnall
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The Jewish Ideological Mystique by Will Morrisey, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review- The Testament by Elie Wiesel
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Politics Versus Reason by Edward J. Lynch, pp. 17-19 - 2 Reviews- Populism by Margaret Canovan
- Beginning to See the Light by Ellen Willis
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Pathological Chic by Betsy Clarke, pp. 20-21 - 2 Reviews- Tender Offer by Alexandra Marshall
- Living Alone by John Givens
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Liberal Decadence & Third World Fanaticism by Henry L. Mason III, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review- Journey to Nowhere by Shiva Naipaul
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Charlie's Angels' Catholicism by Philip F. Lawler, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review- The Cardinal Sins by Andrew M. Greeley
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Mystery Fiction and the Spirits of Cities by Mary Ellen Fox, p. 27 - 2 Reviews- Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
- Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares
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Supply-Side and All That Cuts by Harold C. Gordon, pp. 28-30 - 1 Review- Reaganomics by Bruce Bartlett
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Modish Boredom by Joseph Schwartz, pp. 31-33 - 1 Review- Creation by Gore Vidal
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Odors of the Recent Past by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 34-37 - 2 Reviews- Love, Dad by Evan Hunter
- The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
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Technique and the Ecology of Choice by Gordon M. Pradl, pp. 38-45 - 3 Reviews- An Outside Chance by Thomas McGuane
- "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" by Orville Schell
- The Silver Bullet by Lowell Edmunds
- Music, pp. 46-47
- A Piano Duo , p. 48
- Polemics & Exchanges by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 48-50
- Journalism, p. 51
- Sexual Revolution , p. 51
- Awakening? , p. 52
- The American Proscenium, p. 53
- Chastity Games , p. 54
- The First of May in September , p. 55
- The Emperor's Wardrobe---Witch Hunt at Yale , pp. 56-57
- Reagan and the Financiers or Susanna and the Elders , p. 58
- Opposition on the Right , pp. 58-60
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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