October 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
The Last Traffic Jam
Too many cars, too little oil. An argument for the proposition that "less is more"
Portfolio
The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert
The Prepared Statement
Toward a New Society
The Floating World
News From the Castle
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Chimera
Father Figure
The Players and the Game
The Darkening Land
The Tomb of Tutankhamen
The Breast
Kings Beasts & Heroes
The Green Flag
Triple Cross
Herblocks State of the Union
Who Is Angela Davis?
Don't Put Your Daughter on the Stage
The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation/Where the Wasteland Ends/Encountering Directors: A Casebook on Film
Japan
Vienna
Innocent Bystander: Plastic English
The Editor's Page
The Government Is Watching: Is There Anything the Police Don't Want to Know?
Thailand
A Few Speak for Freedom: Solzhenitsyn and Dissent in Russia
In the name of the future I call upon you to give all the encouragement and help you can to this most talented writer, for his tragedy is our tragedy, the tragedy of our country.— Julian A. Vronsky, former investigator for the Moscow Regional Procurator.
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Norman Mailer: A Self-Creation
At the moment he’s Melville without Moby Dick, Twain without Huckleberry Finn, but out of his battle with himself may come the book that puts him in the company of the greatest writers in American history.
Watch the Wind
Behind the Meat Counter: The Fight Over Des
The question is whether some carcinogens in our food supply are safe.
I Never Hollered Cheezhit the Cops
Encounters With Artists
“Guard your naïveté. It will be all you’ve got, someday.”
