February 1970
In This Issue
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Articles
The Divine Rite of Mushrooms
Vinum Omnia Vincit: Or All Hail Fermentation
The Woes of Yiddish
The Peripatetic Reviewer
In Transit
In the Early World
The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger
Very Lovely People
America Was Beautiful
The Siege
Cosmos
The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca
War Cries on Horseback
History and Human Survival
The Divine Comedy
The Tain
The British Constitution
Beirut
Kotabaru
The Mediterranean: The Sixth Fleet and the Russians
Radicalism and the Skipped Generation
From Selma to Biafra, from the screening studios of Broadway to the Sunset Strip, Renata Adler has sought to distinguish “true radicalism” from “the mere mentality of the apocalypse.” She writes here of growing up in the 1950s with “the Eisenhower lie that the noble American experiment was complete,” of becoming a critic in the years of the Kennedys’ “beauty, promise, absolute lack of delivery,” and of “scorched-earth psychology” in the arts and in politics.
Letter to the Mayor
Freedom Symphony
Does Foreign Aid Really Aid?
The Detroit Sons
Mike Nichols Talks About His Films
Double Semi-Sestina
Two Days in September
An excerpt from the 1970 novel Deliverance.
