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The Art of Giving

The Big Foundations, by Waldemar A. Nielsen

by Victor S. Navasky

The Partisan Review, Winter 1974, pp. 143-150

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    1. Notes, pp. 8-11
    2. Freud and Dora by Steven Marcus, pp. 12-23
    3. Anonymous Sketch of the Writer by Gilbert Sorrentino, pp. 24-29
    4. Cold War Blues by Morris Dickstein, pp. 30-53
    5. The Archeology by Paul Zweig, pp. 54-55
    6. Beckett by Richard Gilman, pp. 56-76
    7. Paris Letter by Anne Fabre-Luce, pp. 77-81
    8. Going to the Movies by Jonathan Baumbach, pp. 82-108
    9. The Laingian Family by Robert Boyers, pp. 109-119
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      1. Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson
      2. From Time to Time by Hannah Tillich
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      1. The Coming of Post-Industrial Society by Daniel Bell
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      1. The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
      2. Cities of Light and Sons of the Morning by Martin B. Green
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      In by Raymond Federman, pp. 137-142 - 1 Review
      1. Out by Ronald Sukenick
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      The Art of Giving by Victor S. Navasky, pp. 143-150 - 1 Review
      1. The Big Foundations by Waldemar A. Nielsen
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      Over the Edge by Alan Helms, pp. 151-157 - 3 Reviews
      1. They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
      2. An Ear in Bartram's Tree by Jonathan Williams
      3. Riverbed by David Wagoner
    16. Letters, pp. 158-164
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    1. Notes, pp. 172-175
    2. The Aesthetics of Radicalism by Richard Poirier, pp. 176-196
    3. In the Fifties by Leonard Michaels, pp. 197-201
    4. Through the Cracks by Marge Piercy, pp. 202-216
    5. J by Don Zacharia, pp. 217-239
    6. Poem by Philip Appleman, p. 240
    7. Poem by Michael Benedikt, p. 241
    8. Poem by Helen Chasin, p. 242
    9. Poem by Susan Grathwohl, pp. 243-244
    10. Poem by Michael Hutchison, p. 245
    11. Poem by John Jacob, p. 246
    12. Poem by John Matthias, pp. 247-248
    13. Poem by James McMichael, p. 249
    14. Poem by John Romano, p. 250
    15. Poem by Robert Vas Dias, pp. 251-252
    16. A Conversation with Allen Ginsberg by John Tytell, pp. 253-262
    17. The Space of the Novel by Edward Marcotte, pp. 263-272
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      Show-Offs by Jonathan Baumbach, pp. 273-279 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Long Goodbye (1973 Film) by Robert Altman
      2. Don't Look Now (1973 Film) by Nicolas Roeg
      3. Sisters (1973 Film) by Brian De Palma
      4. Serpico (1973 Film) by Sidney Lumet
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      1. The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
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      1. The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein
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      The Unfinality of Translation by G.S. Fraser, pp. 289-295 - 6 Reviews
      1. New Poems by Pablo Neruda
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      3. Emergency Poems by Nicanor Parra and Miller Williams
      4. Stolen Apples by Yevgeny A. Yevtushenko
      5. Beowulf by Michael Alexander
      6. The Aeneid of Virgil by Allen Mandelbaum and Virgil
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      2. The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski
      3. Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
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      1. The Prison-House of Language by Fredric Jameson
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      1. Hawk Moon by Sam Shepard
      2. The Entombed Man of Thule by Gordon Weaver
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    1. Notes, pp. 336-341
    2. Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett, pp. 342-361
    3. Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op by Steven Marcus, pp. 362-377
    4. Art and Politics by Harold Rosenberg, pp. 378-384
    5. Anxious Energetics by Frederick Crews, pp. 385-400
    6. Poems by Charles Wright, pp. 401-402
    7. China by Joachim Neugroschel, p. 403
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      1. Daisy Miller (1974 Film) by Peter Bogdanovich
      2. Badlands (1973 Film) by Terrence Malick
      3. Wedding in Blood (1974 Film) by Claude Chabrol
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      1. Mandelstam by Clarence Brown
      2. Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam
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      1. The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
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      3. Advancing Paul Newman by Eleanor Bergstein
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      3. Children of the Mire by Octavio Paz
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      1. Inequality by Christopher Jencks
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    1. Notes, pp. 500-502
    2. Introduction by William Phillips, pp. 503-505
    3. Notes on Some Problems in the Humanities Today by Steven Marcus, pp. 506-520
    4. A Case of Mistaken Identity by Richard Poirier, pp. 521-538
    5. Dr. Jekyll by Susan Sontag, pp. 539-552
    6. A Parallel World by Stephen Spender, pp. 553-562
    7. Twilight of the Superstars by Barbara Rose, pp. 563-572
    8. Poem by David Ignatow, pp. 573-576
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    10. Poem by Alan Williamson, pp. 579-580
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      1. Lancelot of the Lake (1974 Film) by Robert Bresson
      2. Chinatown (1974 Film) by Roman Polanski
      3. Scenes from a Marriage (1973 Film) by Ingmar Bergman
      4. Amarcord (1974 Film) by Federico Fellini
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