April 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
The Return
Two Poems
The Man Who Would Be Hero
Mother Russia: A Train's Eye View
Violence Enshrined
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Case of the Midwife Toad
Folklore on the American Land
Not to Disturb
Intimate Behaviour
The Mendelssohns
The Book of Skulls
Six Came Flying
Mortal Consequences: A History From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
Free the Male Man!
Suicide
Rome
Henry James
Wild Flowers of the United States, Volume 5
The Inland Sea
Friday Night in the Coliseum
800,000,000: The Real China
Washington
Innocent Bystander: What I Gave at the Office
Contributors
Beyond Words: Writing for the President
—but what is heroic death compared to eternal watching
The Editor's Page
I Want to Turn to the South: 1941
Silver in the Cold Twilight
"In My Father's House There Are Many Mansions - And I'm Going to Get Me Some of Them Too"
“. . . every human being’s life in this world is inevitably mixed with every other life and, no matter what laws we pass, no matter what precautions we take, unless the people we meet are kindly and decent and human and liberty-loving, then there is no liberty. Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.”
Campaigning
Fellini on Fellini
American Journalism's Ten Hardiest Perennials
Old news stories never die; they just go on overset . . . and overset . . . and over . . .
There Comes After Here
