September 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
How the Economy Went Haywire
When the bill came due for the Vietnam War, someone had to pay it, and keep paying.
Brave New Marriage
If sensory overload isn't the answer, how about diffused sensuality-sexuality and constant feedback and re-evaluation within a flexible process philosophy?
Miami Beach: 2. The Democrats
Ballet: Balanchine/Stravinsky
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Aswan!
Bela Lugosi's White Christmas
Splendor and Death of Joaquin Murieta
The Roots of Coincidence
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery
A Window on Russia
Great Humor
Black English
Counsel for the Deceived
Washington
Moscow
Innocent Bystander: Edmund Wilson
The Editor's Page
Contributors
The Last Days of Cowboy Capitalism
Well, Watchman, What of the Night? Arthur Burns’s Angst; Prince Valiant and the Protestant Ethic; Work and Its Discontents; Will General Motors Believe in Harmony? Will General Electric Believe in Beauty and Truth? Of the Greening and Blueing, and Cotton Mather; What Is To Be Done on Monday Morning?
Miami Beach: 1. McGovern
St. Antony of Padua
The Last Laugh
The Sandman
Poem for Jean Tinguely
An Atlantic "First"
Notes From an Italian Hill Town
“I know it’s rugged, but we make a living from the marble, there are stones to build with, and we can always eat the chestnuts.”
Simpson's Wife
The Pale Ones
Three Poems
"Is This Like Your War, Sir?": The Line of Battle, 1944-1945, Revisited
A Seagull Named Irving
Steak Media, Please
