January 1977
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Articles
The Tiddling Tennis Theorem
The Professor has never been seen to hit a tennis ball, but a generation of would-be players have learned from him that the racket is in the head as well as the hand
The Biggest Pimp of All
The oldest profession predates history, and laws designed to subdue it have rarely proved effective. At worst, uneven justice—hitting prostitutes with criminal fines with one hand, tolerating or encouraging them with the other—makes the state "the biggest pimp of all," in the words of New York City's vice squad chief. After on-the-spot studies, the authors compare the prevailing approach to prostitution in American cities with decriminalization as practiced in several European cities and the legalization of brothels in rural Nevada.
Party of One: That Loyal Chump, the Fan
Houses
The Editor's Page
St. Patrick's and the Prospect of Hell
After fifteen years in the secular void, a former student returns to his parochial school and finds that much has changed.
A Lamp
The Windows
Port of Embarkation
The Hanging Man
Supersonic Bust: The Story of the Concorde
Faster than the speed of sound comes the plane of the future. It has cost at least fifteen times the original estimates. It is described as a “commercial disaster" by a review committee of one of the countries that built it. It is besieged by the environmentalists. The Concorde is the benighted offspring of Anglo-French diplomacy and once-and-future dreams of glory in the skies. Now its builders are trying to keep it from crashing in a sea of red ink.
The Presidency: The Road to Washington
In mid-October Jimmy Carter’s once commanding lead had been eroding daily, and the campaign itself was mired in loose talk of lust, and dirty jokes. It was in that atmosphere that I undertook a journey with R. W. Apple, Jr., of the New York Times.to try to get a sense of Carter and his associates, and of what animated their audacious march on Washington. What follows should be read in the context of those October weeks when neither the candidate and his entourage nor the traveling reporters understood exactly what was happening to this campaign or why.
The Best Weapon
Shaping a National Theatre
Notes on the Distaff Side
How Doctors and Lawyers Got That Way
October Light
The Names
Fabulous Feasts
Christopher and His Kind
Wind-Catchers
Hollywood Costume
Roger Baldwin
Blind Ambition
Calder's Universe
The Camera of My Family
Georgia O'Keeffe
Henri Rousseau
