Jef- Fs Scott Redeemed frey Hart, in Comnzentary (Mar. 19851,
165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsfame, died in Hollywood in 1940; at age 44, he was an alcoholic with a fading literary reputation. Hart, who teaches English at Dartmouth College, thinks a reassessment of the au- thor's last years is overdue.
Hart sees signs of a special maturity in Fitzgerald's later work, in- cluding the screenplays he wrote for Hollywood at the end of his career. His work...
Jef- Fs Scott Redeemed frey Hart, in Comnzentary (Mar. 19851,
165 East 56th St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsfame, died in Hollywood in 1940; at age 44, he was an alcoholic with a fading literary reputation. Hart, who teaches English at Dartmouth College, thinks a reassessment of the au- thor's last years is overdue.
Hart sees signs of a special maturity in Fitzgerald's later work, in- cluding the screenplays he wrote for Hollywood at the end of his career. His work...
the gas fire, eating sardines from the tin with a shoe horn." Waugh's humor, Ep- stein says, "would not have been possible if not dressed out in his care- fully measured prose . . . the straight face from behind which the smashing punch lines are delivered."
The English writer's personal life was far from carefully measured. A convert to Catholicism at age 27 (after his first wife left him for another man), later a heavy drinker and drug user, Waugh was renowned for his social brutality....
Paul H. Kreis-
r. Gandhi's berg, in Foreign Affairs (Spring 1985), 58 India East 68th St.,New York, N.Y. 10021.
Only hours after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984, power passed to her son, Rajiv, now Prime Minister. Kreisberg, director of studies at New York's Council on Foreign Relations, believes that the change in leadership promises to brighten India's future and ease tensions between India and other nations.
Rajiv Gandhi's insistence on calm and unity during the turmoil...
Hanna Buczynska-
'Flying' U Garewicz, in Haward Educational Review
(Feb. 1985), 300 Longfellow Hall, 13 Ap-
pian Way, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
Few phenomena better illustrate Poland's tradition of intellectual re- sistance than the Latajacy Uniwersytet, or "flying university."
Its most recent manifestation, relates Buczynska-Garewicz, herself a former flying university professor, appeared in January 1978. Thirty seven professors and 15 writers issued a declaration lamenting "a dan...
Hanna Buczynska-
'Flying' U Garewicz, in Haward Educational Review
(Feb. 1985), 300 Longfellow Hall, 13 Ap-
pian Way, Cambridge, Mass. 02138.
Few phenomena better illustrate Poland's tradition of intellectual re- sistance than the Latajacy Uniwersytet, or "flying university."
Its most recent manifestation, relates Buczynska-Garewicz, herself a former flying university professor, appeared in January 1978. Thirty seven professors and 15 writers issued a declaration lamenting "a dan...
then some 110 serious literary magazines were being published; novels and books of literary criticism filled bookstores. "Just as people hungered for food," observed critic Nakamura Mitsuo, "they hungered for literature." Many postwar writers (Niwa Fumio, Hayashi Fumiko, Funahashi Seiichi) vividly described war horrors and explicit sex, a new phenomenon in Japanese literature. The "quintessential postwar work," in Rubin's opinion, is Tamura Taijiro's Gates of the Flesh...
Edward R.
Kantowicz, in Journal of ~olic~
AnalysisTax Reform and Management (Winter 1985),John Wi-ley & Sons, 605 Third Ave., New York,
N.Y. 10158.
Tax reform is one of the perennial crusades of American politics.
Yet, despite all the rhetoric on Capitol Hill, the U.S. tax code has swelled to more than 1,000 incomprehensible pages. Now that Presi- dent Reagan has decided to pursue the elusive goal of tax reform, it is worth pondering where his predecessor went wrong.
For four years, President...
introducing major tax, energy, and other packages at the same time. Worse, Kan- towicz argues, Carter ignored his own sound political instincts. As he wrote in his 1975 campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best? "At-tempts to reform systems of cash management, taxation, health, wel- fare . . . are doomed unless they are bold and comprehensive. With small and incremental changes, there is an intense focusing of effort to oppose the change."
"The Role of Gender in Recent Presiden- The...
Election Day.
In any event, Bolce says, the real news is "the widespread alienation of white males from the national Democratic party." Reagan won 60 percent of white males' votes in 1980 and 66 percent in 1984. Their bed- rock party loyalties also seem to be shifting. In 1976,22 percent called themselves Republicans; 34 percent Democrats. 1984, some 36 per- cent were Republicans and 30 percent Democrats. National Democrats, Bolce believes, have their work cut out for them.
"State...