February 1986

Articles

• Under the Weather

  Cullen Murphy

• The Government of Memory

  It has a president, a premier a parliament, opposition parties. All that Poland’s government-in-exile larks is a country

  Eva Hoffman

• The Authorized Version

  The Reagan Administration has been misrepresenting its own internal reports on the feasibility of the Strategic Defense Initiative

  Tina Rosenberg

• Student-Aid Muddle

  College students need help, but so do the fed end programs that provide it

  Denis P. Doyle and Terry W. Hartle

• Storia Dell'arte 101

  John Harris

• The Origin of Petroleum

  If Thomas Gold is right, most oil and gas is not of biological origin ,and there is more of it than geologists have imagined

  David Osborne

• Contributors

• The Bloodsong

  Ernst Havemann

• Under the Vulture-Tree

  David Bottoms

• Love Sonnets

  Pablo Neruda

• Copies in Seconds

  Nobody thought are needed xerography until we had it

  David Owen

• The Toscanini Sound

  William H. Youngren

• Swing Story

  Robert P. Crease

• The Prisoner of Devil's Island

  Alistair Horne

• Writing for the Video Age

  Jack Beatty

• Coaster

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Shackleton

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Riddle of the Dinosaur

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Art Nouveau

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Scramble

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Gerald's Party

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey

• Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 7

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

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