January 1974
In This Issue
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Articles
A Black Birch in Winter
Land Politics
Innocent Bystander: W. H. Auden
Where to Find the Atlantic on the Other Side of the Atlantic
The Undoing of the Justice Department: After the “Saturday Night Massacre”
In his 1968 campaign Richard Nixon made one thing perfectly clear: there was going to be “a new Attorney General.” He didn’t say how many new ones.
En Route to "The Waste Land": The Early Years of T. S. Eliot
At an early age the poet, critic, and playwright learned that sex and sin were the same thing.
The Editor's Page
Two Scenes From the Life of Hazard the Painter
Death by Chance, Death by Choice
Medicine marches on. The law and ethics straggle behind. We have the knowledge to prolong life. Here, a Catholic theologian asks if we have the wisdom to end it.
Cambodia
Big Boy
Mike Nichols Tries to Make a "Talkie" With Dolphins
“It’ll sound a bit silly, but they sort of understand each other, Mike and the dolphins. Gets a bit spooky sometimes.”
The Death of Major Great
The Name of the Air
Tomi Ungerer's Reluctant Heroes
What Future?
Death in Venice
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Sexual Suicide
Strong Opinions
Riding the Rails
The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Constable
Catharine Beecher
The Man Who Liked to Look at Himself
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
A Town Is Saved..
Bruegel
Earthwatch: Notes on a Restless Planet
