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March  1988  Issue
 
 
The Educational Plight

 
SPECIAL REPORT--WHITHER JAPAN?
Introduction
Editor
Japan and the United States: Seeking Security
Michael W. Chinworth
The New Economic Plan
Kazuo Tanikawa
Abandoning Protectionism, Slowly
Edward J. Lincoln
Meeting Its Strategic Responsibilities
Masao Horie
The Present and Future LDP
Ryuichiro Hosokawa

ANALYSIS
Haiti's Voodoo Politics: Democracy, Past, Present--Any Future?
Bob Roberts
Ensuring Peace and Prosperity in Taiwan
Martin L. Lasater
Coping With Super Militarists
James L. Payne
Nicaragua I: Ortega's Ultimatum to Congress
Roger Fontaine
Nicaragua II: The Threat to the U.S. and the Americas
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North
The Agony of a Marxist Monarchy
Vladimir Tismaneanu

COMMENTARY
Afghanistan: The Case for Continued U.S. Aid
Sean D. Naylor
Will the INF Treaty Reduce the Danger of War?: It Will Weaken NATO Solidarity
Werner Kaltefleiter
What Must Be Done in Panama
William Ratliff
Margaret Thatcher's Next Stage
Stephen Haseler

 

 
CHILDREN
Computers in the Classroom
Paula Steen

DIMENSIONS
Garage Sale Mania: One Man's Junk Is Another's Jewel
Sue Carlton

FASHION
Gentlemen's Status Wear
Harvey Hagman

FOOD
Dining on the Rim of the Pacific Plate
Alma Lach

HUMOR
My Anvil Grows Smaller
Robert E. Kuhn

INTERIORS
Country Craving: American Country Décor Is Not Just a look--It's a Lifestyle
Gail Greco

PERSONALITY
The Unsurpassable Dr. Seuss
Don Freeman

TRAVEL
Global Good Manners: How to Avoid Goofs and Gaffes Abroad
Roger E. Axtell

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: Paul H. Weaver's The Suicidal Corporation
Introduction
Editor

Two Cheers!
Fred L. Smith, Jr.

To Bind and Guide the World
Samuel T. Francis

Hard Advice to Follow
John Hoving

REVIEWS
Ending the Confrontation in Europe
Peter Sharfman
CONSOLIDATING PEACE IN EUROPE
Morton A. Kaplan, ed.
WATERSHED IN EUROPE
Jonathan Dean

Assessing Victory and Defeat
Alan J. Levine
THE PERFECT FAILURE
Trumbull Higgins
REFLECTIONS ON THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
Raymond Garthoff

From Avant-Garde to Moyen Garde
John Braeman
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AVANT-GARDE:
Diana Crane

Mr. Disney and Significant Others
John Canemaker
MASTERS OF ANIMATION
John Halas
TOO FUNNY FOR WORDS- DISNEY'S GREATEST SIGHT GAGS
Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnson
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WALT DISNEY'S ANIMATED CHARACTERS
John Grant

Canny Cozenage
Roger Lewis
CHATTERTON
Peter Ackroyd

The Rise of Big Business in America
Robert Higgs
ENTREPRENEURS vs. THE STATE
Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

Imagination Governs the World
Michael Scammell
A CAPTIVE LION
Elaine Feinstein
THE SELECTED POEMS OF MARINA TSVETAYEVA
Elaine Feinstein, trans.

Perestroika: Opium for the Intellectuals
Mikhail Tsypkin
PERESTROIKA
Mikhail Gorbachev

Love and Tyranny, Romanian Style
Donald Jamison
RED HORIZONS
Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Soho South: New Identity for New Orleans' Warehouse District
Stephen Henkin

ART
The Sweeping Spectacle of Spain: From El Greco to Picasso
Michael Gibson
The Perfection of Youth: 500 Years of Pre-Classical Greek Art
Katie Ziglar

CRAFT & DESIGN
Masterworks of a Spectacular Argentine Silver Collection
John Stringer

DANCE
Reconstructing the Rite of Spring
Iro Tembeck
Flamenco Meets Modern Dance: The Royal Spanish National Ballet
Alexandra Tomalonis

DESIGN
Bringing Grace to the Quotidian: The Inner World of Industrial Design
Hugh Aldersey-Williams

FILM
Remolding an Emperor: Bertolucci's Beautiful Party-Line Epic
J. Perceval
Evil Does Exist: The Wannsee Conference and the Banality of Evil
George Szamuely

MUSIC
Debussy, Baudelaire, and Poe: Fascination of the Fantastic
Tom Pniewski
Lyubimov's Lulu: Innocence Dressed in Blood
Nicholas Rudall
Rossini Revisited: Sprightly Feminist Twist to a Classic Opera
Susan Fegley Osmond

PERSPECTIVES
Isle of the Dead: Ghosts and the Supernatural in Japanese Cinema
Paul Coates

POETRY
Accepting Reality: John Crowe Ransom and Death Bring Home Some Eternal Verities
Carl C. Curtis

THEATER
The Wonderful World of Theater: Moss Hart Revived
Cynthia Grenier

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Space Plasmas
Anthony L. Peratt
A New Approach to the Common Cold
David Proud
Free Radicals: The Rogues of Chemistry
Michael G. Simic and Karen A. Taylor

IMPACTS
Glass: Sand's Versatile Gift
Stanton Wormley

NATURE WALK
The Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
Merlin D. Tuttle

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Indian View of Nature
Ravi Ravindra and Priscilla Murray

SCIENCE ESSAY
Doctors and Your Diet
R.P. Abernathy

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Jerome Namias: Weather Pioneer
Philomène d'Ursin and John O. Roads

 

   
CROSSROADS
The Age of Silver: Aging in Modern Japan
David W. Plath
'Inculturation': A Crisis in Indian Catholicism
Dinesh D'Souza

FOLK WISDOM
Tibet's Warrior Messiah
Merlinda Fournier

HERITAGE
One Faithful Harp Shall Praise Thee
Kathleen Cahill Tsubata

PEOPLES
Puritans of the Desert
Gert Mueller
Pagan
Claudia Simms and Thomas Tarleton
Making Ancestors: Funerary Traditions of the Malagasy
John Mack

 

   

HIGHER EDUCATION AND CULTURE
Introduction
Editor
Individualism vs. Liberal Arts Education
Robert L. Spaeth
Pathologies of Higher Education
Paul Piccone
Liberal Education: External Influences and Internal Conflicts
Ciriaco M. Arroyo

SECONDARY EDUCATION AND VALUES
Our Educational Reform and the Moral Education of Our Children
Kevin Ryan
The School as Moral Instructor: Deliberate Efforts and Unintentional Consequences
Philip W. Jackson
The Student in Educational Reform
John Bremer

SURVIVAL OF THE COMMUNIST STATES
East-European Intellectuals and the National-Communist State: A View From Bucharest
Mihai Botez

THE HUMAN FOOD CHAIN
The World Food Situation: Glut and Starvation
Alexander King

 
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