January 1972

Articles

• Egypt

  Georgiana G. Stevens

• Innocent Bystander: A Little Night Music: The Curvature of the Earth

  L. E. Sissman

• Contributors

• A Farewell to Alcohol

  Of every three men who try to stop drinking at Butner, two fail.

  William Mcilwain

• A Natural History of the Young

  Will the young, like the flying saucers, eventually disappear?

  Richard W. Murphy

• Uncle Harry: Shooting Partridge, 1941

  Donald Junkins

• The 800,000,000: China and the World

  “Now Dulles has a successor,” said Mr. Chou with a laugh that was not a laugh of amusement, “in our Northern neighbor.” Part II of Professor Terrill’s report from China reveals the thoughts of Chairman Mao’s associates on the Kissinger and Nixon trips, the Sino-Soviet-American power balance, the United Nations, and Japan. He shows how the ideologues of Peking are also masters of Realpolitik.

  Ross Terrill

• The Editor's Page

• Scandinavia

  Don Cook

• Can I Count You In?

  Shirley Faessler

• It's Only a Game: I. The Beasts of Baltimore

  Larry L. King

• Ii. Smash Thy Neighbor

  John Mcmurtry

• Blurring

  Kathleen Spivack

• Another Unbelievable Year in the Stock Market

  Brutus

• Gathering at Bunnymedc

  Richard Todd

• Rhythmical Grumblings

  Frank Kermode

• Hogarth: The John Bull of Art

  Louis Kronenberger

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Hair

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Occult

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Cole

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Bejeweled

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Journey of August King

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Flaubert the Master

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Proceedings of the Vinland Map Conference

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Cyrano De Bergerac

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Our Gang

  Phoebe Lou Adams

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