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April  1988  Issue
 
 
Beyond Political Labels

 
SPECIAL REPORT--SOUTH AMERICA'S FRAGILE DEMOCRACIES
Introduction
Editor
Democracy's Uncertain Future
Roger Fontaine
The Changing Role of the Military
Gordon Sumner, Jr.
The Reaction Against Liberation Theology
Robert Royal
Argentina: An Orderly Transition
Dan Newland
Venezuela: Coping With Controls
Vladimir Chelminski
Chile: A Crucial Year
Oscar Godoy-Arcaya

ANALYSIS
Chad: Requiem for Qaddafi?
Michael Radu and Adam Garfinkle
Street-Level Perestroika
Larry Moffitt
Two Westminster-Style Caudillos Vie for the Future
Howard J. Wiarda
Why Bother to Have a Stock Market?
Ben Stein

COMMENTARY
Will the Reagan Doctrine Survive Reagan?
William Pascoe
The Foreign Policy Crisis of the West
Jean-Francois Revel
Capitalism: The Way to End Apartheid
Michael Johns
ASEAN at a Crossroads?
Dalton A. West

 

 
ADVENTURE
Adventure: There and Back Again - Group Challenge in the Wild
Deborah Boldt

FASHION
Fashionable, Not Frumpy: Fashion and Beauty Tips for Elderly Women
Mary-Ellen Banashek

FOOD
A Russian Easter Feast
Eloise Paananen

GARDENS
A Bountiful Balcony Garden
Carole Ottesen

HEALTH
A Vital Long Life: New Treatments for Common Aging Ailments
Evelyn B. Kelly

HUMOR
Obscene Messages and Visits
Kathryn N. Hardin

PATHWAYS
A Rolling Wagon Vacation
Sam Kittner

SPORTS
Gaits to Fun and Fitness
Tom Carter

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
Introduction
Editor

The Legacy of James Baldwin: The Artist as Redemptive Lover and Righteous Witness
Bernard W. Bell

A Legacy of Anger
J. A. Parker

Evangelical of the Written Word
Blyden Jackson

REVIEWS
Russian Fathers, Soviet Sons
Fernanda Eberstadt
PUSHKIN HOUSE
Andrei Bitov, translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger

Stability and Strategic Defense
Peter Sharfman
STRATEGIC DEFENSES AND ARMS CONTROL
Alvin M. Weinberg and Jack N. Barkenbus, eds.

Learning From Failure
Edward S. Shapiro
DEMOCRACY, STRATEGY, AND VIETNAM
Daniel J. Kaufman, and Douglas E. Lute

American Religion: From Pluralism to Consensus
Kenneth A. Myers
SPIRITUAL POLITICS
Mark Silk

Eric Voegelin and the Spirit of the Age
David J. Levy
IN SEARCH OF ORDER
Eric Voegelin
THE POLITICAL THEORY OF ERIC VOEGELIN
Barry Cooper

Moscow, Rome, and Other Places
Thomas Molnar
MARXISM AND RELIGION
David McLellan

Caudillo With a Cause
Paul Gottfried
FRANCO
J.P. Fusi, translated by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Cosmic Fusions
Robert F. Geary
2061: ODYSSEY THREE
Arthur C. Clarke

Dissident
Lee Congdon
THE VELVET PRISON
Miklos Haraszti

Ruptures and Convergences
Dolores Moyano Martin
CONVERGENCES
Octavio Paz

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Aldo Rossi: Recomposing the Past in Cities of the Future
Kenneth Powell

ART
Three Centuries of Japanese Women Artists
Patricia Fister

CRAFT & DESIGN
Ceramist Robert Sperry: Keeping an Ancient Craft Alive
Matthew Kangas

DANCE
Let There Be Light!: Creating Stage Sets for the Dance
Don McDonagh

DESIGN
Dalya Luttwak: Goldsmith Extraordinaire
Nancy G. Heller

FILM
Growing Up Absurd: Spielberg's Empire of the Sun
Paul Coates
A Masterpiece of a Marathon Film: Six Hours of Dickens' Little Dorrit
Edward Pearce

MUSIC
The Quandary of the CD Owner: The Terrors of Technology
Todd Culbertson

PERSPECTIVES
Sarafina!: Johannesburg Comes to Broadway
Richard Grenier

POETRY
Moving in Memory
Julia Randall

THEATER
A Really Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Royal Shakespeare Company Makes Magic
Herb Greer
Total Immersion for Total Theater: Taiwan's National Dramatic Arts Academy
J. Perceval

 

   
AT THE EDGE
The Chimp-Human Connection
Adrienne L. Zihlman and Jerold M. Lowenstein
Free Radicals in Biological Systems
Karen A. Taylor and Michael G. Simic
Domesticating the Wild Oyster
Merrill Leffler

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Bernice Petersen

NATURE WALK
Mussel Glue
Herbert Waite

SCIENCE ESSAY
Drought Follows the Plow
Michael H. Glantz

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
John Muir: Prophet of the Wilderness
Tom Pniewski

 

   
CROSSROADS
Tibetan Monastic Universities: Education Preserves a Culture in Exile
Ursula Bernis

FOLK WISDOM
Lianja: The Nkundo Epic Cycle
Jan Knappert

HERITAGE
Pysanky: Ukrainian Easter Eggs
Eloise Paananen

PEOPLES
Return of a Lost Tribe: The Unfinished Exodus of the Ethiopian Jews
Marc Shapiro
The Toba Batak of Indonesia
Thomas Tarleton and Claudia Simms
The Dead and the Living in Minho
Joao de Pina-Cabral
Al-Hayat al-Taqlidiyya: Traditional Life in Algeria
Aida Bamia

 

   
A DISSENTING PURITAN
The Man Who Talked With the Indians
Pedro Beade

A GREAT THINKER REMEMBERED
Vilfredo Pareto and Political Irrationality
Tomislav Sunic

A LITERARY INTELLECTUAL
Graham Greene's Two Conversions
Dinesh D'Souza

ON EDUCATION
Public Schooling in Ontario in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
Ian Dowbiggin
Can Our Children Write, and Who Cares?
Marcy McDonald Kursel

ON POPULAR MUSIC
The Politics of Rock Music
J.R. Dunn

POLITICS AFTER REAGAN
Introduction
Editor
Lost Opportunities on the Right
Herbert London
Reagan Rebellion or National Renewal
William R. Hawkins
Après Reagan, the Deluge
William Kauffman
The Reagan Administration--Bitter Afterthoughts
John Lukacs
The Democratic Party and Its Ethnic Problem
Edward Shapiro
American Political Life After the Reagan Era
Donald Atwell Zoll
The American Left, the American Right, and the Enlightenment
Stanley Rosen

RELIVING A JEWISH HOLIDAY
'To See Ourselves As If': The Passover Seder and Holy Israel
Jacob Neusner

 
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