morality and the microprocessor.”nThe exploration of space will actuallynfoster traditional values, we’ve beenntold, by presenting the old Protestantnwork ethic with a new challenge. Wenshould have been suspicious of thisnthesis after reading Tom Wolfe’s RightnStuff, in which John Glenn emerges asnthe only astronaut with any principlesnhigher than those of an alley cat. Butnany lingering hope for...

to have been picked up and returned tonearth in February. I have scanned mynusual sources dihgently for news ofntheir return and some hint of how theynhked it up there, but I have seen nary anword. Why is this being kept from thenAmerican people?n* * *nKudzu in space—and rhesus monkeysnin Florida. The New York Times NewsnService...

girls. Articles with titles like “WhynThis Marriage Survived” (Cosmo) andn”Can This Marriage Be Saved?” (Journal)nappeared in both. While Dr.nSpock held forth in the Journal on hown”mothers of small children [can] keepnfrom being driven crazy,” Cosmo wasninvestigating ways of improvingnhusband-wife communication and ofnusing new psychiatric theories to providenan “answer to family conflict,”nAdvertisements in both were likewisenaimed...

to disco until dawn or try out newnerotic techniques” but who “nevernquite forget[s] that your career needsnlooking after.”nBalancing career and eroticism cannbe a trick. Cosmo does it by urgingnwomen to accentuate their physicalncharms through cosmetics, exercisenand diets, and (un)dress but—at thensame time — warning readers thatn”getting ahead” at the office requiresnthe suppression of every emotionalntendency...

brates “passion—wild, free, and unashamed.”nIn its celebrity-chasing, itsnfixation on physical attractiveness, andnits promotion of sexual pleasure (preferablynin marriage), LH] has apparentlynrevived the editorial profile found atnCosmo 25 years ago.nGiven current trends, LHJ andnCosmo will soon both look like a combinationnof Playgirl and the WallnTHEATERnOn the Waterfrontnby Caroline MorgannSingin’ in the Rain ; Based on thenMGM...

ence will also find reasons to applaudnthe talents of Betty Comden and AdolphnGreen (who adapted their screenplaynfor the stage) and of director/nchoreographer Twyla Tharp. Now thatnshe has flexed her musical muscles innthis adaptation, I would love to seenTharp stage a totally original musical.nWith more attention to the fine pointsnof acting, her high spirits might bringnnew...

pay a price for their doctrines. Theirnno-tech pacifism made it impossible tonprotect themselves or the frontier withnlethal force. And, as anthropologistnMary Douglas and political scientistnAaron Wildavsky remind us in Risknand Culture (University of CalifornianPress, 1982), the Amish are forevernaccusing one another of sinister alliancesnwith the outside world and thennexpelling those judged guilty (as almostnhappens to...

York Historical Society recently exhibitednall of Audubon’s 433 known originalnwatercolors, painted for his monumentalnvolume, The Birds of America.n”Audubon’s Birds of North America:nThe Original Watercolors,” on viewnfrom mid-April to mid-September,nalso included in its displays other objectsnand artifacts illuminating Audubon’snlife and work.n”John James Audubon: Science IntonArt,” another special exhibition examiningnthe scientific and artisticnachievements of Audubon, opened onnApril...

ture on the page what he sav/ in thenwild. At a time when many of hisncolleagues worked in museums, drawingnstuffed birds (against plain backdrops)nwhose poses were unnatural andnwhose plumage had been dulled byntaxidermy, Audubon worked in thenfield, making sketches on the spot afternlong hours of walking and hunting.nIncidentally, Edward Lear alsonsketched and drew from real...

keeping with the practices of contemporarynpainters, Audubon oftennallowed his colleagues to complete thenbackgrounds of his paintings. Theirnlandscapes and botanical specimensnenriched and enlarged Audubon’snoeuvre. (One must remember thatnFranz Synder painted some of the bestnanimals in the canvases of Peter PaulnRubens.) To better locate Audubon innhis milieu, the American Museum’snshow included handsome books illustratednby Mark Catesby, William...

“For intellectual and spiritual supportnand reinforcement, parents will want to readn-ry4mericas=nJfope THEnH.WOIJJMrn— miii-nJAMliSnHITCHCOCKnFAMILYnA M E R I C A ‘ S H O P En.. .it will lift your spirits and strengthen your determination to fulfill the role you andnGod have undertaken together: that of being the best parents you can possibly be innspite of...

PERSPECTIVEnLA VIE EN ROUGE by Thomas FlemingnThe sins of South Africa are once again heaT on thenAmerican conscience. The flaws and contradictionsnbuilt into her multiracial social organization are subjectednto the most minute scrutiny and the imperfections in hern”human rights” record are held up as justification fornre-olutionary forces that would cheerfully slaughter thenEuropean population of Africa’s...

ex-Vobbly”i to Hubert Humphrey to Fritz Mondaie teils antale. Even Eugene D’ebs. the most successful Presidentialncandidate of the American Socialist Party, was, as hisnbiographer puts it, “The classic example of an indigenousnAmerican radical.” After a brief infatuahon with the Russiannrevolution near the end of his life. Debs cabled Leninnto protest the execution of non-Bolshevik reolutionariesnand...

Do you believe that the strength of the family is critical to thensurvival of Western culture?nIf so. thennTHE JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND CULTUREnis must reading for you!nJFC, a quarterly journal of public policy andnsocial commentary, addresses the centrality ofnthe family in issues ranging from education toneconomics.nWith scholarly essays by Thoinas Fleming, AllannC. Carlson, Russell Kirk,...

VIEWSnSOLZHENITSYN AND DEMOCRACYnby Edward E. Ericson Jr.nThe name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has fallen on hardntimes. My many public lectures on this author con-nince me that his sympathetic admirers are legion, but eennthese admirers are troubled that the press commentary onnhim seems to be fairly consistently negative. While almostnall of his Western critics allow that Solzhenitsyn...

For a long time, the American government deliberateivnwithheld the facts about the Kolyma death camps. In 1943.nto discredit the grirh rumors about Siberia, Roosevelt sentnhis Vice President, Henry Wallace, on an official missionnthere. Wallace stopped at Magadan, visited the death campn”Bolshevik” at one of Kolyma’s gold mines, then flew on tonIrkutsk, On his return to...

Letter FromnWashingtonnby William L. ArmstrongnBirds Fly, Fish SwimnWe Americans are optimists. As peoplenof goodwill and great intentions,nwe find it difficult to comprehend ansystem of government or a politicalnphilosophy that has no place for decencynor compassion.nFrom time to time, however, somethingnhappens that makes us face thenfacts of international life. Solzhenitsvnnwrites The Gulag Archipelago. KoreannAirlines’ flight 007...

supplies. We could not control thenweather: so we sent thousands of volunteersnto feed, heal, and comfort. Wenhave countered tyranny with mercy,nand brutality with an open heart.nBut how are we to respond over thenlong run? When the famine passes andnthe people of Ethiopia confront thenunderlying cause of their sufferingn—their Marxist rulers—what will benour answer to their...

that stiootins peooie is a bit ruaenirself,”nOf course, people get assaulted innXesv brk for no reason at all. Tliencontrast between Southern and Northernnathtudes was illustrated a couple ofnyears ago by the case of Mrs. RobertanLeonard, a 65-year-old visitor to thenBig .pple from Svlacauga. Alabama.nShortly after arriving at the Port Authority.’nBus Terminal. Mrs. Leonardnused her cane...

Black andnWhite—and RednAll OvernDon’t look for it at the corner newsstandnor in the promotionals fromnPublisher’s Clearing House. Exceptntor professional Soiet watchers, few-nAmericans een know of the existencenof Culture and Life, an “illustratednmonthly magazine of the Union ofnSoviet Societies for Friendship andnCultural Relations with ForeignnCountries, ” published in English.nRussian, French. Spanish, andnGerman at the Izvestia PrintingnWorks....

they are the guards of a familynhearth . . . don’t you think younreproach men too often?n. . . Think, dear women,nthink.nBut promoting domestic bliss bynputting women in their place is ansecondary consideration for C&L.nFeature after feature stresses the dedicationnof Soviet scientists, artists, writers,nand statesmen to “the struggle foi:npeace,” According to C&L, peoplenaround the world...

PERSPECTIVEnWAITING FOR THE END by Thomas FlemingnIn the Gilbert and Sullivan series running eurrently onnPBS, many American television viewers were treated fornthe first time to a performance oi Patience, a masterful satirenon the pretensions of aesthetes—the crowd George Indescribed as “boets and bainters.” When the heroinendecides to humble herself by trying to love the high...

Just for a moment I was back at schoolnAnd felt that old familiar pain,nAnd as I turned to make my way back homenThe snow turned into rain.nWhat makes Dan Fogelberg not a poet? There are severalnreasons. For one thing, his verses have rhyme and rhythmn(strike one); for another, they make sense (strike two); andnfinally, they...

dy. Both these achievements are finelynpresent in Continental Drift; they are,nin fact, the backbone of the novel. Butnat bottom Banks’s understanding ofnour situation is that of the surrealist,nthe allegorical fantasist. This is thenkind of understanding a novelist needsnin order to take for granted the impossibleninjushces, the impossible terrors,nthat characterize our present time onnearth.nBanks’s understanding is...

(which Pells does not mention) did notnlive to see the day when professionalnintellectuals such as Kissinger ornBrzezinski or Mrs. Kirkpatrick werenrunning in and out of the Oval Officento explain the world to Presidents ofnthe Republic.nIn The Affluent Society JohnnKenneth Galbraith, as Pells writes,n”placed his greatest hopes” in the “furthernand rapid expansion of a NewnClass,” whose...

two alternatives invites our concernnsince neither the wife nor the femalenprofessor has much reality. The narrator,nbeneath his literary flourishes,ndoes not seem to care deeply hownthings turn out: Why should we?nYet such lives are not withoutnpoignancy, and the epidemic of collapsingnmarriages should generatensome probing reflections. What we receiveninstead is a distillation of generationsnof professional psychologicalnunwisdom as...

result in fiction is more tiresome thanneven pathetic. Mailer’s figures live in anhigh-voltage world of internal and externalnviolence. His protagonists standnready at any moment to confront thenexistential challenges which will securenor compromise their manhood,nbring them closer to psychic salvationnor to the onset of cancer. As a result,nTough Guys does not tire the reader.nYet emptiness is...

^^^^^’f^^^^^^^^nL„nThis is the booknJeane Kirkpattick quoted innher stirring address tonthe Republican conM)entionnÂ¥ ^ Â¥ ^ Â¥ Â¥ Â¥ Â¥ ^ ^ ^ ^ Â¥ ^nDo you remember her words? “The American people know that it isndangerous to blame ourselves for terrible problems we didn’t cause. Theynunderstand, just as the distinguished French writer, Jean-Francois Revel,nunderstEinds the...

perts, “political arithmeticians.” Othersncan argue what should be done;neconomists will advise how to do itnwith the least cost in resources. Stiglernis proud that economists in general donvery little “preaching.”nThis theme of positive economics isnpursued in many of the essays. Annimportant factor Stigler feels is oftennoverlooked is the role of politics. Economicnpolicy cannot be fruitfully debatednin...

systems have operated under a varietynof conditions. It is the record of experiencenand the only real laboratory available.nHowever, it often falls throughnthe crack between two disciplines.nEconomics and business majors considernhistory to be boring and historiansndo not have sufficient economicntraining to feel comfortable with it.nBut does this not also reveal a preferencenfor theory over practice amongnacademic...

Do you believe that the strength of the family is critical to thensurvival of Western culture?nIf so, thennTHE JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND CULTUREnis must reading for you!nJFC, a quarterly journal of public policy andnsocial commentary, addresses the centrality ofnthe family in issues ranging from education toneconomics.nWith scholarly essays by Thomas Fleming, AllannC. Carlson, Russell Kirk,...

companion of George III, while the best the artists we knowncan hope for is to share a beach house with Bianca Jagger;nrather, we feel that somewhere along the road to liberty,nfraternity, and equality, more than decorous titles were leftnby the dusty and flowerless wayside.nA personal antidote to such feeling is the recollection thatnSoviet guides conducting...

been known to blossom like Connecticut laurel after ansummer rain.nThe problem of culture, a problem of whose existencenAmerica was accidentally reminded by a Russian eccentric,nhas not a political, but a cultural solution. The movingnforces of culture, as I said, are fueled by love; and while anfree, commercial society is not moved by the love thatnmakes...

• Persuasion at Work •nLeading the Chargenm the Battle of IdeasnAt last, there exists a publication ready to lead the fight fornthe survival of the American way of life.nIts name is Persuasion at Work. And it is edited by AllannCarlson—a clear-thinking, plain-talking writer who has thenunique ability to communicate with all of those who carenabout...

22/CHRONICLES OF CULTUREnCOMMENDABLESnCriticism WithnCharacternby Thomas D. EiselenGeorge A. Panichas: The Courage ofnJudgment: Essays in Criticism, Culture,nand Society; University of TennesseenPress; Knoxville; $24.50.nThis book presents essays written bynGeorge Panichas, which initially appearednfrom 1962 to 1980. Panichas’snessays take the measure of a generation.nWhat is their verdict?nIt is not a happy one. Panichas findsnmodern conditions to be those...

of some measure of reason, civility, andncommon sense to our politics after onenof the more dismal periods in Americannhistory. ccnChristopher Muldor is a criminologistnin Philadelphia.nSmashing ”UglynMonuments”nby David VicinanzonMortimer J. Adler: Ten PhilosophicalnMistakes; Macmillan; New York;n$12.95.nAdler begins his latest book with Aristotle’snadmonition: “The least initialndeviation from the truth is multipliednlater a thousandfold.” Adler concludesnwith a recommendation:...

SCREENnNoble Savagerynby Herbert LondonnThe Emerald Forest; Written bynRospo Pallenberg; Produced and Directednby John Boorman; EmbassynPictures.nThe Emerald Forest was often discussednas the surprise film of the summernseason. It is certainly that and perhapsnmore. Although Mr. Pallenberg’s tributento pristine nature suggests that yetnanother environmental evangelistnwalks the corridors of a Hollywoodnstudio, the sheer visual beauty, exactingndetail, and anthropological...

and trying to interpret the West to thenEast, and the East to the West.”nBiannually, the China House featuresnan exhibition organized by anguest curator on a specific aspect ofnChiriese art, complete with a fullynillustrated catalogue. Virtually allnChina House exhibitions are distinguished:nthe roster of guest curatorsnreads like a Who’s Who in the world ofnart. No matter what...

tuous Basket because the artistry is tonbe seen in decorative surfaces rathernthan in art objects per se.nStill, the tradition of lacquering basketsnis very much alive in Burma.nElsewhere—in China and in placesnwhere Chinese have settled in recentnyears—their manual talents have attractednthem to assembly-line work,nwhile smaller numbers have prosperednas professional artists. Fads in Americanand the West can...

Letter FromnWashingtonnby Samuel T. FrancisnTo the Pretoria StationnGovernments, Lenin once wrote,nnever fall unless they are first pushed.nWhatever his faults, the old Bolsheviknmust have known something aboutnhow to get rid of unwanted regimes. Innthe Revolution of 1917, it was thenImperial German government thatnhelped to push over what was left ofnthe Russian state by dispatching Leninnand his...

South Africa thought these reformsnwould satisfy “legitimate” Black demandsnand undercut the appeal of thenfar left. In fact, the reforms have simplynraised expectations of further reformsnthat cannot realistically or immediatelynbe granted and have playedninto the hands of the violent left.nEveryone knows what happens whennunrealistic expectations are raised. AsnDaniel Bell puts it, writing of the civilnrights movement...

President. Their memories are of thenReagan Honeymoon and the pitifulnadministration of Jimmy Carter thatnpreceded it. George McGovern, Vietnam,nand Watergate are only vaguenmemories, and a serious Uberal oppositionnis no more real than the bogeyman.nComplacency has become evidentneven among such bastions ofnattention-grabbing outrageousness asnThe Dartmouth Review. Cone are thendays of mangled “Mr. Bill” and burningncross cover photos....

NEW EDITIONSnThe African Queen by C. S. Forester; Little, Brown; Boston; $6.95. A fairer and more tragicnnovel than the classic John Huston film based on it. The Germans are less evil, Allnutt morenof a cockney, the ending less happy—all of which make for a mature adventure thriller worthna second reading. Little, Brown is also reprinting...

ask you, every month, to read aboutnMississippi. This letter is from thenSouth, but it won’t by any meansnalways be about the South.nAnd it won’t presume either to presentn”the Southern point of view” onnwhatever its subject happens to be.nThe fact is that on many subjects,nthere’s no such thing. And when therenis, sometimes I don’t share it.nStill,...

found grounds to believe the law hadnbeen violated (specifically that the ballotsnhad been filled in incorrectly, ornaltered). But the trial jury decided thatnthere were no such violations.nNow, there’s a great deal to be saidnfor literacy tests for voting, but whitenAlabamians forfeited whatever rightnthey had to say it by their behaviornprior to 1965, which was far...

about the “attention-grabbing newcomersnof both coasts.”nThings will probably not get betternfor Texas literature in the near future.nIt’s too much to hope that universitiesnin Houston, Dallas, and Austin willnsoon stop hiring their creative writingnBetween Shakespeare andnSorelnFor many centuries the Greek andnLatin classics were the only majornliterary force which united, evenndefined, the civilized West. Alongnwith theology and...

Winning tax support for the arts isnnever easy. The approach recentlyntaken by Jocelyn Levi Straus, chairmannof the Texas Commission on thenArts, was to employ research consultantsnto determine how much moneynwas generated by the arts industry.nThe consultants’ study concluded thatnthe statewide direct impact of the artsnis at least 1.7 billion dollars annually.n”The bottom line,” writes Ms....

fiction, poetry, and literary criticismnare just window dressing, high-tonednafterthoughts. The Atlantic says it allnwith a Table of Contents heading:n”Humor and Fiction.” Literature maynbe good for a few laughs or help to passnthe time at the beach, but today’snmagazine editors have serious businessnto attend to.nWe need not cross the Atlantic andngo back to the days of...

“could not long survive unless it extendednits appeal beyond genteelnliterary-minded readers to those whonwere concerned about public affairs asnwell.” Wells’s decision to publishnarticles on “controversial issues,” suchnas America’s Far East policy or then”New Woman-Power in Europe,” didnwork—circulation soon doubled. Andnwhile Scribner’s, Century, The Bookman,nand Review of Reviews all foldednduring the 1930’s, Harper’s survivedn—but not as...