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When the repressive character and ineffectiveness of Diem's government became apparent to American liberals, the United States became the main support of a series of equally repressive and ineffective Saigon governments. That the repression and ineffectiveness were more than accidents--that they were two necessary consequences of the popular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace | 5/1/1975 | See Source »

Vecsey might have worked out some of the flaws of perspective in this very fine book if he had put himself into it more. He is silent and unobtrusive throughout, which is fine when he glides into a section about union history or a polemic on strip mining, but we...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Moonshine and Marx | 2/19/1975 | See Source »

Despite her impressive showing last week, Mrs. Thatcher is not ensured a victory in the next rounds of balloting. She may have drawn a sizable number of protest votes that will now be split between the four candidates who did not enter the first round out of personal loyalty to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: No Time for Post-Mortems | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

BERNSTEIN'S CASE for Stravinsky is eloquent and convincing. He quotes Theodor Adorno, a dogmatic advocate of Schoenberg who accused Stravinsky of hiding behind an insincere mask of eclecticism. Bernstein defends the neoclassical mask as a reaction to the extreme subjectivity of overblown Romanticism and draws interesting parallels to the...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Whither Bernstein? | 1/8/1975 | See Source »

Frimbo, at his polemic best, reasons that for a fraction of the money the U.S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old School Ties | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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