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but he speaks the same language: “Why does it take one daynfor a Swiss worker to make something that takes two days innLombardy and a week in the South?” The Liberals blamengovernment corruption and deplore the Lega’s “politics ofnresentment.”nThe resentment in the North is captured in one of thenLega’s most successful posters. A hen is...

Pontida (near Bergamo) to swear an oath that everynLombard — Ghibelline as well as Guelf—should unite tondefend their common liberty. I asked my friend the warnveteran if the local people, say the man who occasionallyndrove me around, preserved any memory of these events; henassured me that the fellow would know nothing at all. Butnone day...

have been besieging the senator ever since the springnelections, I am the first American to interview the head ofnthe Lega Lombarda.nI begin by asking him the question that had been on mynmind for several days: is it possible to be a good Lombardnand a patriotic Italian? “We are not separatists,” he insists,n”and there is no...

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VIEWSnNew York vs. New Yorknby Bill KaufFmann”The feeling between this city and the hayseeds . . . is every bit as bitternas the feelings between the North and South before the War. . . . Why, Inknow a lot of men in my district who would like nothin’ better than tongo out gunnin’ for hayseeds.”n—...

tice Abraham Yates, Jr., held out. Downstate Federalistsnresorted to threat: if New York did not ratify, its largest citynwould split off and join the Union anyway. To our everlastingnregret, several Upstate delegates caved in, and wenentered the United States as one.nBy 1861, the City had turned disunionist. Unwilling tonoffend “our aggrieved brethren of the slave...

cur. We haven’t elected one of our own governors sincen1920. (The cousin-marrier of Hyde Park doesn’t count.)nWe last elected a senator in 1958. We last had a candidatenfor governor in 1954. Estonia has more influence innMoscow than we do in Albany. (At least they’ve let us keepnour accents.)nAs the republican ideal dims, We are becoming...

New York Times proclaimed it a great triumph for unity, andnsecession died a prompt death.n(A similar fate will likely befall the separatist movementnoperating today on Staten Island. By far the smallest of NewnYork’s five boroughs, Staten Island gets stuck with 80npercent of the city’s rubbish. “One man-one vote” rulingsnhave nullified the borough’s influence in city...

monarchy, but it had little appeal for those who were forcednto exchange one foreign ruler for another. For the Germansnstranded in a newly emerged and bloated Poland ornRomania in 1919, or for the Slovaks in a hybrid Czechoslovaknstate, the right to home rule meant nothing less than thencreation of their own separate nation-states.nYugoslavia, too, has...

combined with the Wilsonian dream. This experiment hasnnot resulted in perpetual peace. In times of great crises hostnnations no longer look at aliens as purveyors of exoticnfolklore, but rather as predators snatching bread from theirnhost’s mouth. Peoples are not the same; they never havenbeen and never will be. Ethnic groups can be compared tonthe inmates...

that Boozer does concerning Tillich’s conception of God —nthat Tillich’s thought is often paradoxical if not contradictory,nthat Tillich sees God as “being-itself,” that Tillich in thenend affirms a monistic system of theology not entirely unlikenPlotinus’s and Hegel’s, etc. Even so, it is possible to borrow anman’s ideas, arguments, and evidence but paraphrase hisnactual language in...

God and the logos naturenof man. (p. 21)nOn another meaning of correlation:nKing:nA second meaning ofncorrelation is the logicalninterdependence ofnconcepts. It is polarnrelationships that fallnchiefly under thisnmeaning of correlation.n. . . Thenworld does not stand bynitself Particular being isnin correlation withnbeing-itself In thisnsecond meaning ofncorrelation, then,nTillich moves beyondnepistemologicalnconsiderations tonontologicalnconsiderations, (p. 24)nOn symbol and sign:nKing:nA symbol possesses...

nature and his existentialnnature man speaks ofncreation, (p. 125)nnature and his existentialnnature man speaks ofn”creation.” (pp. 45-46)nKing has not only lifted this entire passage from Boozer’sntext, but he has even copied an error in punctuation. Thengrammatically incorrect comma between the two words Inhave italicized in both paragraphs does not appear in the textnof Tillich, who...

out due scholarly reference.” He concludes his letter withnthis challenge: “If you or anyone else have evidence to thencontrary, it should be presented.” We issue a similarnchallenge to Mr. Westling, the editors of the King papers,nand all other interested scholars: if you have any genuinenevidence that might exonerate King, it should be presented.nA final comment....

picion” in society at large. Even so, atnthis point the thesis of Kernan’s booknmay seem much less dramatic than itsntitle.nThe literature that Kernan perceivesnto be vanishing both from the socialnworld and from human consciousnessnwas, in the author’s words, “a historicnevent” that seems to pass in companynwith many other institutions belongingnto what the historian John Lukacs...

the classical age of reading, whethernfrom the Gutenberg page or from thenflickering screen of the computer. Anrevolution in consciousness may indeednbe taking place so that, as Kernannsuggests, “The great changes that havencome to literature in recent years in thenmidst of a transition from a print to annelectronic culture seem to be betternexplained by the informational...

“Settles once and fornall ttie question ofnmedia bias in America.”n– Mono Charen, formernspeechwriter for PresidentnReagan.nFrom the publishers of Media-nWatch, a new book. And That’snthe Way It Isdit) provides 350npages of summaries, excerpts andnreprints of more than 45 studiesnthat demonstrate the media’snhberal bias. A one-stop resourcencontaining all the facts and figures,nexamples and quotes youllnneed to prove...

to stay. Lowell took them at their word,nlater studied with John Crowe Ransom,nand began his career as a poet and anprotege of Allen Tate. The relations ofnthese two suffered, as all of Lowell’s did,nfrom his bouts with mental illness. Butnthe relation endured and prospered asnwell, in the form of Lowell’s work.nSadly enough, the younger poet...

TBE is something that was developednto comply with a 1973 U.S.nSupreme Court mandate requiringnschool districts receiving federal fundsnto provide special instruction to helpnimmigrant children learn English asnquickly as possible — another of thosen”rights” the justices have claimed tondetect lurking in some “penumbra”nbefogging our Constitution.nBut, if you can, lay aside for the timenbeing Constitutional considerations.nWhat flags...

Letter FromnEastern Europenby Thomas MolnarnA Difficult RoadnOver the course of a one-month (April)ntrip through five European countries,nEastern and Western, I collected notesnof many conversations, particularly withnyoung people, about their view of whatnis called over there “the situation.” Anmore concrete term should not be usednsince not even the leading quattuor,nGorbachev, Thatcher, Mitterrand, andnKohl, know exactly what...

showed equanimity; her nation cannonly be strengthened vis-a-vis the Russiansnwhen the Baltic states achievenindependence. What did the two RussiansnI met say to that? We need anreducing cure, they said; Russia cannstand alone without corrupt satrapies,ncolonies, and client-states.nIt was remarkable to me, who cannrecall events of fifty years ago, that notnone of these men and women...

will resist it. We stand before an awakeningnvolcano, and we cannot guessnthe future course of the lava. Thisnmuch, however, is obvious. Somnolentnsince Yalta, Europe emerges from anstate of paralysis, flexes its muscles, andnthrows off its tutors. It is also in a statenof unstable equilibrium: material richesnin the West, cultural riches in the East.nWestern Europe is...

the belief that Frangois Mitterrand’snbark was more impressive than his bite.nIndeed, if Defense Minister Chevenementnhad actually wanted tonsabotage his government’s “tough”nstance, he could hardly have donenbetter than he did by warning hisncompatriots that a war in the PersiannGulf would cost one hundred thousandnlives.nThe case of Jean-Pierre Chevenementnis particularly interesting becausenit points up the French SocialistnParty’s...

“liberators.” This did not happen. Instead,nthe Iranians reacted violently andnthe result was a war that dragged on forneight years and cost one million lives.nThis “frightful misunderstanding,” asnMarenches put it, was essentially due tonthe fact that the head of the Iraqi secretnintelligence services was no longernSadoun Shaker (“an exceptional . . .nyoung man, attractive, intelligent, andnfriendly”)...

happens.nTake last year in Virginia, for instance.nThe new governor, DouglasnWilder, got a lot of good press in thenspring, even being touted as Vice-nPresidential material after only a fewnweeks in ofHce. Some of our Democratsndown here are getting desperate,nit seems, and they want to portraynWilder as an old-timey SouthernnDemocrat — that is, a patriot and fiscalnconservative...

MEDIAnDefiningnAnti-Semitismnby Allan C. BrownfeldnPat Buchanan andnHis CriticsnThere was much discussion last autumnnof the charge of “anti-Semitism”nmade against syndicated columnistnand conservative spokesman PatricknBuchanan by New York Times columnistnA.M. Rosenthal.nWhat sparked the attack was a statementnmade by Buchanan on the televisionnprogram The McLaughlin Group,nin which he said, “There are only twongroups that are beating the drums nownfor...

readers to exert pressure on local newspapersnaround the country to replacenPat Buchanan’s column with that ofnanother conservative columnist, suchnas George Will. Even Harvard ProfessornAlan Dershowitz, ordinarily an outspokennadvocate of the First Amendment,ndeclared that Buchanan shouldnbe removed from the national media.n”CNN should take him off the air andnmajor American newspapers shouldnstop running him,” Dershowitz toldnthe Washington...

Even within the organized AmericannJewish community, anyone whontakes a less than intransigent positionnwith regard to the Middle East isnbitterly attacked. Letty Cottin Pogrebin,nin her column in the Jewishnmagazine Moment (February 1990),ndescribes the situation this way: “Amidnall the contentiousness over MiddlenEast politics, you may have missed onensubtle but ominous development in thenAmerican Jewish community: Peace isnbecoming...

making such a stupid mistake, allowingn”this Judas” to leave), Trotsky attemptednto settle in Turkey, but had to flee fornFrance, which he, in turn, had to fleenfor Norway, where he couldn’t remainneither, because Coba threatened thenNorwegian government with a boycottnof Norwegian herring for harboringnhim.nThe situation was getting quite tensen— no country was willing to give refugento...

International. This Trotsky could notntolerate. Through the Mexican press,nhe announced that he “no longernshared moral proletarian solidarity withnDiego Rivera and thus could not continuenliving in his house.”nIn April of 1939, after spending twonyears and three months at the Riveras’,nthe Trotskys, their aides, and bodyguardsnmoved out and settled in ViennanStreet, also in Coyoacan.nFor the next year...

book. You have to go somewhere, afternall, get seated and settled, and wait thatnanticipatory few minutes in which thenvenerable shape of the auditoriumnspeaks its subliminal message of dramanand ritual. All the seats are pointed onenway to a screen that may or may not bencurtained, and there is a kind of invocation,na hope that this time...

ever amounted to anything. There isnendless bickering about what size pigsnare to be killed and who is to get whichnparts of them, and whether the butcheringnshould take place before the worknis done or afterwards. There isn’t anynmoney, and the barter system doesn’tnwork very well because the villagersnspend most of their time wrangling,nmaking long and absurd...

smiles, it will be a woman.”nWell, of course! Women are thenones who smile an’d are good, and mennscowl and are brutes and beasts. And,nas it turns out, wife-beating is one ofnthe main occupations of the Hamar.nThe men seem to think that if theyndon’t beat their wives, then the wivesnwon’t listen to them, will just —...

Fenimore Cooper, wrote The Spy, hisnfirst successful novel, on a bet. Henwon. So did America. For the Northnand the West he was important becausenhe romanticized the great strugglenfor empire going on in the Americannforest; for the South he wasnimportant because he perpetuated itsnlegends. Half the leading characters ofnThe Spy are Virginians. Captain JacknLawton personifies the...

I tried to write in a tent, on thenoutpost; the enemy yonder,nalmost in view—but withnJackson, alas, no longer in front.nOh to write in a quiet study,nwith no enemies ariywhere innview!nHis wartime experiences formed thenbasis of Cooke’s postwar novels, whichnare still read and loved in the Southntoday. Surry of Eagle’s Nest (1866)nand its sequel, Mohun (1869),...

Pro-Choice’s dirtyniittie secrets. Exposed.n”Hats off to New Dimensions. As America enters then1990s, it is encouraging to know that there is anstraight-shooting, no-nonsense news source forngrassroots America.” Watch out Time andnNewsweek. _^^Y^^ K. Doman, U.S. CongressmannEver since Roe v. Wade, the nation’snnews media have virtually blacked outnthe real story of abortion in America.nOnly one side of...

“The finestnfirsthand picturenof Americannpioneer lifenever writtennfor children.”n—San Francisco ChroniclenThe LITTLE HOUSE Storiesnby Laura Ingalls WildernRetail $29.95 • 9 quality paperbacks in handsome illustrated slipcasenYoursnFREE!nBeloved by children for generations, these books portray an America where family, hard work and traditionalnvalues were taken for granted. Each volume includes Garth Williams’ charming illustrations that firstnappeared in the 1953...

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convey a fatuous, doctrinaire caricaturenof higher learning, a sop to a petticoatnjunction turned revolutionary — thenuniversity’s Trojan Horse. Despitensuch distraction, the challenge for mennand women will remain ineluctably thensame: to continue to learn how best tonlive as members of society, as individuals,ntrue to their respective, distinctnnatures and without a politicized egotisticalnfocus on one gender or...

A YEAR AFTER HUGO: thenGood Morning America helicopternmade several passes over the creekntoday in preparation for the “one yearnanniversary of Hurricane Hugo” programmingnthat was aired in September.nTwo of my shrimping relativesnwent in the ocean instead of participatingnin the ground-based interviewsnfilmed in advance. Surely a good sign.nThe media harvest is winding down.nThe harvest of the sea...

An installation of Karen Finley’snthat was being shown at New York’snFranklin Furnace in July when all thisnbroke was also NEA-funded, accordingnto Furnace spokeswoman Barbara Pollack.nNo doubt those were real tearsnMs. Finley sobbed to the crowd atnJoseph Papp’s Public Theater whennshe told them, “I am suffering.” She isnfighting for a very significant portion ofnher income.nShe may...

Roman Catholic prelate Cardinal JohnnO’Connor as a ‘fat cannibal.'” “Religiousnpeople must no longer be personalntargets of cannon fire from NationalnEndowment projects,” RutherfordnInstitute President John W.nWhitehead said.nWe have reached the point wherenthings considered acceptable and protectednby law if done under secular ornantireligious auspices are judged criminalnif done for identifiably religiousnreasons. For example, although statenand federal courts...

Einstein’s death, draws attention tonwhat goes on in this sleepy hollow innthe western corner of Princeton. Sonwhat is to be done to regain thenpreeminence that the Institute oncenrightly claimed for itself?nIAS should be the nation’s premiernresearch institute and a model for allnothers; today, in most fields, it simply isnnot. IAS is truly distinguished in math,nastrophysics,...

awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal fornPoetry in 1967 and was appointednCommander of the British Empire innthe New Year Honours List in 1986nfor his services to poetry.nThe Ingersoll Foundation is thenphilanthropic division of IngersollnMilling Machine Company of Rock-nPrincipalities & Powersnby Samuel FrancisnUntil the discovery in the spring ofn1989 that the National Endowment fornthe Arts was conducting...

Congress will resume. Next time, onenmay hope, congressmen willing to donbattle on the NEA issue will comenloaded with heavier ammunition thannthey carried this year.nWhat conservative legislators neednto do is not merely rest with restrictingnthe content of what the NEA subsidizesnbut advance to questioning thenwhole concept of federal sponsorshipnof the arts. In the battle just concluded,nthey...

PERSPECTIVEnThe Loser in a Lawn ChairnWe are often accused of looking on the dark side ofneverything. One editorialist even found it amusingnthat we occasionally compared contemporary America withnthe Byzantine Empire, as if such a comparison were not anninsult to the Christian civilization of Constantinople. Despitenour reputation, we like to think of ourselves asnhardheaded optimists, and...

irrelevant fiction as our own Electoral College. There isnlittle point in blaming the Stoics for their lack of patriotismnor their cosmopolitan indifference to all those myths ofnblood and soil that had given rise to Hellenic civilization.nThe important feature of Stoicism was not that it taughtnpeople to be locally irresponsible “citizens of the wodd,” butnthat it...

history books, and I learned something important aboutnAmerican scholarship: hardly anyone does any work. Nearlynevery account described Garfield’s assassin, CharlesnGuiteau, as a “disappointed office seeker.” “I am a Republicannstalwart,” he exclaimed as he fired upon Garfield, whonhad been elected as virtually the only honest man in thenGOP. How things have changed. Leon Czolgosz, on thenother...

I had heard enough tales to be uncomfortable at the anecdote that takes at least fifteen minutes to tell. The storynthought of a night in jail. One of the policemen at the is so good that I don’t think I can any longer distinguish thenstation turned out to be a decent man who patrolled the...

Up until recently the scholar’s prize at Eastern KentuckynUniversity went year after year to some young man from anpoor and tiny backwoods holler. Many of these kids werenfrom in-bred families — and it’s not that I’m recommendingnwe follow the practices of the ancient kings of Egypt, butnthere you are. I have sometimes wondered if the...