March 1947
In This Issue
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Articles
This Month
Take Two Thousand Cucumbers
There Are Thirteen Fealliers in a Swallow's Tail
The Basic Error
Jurors
Wooden Things
The Prevention of Literature
“To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.”
Writers Must Be Our Conscience
The Petupatetic Reviewer
Unhappy Spain
Some Recent Books About Art
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Shelley: A Life Story
The Ancient Maya
Titian the Magnificent
Dulcimer Street
Journey Through My Years
On These I Stand
Odd Man Out
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Latin America
Can American Labor Defeat the Communists?
Europe
Can Britain Work It Out?
Child Hephaestus
Disarmament: Where Do We Go From Here?
W. C. Fields
Public Letter to Emily Dickinson
Evolution: Past and Future
The Orange Bird
Why Mothers Fail
Greenhorn in St. Louis
Church on Water
Volcano
Our Railroads: A Balance Sheet
Seven Campus Characters
The Far East
The Alien Corn
Songs of the Cowboy: Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
Jorkens in Witch Wood











