1980-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents 1980/08 — Contents as follows: Picking the President: Time to Change the Rules by Terry Sanford Learning the Language, From A to M — Adventures in etymology — by John Ciardi “I Thought My Last Hour Had Come …” – An eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima — by Robert Guillain Lunch With Anthony Blunt by H. Bibesco Good-bye to the Ink-Stained Wretch by Steve Lohr FICTION: “Regards at Home” by Richard Yates “The List” by Phyllis Kalb POETRY: “To Dorothy on Her Exclusion from the Guinness Book of World Records” by X.J. Kennedy “Barn Swallow” by Michael Harris “Night Swim” by William Pitt Root REPORTS & COMMENT: The Open Convention: A Kennedy Scenario by Martin Plissner Peking: Waiting to Be Westernized by Ross Terrill Nicaragua: After the Revolution by Edward Holland LIFE & LETTERS: Ward’s Works of Wisdom for Husbands and Wives by Andrew Ward Art Notes by Alexander Eliot The Dimming of Stanley Kubrick by Henry Bromell is about The Shining Short Reviews PLA The Wary Traveler by Caskie Stinnett The Mail The Atlantic Puzzler