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Creative Muddle & Poignancy of Realism

The White Hotel, by D.M. Thomas

by Christina Murphy

Chronicles, January 1982, pp. 30-32

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      1. Original Sins by Lisa Alther
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      1. Shakespeare's Division of Experience by Marilyn French
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      1. The Officer's Wives by Thomas Fleming
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      1. The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
      2. Dad by William Wharton
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        Night Thoughts by Avodah K. Offit
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      1. Gallipoli (1981 Film) by Peter Weir
      2. Breaker Morant (1980 Film) by Bruce Beresford
      3. True Confessions (1981 Film) by Ulu Grosbard
      4. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981 Film) by Karel Reisz
    19. Music by Robert R. Reilly, pp. 45-46
    20. The American Proscenium, p. 47
    21. Foreign Policy---Modesty---Nixon Returns to Duke , pp. 48-49
    22. Un Petite Crapule , p. 50
    23. Journalism, p. 50
    24. Precision Work , pp. 51-52
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    1. Comment by James. J. Thompson, Jr., pp. 4-5
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      1. Political Pilgrims by Paul Hollander
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      On Soft Determinism & Ambivalent Appeasement by John C. Caiazza, pp. 9-12 - 2 Reviews
      1. Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell
      2. The Other Side of Racism by Anne Wortham
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      Curricula of Malice and Mistake by Paul Gottfried, p. 13 - 2 Reviews
      1. Matthew Josephson, Bourgeois Bohemian by David E. Shi
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      1. How to Stand Up for Your Rights---and Win! by Roy M. Cohn
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      1. Twelve Years by Joel Agee
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      1. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell
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      1. Baby by Kirsten Thorup
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      1. The American Future by Tom Hayden
      2. Revolt of the Haves by Robert Kuttner
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      1. Among the Believers by V.S. Naipaul
      2. Covering Islam by Edward W. Said
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      2. Repent, Lanny Merkel by Faith Sullivan
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        The Reagan Revolution by Rowland Evans and Robert Novak
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        The Medicine Calf by Bill Hotchkiss
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      1. Stan Kenton: Artistry in Rhythm by William F. Lee
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    19. Music: Records by Robert R. Reilly, p. 45
    20. The American Proscenium, pp. 46-47
    21. Journalism, p. 48
    22. Whoring in New York City; Power to the Press Lords!; The Business of Discretion , pp. 49-52
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      4. Clifford Odets: American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
      5. Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike
      6. Reinhart's Women by Thomas Berger
      7. New Rules by Daniel Yankelovich
      8. The Adolescent: A Psychological Self-Portrait by Daniel Offer, Eric Ostrov, and Kenneth I. Howard, ...
      9. Practicing History by Barbara W. Tuchman
      10. The Past and the Present by Lawrence Stone
      11. Gemini by Michel Tournier
      12. How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger by David King Dunaway
      13. A Fearful Innocence by Frances Davis
      14. Will's Boy by Wright Morris
      15. July's People by Nadine Gordimer
      16. National Defense by James Fallows
      17. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
      18. The Art of Living, and Other Stories by John Gardner
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      1. Social Studies by Fran Lebowitz
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        The Fashionable Mind by Kennedy Fraser
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      1. Moving Pictures by Budd Schulberg
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    13. Stage by Robert R. Reilly, p. 41
    14. Polemics & Exchanges by Alan J. Levine, p. 42
    15. A Syndicated Historian by Denison Holland Bourne, p. 43
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      1. The Meanings of Modern Art by John Russell
      2. The Nature of War by John Keegan and Joseph Darracott
    17. The American Proscenium, pp. 45-47
    18. Journalism, pp. 48-52
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      1. Waldo Emerson: A Biography by Gay Wilson Allen
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      1. Elvis by Albert Goldman
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      1. American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony by Samuel P. Huntington
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      1. Van Wyck Brooks: A Writer's Life by Raymond Nelson
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      1. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
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      1. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church by Malachi Martin
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      1. Liars in Love by Richard Yates
      2. The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories by Damon Runyon
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      2. If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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      2. Angel of Light by Joyce Carol Oates
      3. Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig
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      1. Joe McCarthy and the Press by Edwin R. Bayley
      2. The Black Flag by Brian Jackson
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      2. Warriors at Suez by Donald Neff
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        Cold War Theories, Vol. I by Kenneth W. Thompson
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        The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
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        The Best Years of the Century by Arthur John
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        Celebrations of Life by Rene J. Dubos
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        A History of Psychoanalysis by Reuben Fine
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    19. Music by Robert R. Reilly, p. 48
    20. Polemics & Exchanges by Philip F. Lawler, p. 49
    21. Journalism, p. 50
    22. Parade; Nice Ladies; Erudition , p. 51
    23. The American Proscenium, pp. 51-52
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      1. The Beechers by Milton Rugoff
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      2. Clare Boothe Luce by Wilfrid Sheed
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      2. Nightingale Fever by Ronald Hingley
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      1. The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau
      2. Old Glory: An American Voyage by Jonathan Raban
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    12. [+]
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      2. Onliness by Dave Smith
      3. Poppa John by Larry Woiwode
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      2. After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre
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      2. Collected Stories by Frank O'Connor
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      2. Conan the Barbarian (1982 Film) by John Milius
    20. Music: The Ellington Legacy by Stanley Dance, pp. 47-48
    21. Polemics & Exchanges by Barbara M. Morris, p. 49
    22. The American Proscenium, p. 50
    23. Commerce and Culture , p. 51
    24. Journalism, pp. 51-52
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    October 1982 Issue = 31 Articles
    1. Comment by Paul Gottfried, pp. 4-5
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      1. The Space Between by Jay Cantor
      2. John Dos Passos: Politics and the Writer by Robert C. Rosen
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      1. Fires by Marguerite Yourcenar
      2. The Meeting at Telgte by Gunter Grass
    4. [+]
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      1. El Salvador: Embassy Under Attack by Frank J. Devine
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      2. The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader by Ellen Carol DuBois and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ...
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      Between Language & Psychoanalytical Myths by Maura Daly, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
      1. The Family Idiot: Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1857, Vol. I by Jean-Paul Sartre
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      2. The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction by Ellis Sandoz
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      1. Korea: The Untold Story of the War by Joseph C. Goulden
      2. MacArthur in Korea: The Naked Emperor by Robert Smith
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      1. Lee: The Last Years by Charles Bracelen Flood
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      1. Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home by Willie Morris
      2. The Source of Light by Reynolds Price
      3. Cakewalk by Lee Smith
      4. Daddy's Girl by Beverly Lowry
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      1. Writers at Work, Fifth Series by George Plimpton
      2. Best-Seller by Geoffrey Bocca
    12. [+]
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      1. Eisenhower's Lieutenants by Russell F. Weigley
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    14. Journalism: Saturday Review R.I.P., pp. 37-39
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      2. [+]
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    21. Music: Musical Matters by Robert R. Reilly, pp. 47-48
    22. Polemics & Exchanges by Edward J. Walsh, p. 49
    23. The American Proscenium, p. 49
    24. Publishing and Dissemination , p. 50
    25. Henry Fonda R.I.P.---Ralph Moody R.I.P. , p. 51
    26. Journalism: Ontology and Ethics, pp. 51-52
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      1. The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism by Michael Novak
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      1. Jack London: An American Myth by John Perry
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      Grand Commemorations of Detail by Thomas Landess, pp. 21-22 - 2 Reviews
      1. Autobiography, Vol. I by Mircea Eliade
      2. The Poems and Sketches of E. B. White by E.B. White
    7. [+]
      Poetry of Personal Misfortunes by Robert C. Steensma, pp. 23-24 - 3 Reviews
      1. The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
      2. The Journals of Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough, and Sylvia Plath, ...
      3. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
    8. [+]
      Consultative Democracy by Mark G. Michaelsen, pp. 25-26 - 1 Review
      1. The Rise of Political Consultants by Larry J. Sabato
    9. [+]
      Unfunny Amoralists by Susan Tunney, p. 27 - 2 Reviews
      1. A Mother and Two Daughters by Gail Godwin
      2. Three Women at the Water's Edge by Nancy Thayer
    10. [+]
      On Economic Development & Delusions by Grace Goodell, pp. 28-29 - 2 Reviews
      1. Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion by P.T. Bauer
      2. The Economics of Development and Distribution by William Loehr and John Powelson
    11. [+]
      Burning the Other Truth at the Liberal Stake by Joseph A. Settanni, pp. 30-32 - 1 Review
      1. American Catholics by James J. Hennesey
    12. [+]
      Portable Reagan by John Shelton Reed, p. 33 - 2 Reviews
      1. Ronald Reagan: A Political Biography by Lee Edwards
      2. The Reagan Wit by Bill Adler and Ronald Reagan
    13. [+]
      Commendables (4 Reviews)
      1. [+]
        The Promised Land by Gary S. Vasilash, p. 34 - 1 Review
        This Was Harlem by Jervis Anderson
      2. [+]
        Measure for Measure, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        Watchfires by Louis Auchincloss
      3. [+]
        In Praise of Confusion, p. 36 - 1 Review
        Blood River by Barbara Villet
      4. [+]
        Between the Dustcover and the Deep Blue Sea, p. 36 - 1 Review
        A Worthy Company by M.E. Bradford
    14. [+]
      In Focus (2 Reviews)
      1. [+]
        Our Daily Metaphysics by Robert A. Rogowsky, p. 37 - 1 Review
        Blaming Technology by Samuel C. Florman
      2. [+]
        Hesse Out of Haight-Ashbury, p. 37 - 1 Review
        Pictor's Metamorphoses, and Other Fantasies by Hermann Hesse
    15. [+]
      Waste of Money: Awfully Unlike Austen, p. 38 - 1 Review
      1. The Only Place to Be by Joan Juliet Buck
    16. [+]
      Screen: Irreverence of Things Past or the Best-Selling Void & The Traps of Well-Intenti... by Stephen Macaulay and Eric Shapearo, p. 39 - 1 Review
      1. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982 Film) by Woody Allen
    17. [+]
      Review An Officer and a Gentleman (1982 Film), by Tay..., p. 40 - 1 Review
      1. An Officer and a Gentleman (1982 Film) by Taylor Hackford
    18. Music by Doug Ramsey, pp. 41-42
    19. Polemics & Exchanges by Henry L. Mason III, pp. 43-44
    20. Correspondence by Thomas Molnar, pp. 45-46
    21. The American Proscenium, p. 47
    22. Peace on Earch Without Heaven , p. 48
    23. Journalism, p. 48
    24. Guess Who's Trying to Come In? , p. 49
    25. Don't Be Impertinent Young Man , p. 49
    26. "In My Solitude" by Leopold Tyrmand, pp. 50-52
  8. [+]
    December 1982 Issue = 29 Articles
    1. Comment by John Caiazza, pp. 4-5
    2. [+]
      The Prevaricative Left & Homemade Fascism by Bryce Christensen, pp. 6-8 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Troubles by Joseph Conlin
      2. Voices of Protest by Alan Brinkley
    3. [+]
      What's News? by Gary S. Vasilash, pp. 9-11 - 1 Review
      1. The Avant-Garde Tradition in Literature by Richard Kostelanetz
    4. [+]
      The Distortion & Simplification Fiesta by Alan J. Levine, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
      1. The Fate of the Earth by Jonathan Schell
    5. [+]
      The Visions Forever Green by Thomas Fleming, pp. 15-17 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Greeks and Their Heritages by Arnold J. Toynbee
      2. Funeral Games by Mary Renault
    6. [+]
      Subtle Torments & Brutal Realities by Will Morrisey, pp. 18-20 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Age of Wonders by Aharon Appelfeld
      2. Levitation by Cynthia Ozick
    7. [+]
      Hollywood Revisited by Mary Ellen Fox, pp. 21-22 - 2 Reviews
      1. Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
      2. Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
    8. [+]
      Uncle Sam's Other Province by Clyde Wilson, pp. 23-25 - 2 Reviews
      1. A Band of Prophets by William C. Havard and Walter Sullivan
      2. Regionalism and the South by John Shelton Reed and Daniel Joseph Singal
    9. [+]
      The Insecurities & Envies of the Liberal Mind by Gregory Wolfe, pp. 26-27 - 2 Reviews
      1. Souls and Bodies by David Lodge
      2. County Woman by Joan Williams
    10. [+]
      The Nobel Prize Donahue by Betsy Clarke, pp. 28-29 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Safety Net by Heinrich Boll
      2. Mexico Bay by Paul Horgan
    11. [+]
      Politics/Sociology/Ideology by William C. Havard, pp. 30-31 - 1 Review
      1. Political Man by Seymour Martin Lipset
    12. [+]
      Clever Writing by Linda Thorne, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
      1. Oh What a Paradise It Seems! by John Cheever
      2. The Portage to San Cristobal of A. H. by George Steiner
    13. [+]
      Commendables (7 Reviews)
      1. [+]
        An American Tragedy by Allan C. Carlson, p. 34 - 1 Review
        The Nuclear War by Eric N. Skousen
      2. [+]
        About the Pontiff by Marek M. Michalski, pp. 34-35 - 1 Review
        The Mind of John Paul II by George Huntston Williams
      3. [+]
        Wodehousiana by Teresa Queen, p. 36 - 5 Reviews
        P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master by David A. Jasen
        P.G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography by Benny Green
        The Uncollected Wodehouse by David A. Jasen and P.G. Wodehouse
        The Eighteen-Carat Kid, and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse and David A. Jasen
        Not George Washington by P.G. Wodehouse and Herbert Westbrook
      4. [+]
        An Affirmation of Life by Robert C. Steensma, p. 36 - 1 Review
        One Way to Spell Man by Wallace Earle Stegner
      5. [+]
        Truths Timeless and Vigorous, p. 37 - 1 Review
        The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk
      6. [+]
        A Graveyard Alive, p. 38 - 1 Review
        The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
      7. [+]
        Dust to Dust, p. 38 - 1 Review
        The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry
    14. [+]
      In Focus (2 Reviews)
      1. [+]
        The Wings of Mind by Joseph Koterski, p. 39 - 1 Review
        Angels and Us by Mortimer J. Adler
      2. [+]
        Frivolities of the Classics, p. 39 - 1 Review
        Marienbad by Sholem Aleichem
    15. [+]
      Waste of Money: Sleaze to Please?, p. 40 - 1 Review
      1. Spellbinder by Harold Robbins
    16. [+]
      Screen: Moral Revanchism by Eric Shapearo, p. 41 - 2 Reviews
      1. Das Boot (1981 Film) by Wolfgang Petersen
      2. Tempest (1982 Film) by Paul Mazursky
    17. Music by Robert R. Reilly, pp. 42-43
    18. Correspondence by Stephen Macaulay, pp. 44-45
    19. Journalism, pp. 46-47
    20. Cock-Journalism , p. 48
    21. The American Proscenium, p. 49
    22. In My Solitude , pp. 50-52
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  Issues of 1991 = 12 Issues, 314 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 12 Issues, 292 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 321 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 316 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 12 Issues, 314 Articles
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