April 1975
In This Issue
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Articles
The West and the Rest of Us
The Cosmopolitan Girl
Cardigan: A Life of Cardigan of Balaclava
Anna
Arts of the Eskimo: Prints
The Year of the Butterfly
The Wreck of the Amsterdam
Indigenous African Architecture
Hers
This Living Reef
Mawrdew Czgowchwz
Riga
Party of One: Having It Without Flaunting It
Correction
The Fbi File: Men and Machinations in the Court of J. Edgar Hoover
They were the G-Men dukes who dared to aspire to the throne of a bureaucratic king no President dared displace. As Hoover aged, as successive Presidents grew itchier to make the FBI dance to the White House tune, the Bureau itself—and its two “most likely to succeed" men-in-waiting, Deke DeLoach and Bill Sullivan—grew deeply enmeshed in intrigue. Some of it had to do with “domestic security.”Some of it had to do with presidential politics. Some of it had to do with the internal struggle to succeed Hoover. And in the end, inevitably, some of it had to do with Watergate, and its aftermath.
Pakistan
Winter, Bassano Di Grappa
With a Sliver of Marble From Carrara
Augustine's Concubine
Letters to Midge Decter From the Young (And From Their Parents)
“The children are not, for some reasonmay God please tell them what it isin good shape.”So wrote Midge Decter, essayist, book and magazine editor, “enlightened middle-class liberal,” and mother of three, in the February Atlantic. Her essay considered the ways these children (the generation that has just reached adulthood) fall short of their parents’ expectations, and argued that parental indulgence, naïveté, caprice, and moral insensitivity have contributed to the malaise. Herewith a sample of responses to Ms. Decter’s “open letter.”
Sludge
Everyone is in favor of clean water, and many of our streams and rivers are being cleaned up. But there’s a catch: sludge.
Liberty
Let's Get Rid Of...: The 10 Dumbest Things in America
Sex in the Seventies: Notes on Two Cultures
Celebration Man
"Divvy Up Dollars and Eat More" (And Other Books You May Have Missed This Season)
Natural History
The Peripatetic Reviewer
