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A Reflection on Violence

by Walter Laqueur

Encounter, April 1972, pp. 3-10

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    13. An Affable Misery by Douglas Dunn, pp. 42-47
    14. Tamil by R. Parthasarathy, p. 48
    15. The Gestalt Doctor in the Elysian Fields by Jascha Kessler, pp. 49-50
    16. The Fate of an Assassin by Rayner Heppenstall, pp. 51-55
    17. The Longing for Persecution by Horst Krueger, pp. 56-58
    18. [+]
      The Currying of Itches by William Walsh, pp. 59-64 - 7 Reviews
      1. Education by John Vaizey
      2. A History of Western Education by James Bowen
      3. Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England by Antonia McLean
      4. Classics or Charity? by Richard S. Tompson
      5. Keele: An Historical Critique by James F. Mountford
      6. Education and the Development of Reason by R.F. Dearden, Paul Heywood Hirst, and R.S. Peters, ...
      7. Aubrey on Education by J.E. Stephens and John Aubrey
    19. [+]
      The Schoolyard as Battlefield by Gillian Peele, pp. 65-67 - 6 Reviews
      1. School and Society
      2. Anarchy and Apathy by Margaret Anne Rooke
      3. Radical and Militant Youth by Robert Liebert
      4. University in Revolt by Robert Friedman
      5. Young People and Society by Ted Tapper
      6. The Decline of Working-Class Politics by Barry Hindess
    20. [+]
      When They Are Very Young by A.H. Halsey, pp. 68-74 - 17 Reviews
      1. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
      2. What We Owe Children by Caleb Gattegno
      3. The Aims of Education by M.V.C. Jeffreys
      4. Education: Its Nature and Purpose by M.V.C. Jeffreys
      5. The Social Content of Education, 1808-1870 by J.M. Goldstrom
      6. The Evolution of the Nursery-Infant School by Nanette Whitbread
      7. Social Environment and the Urban School by Eric C. Midwinter
      8. Projections by Eric C. Midwinter
      9. From Birth to Seven by Ronald Davie, Neville Butler, and Harvey Goldstein, ...
      10. A Study of Nursery Education by Philip Hampson Taylor, Gail Exon, and Brian Holley, ...
      11. Psychological Theory and Educational Practice by Henry S.N. McFarland
      12. Teaching Young Children by Evelyn M. Beyer
      13. Overcoming Learning Difficulties by Boyd Crouch
      14. Education and Children's Emotions by Geoffrey Yarlott
      15. The Middle School Experiment by Reese Edwards
      16. Area Resource Centre by Emmeline Garnett
      17. Modern Trends in Education by Brian Rose
    21. [+]
      Perfectibility or Productivity? by Maurice Kogan, pp. 75-78 - 15 Reviews
      1. Education and Modernisation by M.D. Shipman
      2. The History of Education in Ghana by C.K. Graham
      3. The Struggle for the School by John E. Anderson
      4. Soviet Education by Nigel Grant
      5. Students, University and Society by Margaret Scotford Archer
      6. 36 Children~~Thirty-Six Children by Herbert Kohl
      7. Essays on Education by Jules Henry
      8. School is Dead by Everett Reimer
      9. Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars by Paul Goodman
      10. The Lives of Children by George Dennison
      11. Education and National Development by Don Adams
      12. The Political Economy of Education by John Vaizey, Keith Norris, and John Sheahan
      13. The Campus War by John Searle
      14. Indoctrination and Education by I.A. Snook
      15. Counter Course by Trevor Pateman
    22. On the Economic Progress of Black America by Jonathan Power, pp. 79-84
    23. East & WestThe Social Democrats & the Young Left by Gunther Gillessen, pp. 85-89
    24. En Route by John Cotton, p. 90
    25. Letters, pp. 91-95
    26. Authors, pp. 96-98
  11. [+]
    November 1972 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Facing the Inferno by Eugene Ionesco, pp. 3-6
    2. The Banana King (story) by Fritz Rudolf Fries, pp. 7-10
    3. Dawn Over South Florida: February by Larry Rubin, p. 11
    4. Has Unemployment a Future? by J.R.L. Anderson, pp. 12-18
    5. Anybody Still for Democracy? by John Mackintosh, pp. 19-26
    6. Summer Ghosts by Peter Scupham, p. 27
    7. Column by "R.", pp. 28-31
    8. The Prospects of Civility by Edward Shils, pp. 32-37
    9. Only to Connect by Alan Heuser, pp. 38-40
    10. Things of the Past by Theodore Weiss, p. 41
    11. Half-Mile Rows by James Ballowe, p. 41
    12. [+]
      The Joycean Triumph by Seamus Deane, pp. 42-51 - 1 Review
      1. Ulysses by James Joyce
    13. [+]
      The Torso of Greatness by R.H.S. Crossman, pp. 52-56 - 1 Review
      1. The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann by Leonard Stein, Gedalia Yogev, and Chaim Weizmann, ...
    14. [+]
      To Still History by Douglas Dunn, pp. 57-63 - 9 Reviews
      1. Lives by Derek Mahon
      2. Cannibals and Missionaries by John Fuller
      3. Terminal Moraine by James Fenton
      4. Desert of the Lions by Michael Schmidt
      5. Autobiography by Adrian Henri
      6. After the Merrymaking by Roger McGough
      7. The Irrelevant Song by Brian Patten
      8. Our Mutual Scarlet Boulevard by Barry MacSweeney
      9. Celebrations by William Plomer
    15. [+]
      The Achievement of P.T. Bauer by Harry G. Johnson, pp. 64-69 - 1 Review
      1. Dissent On Development by P.T. Bauer
    16. Arabic Political Memoirs by Elie Kedourie, pp. 70-83
    17. The Poor Who Were With Us by W.H. Hutt, pp. 84-89
    18. Coming Back by Derwent May, p. 90
    19. Letters, p. 91
    20. In the Margin by M.J.L., pp. 92-95
    21. Authors, pp. 96-98
  12. [+]
    December 1972 Issue = 28 Articles
    1. Inklings (a story) by Gabriel Fielding, pp. 3-7
    2. Poetry by Thomas Blackburn, p. 8
    3. The Sense of Dispossession by Ferdinand Mount, pp. 9-14
    4. Poetry by Gavin Ewart, pp. 15-16
    5. Ideology & No End by Seymour Martin Lipset, pp. 17-22
    6. Poetry by Keith N.G. Bradley, p. 23
    7. Poetry by Richard Stern, p. 23
    8. Poetry by James Cole, p. 23
    9. Poetry by Marin Sorescu, p. 24
    10. The English Ideology by Melvin J. Lasky, pp. 25-38
    11. Poetry by Susan Chakraverty, p. 39
    12. Poetry by John Mole, p. 39
    13. Poetry by Robert Nye, p. 39
    14. Column by "R.", pp. 40-42
    15. Remembering Three Teachers by Adam Ulam, pp. 43-47
    16. Poetry by Michael Mott, pp. 48-50
    17. From "1789" to "1793" by Henry Popkin, pp. 51-53
    18. Poetry by Theodore Halaki, p. 54
    19. Helsinki Notebook by Eugene Ionesco, pp. 55-57
    20. The Clergyman & the Guerrilla by Peter Schmid, pp. 58-61
    21. [+]
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      1. Essays in Critical Dissent by Frederick W. Bateson
      2. The Scholar-Critic by Frederick W. Bateson
      3. Beyond Formalism by Geoffrey H. Hartman
      4. The Sociology of Literature by Diana T. Laurenson and Alan Swingewood
    22. [+]
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      1. The Saddest Story by Arthur Mizener
      2. Ford Madox Ford: The Critical Heritage by Frank MacShane and Ford Madox Ford
    23. [+]
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      1. England by Nikos Kazantzakis
    24. [+]
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      1. Parliament and Congress by Kenneth Bradshaw and David Pring
      2. The Cabinet by Patrick C. Gordon Walker
    25. [+]
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      1. Selected Poems by Dan Pagis
      2. Selected Poems: Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs by Abba Kovner and Nelly Sachs
      3. Selected Poems by Yehuda Amichai
      4. Somebody Like You by T. Carmi
    26. The Dangers of the New Zealots by H.J. Eysenck, pp. 79-90
    27. Letters, pp. 91-95
    28. Authors, pp. 96-98
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6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1976 = 12 Issues, 264 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1977 = 12 Issues, 264 Articles
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  Issues of 1978 = 12 Issues, 291 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 258 Articles
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  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 241 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 11 Issues, 267 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 10 Issues, 241 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 10 Issues, 259 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 10 Issues, 258 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 10 Issues, 254 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 10 Issues, 245 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 10 Issues, 268 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 10 Issues, 248 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 10 Issues, 277 Articles
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Issues of the 1990s = 1 Year, 7 Issues, 215 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 7 Issues, 215 Articles