November 1978
In This Issue
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Articles
The Literacy Hoax
Silence at Salerno
The Great Mutiny
A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
The Street Where I Live
Caravans to Tartary
Chopin
The Buchwald Stops Here
Slave Religion
Arcimboldo
My Moby Dick
The Greek Islands
The Atlantic Puzzler
Cuba: Private Gutierrez Goes to War
A generation has come of age under Castro, reared according to the principles of the Revolution, and now some 100,000 of its members have proudly taken up arms in Africa.
Party of One: Blockbusting the Arts
Correction
The Terrorist Network
The terrorist underground is worldwide and plotting more savagery—kidnappings, assassinations, atomic blackmail, raids on nuclear bomb depots—in the cause of violent Marxist revolution. A veteran reporter of the European scene here tells what police and intelligence agents in several countries have learned about West Germany’s Baader-Meinhof gang, Italy’s Red Brigades, and their links with fellow killers in the Middle East, Latin America, and Japan.
His Violin
King Midas of "The New Right"
“We didn’t invent playing to fears,”says Richard A. Viguerie, the money-by-mail entrepreneur who raises bundles of cash for conservative politicians and causes. “The liberals try to scare their people as we do ours.”Scaring and otherwise arousing the emotions of millions has made Viguerie king of the fund-raisers—and a rich man as well.
Bangladesh: Is There Anything to Look Forward To?
No other nation in the world is so desperately impoverished and dependent on foreign aid; but under the leadership of its new president, Bangladesh may have its first real chance to begin helping itself.
Further Travels With a Donkey
A century ago Robert Louis Stevenson set out with a sturdy donkey called Modestine, crossed the Cévennes mountains in southern France, and wrote about it. The trip is still challenging and beautiful, as the present author discovered, though donkeys are not what they used to be.
Areal Warfare
Beyond Bakke: What Future for Affirmative Action?
The Court’s decision in the historic Bakke case was complex and ambiguous. What now are the prospects for racial fairness in the nation’s universities?
Lovers of Their Time
The Center of the Garden
It is so . . . comfortable. You need not put on your best toga. — Pliny the Younger
Portrait of the Doctor as a Dying Man
A Circuit of Corsica
Public Art: Arrogance Alfresco
Susan Sontag: To Outrage and Back
