October 1977
In This Issue
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Articles
The Gentle Art of Poverty
How to live in Southern California on $2000 a year
Other Voices, Other Tones
Daniel Martin
The Silmarillion
Song of Solomon
Robert Frost: Flic Work of Knowing
Case Studies in Medical Ethics
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
The Walnut Door
Sailor Historian
No Laughing Matter
Houses and Travellers
Twilight of the Old Order: 1774-1778
Lonely Vigil
A Time of Gifts
Lazarus
At Random
The Book of Cats
Carnival
The Atlantic Puzzler
Australia: Running Out of Luck
The Maltese Fruit
The separate segments are between snow-white and ivory in color and are covered with a delicate network of fibers and the side of each segment where it presses against its neighbor is translucent and slightly tinged with pale green. The texture of the mangosteen pulp much resembles that of a well-ripened plum, only it is so delicate that it melts in the mouth like a bit of ice cream. The flavor is quite indescribably delicious. There is nothing to mar the perfection of this fruit unless it be that the juice from, the rind forms an indelible stain on a wh ite napkin.
Polus Kholodo: The Coldest Place
Asking for Trouble in South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa, is not Birmingham, Alabama, and the practical lessons of the civil rights movement in the United States do not necessarily apply to a society of monolithic racism. So argues the author, who feels that current U.S. policy must take into account some intransigent aspects of South African society. Mr. Ball’s essay is followed on page 51 by a firsthand description of the facts of life under apartheid, from a South African journalist.
The Anatomy of White Power
Tobacco Men
Tinkering With Sunshine: The Prospects for Solar Energy
Oil grows scarcer and more expensive . . . nuclear power becomes increasingly controversial. But consider the sun. The world basks in an inexhaustible source of power, although the technology for using it hardly exists. At the moment solar energy is a field for visionary inventors and entrepreneurs hoping to build the Model T that will give birth to a new industry.
Mussels
I. Heart of Autumn
Ii. Dream
Iii. Ah, Anima!
Juvenile Dice: An Atlantic "First"
A Classic Confrontation
Fm Gabbai
