December 1984 Issue, ENCOUNTER

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- Our Family Doctors (story)
  Patricia Daly
  , pp. 3-7
- Poem
  Felicity Napier
  , p. 8
- The Decline & Fall of Unesco
  Gordon Crovitz
  , pp. 9-18
- Was Hitler a Marxist?
  George Watson
  , pp. 19-24
- Poem
  Ian Pople
  , p. 25
- Column
  "M."
  , pp. 26-27
- Poem
  Richard Kell
  , pp. 28-30
- Poem
  Michael Hulse
  , pp. 31-33
- Paris Notebook
  Jean-Francois Revel
  , pp. 34-36
- Exaltation of the Commonplace
  Edward Pearce
  , pp. 37-39
- Marcel & Celeste
  Derwent May
  , pp. 40-41
- Do Ideas Matter?
  John Wood
  , pp. 42-43
- Poem
  John Richmond
  , p. 44
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  An Unofficial Life (Review)
  Philip Larkin
  , pp. 45-46
  T.S. Eliot: A Life, by Peter Ackroyd
  1. T.S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd
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  Ezra Pound & Treason (Review)
  Malcolm Bradbury
  , pp. 47-52
  The Roots of Treason, by E. Fuller Torrey
  1. The Roots of Treason by E. Fuller Torrey
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  Voltaire to Medawar (Review)
  John Weightman
  , pp. 53-55
  Aristotle to Zoos, by P.B. Medawar and J.S. Medawar
  1. Aristotle to Zoos by P.B. Medawar and J.S. Medawar
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  From Wave to Cave (10 Reviews)
  John Mole
  , pp. 56-63
  A Wave, by John Ashbery
  1. A Wave by John Ashbery
  2. The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
  3. Venus and the Rain by Medbh McGuckian
  4. Fire in the Garden by Herbert Lomas
  5. Moving in by Connie Bensley
  6. Familiars by Philip Gross
  7. The Ice Factory by Philip Gross
  8. Aeroplanes in Childhood by Patrick Hare
  9. Leviathan and Other Poems by B.C. Leale
  10. A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty by Frank Kuppner
- Poem
  Alan Gurnow
  , p. 64
- Questions About a Strange Conversions
  Sidney Hook
  , p. 65
- Can One "Enjoy" the Gulag?
  Charles Janson
  , p. 66
- A Dialectical Paradox
  Konstanty Jelenski
  , p. 67
- A "Great-Russian" Delusion
  William E. Griffith
  , p. 68
- Strange Compensations
  Paul Hollander
  , pp. 68-69
- Yawning Depths
  Paul Lendvai
  , p. 70
- "To Plagiarise, Purloin, or Borrow"
  Laurence Urdang and Robert Burchfield
  , pp. 71-73
- Suspicion by Omission
  Melvin J. Lasky
  , pp. 74-75
- Authors, p. 76
- Letters, pp. 77-78
- Life & Letters, pp. 79-82