January 1968
In This Issue
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Articles
Tail-Wagging Warbler
Poets
An Investigation Into the Causes of Hyperpedantism
Beyond his work in pedantry, Charles Ridley isaresearch associate in Chinese studies at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
Why Learn the Language?
David MacNeil Doren is a native of Syracuse, New York, who sojourned in Sweden after living for six years in Crete.
Recrimination on the Edge
Passion on a Bicycle
A Tale of Two Juliuses
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
Vietnam
Northeast Brazil
Cage for the Innocents
The war forces the South Vietnamese out of their villages. Are they refugees? Or prisoners? The Americans are not more certain than the Vietnamese whose Kafkaesque fate they administer. Mr. Schell, twenty-seven, recently returned from his fourth trip to Vietnam since 1962. A research fellow at Berkeley’s Center for Chinese Studies, he is with Professor Franz Schurmann the co-editor of a three-volume work, THE CHINA READER.
The Battle of the Pentagon
There were, inevitably, some infantile happenings during the Vietnam dissidents’ Washington march last October, but few were more pronounced than the performance of most of the news media. Journalism’s shortcomings enhance the value of this account by a thirty-one-year-old participant in the late unpleasantness on the Pentagon Mall. Mr. Jackson is a sociologist and teaches English and folklore at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Washington
Lester Drentluss, a Jewish Boy From Baltimore, Attempts to Make It Through the Summer of 1967
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Strikes by Public Employees
Calvin Coolidge’s dictum “There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time" still stands strong in the minds of many, but strikes against government are in fact happening with increasing frequency. The time is near, says the distinguished labor relations expert and editorial writer for the New York TIMES,when the ban on strikes by public employees will have to be reinforced or abandoned. Which way will society bend?
An Interlude
A Satisfactory Settlement
Love-Making; April; Middle Age
Solitary Expert: The Case of George F. Kennan
“He is a fascinating throwback, one of those now solitary American moralists, perfectionists, taskmasters, and schoolmasters who are still lucid in our frantic society.”So does one of America’s most lucid writers and critics describe George Kennan in this singular essay on the man and mind revealed in MEMOIRS: 1925-1950. Mr. Kazin’s most recent book is STARTING OUT IN THIRTIES. He teaches at State University of New York at Stony Brook and is at work on a study of the American imagination in the nineteenth century.
Winter Song
Under Another's Sky
Atlantic "Firsts"
The Revolution in Biology
The Double Helix
The discovery of the structure of DNA
