July 1982
In This Issue
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Articles
Living With a Computer
"The process works this way. When I sit down to write a letter or start the first draft of an article, I simply type on the keyboard and the words appear on the screen"
Russian and American Capabilities
"The weapons that create the threat of annihilation cannot be uninvented. The sad fact of this era is that our populations cannot conceivably be protected except through political skill and courage applied to the task of minimizing the chances that nuclear weapons will ever be used."
Lord Weary
Robert Lowell in Cambridge
The Atlantic Puzzler
The Middle East: The Curse of Oil Wealth
As the oil market shrinks, countries that have grown fat on easy money will find it painful to cut back
Table of Contents
Our Real Interests in Central America
Should we care what happens in El Salvador? Yes ,but not for the reasons offered by the administration
The Retreat
The Art of Love
I: Russian and American Intentions
Ii: Russian and American Capabilities
On the Failure of All Love Poems
Bull Slaughter
Inside the Gun Factory
August Philosophers
The Benllech Trials
Collects
Lenin and Trotsky
Some in Their Body's Force
On the Porch
Washington: Programs Worth Saving
An argument that Democrats ought to defend programs that provide food, education ,and legal services to the poor
Come to My Spa
The Pursuit of Celebrity
Mickelsson's Ghosts
On Going to Bed
In Praise of Practical Fertilizer
Something Like an Autobiography
Ugly Girl
Me Again
Blood River
The Man Who Was Vogue
Twice Shy
The Rise and Fall of Diamonds
