December 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
"Yes, Sir, This Has Certainly Been Considered a Safe Mine"
If the Secretary of the Interior was right, why did ninety-one men die in the Sunshine silver mine in Idaho last May 2?
Ornette Coleman and the Circle With a Hole in the Middle
"He lives in a world of clear, endlessly permutating images, of global musics, folk and classical and jazz, that interpenetrate."
Praying on a 707
The Morning After the War Before
A report on Asian anxiety about the future of American foreign policy, and an argument that America take seriously its need both to attain peace and retain its credibility as a world power, by an Australian correspondent who has written from the Far East for almost three decades.
Updike and Barthelme: Disengagement
Reich at the Orgone Box
Rohmer's Men and Women
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Odessa File
Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood
A Universal History of Infamy
The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories
The Age of Kipling
The Hidden Injuries of Class
Somewhere Else
The Making of a Psychiatrist
Amphigorey
Treasures of the Armada
Erotic Art Today
The Best and the Brightest
Sadness
Uganda
Table of Contents
The Editor's Page
Innocent Bystander: What I Want for Christmas
The Lucky Generation: Neither Lost, Nor Gone for Good
. . . by a generation I mean that reaction against the fathers which seems to occur about three times in a century. It is distinguished by a set of ideas, inherited in moderated form from the madmen and outlaws of the generation before; if it is a real generation it has its own leaders and spokesmen, and it draws into its orbit those born just before it and just after, whose ideas are less clear-cut and defiant.— From “My Generation” by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Washington: The Lavelle Case
A Brief Life Is Best in the End, I Suppose: Selected Excerpts From the Hospital Memoirs of World-Famous Aviatrix, Lilly Lohman
Let's Trade the Van Dyck and the Rembrandt for the Giorgione: The Inside Story of the Mellon Art Collection
From the Mellon Collection
Andrew Mellon, 1855-1937
The Trapper
A Day No Pigs Would Die
Sailing
