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Chronicles Magazine REVIEWS

Realism and the Spirit

Eugène Ionesco - JANUARY 01, 1986

The following is the text of M. Ionesco's address at the 198S Ingersoll Prizes Awards Banquet.

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Guns, Butter, and Guilt
Lee Congdon - JANUARY 01, 1986
It is 40 years now since the Allies claimed victory over Germany and survivors on both sides made the first groping attempts to uncover the meaning of Nazism. Yet despite the availability of almost inexhaustible sources and the persistence of...
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Embarrassment of Riches
Brian Murray - JANUARY 01, 1986
During the 1950's, an increasing number of middle Americans no longer took seriously the principle that honest work carefully performed is its own true reward.
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The Bear and His Claws
William Hawkins - JANUARY 01, 1986
No matter where the finger roams on the map, the question inevitably arises: What are the Russians trying to do here? Richard F. Staar, a Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution and an authority on Soviet communism, seeks to assess the global...
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Naming the Bard
Jane Greer - JANUARY 01, 1986
It's not the same as saying that God is dead, or the world is flat, or the check is in the mail. Yet one would think that Charlton Ogburn had committed that kind of atrocity . . .
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Aloha, Captain Cook
Thomas Fleming - JANUARY 01, 1986
The relationship between culture and history, structure and event is one of those questions to which every school of social science has an answer.
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Proust Among the Buckeyes
Dennis R. Perry - JANUARY 01, 1986
Originally published in 1963 by the Ohio State University Press, Ohio Town quickly drew a near-cult following that Harper & Row would now evidently like to amplify in the wake of Santmyer's best selling " . . . And Ladies of the Club." This...
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