4 Comment Allan C.CarlsonnOpinions & Viewsn6 Americans, Operatives & Apparatchiks Samuel T.Francisn—^Rael Jean Isaac and Erich Isaac: The CoercivenUtopians: Social Deception by America’s PowernPlayersn8 Pragmatic Problems Thomas Flemingn—-Jacques Barzun: A Stroll with Williamjamesn11 The Remnants of Realism MarkRoydenWinchelln—^Philip Roth: The Anatomy Lessonn—^Louis kudancioss: Exit Lady Mashamn14 Reaping the Red’s Harvest GaryS.VasUashn—^Diane Johnson: DashiellHammett: A Lifen17 Terrorists’Tea Party Otto J. Scottn—DavidCaute-.UndertheSkinTheDeathofWhitenRhodesian19 Promise, Progress & Confusion Steven Haywardn—Ruth Horowitz: Honor and the AmericannDream: Culture and Identity in a ChicanonCommunityn—Carlos G. Velez-Ibanez: Bonds of Mutual Trust:nThe Cultural Systems of Rotating CreditnAssociations among Urban Mexicans andnChicanosn20 Bombs Away? AlanJ. Levinen—John J. Mearsheimer: Conventional Deterrencen—^Paul Bracken: The Command and Control ofnNuclearForcesnCommendablesn23 Strategies & Schemes: Games Authors PlaynOf Prose and Piety: Christian Classics RevisitednIn Focusn23 Semitrivial Pursuits: Kant; Hegel; Berkeley;nClausewitz; Diderot; William Morrisn24 Winces. Free AgentsnThe Babes in Books: Corruption inParadisenPerceptiblesnWaste of Moneyn25 On the Trail of E.T.: Cosmic Ecology; Mindsteps tonthe CosmosnOne Step VidcanA: Architects of Fearn26 Lower Life Forms: Wor^ffoAparfnChronicles of Culturen”Contents”nScreenn28 Sharks: The Life of PythonnA Big honhon: Romancing the Stonen29 Shaking a Money-Maker:/’oortoosenMusicn29 Post-Modem MuzaknArtn30 Time WarpsnJovrnialismn33 ASiskel—ofSortsnThe American Prosceniumn33 Memorial Day 1984n35 A Prudent ProgressivenNotablesn7 Tenderhearted—^and Headed: Pitch Darkn32 ConstructionNotes:X?/e(S-7Vweso//lffc^fle/ifnConfluencesn16 Mysterious ActivitiesnLiberal Culturen11 Hollywood’s Prosn34 Ethics & the Mystery of MealsnFleeting Truths/33nJSWw^ lÂ¥i»?tV!fj!gWWJKE^P^nnnPeter FrippnErratumnThe credit line given for Dr. Molnar’s review in the June issuen(“Scholarly Smut,” p. 8) was incorrect Dr. Molnar is on the faculty atnthe City University of New York and a visiting professor of religiousnstudies at Yale University.nVol.8,No.7Julyl984nRenounce YaltanComment; Zawodny; Mason on Finder (Red Carpet); Moser on Hayward (Writers in Russia);nBerman on Harrison (The Enthusiast); Christensen on Arthur, d’AIpuget, Hospital (Beyondnthe Mountain, Turtle Beach, The Ivory Swing); Kulish on Beicliman, Bernstam, Solovyov,nKlepikova (Andropov, Yuri Andropov), Kopff on Arden (VoxPop); West on Wilcox, Williamsn(Modem Baptists, Pariah and Other Stories); Commendables; In Focus; Perceptibles; Wastenof Money; Screen; Music; Art; The American Proscenium; Journalism; A Prudent Progressive;nNotables; Confluences; Liberal Culture.n