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prosperity can be empty of meaning and purpose. But take away the war in
Vietnam and the spring 1968 Tet offensive, and you take away the central
focus of 1968 and the cause of the left's rapid expanson. If the movements
discussed in these works had been only failures, South Vietnam today might
be on its way to democracy and prosperity, a country as closed as South
Korea during the Seoul Olympics, instead of being the truly closed and
im–
poverished dictatorship it is today, and the Khemer Rouge would never have
perpetuated an Asian Auschwitz. The 1968ers wanted American power out
of Indochina. The United States did get out. The Communists did win. And
the people of Indochina suffered This catastrophe is what some of the
generation of 1968 and its chroniclers are still reluctant to discuss.
Coming in
Partisan Review:
• Andrei Sinyavsky on Russophobia
• Julia Kristeva on the French Revolution
• Helen Frankenthaler:
Thoughts from an Occasional Journal
• William Phillips:
The Function of Criticism Today
• A.
B. Yehoshua:
The Israeli Novel
• Philippe Raynaud:
Feminism and the Ancien Regime
• Barbara Probst Solomon:
Harold Brodkey on Love
• Peter Loewenberg:
The Uses of Anxiety
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Clancy Sigal:
Second Thoughts
• Anthony Kerrigan:
A Nicaraguan Story
• Jorge Edwards on Contemporary Chilean Writing
• Herbert Gold:
A Blazing Inquest
