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February  1988  Issue
 
 
The Imperial Press

 
SPECIAL REPORT--THE NEWS MEDIA: RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND REMEDIES
Introduction
Editor
Journalists, Entertainers, or Educators?
John Silber
Dealing With 'Leaks'
Elizabeth R. Rindskopf
Media Responsibility in a Divided World
L. Brent Bozell III and Marc S. Ryan
An Almost Absolute Right
Joseph C. Spear
Needed: An Ethical Press
John C. Merrill

ANALYSIS
Cambodia at a Crossroads
Michael Johns
U.S. Labor Battles Over World Affairs
A.H. Raskin
Mikhail Gorbachev: The Man and His Program
R. Judson Mitchell
Gorbachev and Stalin's Ghost
Herbert J. Ellison
INF, the Media, and the New Soviet Image-Makers
Harry Zubkoff and Stephen Aubin

COMMENTARY
Revitalizing the War on Drugs
James A. Inciardi
The U.S. Needs a Chemical Warfare Capability
Joseph D. Douglass, Jr.
The Soviets' Achilles' Heel: The Nationality Question
Uri Ra'anan
What Needs Changing After Iran-Contra?
Dick Cheney

 

 
BEAUTY
Black Beauty
Elaine Brooks

CHILDREN
Loving Kids With AIDS
Alexandra Greeley

DIMENSIONS
Chocolate: What's Love Got to Do With It?
John Grossmann

FOOD
Sweet Delights
Adrianne Marcus

GARDENS
Home Grown: Mache, Mizuna, and Miyashige
Walter Chandoha

HEALTH
A Battle With MS
Brian Clark

HOME
2001: A Home Odyssey
John Elvin

HUMOR
Romancing the Wild Kohlrabi
Kathryn N. Hardin

TRAVEL
The Train in Spain: Between León and Galicia With Ease
Robert Levine

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr.'s What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?
Introduction
Editor

Reforming the Curriculum
Stephen Ellenwood

Learning and Youth Alienation
Edward A. Wynne

American Culture and the Public School
Henry C. Johnson, Jr.

REVIEWS
Preface to Faulkner
Clyde Wilson
ON THE PREJUDICES, PREDILECTIONS, AND FIRM BELIEFS
Essays by Cleanth Brooks

The New Mainline
George Weigel
AMERICAN MAINLINE RELIGION
Wade Clark Roof and William McKinney

Music and the Beast Within
John Braeman
THE JAZZ AGE
Arnold Shaw

A Philosopher's Life and Death
James J. Thompson, Jr.
GEORGE SANTAYANA: A BIOGRAPHY
John McCormick
PERSONS AND PLACES: FRAGMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
George Santayana

G.K. Chesterton's Rebellion Against Modernity
Dinesh D'Souza
ORTHODOXY
G.K. Chesterton

Culture and Anarchy
Michael D. Aeschliman
CULTURAL LITERACY: WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Crimes Against Children
Diane McGuinness
BY SILENCE BETRAYED
John Crewdson
THE SECRET TRAUMA
Diana E.H. Russell

Remembering the Forgotten War
Edward S. Shapiro
THE KOREAN WAR
Max Hastings
KOREA: THE WAR BEFORE VIETNAM
Callum A. MacDonald

A Housewife by Any Other Name
Lucy Mazareski
"JUST A HOUSEWIFE"
Glenn Matthews
PERFECTION SALAD
Laura Shapiro

 

 
 
   

 
ART
Glories of the Plantagenets: The Age of Chivalry
Jean Mellanby
Jean-Honoré Fragonard: An Artist Ahead of His Time
Michael Gibson

CRAFT & DESIGN
Iranian Textile Arts: Woven From the Soul, Spun From the Heart
Louise Sheldon

DANCE
Martha Graham: Choreographer as Consummate Individualist
Don McDonagh

FILM
Soul-Searching in Israeli Cinema: A Certain Vietnam Dissatisfaction Is Spreading
Dan Yakir
Eisenstein for the Eighties: Forty Years After Russia's Great Seminal Filmmaker
Alexander Batchan

INTERARTS
BAM's Big Next Wave Festival: Brooklyn's Showcase for Emerging and Consecrated Avant-Garde Artists
Cynthia Grenier
Postmodern Music at BAM: Appealing, Monotonous, and Unpredictable
Tom Pniewski
Adventurous Women Choreographers: Maguy Marin, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Nina Wiener Set the Dance World on End
Karen Onoda

MUSIC
Cho-Liang Lin: Youthful Taiwanese Violinist Takes the World
Leslie Rubinstein

PERSPECTIVES
Desperately Seeking Marilyn: Madonna, Myth, and MTV
Paul Coates

PHOTOGRAPHY
Looking at the New Deal: Official Photography of FDR's America
Lloyd Eby

THEATER
Should Londoners be Laughing?: Just the Play for Masochistic Yuppies
Herb Greer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
The Eclipse of the California Condor
Dwight G. Smith
Planetary Impact Cratering and Man
Thomas J. Ahrens
Marijuana's Effect on White Blood Cells
Eliezer Huberman

IMPACTS
Polyethylene: Versatile for High and Low Tech
Raymond B. Seymour

NATURE WALK
Snowfleas
Kenneth Christiansen

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Silly War
Michael L. Rosenzweig

SCIENCE ESSAY
Assessing Biological Controls
Allen M. Young

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Paul Bigelow Sears: Ecologist for Our Time
Linda Joyce Forristal

 

   
CROSSROADS
Refusing to Melt in Their World
Aida Bamia
Kreyòl Pale, Kreyòl Konprann: Creole Speaks, Creole Understands: Part Two
Robert Lawless

FOLK WISDOM
Ayurveda: India's Life Science
Gill Marais

HERITAGE
Two Narrative Quilts
Gladys-Marie Fry

PEOPLES
Island of Ruins and Roses
Erika Fabian
Korea's Lunar New Year
Adri de Groot
Marriage in Morocco
Ettagale Blauer

 

   
AMERICAN POETRY: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
Scanning American Poetry: 1947-1987
Richard Stern

ECONOMICS AND DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
Democracy and the Market
Thomas Sowell

MARXISM: FORM WITHOUT SUBSTANCE
Revolutionary Imagination and the Waning of Marxism
A.J. Mandt

ON CARLISM
The Counterrevolutionary Vision of Antonio Aparisi y Guijarro
Regina A. Mezei

RELIVING THE SIXTIES
Student 'Activists' Then and Now
David Horowitz

THE FUTURE OF COMMUNISM
The New Soviet Man: Myth and Reality
Dmitry Mikheyev
Can Communist Regimes Reform?
Doan Van Toai

THE HERO AND SOCIETY
Introduction
Editor
Thoughts on Heroism
Larry D. Nachman
From El Cid to El Che: The Hero and the Mystique of Liberation in Latin America
Dolores Moyano Martin
The Event-making Man
Sidney Hook
Hero Today and Gone Tomorrow: Heroism in the Eighties
Herb Greer
Modern Unbelief and the Curious Faiths of the Antihero
George Roche

 
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