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What bothers Peretz, he says in Commentary magazine, is Ramparts' anti-Jewish attitude toward the Arab-Israeli war. Editor Hinckle, says Peretz, likes to be "flippy"-that is, perverse in a flip, hippie sort of way. This translates into articles like the one Peretz calls "the most carefully selective...
Thereafter, the reader may find the rest of Mots d'H cures compulsive, as one horrendous bilingual audio-pun follows another. L'lle deja accornee . . . Satinees cornees translates as "The [lord of the] island already has horns! Satiny corneas . . ." but it is really Little Jack Horner who sat...
In Hanoi, where the A.F.P. has been operating for the past 15 months, correspondents must cope with a virtual information blackout. Newsmen are not allowed to leave the capital, and every dispatch must be shown to the Foreign Ministry before it is sent. A.F.P. cables can take up to 20...
The White Sox do have superb pitching. Joel Horlen won his ninth game in ten decisions last week, and has a 1.96 earned-run average; Gary Peters has a 10-3 record and an E.R.A. of 2.23; Tommy John is 6-5 and 2.43. But even that does not explain...
Last week, for example, Arnie and Ozalid were readying Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra for its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in March, as well as Laurence Rosenthal's new musical, Sherry, for its opening in Boston in two weeks. More than just...