April 1974
In This Issue
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Articles
C Minor
The Future of Children
The Fine Art of Printing
Peripheral Vision
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Cogan's Trade
Riddles in History
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Gustave Doré
Tristes Tropiques
The Book, the Ring, & the Poet
The Beginning Was the End
Dummy
Salem Possessed
Eve's Hollywood
The Olmec Head
My Green Age
Great Tom
Sri Lanka
Innocent Bystander: Dog's Name in Vain and Other Vulgar Matters
Correction
Vietnam
Why the Kremlin Fears Solzhenitsyn: "A Great Writer Is a Second Government"
“Kill me quickly because I write the truth about Russian history,” said the author of The Gulag Archipelago to his government just before it arrested him. Russian leaders chose instead to send him into foreign exile. Here a reporter who spent many years in the Soviet Union and has written many books about its system and its leaders tells how Solzhenitsyn stands in a tradition of Russian writers who have felt they owed their country the “civic duty” of exposing and expressing what others could not. “The only audience which is really important to him is the Russian people,” writes Harrison Salisbury, and that the leadership knows well. “They are afraid of him,” according to one of Solzhenitsyn’s friends, “because when he speaks they hear the voice of the camps, they hear them, those ghosts, those millions, those tens of millions who left their bodies there. . . .”
A Few Frank Words About Bias: Or, Why "Only the Facts" Doesn't Suffice
Robert Frost: The Sound of Love and the Love of Sound
He was the most popular American poet of the century, and his popularity has become a kind of embarrassment to those who would recognize his greatness.
Who’s Running the Country?
As Washington’s power center weakens in a season of distraction, the barons take over. Here is the story of how Kissinger, Schlesinger, Shultz, and Weinberger moved into the void.
Aphrodite, 1906
Any Decent Barbecues in This Town?
Some tips on how, at all costs, to avoid continental cuisine in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"What Do We Do Now? What? What?" a Visit to Israel
The Resurrection Man
The Judge Who Tried Harder
