July 1978
In This Issue
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Articles
New Orleans: I Have Seen the Future, and It's Houston
For many who love New Orleans, the changes that accompany commercial growth inspire fear—but in the meantime the city's economy stagnates and its population declines
Party of One: The Great American Balancing Act
The Tuition Dilemma: A New Way to Pay the Bills
An educator known for his blunt opinions argues that college costs ought to be shouldered by those who profit from a college education—the students. John R. Silber offers a plan that, if adopted by Congress, might make that possible.
The Question of Rain
The Editor's Page
Parable of the Stone
The Dream of Twenty Black Women
Dinner at the Neighbors'
England
The Lovers
Cathedrals
The Last Shōgun: Macarthur and the Making of Modern Japan
“You will exercise your authority as you deem proper . . .”the President told the newly appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in 1945; . . your authority is supreme.” Douglas MacArthur needed no urging. This is the story of how one man, imperious, arrogant, often infuriating, and as often wise, made possible Japan’s rise from the ashes to its influential position in the world today.
Eurocommunism: Who's in Charge?
The independence of European Communists is a myth: when the chips are down their alliance with the USSR is unshakable.
A Tempest of Circuses
Sonnet
The Death of My Father
“Just before I went away to college, my father took me aside, as I had expected, and said, as I had not expected, ‘Now, Son, if a strange woman ever comes up to you on a street corner and offers to take your watch around the corner and have it engraved, don’t do it.’ ” A wise and loving father is here recalled.
On English Marriage
Celeste Aide
The Battle of Bartleburg: Glory of a Nation
In Search of Beckett
The Brendan Voyage
Risk
Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels
This Trifling Distinction
The Dictionary of Diseased English
American Gold
Tolstoy's Letters
Altered States
Miss Marks and Miss Woolley
Untitled
The Atlantic Puzzler
