Tailoring the Dream, by David T. Bazelon, COMMENTARY

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Tailoring the Dream

The Unperfect Society, by Milovan Djilas

by David T. Bazelon

Commentary, September 1969, pp. 102-106

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    2. I. The New York Intellectuals by Irving Kristol, pp. 12-13
    3. --- by Irving Howe, pp. 14-17
    4. II. On Music Criticism by Eric Salzman, pp. 18-20
    5. --- by B.H. Haggin, pp. 21-22
    6. The Black Revolution & the Jewish Question by Earl Raab, pp. 23-34
    7. The Democrats After 1968 by Penn Kemble, pp. 35-42
    8. The New York School Crisis by Maurice J. Goldbloom, pp. 43-60
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    10. On Pro Football by Richard Schickel, pp. 66-67
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      1. The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell by Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus, and George Orwell
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      1. Humanistic Values in the Bible by Zvi Adar
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      1. Children, Poverty, and Family Allowances by James C. Vadakin
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    2. History as Drama by Jack Richardson, pp. 22-28
    3. The Ghost of Social-Fascism by Theodore Draper, pp. 29-42
    4. A Writer Between Generations by David T. Bazelon, pp. 43-54
    5. The Jewish Community & the Jewish Condition by Robert Alter, pp. 55-59
    6. The Big Money by John Thompson, pp. 60-63
    7. Faith in Israel by Harold Fisch, pp. 64-66
    8. Beyond New Leftism by Steven Kelman, pp. 67-72
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    2. The Electoral College by Gus Tyler and Alexander M. Bickel, pp. 24-32
    3. Is American Jewry in Crisis? by Milton Himmelfarb, pp. 33-44
    4. A Condition of Servitude by John Thompson, pp. 45-52
    5. The Prospects of War in the Middle East by Gil Carl AlRoy, pp. 53-60
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    7. Beneath the Moon by George Lichtheim, pp. 69-76
    8. A Memory of Mexico by Brian Glanville, pp. 77-80
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      1. One Hundred Ten Livingston Street by David Rogers
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      Sex & Sensibility by Elizabeth Stevenson, pp. 86-87 - 1 Review
      1. Thinking About Women by Mary Ellmann
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      Wise Guy by Mortimer T. Cohen, pp. 88-90 - 1 Review
      1. The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
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      On Greece by Maurice J. Goldbloom, pp. 91-93 - 2 Reviews
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      Hippiedom by Walter Goodman, pp. 94-98 - 1 Review
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    2. Liberalism & Activism by Robert Lowell and Diana Trilling, pp. 19-21
    3. The School Strike by Marilyn Gittell, pp. 22-25
    4. --- by Aryeh Neier, pp. 26-27
    5. --- by Maurice J. Goldbloom, pp. 28-32
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    11. TV Dreams by Neil Compton, pp. 65-68
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      4. A House Divided by Sara
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    2. TV Comedy by Neil Compton, pp. 18-22
    3. The Price of Community Control by David K. Cohen, pp. 23-32
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    2. The Fantasy of Black Nationalism by Theodore Draper, pp. 27-54
    3. Goodbye to Poland by Gabriel Meretik, pp. 55-62
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    1. Letters from Readers, pp. 4-11
    2. Vietnam, the Cold War & Other Matters by Noam Chomsky and Lionel Abel, pp. 12-44
    3. The Decline of Liberal Politics by William Pfaff, pp. 45-51
    4. The Urban Mood by James Q. Wilson and Harold R. Wilde, pp. 52-61
    5. Journal from Israel by Edward Grossman, pp. 62-73
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    2. Oh! Nudity! by Jack Richardson, pp. 24-32
    3. Envy; or, Yiddish in America by Cynthia Ozick, pp. 33-54
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    3. The End of Culture by John Thompson, pp. 46-54
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