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The Easy Chair

In the American Grain

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Letter to the reader

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Notes on a newer journalism

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Take my mentor–please

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Working women would do well to ignore most of the advice they're getting

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Equal lack of opportunity

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Affirmative action for the 1980's

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None dare call it commercial

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Public broadcasting faces life

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Dressing down

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Why my friends don't wear alligators on their shirts

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The easy chair

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Who’s the fairest of them all? When Reagan looks in the mirror

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The grandfather clause society

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As opportunities narrow, the spirit of "I got here first" is sweeping the country

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Mental cases

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Meet the new legal doctrine of psychological pollution

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Reagan’s industrial tonic

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Does anyone around here believe in capitalism?

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Nuclear holocaust in perspective

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There's more bad poetry than good policy in the antinuclear movement

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Waiting for Lenny

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Stinginess masquerading as charity

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Envoi

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Answering the mail

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The compleat American

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Van Gogh’s ear

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Further notes on the official culture

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The counterfeit muse

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Notes on the official culture

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Sculptures in snow

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Notes on the uses of the press

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Shooting Stars

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The sacred grove of celebrity

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The glass bead game

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A shrinking future

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Feet of clay

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Celebrities of defeat

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The precarious Eden

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Sinatra yes, Dylan no

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Gifts of the Magi

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Sophism, napalm and gold

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Reagan’s Academy Award

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All the king's horses and all the king's men

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Eskimo economics

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Variations on a conservative theme

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The lost American empire

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Explaining it to Sally

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Ordeal by fire

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Casting the candidates into bronze

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The easy chair

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Political discourse

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On the despotisms of everyday life

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The somnambulists

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The armies of the earth asleep

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