September 1988
In This Issue
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Articles
Driven Toward God
The eight-year war has transformed and enhanced the role of Islam, but Afghanistan is not another Iran
The Puzzler
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.
The September Almanac
Notes: Time, Please
Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember
Afghanistan: Driven Toward God
The eight-year war has transformed and enhanced the role of Islam, but Afghanistan is not another Iran
Environment: Fighting for Cleaner Air
The use of automobiles must be regulated if Los Angeles is to win its war against smog
Washington: The Fifth Man
A reflection, prompted by an obituary, on a famous episode in the annals of espionage
The Wind Rewound
Chronic Anxiety and Defining a Self
An introduction to family systems theory, which, unlike psychoanalysis, sees human beings —young or old, married or single—as elements in a structure of interlocking relationships rather than as autonomous psychological entities
Contributors
MARK THOMPSON (“Environment: Fighting for Cleaner Air”) is a senior writer for California Lawyer He has contributed to Science 85, The Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Wall Street Journal.
Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell
Fenstad's Mother
Swallow
Rediscovering Complexity
A handful of American thinkers several decades ago sought to revitalize political liberalism by ridding it of platitudes and cant, and instilling an appreciation of the real world’s contrarieties. Over the years this critique of liberalism has been distorted and misinterpreted, and in our own time it has been used—wrongly—to justify the attitudes and policies called to mind by the term “neoconservative.”It is time, the author argues, to recover the original ideas.
Bons Voyages: Sailing Through Paradise, or French Polynesia
The Return of the Shag: Languid, Sensual Steps to Rhythm and Blues Are Newly Popular
Tomato Sauce: What to Do During the Annual Tomato Rush
When East Met West
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The Hipness Unto Death
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I, Eve
Jean Stafford: A Biography
Northern Light
Wheat That Springeth Green
Musui's Story
The Village of Waiting
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