September 1976
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Articles
Vienna
Party of One: Knowing Your Place
While Alma Mater Burns: Professors Fiddle, Trustees Temponze, Foundations Fumble
Instead of coming to terms with any of the real issues confronting higher education, professors (and others) spend most of their time waging symbolic power struggles which prevent anyone from making decisions about anything. Some pungent observations about the “incestuous viciousness” of academic life from the former president of Bennington College.
East Asia: Our One-China Problem
Newly Discovered Poems of Ezra Pound
Three Shots for Charlie Retson
Lo, the Poor Animals! What Did Noah Save Them For?
The Radical Chic award for 1976 goes to the cause of animal liberation, reports the author, himself a lover of most things warm and furry. But beyond simplistic, politicized arguments about man’s inhumanity to animals, in the slaughterhouses and in the research laboratories, lie haunting and ugly questions.
My Love Affair With Foster
A Fatal Slaying of the Very Worst Kind
Murder to the nth degree. Victim: the English language. Who did it? Just about everyone but the butler.
Actaeon
Communiqué
The Scourge of Avondale
Bronco Busting, Event #1
Toward the Perfect Holo-Alphabetic Sentence
The Pleasures of Eating in Persia
A Sublime Folly: Christo's Running Fence
Back-to-School Reading: Why Yalies Can't Write
Atlas of Early American History
The Thirteenth Tribe
The Dreaming Swimmer
The Shadow of the Winter Palace
The View From Lincoln Hill
London
Born on the Fourth of July
Loom & Spindle
Rogerson
Castle Barebane
I'd Do It All Over Again
Arthur Rackham
Black Sun
