May 1981
In This Issue
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Articles
Your Transit Commission
America's High-Tech Weaponry
Million-dollar missiles, broken black boxes, and the phantom fleet
Look Homeward, Angel
Betrayal on the Left
Crows
A poem
A Father Figure for the Avant-Garde
La Monte Young’s influence has been felt in “free"jazz, punk rock, and serious modern composing
Pastoral
The Yellow Banana
A Conversation With Garrett Hardin
An American biologist explains his controversial view that feeding starving countries will ultimately harm them
Night Blooming Flowers
The Wines of the Great Plains
America the Comfortable
Variations on the Sonata
Public Philosopher
Basin and Range
Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979
The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America
The Terror Network
Sweetsir
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Harbor of Refuge
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917-1961
Sand Rivers
The Chaneysville Incident
The Conquest of the North Atlantic
Under the North Star
Reflex
The Road to Haworth
The Genius of George Washington
Gulbadan
New England Reflections: 1882-1907
The Atlantic Puzzler
Wyoming: The Solace of Open Spaces
Wyoming’s sweeping landscape may be the “doing of a mad architect, ” but for the state’s 470,000 residents, vastness is all
