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Committee, R. Peter Straus, was outspokennin his praise for Jackson duringnthe New York primary. Dukakis wasnthe big winner among New York’snJewish voters, but Jackson amassednalmost as many Jewish votes as didnAlbert Gore, the only Democratic candidatenwho backed Israel’s oppositionnto the creation of a PLO state.nThe most important Jewish apologistnfor Jackson, though, is Rabbi DavidnSaperstein, director...

S41 CHRONICLESnfor most of this century, the nation’sntoniest educational institutions usednquotas for the explicit purpose of excludingnintellectually able Jewish applicants.nStill, liberal Jewish leaders arenzealous advocates of affirmative action.nOne of the chief gripes the AmericannJewish Congress and the NationalnCouncil of Jewish Women had againstnJudge Robert Bork was his refusal tonembrace reverse discrimination as holynwrit.nThe political hypocrisy...

561 CHROIVICIESnconcert on the mall. Watt, according tonhis retelling in The Courage of a Conservative,nhad issued a memo statingnthat the July 4, 1983, performances onnthe mall in Washington, DC, be thosenthat “point to the glories of America inna patriotic and inspirational way thatnwill attract the family.” It seems thatnduring the previous year’s event, atnwhich the...

KrystynanJachniewicznKrystyna Jachniewicz and I studied togethernat the Academy of Fine Arts innWarsaw, and received our masters innfine art and illustration in 1979. Thatnyear the magazine Poland published annarticle reviewing the work we did fornour diplomas and wondering what wasngoing to happen to us. Well, both ofnus, not so young anymore, havenOn ‘Letternfrom B.U;nSince I am...

61 CHRONICLESnDay care and illegal drugs are hotnpolitical issues. Yet there has been littlenpublic discussion of the relationshipnbetween changing family patterns andnthe use of illegal drugs. Considerablendata suggests a close connection betweennthe two. Indeed, the decline ofnthe traditional family seems to parallelnthe increase in the use of illegal drugs.nAs legislators consider more federalnsubsidies for day...

historic, living monument to thenwomen’s movement. “Geraldine,”nCongresswoman Slaughter informs us,n”created a moment in history whichnwill never, never be surpassed.” Previousnmoments of some significancenflash through my mind, but I succumbnto the tingling sense of unity pervadingnthis religious gathering. (Geraldine informsnus that to have secured thenadditional 15 percentage points necessarynto beat Reagan in ’84, “you wouldnhave needed...

81 CHRONICLESnPERSPECTIVEnDIPLOMATS, DUPES, AND TRAITORSnby Thomas FlemingnElection ’88 has been so far a political flea circus innwhich the issues are as microscopic as the candidates.nThe one interesting candidate has been the Rev. JessenJackson. If you have seen his very effective commercials, younwill remember the pictures of Jackson meeting with PresidentnAssad of Syria, and the voice-over...

suggested that Hammer’s unflagging support for US-Sovietntrade has benefited the USSR far more than the US.nPrivate diplomacy is not confined to the visible celebritiesnwho actively enter into practical negotiations with high-levelnrepresentatives of foreign governments. More typical are thenpolitical idealists who go to the USSR on citizen diplomacyntours, hoping to make personal contact with the Russiannpeople....

the KGB. One of the first Americans to visit the USSR afternthe Revolution was the journalist Lincoln Steffens, who,nafter a brief formal tour, felt confident enough to declare, “Inhave seen the future, and it works.” Steffens was no morengullible than the hundreds of journalists and travelers whonreturn with heartwarming stories about their experiences.nDuring Stalin’s purge...

To AtticusnA Writer in ExilenOvid’s Epistulae Ex Ponto, //. 7nrendered by David R. SlavittnThe Roman poet, Publius Ovidius Naso, was exiled to Tomis on the Black Sea bynthe Emperor Augustus in 8 A.D.nFrom the Getan badlands, my letter comes to you with goodnwishes, Atticus. How goes life for you?nAnd I wonder how it goes for...

121 CHRONICLESnVIEWSnSOLZHENITSYN: THE RUSSIAN LIBERALnby Mikhail S. BernstamnWhen an influential group of American intellectuals,nliberals and neoconservatives alike, unites against onenman, a Russian scribbler at refuge in a New England town,nthere ought to be something big at stake. Their ownnexplanation is that Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn is a reactionary,na social conservative, an antidemocrat, a 19thcenturynromantic or paternalist,...

tual community worked hard for several decades.nA key insight into Solzhenitsyn can be discerned from hisncomment on his friend, Grigori Samoilovich M-z, in ThenGulag Archipelago. M-z was a former powerful Communistnofficial who, during World War II, was sent by his superiornto convey an order to a Soviet regiment to retreat. Thisnorder, if delivered, could have...

141 CHRONICLESnSolzhenitsyn, but the Slavophiles also embrace the Russiannrural commune — and this Solzhenitsyn passionately rejects.nSolzhenitsyn interprets the commune as a more significantnform of serfdom than feudal serfdom itself Thencommune meant the predominant economic power of thenstate, not just of landlords, over the peasantry by means ofntaxes imposed on rural settlements collectively and thenabolition of...

sentiments allow the individual to blame his failure on thenreal or imaginary privileges and communal network of thenother group. Both tendencies feed further expansion ofnnationalism, which is, therefore — in Tsarist Russia, in thenSoviet Union, in Africa, in the United States, and everywherenelse — a platform for self-generating distribution andnredistribution of socioeconomic mobility.nAnti-Semitism in Tsarist...

161 CHRONICLESnist he is not.nEven his obvious Russian patriotism has an extremenlibertarian coloration. In The Gulag Archipelago he makesnan unprecedented statement that it is governments whonneed military victories, while people need military defeats.nSolzhenitsyn argues that prosperity and freedom are preferablento military victories and territorial expansion, andnmoreover, that defeats and territorial losses are beneficial fornnational prosperity...

improvement upon uncorrupted, idealistic communism.nThat is why a conventional method of historical analogiesnbetween communism and various despotic regimes in thenpast, whether in Russia or elsewhere, yields shallow results.nCommunists or Nazis may seem to be not much differentnfrom past tyrants, or even from Chicago gangsters of then1930’s for that matter, but this does not explain a...

what happened to Russia many years after his death.nProfessions have become increasingly risky. Doctors arenafraid of the epidemics of malpractice suits. Journalists arenfrightened by the wave of libel suits. We hire lawyers to suenlawyers for legal malpractice. And if this were not enough,nhere comes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn with what many perceivenas the case against wordsmiths for...

201 CHRONICLESnMarchenko again addressed Rekunkov, writing that thenpunitive use of. hunger, cold, beatings, and drugs had turnednhim into an “invalid.” All of his protests, he added, had beennignored by the prison administration, which was continuingn”to beat me to death.”nRefusing to give in, Marchenko announced a hungernstrike on August 4, demanding an end to the constant...

watched. Flowers were strewn on the mound. Larisa placedna white pine cross at the head. With a ballpoint pen sheninscribed the name and dates.nReturning to Moscow from the funeral, she wrote:nAnatoly Marchenko died in battle. . . . This battlenbegan for him a quarter century ago, and never, notnonce, did he throw out the white...

USAnATOMir. ROMRnHYDROGEN BOMBninRMnARMnMIRVnNFIITRONROMRn1945n1951niQRnniQvnn19B1ntargets for missiles include the enemy’s nuclear deliverynsystems; command, control, and communications; and airndefenses. Secondary targets are politico-administrative centers,nmilitary forces, support facilities, selected industries,nand transportation. All of this is predicated on the nuclearnsuperiority of the USSR.nOfEcial publications endorse Soviet military superiority.nThe goal was advocated in all three editions of Voennaianstrategia by Marshal V.D....

I found [Vishinsky] a man whose passion was lawnreform … He was doing what an ideal Minister ofnJustice would do if we had such a person in GreatnBritain — forcing his colleagues to consider what isnmeant by actual experience of the law in action. Henbrought to the study of the law in operation annenergy which...

Indiana, with his Fables. Forty yearsnago I founded the George Ade Societynof East Lansing, Michigan. Here is mynfavorite line from Ade: “It is hard to benblase in a town that calls it blaze.”n(Indeed, I borrowed that sentence toninsert in my African novel A Creaturenof the Twilight.) It is heartening to findnAde still beloved at Dartmouth,...

closely at its time period, its intellectualnterrain, and its geographical focus. Thentime period is what Tise calls then”neglected period” of proslavery thinking,nbefore the political intensificationnof the issue in the mid-decades of then19th century (though he overlaps bothnways when useful). It is an era coverednfrom the other, antislavery, side bynDavid Brion Davis in his superb Slaverynin...

301 CHRONICLESnall egalitarian and revolutionary tendencies.nBut this is to set up thensituation the wrong way and to shift thenburden of innovation from the abolitionistsnto the preservers of the statusnquo, which tends to interfere with anproper understanding of both groups.nHe sees proslavery sentiment in thenNorth as closely linked to the sternestnforms of conservative New Englandnfederalism, which,...

stand how or why one could admirenthem and still call himself a conservative.nIt takes nothing less than thensophistry of the Straussian political scientistsnto answer this paradox adequately.nI know, however, that decentnfolks disagree with me, and I remainnopen to argument. As I said, history isnnot easy, and it may not be possiblenever to settle such questions.nPerhaps...

to grant autonomy to that historicallynseparatist and ethnically distinct region,nor for punishing those who took upnarms to advance the cause. Fusi indictsnwhat he calls “the Spanish regime”nbecause it created among Basques “anwidespread feeling of revulsion fromnthe very idea of Spain.”nIt was late in the summer of 1968nthat the Basque extremist organization,nEuzkadi ta Azkatasuna (ETA —nBasque...

341 CHRONICLESnof government, Franco came to viewnMussolini’s Italy as something of anmodel. He was always careful to insist,nhowever, that the Falange (Phalanx),nSpain’s native fascist movement, wasnsui generis.nFounded in 1933 by Jose AntonionPrimo de Rivera, eldest son of thenmilitary officer who governed Spain inna dictatorial but benign fashion fromn1923 to 1930, the Falange was anradical and...

devastated. In Chicago, his estrangementnfrom his parents grew as theyncontinued to manifest indifference tonthe hopes and dreams of Walter and hisnsister.nFortunately, Walter’s story has anhappy ending. His parents returned tonthe Ukraine without him. The ACLUncontinued to pursue the case all thenLetter FromnMoscownby Russ BraleynThe Friends of Peter Ustinovn”Peter Ustinov’s Russia” has been makingnthe rounds of...

381 CHRONICLESningly on turns. Driving over cobblestones,nruts, and streetcar tracks wasnlike riding a jackhammer. In the nextndays the deep bruises on my behindnand inside my thighs turned green andnorange.nWe stopped at a lake, where Muscovitesnswam in their underwear, some ofnthe ladies in bloomers. (Ustinov filmednshapely, athletic girls in string swimsuits;nthings have improved in thatnrespect.) As...

Letter From thenHeartlandnby Jane GreernJust When You Thought It WasnSafe to Go Back in the WaternOur sixth-grade daughter’s class madenthe “Hiroshima lanterns” late in Maynwhen the North Dakota Peace Coalitionncame to her parochial school. Thenkids painted the paper sides of the 8″ xn8″ boats with rainbows and flowers andnthe word “peace,” and made plans tonlight...

401 CHRONICLESnit or not, is our slavery, and ournchildren’s.nAlthough it’s impolitic to forbid anteenager to do something, if the subjectncomes up again we’ll tell ourndaughter that if she wants to participate,nshe’ll have to be able to tell usnwhat World War II was all about, andnwhy Hiroshima and Nagasaki werenbombed, and, realistically, what shenhopes to accomplish...

progressive citizens of his town proposednto build a hotel, arguing that itnwould give commercial travelers a placento stay and be good for business. Thencolonel listened with ill-concealed displeasure,nthen announced that any gentlemannwho came to town could staynwith him and anyone who wasn’t angentleman shouldn’t be encouraged tonstay the night. The hotel wasn’t built.nI admire that...

421 CHRONICLESnlowing the lead of Atlanta, pacesetternof the New South, a town that billednitself in the hateful 60’s as “the city toonbusy to hate.”nThink about that. As my friend FrednHobson once observed, that’s a prettynsorry reason not to hate. Not toonproud, too decent, too self-respecting,ntoo Christian — just too busy. Comparednto that, Fred remarked, even...

Allow me, in my private capacity as anreader of Chronicles, to take MichaelnWarder to task for his article on thenMoonies in the June issue. To be sure,nthe founder of the controversial movementnis no Schopenhauer. Perhaps henis not even a Cardinal Newman. But isnhe any less intellectually reputable thannMary Baker Eddy? I doubt it.nHe has written...

SCREENnDevil Troublenby Sam KarnicknPrince of Darkness; directed bynJohn Carpenter; screenplay bynMartin Quatermass; UniversalnPictures.nWhen they hear about Prince of Darkness,nunsuspecting moviegoers maynenvision a thrilling story of the occult.nSome person will probably releasenSatan from his underworld domain,neither deliberately or unwittingly; thendemon will run rampant over the globenfor a short time, and finally be sentnback—quite unwillingly, of course...

ing most of the film’s last half merelynscrambling to survive. It could hardlynbe othervi^ise, with the characters fightingna completely impersonal forcenabout which they know very little. Innfact, Satan never does achieve releasenfrom his prison, and all we ever actuallynsee of him is half of his right armnprotruding from a mirror.nThus the film quickly devolves, afternits...

ed rapping to some older guerrillantheater guys, and John moved to thenfront of the stage where he began tonpull the latest Maoist communiquesnfrom his briefcase. Andy found a groupnpassing around a gallon of Red Mountainnwine under a tree. Sue hung outnwith Dave for awhile, then walked overnmy way. A group of women camenbetween us, chanting...

481 CHRONICLESnby written law, parents must teach theirnchildren to be absolutely loyal to thenstate, or the government may removenthe child from the family?”nHe got catcalls and vulgar noises fornthat one. I saw Phil Ochs standing at thenedge of the stage, grinning into a paperncup.n”This war in Southeast Asia is part ofnthe grand strategy of communist...

with whoops and spontaneous cheering.nI almost quit again, but that samenprofessor telling me, in effect, that Incould love UCSC or leave it broughtnout enough obstinacy to carry menthrough to an honors degree. I’venmoved around some since then; I’ventalked to students from many collegesnand am currently doing graduate worknat the University of Iowa, and I knownthat...

SO I CHRONICLESn•”Sfe5nW^itSg^nrtj:iy-.rJiiV.irt5^’- I’lrrr^^ntatives met at city hall with ActingnMayor Eugene Sawyer and 11 of thenaldermen. The board capitulated andnplaced full page ads (at the Art Institute’snexpense) in the Chicago Tribune,nChicago Sun-Times, and in then(black) Chicago Defender, apologizingnfor “the distress and concern that thenpainting caused the community.”nField swallowed an added affront bynagreeing with the aldermen’s...

4/CHRONICLESnHangouts for the KGB are whatnlibraries have become, according to thenFBI. In a new report to the Senate, thenBureau says that libraries have beenntargets of espionage efforts since atnleast 1962. The Soviets have foundnthat laying hands on secret documentsnis frequently unnecessary; they cannsimply collect what they need in publicnresearch libraries, identifying “the nation’snemerging technology before...

From the big bangnto the hiture of the Universenand anything interesting in between…nthat’s SMITHSONIAN magazine.nYou’re invited to join in Smithsonian’s exploration of the human adventure.nWhen you open the covers of SMITHSONIAN magazinenbe prepared to be entertained. And be ready to have your lifenenriched. Because no other magazine offersnSMITHSONIAN’S delightful variety and wealth of ideas,nSMITHSONIAN looks...

6/CHRONICLESnRIGHTS OF CLERGYnIsaw my old friend Browne recently. The subject eventuallynturned to the politics of religion and the religion ofnpolitics. I asked him what he thought about the currentnAnglican debate over homosexuality, and I wondered aloudnif it had anything to do with the obvious unmanliness of thenclergy — the final phase of what Ann Douglas...

These are familiar tales of the Episcopal Church —nPECUSA, as it is sometimes known to initiates. However, Inmight just as easily have chosen examples from Methodist,nLutheran, Catholic, and Presbyterian friends. These days itnis hard to find a thoughtful person who is really satisfied withnhis church, and the cause of the disgust is almost always thenclergy.n”Some...

8 / CHRONICLESn”bingo” instead of “banco.” It’s a natural mistake.)nFreedom of religion is a vast umbrella that may be used tonshelter Islam and Buddhism, Voodoo and Santeria, ChristiannScience and the Unification Church, along with thenbranches of Christianity and Judaism with which the framersnof the Constitution were familiar. One man’s humbug isnanother man’s revelation, and in...

VIEWSnANDREW LYTLE TALKSnto Madison Smartt BellnAndrew Lytle lives in a log house on the AssemblynGrounds in Monteagle, Tennessee. It is a busy area innsummer, but in the wintertime most of the other houses arenclosed, and he has few immediate neighbors. The house isnbuilt on a cross plan and has somewhat unusually highnceilings. Most often Mr....

10/CHRONICLESnabout anything dead. And at that time I happened to benreading Jung and Newman and Zimmer and mythology,nand that gave me my enveloping action.nBell: Could you say what the enveloping action is?nLytic: Enveloping action is the universal, the thing whichnis always true. The simplest example is the triumvirate: twonpeople in love with one person. You...

think you can do it, but in comparison to teaching, you’vengot to teach too. Even writing: there’s just no one solution.nHere’s what I do, and this is the ground on which younbegin: sit down at the same place every day at the same time,nand put yourself away from yourself, and enter the imaginarynworld. And then...

12/CHRONICLESnnow. You know, we were just protesting. The only thing thatnbrought us into the public view was the Great Depression.nAnd it came out about that time, so we seemed prophets. Atnleast, not prophets then, but they think we were prophetsnnow.nBell: When did you get involved with the I’ll Take MynStand project?nLytic: Well, that was the...

14 / CHRONICLESnboredom or whatever; maybe some letters could be discovered,nor something else. But we know that, at best, we stillnwould not be wholly sure. Human motive is locked innhuman breasts, to whose chambers with their recesses wenhave some, but not all keys.nPoetry, then, is an exploration and understanding ofnhuman motive. In that I agree...