Judy Polumbaum, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
Most observers of cultural developments in China assumed that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre would have an extremely chilling effect, particularly on Chi- nese literature. But the cultural frost was not as severe as expected. Indeed, literature in China seems to be flourishing today, reports Polumbaum, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa. In the past year alone, about...
Judy Polumbaum, in Poets & Writers Magazine (Jan.-Feb. 1995), 72 Spring St., New York, N.Y. 10012.
Most observers of cultural developments in China assumed that the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre would have an extremely chilling effect, particularly on Chi- nese literature. But the cultural frost was not as severe as expected. Indeed, literature in China seems to be flourishing today, reports Polumbaum, a journalism professor at the University of Iowa. In the past year alone, about...
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start coming home is very fered, as the surprisingly to-two margin, fighting harder
much in error, contends strong showing dovish in Vietnam, not withdrawing
Schwarz, a RAND researcher. senator Eugene J. McCarthy in from it. Indeed, as disapproval
During the Vietnam and the March 1968 New Hamp- of the original commitment
Korean wars, as the toll of dead shire primary showed. But grew, so did the public's de-
and wounded mounted, polls Schwarz points out that ask- sire to escalate...
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C.O'Leary, in Polity (Summer 1994),Thompson Hall, Univ. of Massachusetts, Box 7520, Amherst, Mass. 01003-7520.
In his influential 1909 book, The Promise of American Life, Herbert Croly (1869-1930) ar- gued that in urban, industrialized, 20th-cen- tury America, a strong national government was needed to counter the nation's emerging large corporations and to improve the welfare of the average citizen. Hamiltonian govern- ment, he urged, should be used for Jeffersonian ends. His argument provided...