Culture Among the Nations by Dorothy Rabinowitz The Second UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Policies convened in Mexico City from July 26 to August 6. The following…
John Lennon’s Mourners by Dorothy Rabinowitz Within hours of the news of John Lennon's murder last December, it became clear that an event was in the…
Helen and Teacher, by Joseph P. Lash by Dorothy Rabinowitz When she was seven or so, Helen Keller returned from a drive in the country and in sign language proceeded…
Blacks, Jews, and New York Politics by Dorothy Rabinowitz EARLY this past summer, two events occurred in New York that were sufficiently ominous to warrant the anxieties they produced…
Dominus, by Natalie Gittelson by Dorothy Rabinowitz IT WAS to be expected that the women's movement, in whose peak years-the 60's and early 70's -there was born…
Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames by Dorothy Rabinowitz IN THE fall of 1974 Anne Sexton committed suicide by asphyxiating herself in the garage of her home in Weston,…
The Hostage Mentality by Dorothy Rabinowitz When, against a din of pealing church bells, the Hanafi Muslims released their prisoners in Washington, D.C., last March, it…
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, by Tom Wolfe by Dorothy Rabinowitz In contemplating existence thirty or forty years hence, one is struck dumb by the prospect of having to explain to…
Ophuls: Justice Misremembered by Dorothy Rabinowitz Toward the end of The Memory of Justice-the new four-and-a-half-hour long documentary film by Marcel Ophuls which, using old newsreels…
Portrait of a Survivor by Dorothy Rabinowitz In September 1972 the U.S. Justice Department instituted deportation proceedings against Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan-who was-by then married to an American…
Watching the Sit-Coms by Dorothy Rabinowitz Amos n' Andy are long gone, but changing tastes, increased sophistication, and the jading plenitude that television has provided over…
