page 105 of the 532-page text), Lewis manufactures psychodramas "out of swift manipulations of scanty facts, omissions of lengthier contradictory facts, pumped-up rhetoric, and bluff," Lynn asserts. For example, Lewis strongly implies that what Wharton de- scribed as a "choking agony of terror" she suf- fered in childhood "was rooted in the traumatic scoldings, humiliations, and other abuses visited upon her a Gothic ogress of a mother." He ignores, Lynn points out,...
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The collapse of the Berlin Wall in Novem- ber 1989 suddenly made German unifi- cation a live issue, and West German chancellor Helmut Kold embraced it as lus own. With firm and crucial support from the United States, Kohl skillfully brought about the Vereinigung (unification) the next October. But in that election year of 1990, he "did not say that the pat11 to unity would be expensive, arduous, and long," Heinrich August Winkler, a historian at Humboldt-Universitat...
the Bundestag.) To hold conservative voters, Kohl "is taking a strong law-and-order stance and refusing to identify himself with
Revisiting the Korean War
'New Findings on the Korean War" Kathryn Weathersby, in Cold War International History Project Bulletin (Fall 1993), Woodrow Wilson Center, 1000 Jefferson Dr. S.W., Washington, D.C. 20560.
On June 25,1950, North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War. While most scholars have said th...
adds, the Soviet docu- ment also shows that the assumption-made President Harry Truman's administration and by many scholars-that the initiative for the at- tack came from Stalin is false. "This was Kim I1 Sling's war; he gained Stalin's reluctant approval only after persistent appeals (48 telegrams!)."
The question of who called for war is crucial, in Weathersby's view. By the spring of 1950, she says, "the Truman administration had con-cluded that South Korea was not of sufficient...
the third grade, children who once were enrolled in. Head Start perform no better 011IQ tests than those who were not. Currie, of the National Bu- reau of Economic Research, and Thomas, of Yale University's Eco- nomic Growth Center, sought to take a broader measure of Head Start's effect-on success in school, on various comprehen- sion tests, and on health. They found, surprisingly, that Head Start does make a difference but that its effects vary race.
Using data from the National Longitudinal...
the news media, look mainly at the "big picture." They worry that the nation's health-care expen- ditures in 1993 amounted to 14 percent of gross national product (GNP) and are projected the Congressional Budget Office to grow to 18 per- cent by 2000. Most Americans agree that health- care costs must be controlled, but the costs they have in mind are their own. They do not want less care; they want to pay less, or at least not more. And that, many specialists believe, is a large part of...
Charles W. Calhoun, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1993), 208 E. 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Theodore Roosevelt was not the first president to see his office as a "bully pulpit." A dozen years before luin, Benjamin Harrison, elected in 1888, grasped the opportunities tl-ie presidency offered to preach to the nation. Indeed, Harkon's "exercise of the 'priestly func- tions' of the presidency," argues Call-ioun, a historian at East Carolina University, helped transform...
Charles W. Calhoun, in Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1993), 208 E. 75th St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Theodore Roosevelt was not the first president to see his office as a "bully pulpit." A dozen years before luin, Benjamin Harrison, elected in 1888, grasped the opportunities tl-ie presidency offered to preach to the nation. Indeed, Harkon's "exercise of the 'priestly func- tions' of the presidency," argues Call-ioun, a historian at East Carolina University, helped transform...
1910, 27 state legislatures had been pushed to petition Congress for a constitutional amendment. Two years later, the Senate finally gave in, and in 1913 the 17th Amendment be- came law after it was ratified three-fourths of the states. A 28th Amendment, the authors say, could be only a few years away.
Court Costs
'Dwarfing the Political Capacity of the People? The Relationship Between Judicial Activism & Voter Turnout, 1840-1988" by Philip A. Klinkner, in Polity (Summer 1993), Thompson H...
1910, 27 state legislatures had been pushed to petition Congress for a constitutional amendment. Two years later, the Senate finally gave in, and in 1913 the 17th Amendment be- came law after it was ratified three-fourths of the states. A 28th Amendment, the authors say, could be only a few years away.
Court Costs
'Dwarfing the Political Capacity of the People? The Relationship Between Judicial Activism & Voter Turnout, 1840-1988" by Philip A. Klinkner, in Polity (Summer 1993), Thompson H...