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PARTISAN REVIEW
Headline of the Quarter
Wall Street walks through the valley of the shadow of debt
The Economist
June 19, 1982
Still Nervous
What was the legacy of the New Deal? Moderate refonn or
all-out collectivism? Considering men like Hiss, Henry
Wallace, and William O. Douglas, the answer is not clear
even now . The question had been posed abstractly by books
like Friedrich von Hayek's
The Road to Seifdom;
and if
McCarthy was not the man to answer it, still it was a real
question. When Truman and Acheson defended Hiss, it
became an unnerving one.
Joseph Sobran , "Tragedy of Manners," a review of
The
Life and Ti171£5
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by Thomas C. Reeves,
National Review,
June 11 , 1982
Marxist Zoology
Question (on a Polish examination): What is a lizard?
Answer: A lizard is a crocodile that has lived under commu–
nism for a long time .
