December 1973
In This Issue
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Articles
Did Monet See What He Thought He Saw?
“To put it bluntly, the fat old man who painted the great water-lily panels was very nearly blind at the time.”
Night Sail
Victor Blue
"Not You I Fear..."
Couple Trouble: Mod & Trad
Happy Marriages Are Not Alike
The Neighborhood
The Peripatetic Reviewer
"In My Hot Youth" and "Famous in My Time": Byron's Letters and Journals
The Seven Wives of Westlake: A Documentary
Chulo
Gloriana: The Years of Elizabeth I
The Femininity Game
Maxfield Parrish
The Loo Sanction
Black Conceit
Dorothy and Lillian Gish
The Tale of Kieu
Picasso in Retrospect
Labor: The Steel Experiment
Innocent Bystander: Christmas Story
Prague
Evelyn Waugh's Lost Rabbit
The late writer’s cousin and close friend offers a bittersweet recollection of a man whose powers of acid insight were at odds with his need to wall himself off from reality. Beneath the snobbery and satire lay “the sense of inexplicable doom.”
The Principle of Tolerance
“There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.”
Feast Days: Christmas
A poem
The Story of a Scar
The Natural History of a Vision
The Weak Are the Second Sex
The women’s movement has been with us for a decade, but it is still surrounded by confusion, mixed emotions, and a largescale refusal—on the part of many men— to listen to its central arguments.
