February 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
Nixon and the Square Majority: Is the Fox a Lion?
He didn't "bring us together." Why does 1972 look like his year?
Ivan Galamian
Three Visionary Poets
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Scorpion God
Not From the Apes
Blackwater River
Nocturnal Vaudeville
Sean
Down to Now
From the Roof of Africa
American Indian Portraits
The Arnheiter Affair
The Wonderful World of Women's Wear Daily
The German Lesson
Green Hell
Confessions of a Stockbroker: A Wall Street Journal
The Birth of Bangla Desh
Japan and the u.s
Innocent Bystander: A Little Night Music: A Tangential Line
The Editor's Page
LBJ and the Kennedys
Carrying on a family matter
God's Wrath
The New York Police
The Dream of Rousseau
The Dark Lady of American Letters: An Interview With Joyce Carol Oates
“I am really transcribing dreams, giving them a certain civilized, extended shape, clearing a few things up, adding daytime details, subtracting fantastic details . . .”
Four Poems
Underground
They want me. Why? What did I do to them? Hands tremble, holding my picture. “Get this one. Get her.”Agents glide out of the room, their faces like simple sketches with lines for mouths and eyes. Have they a clue? They have the power. But they will not find me if I move as in a dream.
Secrets of a Museum Director
How to acquire great works of art with Other People’s Money
Science and Evil
Science is the best defense we have against ethical disintegration
A Roman Spring
Tonkin: It Wasn't a Big Lie
Heroic Exploration
