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Monitor Archive for March 2, 1984
Science fiction - without apologies and without scrimping on production
With 'smokescreen' of UN veto in place, French set to leave Beirut
Oxford University Press: how it has maintained its standards
News In Brief
A naturalist's insights on birds - and life; Nature Through Tropical Windows, by Alexander F. Skutch. Illustrations by Dana Gardner. Berkeley: Unive...
Cyril Connolly's literary journalism - a monument to good prose; Enemies of Promise, by Cyril Connolly. New York: Persea Books. 265 pp. $6.95 (paper...
A riveting first novel; Out Of The Blue, by James McManus. New York: Crown Publishers Inc. 246 pp. $12. 95.
Just call me Mother Bell
Fraternity restraint
Both Germanys squirm over East German family's exit to West
After Trudeau
Do you know if your teacher sleeps at school or at home like you do?; My Teacher Sleeps in School, by Leatie Weiss. Illustrated by Ellen Weiss. New...
A school shake-up that's working
When builders leave a mess behind; more on rewiring a mobile home
Defense's drag on the economy
Name the sport and there's a book; Better Volleyball for Girls, by George Sullivan. (Better Sports Series.) New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. 64 pp. $2.95...
California river tests rafters - and future of undeveloped wild
Poetry that jars and rumbles; Rome Along the Highway, by Paul Moskowitz. Mendocino, Calif.: An Apple Press. 32 pp. $3.95. Paperback.
A young girl, striving to become a writer, 'holds onto love'; Hold On to Love, by Mollie Hunter. New York: Harper & Row Junior Books. 251 pp.
Where is God?
News In Brief
And the bands played on; Somme, by Lyn Macdonald. London: Michael Joseph. (Distributed by Merrimack Publishers' Circle, 458 Boston Street, Topsfield...
News In Brief
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US businesses are taking more political heat for their ties to South Africa
High stakes in Iran's 'final' push for victory
Now that your house is drum-tight, what about indoor smog?
What to buy in a market upturn
The real danger in Iraq's threat on Iran
Mideast talks show how US stock is sagging
News In Brief
With the reopening of China, silk makes a comeback as an affordable luxury
Between soft covers
Jose Higueras: from ball boy in Barcelona to success on pro tour
When trucks quit rolling
News In Brief
This Horace will do for now; The Essential Horace: Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles, translated by Burton Raffel, with a foreword and an afterwor...
American managers boning up on how to produce higher quality
In Maine, front-runners vie for votes of those who quit
From Dr. Seuss, an arms race allegory about Yooks and Zooks; The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss. New York: Random House. Pages unnumbered.
The Mystery of Romance?; The Black Seraphim, by Michael Gilbert. New York: Harper & Row. 216 pp. $13.95. A Death at St. Anselm's, by Isabelle Hollan...
News In Brief
A Halloween night to remember; Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed, by Virginia Hamilton. New York: Greenwillow Books. 208 pp. $11.50. (Age...
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Hillary's 'Return to Everest' - a journey of joy
Iraq downplays its losses
Solipsism and beyond - the poetry of W. B. Yeats; The Poems of W.B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran. New York: Macmillan. 747 pp. $19.95.
News In Brief
Two fine writers and democracy
Free elections in Nicaragua?
Josephine
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'Old blue eyes' Turner could replace Trudeau in Canada
A fervent plea for poetry with a sense of community and place; Standing by Words, essays by Wendell Berry. San Francisco: North Point Press. 213 pp....
Who is Gary Hart? It's a tough question
From the fragment to the gram
Senate panel scrutinizes Meese background
Ireland or retirement beckon Tip O'Neill
Nuclear energy's uncertain future
Survivalist literature popular again
A tale of irony and pessimism set in the land of promise; The Ballad of Typhoid Mary, by J.F. Federspiel. New York: E.P. Dutton. 169 pp. $ 12.95.
News In Brief
The return of the states
'Woza Albert!' is a playful, powerful look at apartheid
A library that embodies expansive thinking
News In Brief
US political ins and outs
Chinese visit US in search of defense technology