December 1977
In This Issue
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Articles
Trilobites
“I see a concrete patch in the street. It’s shaped like Florida, and I recollect what I wrote in Ginny’s yearbook: ‘We will live on mangoes and love.’”
Gaia: The Harmony of Our Sphere
The Scrolls
(A tale written after a late-night reading of The Book of Sand by Jorge Luis Borges)
Holy the Firm
Clearing the Air
The Ice Age
Blind Date
The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman
All Our Children/Haven in a Heartless World
The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh
Fat and Thin
Dylan Thomas
New Words for Old
An Autobiography
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
Garcia Lorca: Playwright and Poet
A Marriage of True Minds
The Professor Game
On His Kindness
Animals and Men
Untitled
The Atlantic Puzzler
Washington: Behind the Scenes
The ambassador from Panama . . . reorganizing the government . . . preserving Main Street
Guestmanship
The Editor's Page
Oh! Canada! Lament for a Divided Country
Christmas Roses
The Volunteer Army in Review
Its officers claim they have the best peacetime Army in history—but can it last?
Behold the Hunter
What is a man who in one week can be entranced by a Beethoven symphony, a Manet, a line of poetry, and in the next be equally caught up in following the trail of a wild animal through the snow-filled woods? An outdoorsman and writer offers this answer.
Great Moments in Architecture
In Memory of l.e. Sissman
The Handicapped: Hidden No Longer
The Last Mambo
