1980/04 — Contents as follows:To Draft or Not to Draft: Foreward by Robert Manning Why the Army Needs It by James Webb Why the Country Needs It by James Fallows Financing a College Education by Alston Chase Newspaper Days: Politics–We Are the Hostages by Ward Just The Rage to Know by Horace Freeland Judson FICTION: [...]
1980/03 — Contents as follows: The Conquest of America — In defending freedom, hae we forgotten how to use it? — by Archibald MacLeish “Goodbye, Kids, Mother’s Leaving Home” — A son watches his family split up — by Thomas J. Cottle The Brush of Legends — Behind the Buddhist masterpieces — by Alexander Eliot [...]
1980/02 — Contents as follows: The Tests and the “Brightest”; How Fair Are the College Boards? by James Fallows The Day of the Strudel by Janos Radvanyi The Craft and Craftiness of Henry Kissinger by Philip Geyelin The Marvels of Microsurgery by Stanley L. Englebardt Newspaper Days: Second Papers — Why can’t they try harder? [...]
1980/01 — Contents as follows: Why Almost Everyone Is Wrong About Gold by Charles A. Cerami Newspaper Days: Great Moments in American Journalism by Ward Just The Making of Guys and Dolls by Abe Burrows Electroshock: The Unkindest Therapy of All by Fred Hapgood The Literature of Replenishment Postmodernism and the rebirth of the novel [...]
1979/12 — Contents as follows: Love Canal and the Poisoning of America by Michael H. Brown Edward Hopper’s Most Interested Vision by Alexander Eliot Newspaper Days: Vietnam — The Camera Lies The Case for Alcohol by John Koffend Big Business Talk by Joel Homer FICTION: “The St. Dominick’s Game” by Jay Neugeboren “Markings” by Marian [...]
1979/11 — Contents as follows: Meet Mr. Sony: How the Japanese Outsmart Us by Lally Weymouth Newspaper Days: How It Plays in Waukegan, Illinois by Ward Just Helpful Talk — Jargon for verbalizing your selfactualization — by Joel Homer Gasohol: Solution to the Gas Shortage by Eliot Janeway FICTION: “Morocco” by John Updike “Evangeline” by [...]
1979/10 — Contents as follows: The Mass Transit Panacea and Other Fallacies About Energy by Charles A. Lave Newspaper Days: Private Lives, Public Print by Ward Just Muscle-Bound Superpower: The State of America’s Defense by James Fallow A Writing Woman by Gail Godwin The Marketing of the Colleges by Edward B. Fiske FICTION: “The Man [...]
1979/09 — Contents as follows: Order in the Classroom! by Neil Postman Referendum Fever by Andre Mayer and Michael Wheeler Invasive Procedures: A Surgeon’s Day by Mark Kramer Newspaper Days: The Teddy Kennedy Watch by Ward Just The Repression of Women Artists — Whya re there so few great female painters? — by Germaine Greer [...]
1979/08 — Contents as follows: Inside the Department of Dirty Tricks by Thomas Powers: 1. An Isolated Man 2. The Regular Spiel 3. A Case History: Cuba 4. A Case History: Chile 5. Family Jewels 6. Epiloguge The God Who Strikes from Afar — A memoir of the fifties, and of coolness, distance, self-restraint — [...]
1979/07 — Contents as follows: Too Much Law, Too Little Justice – A lawyer puts the case for the delegalization of America – by Laurence H. Tribe The Next American Dust Bowl…and How to Avert It – Organic agriculture moves off the communes and on to the real farms – by William Tucker The Speer [...]
1979/06 — Contents as follows: Smart People, Smart Money – Meet a stockbroker’s Round Table of financial sages — by John D. Spooner Literary Hype – The book critic as flack – by Bryan Griffin On the Jury – Twelve citizens confront the evidence, and their own prejudices – by Vivian Gornick The Passionless Presidency [...]
1979/04 — Contents as follows: An Atlantic Special — The California Dynasty: Otis Chandler and His Publishing Empire – by David Halberstam 1. The Invention of Southern California 2. Norman Chandler: Inheritor, Kingmaker 3. Buff Chandler: Feminist Mover 4. Otis Chandler: Overachiever 5. Riding the Wave The Amniotic Universe – Reflections on birth, death, and [...]
1979/03 — Contents as follows:In China — A Special Supplement — pages 90-117 — by Arthur Miller1. Down With the Gang of Four2. Street Meetings3. “The Pure in Heart Need No Lawyers”4. Too Many People Down on the Farm5. The Sian-Shanghai Choo-Choo6. “Truth Is Never a Straight Line”7. Of Artists and Writers8. Of Actors and [...]
1979/02 — Contents as follows: Wired City, USA by John Wicklein about two-way TV in Columbus, Ohio The Trouble With Public Television by Benjamin DeMott Probing the Mysteries of Sleep by Ruth Mehrtens Galvin Dale Carnegie on the Basketball Court by Larry Van Dyne is about Coach Bill Foster of Duke Alone Abroad: Soviet Artists [...]
1979/01 — Contents as follows: Risk-Benefit Analysis by Fred Hapgood The Spirited World of I.B. Singer by Lance Morrow Preppies: The Last Upper Class? by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. The Art Market: Investors Beware by Deborah Trustman On Feeling Guilty by Willard Gaylin FICTION: “Ole and Trufa: A Story of Two Leaves” by Isaac Bashevis [...]
1978/11 — Contents as follows: The Terrorist Network — Europe’s Marxist revolutionaries and their chilling, calculated violence — by Claire Sterling King Midas of the New Right by Nick Kotz about Richard Viguerie Further Travels with a Donkey by Jeannette Bruce Beyond Bakke: What Future for Affirmative Action? by McGeorge Bundy Portrait of the Doctor [...]
1978/10 — Contents as follows: The Big Squeeze on Labor Unions by A.H. Raskin What Shall become of Jerusalem the Golden? by Alexander Eliot The Glee Club by John Holt Dream Town in the Wilderness by David Littlejohn Getting Serious About the Occult by Michael Brown FICTION: “The 1928 Buick” by Arthur Miller “The Priest’s [...]
1978/09 — Contents as follows: Skipping Through College by Alston Chase Homage to Caldas d’Estrach by Jane Winslow Eliot The Presence of Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg Who’s Afraid of Math, And Why? by Sheila Tobias The New York Scene by Michael Daly The Nonviolent War Against Nuclear Power by Tracy Kidder FICTION: “The Picnic” [...]
1978/07 — Contents as follows: The Tuition Dilemma by John R. Silber The Last Shogun: MacArthur and the Making of Modern Japan by William Manchester The Death of My Father by Eric Lax FICTION: The Question of Rain by William Hoffman A Tempest of Circuses by Sam Toperoff POETRY: Parable of the Stone by Barry [...]
1978/06 — Contents as follows: American Serfdom: The Backward Coal Industry by Harry M. Caudill A Friendship by Willie Morris – remembering James Jones The Golden man by Evan Connell – In search of El Dorado Opiates of the Mind by Barbara Villet – The biggest medical discovery since penicillin FICTION: “Delia” by Mary Gordon [...]
1978/05 — Contents as follows: All Happy Clans Are Alike by Jane Howard – What makes a good family Alger Hiss and Liberal Anxiety by John Kenneth Galbraith LIFE Begins by Loudon Wainwright – The creation of America’s great picture magazine (excellent feature piece!) Tree House by Kenneth Brower FICTION: “Poor Fellow Dingo” by B. [...]
1978/04 — Contents as follows:Rocky Mountain CountryA Special Supplement, pages 44-91, by Wallace Stegner and Page Stegner1. Living Under the Big Sky2. Mighty Rivers, Dusty Ground3. Energy Futures: Can You Fight Progress?4. Arabs of the Plains 5. The New Jerusalem6. No Mean Cow Town7. Newcomers to the Suburbs of EdenA Portfolio by Ansel Adams (pages [...]
1978/03 — Contents as follows: Soldiers of Misfortune – What has happened to the veterans of Vietnam? – by Tracy Kidder Writing, Typing and Economics – Secrets of a Successful Rhetorician — by John Kenneth Galbraith More on Canada – Responses to Mordecai Richler’s “Lament for a Divided Country” FICTION: “Mystery Friend Blues” by James [...]
1978/02 — Contents as follows: Arabs, Their Money…and Ours by Adam Smith Lunch With T.S. Eliot — Visions and revisions of literary history by H. Bibesco Of Writers and Class — In praise of Edith Wharton — by Gore Vidal Orphanage Boys — a memoir — by Karl Fleming A Field of Silence — On [...]
1978/01 — Contents as follows: The Canniness of the Long-Distance Runner by David S. Broder about Jerry Brown The Urban Farm by Kenneth Brower Who Killed Hollywood? Meet the “sweet, kind, lovable, brilliant” people of the cutthroat movie business by Alan Trustman More on the Bakke Case FICTION: “Home is the Hero” by Bernard Malamud [...]
