December 1976
In This Issue
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Articles
Notes While Being Hijacked
On September 10, 1976, five Croatian terrorists hijacked TWA Flight 355, carrying 86 passengers from New York to Chicago. Brockman was one of the passengers; he wrote this account in the course of the ordeal
Smokers
Tobias Wolff's first published story
Try
The Christmas Tree Lot Murders
From the notebooks of Richard X. Stone (June 14, 1911-Dec. 23, 1975), author of the more than 80 best-selling “Doctor Saint-John ” mysteries:
My Compliments to the Freezer
Culture Watch
The Second Reich
Oil That Glitters
To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account
Not So Wild a Dream
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century
The Greatest Battle
The Autumn of the Patriarch
How It Was
Birds of the West Coast
The Terrorists
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On
Toulouse-Lautrec
Falstaff
Wyeth at Kuerners
Roots
Spitzweg
Hammer of the North
Pre-Columbian Art of South America
The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume Ii
Nigeria
Live & Let Live
An Expatriate Looks at America
Reflections on his native land by a novelist who liked the place but who came to feel that “if I stayed they would, without even trying, or knowing, kill me.”
Waiting
The Vanishing Tuna
One of the world’s most elegant creatures is being turned into sandwiches at the rate of some 3.5 billion pounds a year. Without bold international regulation, the great hunt cannot last much longer, because the tuna is being driven to extinction.
Everything Comes Eventually
An Atlantic "First"
Washington
Searching for the Real Nixon Scandal: A Last Inference
From December 1976
The Trouble With Professors
Can faculty members be trusted to put the larger aims of their institutions ahead of narrow self-interest, particularly when the issue is job security or curriculum reform? No, said former Bennington College president Gail Thain Parker in the September Atlantic. What follows is a sampling of responses to that article, from some educators who share Parker’s gloomy vision, and from some who don’t.
