Contemporary Review back issues from January 1996:
The United States and Latin America.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Days after the troublesome events in December 1994 of the collapse of the Mexican currency a bipartisan coalition in the US Congress, led by Rep. Peter DeFazio (Democrat from California), Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (Republican - New York) and Sen. Ernest Hollings (Democrat - South Carolina), ...
Controlling China's baby boom.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Our children are our future. And yet as the world population continues to boom, there is ever increasing competition for finite resources. Nowhere is this felt more intensely than in China. But is the policy used to address this problem putting China's future behind it? China is the ...
Germany's year of 'liberation.'
Jan 01, 1996; ... ALL proud commemorations are alike, every discordant commemoration seems discordant in its own way. Germany experienced this last year as it took stock of the meaning of an event fifty years before. On the 8th of May 1945, as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel ratified Germany's unconditional ...
The future of English in India.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Of late the debate on the status of English in India in the coming years has acquired a sharply negative tone. The consensus is stridently chauvenistic, with patriotic fervour getting the better of enlightened self interest, or even commonsense. This is the general impression. But it is ...
The information superhighway: a road to misery?
Jan 01, 1996; ... IF one was to believe the promises brought forward by the multinational media-conglomerates, a golden future beckons. The bulldozers are already clearing the ground for the information superhighway which will bring peace, democracy and free access to any information even to the most ...
The writing of novels. (one author's perceptions about writing)(The English Novel in the Twentieth Century: 1)
Jan 01, 1996; ... Throughout this year there will be a series of articles examining the English Novel in this century. These will range from reminiscences of a particular novelist, such as Barbara Pym, to the role of Salman Rushdie and other novelists from the Indian tradition. The series begins with a ...
Often it is not possible to find the poem. (poem)
Jan 01, 1996; ... Often it is not possible to find the poem hiding behind the intention of a vocabulary that stammers, stalls, will not become. Image upon image as tokens of the will but not that psalm of discovery; not that rushing of recognition; not that acceptance ...
The difference between poetry, religion and dreams. (poem)
Jan 01, 1996; ... The lottery winner will tell you how they all became one but how on winter afternoons the big ...
Shakespeare and the musicians from Venice.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Henry VIII was keen to compete with the splendour of Renaissance Courts abroad in the arts, and in music. Hence in the 1530s he recruited six musicians and instrument makers of the Bassano family, almost certainly Jewish, from Venice. They were given quarters in the dissolved Charterhouse, ...
Relatively speaking. (poem)
Jan 01, 1996; ... The latest academic fad, Asserts that nothing's good or bad; It's relative we're archly told, (But so, of course, are hot and cold.) King Lear or Noddy? How to judge? Is caviar compared with fudge? Or Patience Strong with David Hume? (Distinctions moulder in the tomb.) Now vintage claret, ...
Mapping of Europe's roads from the Romans to CD ROM.
Jan 01, 1996; ... There was no road-numbering system to help the motorist in unfamiliar territory when I was young, seventy years ago. Instead every year before the family set off for the summer exodus by car, my father would get in touch with the A.A. to supply him with a route map. With its help we could ...
The last Habsburg coronation: Budapest - 1916.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Count Miklo's Banffy (1873-1950), Hungarian magnate, politician, writer, designer, Transylvanian landowner, director of the State theatres from 1913 to 1918, and Foreign Minister from 1921 to 1922, published his first book of memoirs in 1932. His novel, The Writing on the Wall, was ...
The New Germans.
Jan 01, 1996; ... There is now, within the Establishment, a pervasive group that argues strongly in favour of supporting Germany's role and influence in the EU over France. One of its most articulate members, Giles Radice, the veteran Labour M.P., has just put the arguments in a well written, brief and ...
Saturn's Children. How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Some two hundred years ago the French philosopher, Rousseau, said that Englishmen thought they were free but were in reality only so when voting in a parliamentary election, at all other times they were slaves. It has long been a cry among the English and their descendants in the ...
The Future of Progress. Reflections on Environment and Development.
Jan 01, 1996; ... If you would like to read a book that will knock you sideways, with time to take the wool out of your eyes, The Future of Progress is the one! It begins with a terrible indictment of the First World's treatment of the Third World. It really must be one of the most important and easily ...
The War of American Independence: 1775-1783.
Jan 01, 1996; ... The events in America, between the Battle of Bunker's Hill, on June 17th, 1775, and the Peace Treaty of 1783, created the United States and thus broke asunder the erstwhile unity of the Anglo-Saxon world, which might otherwise have subsequently achieved almost the Churchillian dream of a ...
Jackson's Dilemma.
Jan 01, 1996; ... As I read my way into this I was reminded in several ways of Proust. Then I turned the page and saw A la Recherche there by name. This came towards the end, like one in the series of revelations the detective makes at the denouement. Here the detective is Jackson, the lynch-pin ...
The Hurt World.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 1996; ... M. Parker has selected sixteen short stories from the many writers on the Troubles. The selection, and his splendidly written introduction to them, provide unusual insights - often moving - into the lives of so many ordinary people caught up in the world of political violence. Where death ...
Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 1996; ... Louise Colet is a gift to any feminist involved in the Virginia Woolf Room of One's Own syndrome on `Why No Female Shakespeare?' Muse and mistress to Flaubert, that monkish mother's boy writer, steeped in syphilis, round whom his household tip-toed in awe, poverty was the least ...
The Description of England. The Classic Contemporary Account of Tudor Social Life.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same coin. Herodotus, still regarded as the `father of history' was as much a `travel writer' as an historian and the travel books of ...
The Illustrated Journeys of Celia Fiennes.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same coin. Herodotus, still regarded as the `father of history' was as much a `travel writer' as an historian and the travel books of ...
Back to Britain The Holiday Journals of a G.I. Bride.
Jan 01, 1996; ... Travel books and books describing a nation's daily life have been for millennia one of mankind's favourite reading. Indeed, they are often two sides of the same coin. Herodotus, still regarded as the `father of history' was as much a `travel writer' as an historian and the travel books of ...
London.(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 1996; ... This book is a healthy antidote to those who only find London dirty, crowded, over-priced and smelly, to those who can remember a London without the blight of high-rise tower blocks, flyovers and the ugly monstrosities that have turned the City into a bastard `New York on the Thames'. The ...