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Robert W. Gordon
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Keeping Out the Riffraff
O NCE AGAIN, President Bush has responded swiftly and decisively to an international crisis. To the leaders of an illegitimate
Bush's Ally in Albany
I T IS A grim scene. Due to years of optimistic forecasting and late-night compromising, the budget is more out
The Big Lie
M ORE THAN one hundred thousand people dead. A nation without water, sewage, power: the United Nations says the scene
Let Bygones Be Bygones
If they ever write a book about us, you can be sure they will call it The Unmaking of the
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Edmund Wilson has written of the magazine Life that he cannot recognize his country in it, and that is exactly
Henry IV, Part One
At last Danel Seltzer's Falstaff has entered the present cycle of undergraduates, and if you listen to wise talk, you
Tickle Me Pink
It is disquieting to be pulled suddenly out of the middle of a thesis and sat down in the middle
The Pageant of Awkward Shadows
It was a clever notion to draw a play from Chaucer's Clerk's Tale, for there is a nice dramatic development
The Advocate
Mother Advocate now shines from the newsstands 64 pages big, prettily disguising her prodigious fatness in gay covers, blue, white
The Harvard Review
A perceptible if somewhat spookily mysterious smell of excitement hovered about Lowell House last March, as the SSMTRHG (UNN) clambered
Blood Wedding
Except for a terrified and confusing depiction of Harlem Negroes as Congolese savage-Chiefs, Blood Wedding is Garcia Lorca's most fantastic
James Joll
St. Antony's is among the smallest and newest of Oxford Colleges. Established shortly after World War I, it restricts its
A Midsummer Night's Dream
In the Apthrop House Courtyard Clouds shift warily about the court-yard, and an occasional plane whines sharply across the sky.
Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man
EITHER of these books is really a novel; both are exercises. attempts a study of boredom, be a study of
Mister Nixon
What does "crisis" mean to Mr. Nixon? At times it means conflict, at times dilemma, or battle, or the throwing
