December 1988

Articles

• No Hard Feelings?

  The aftereffects of the Vietnam War mean much more to us than to the Vietnamese, whose concern is tending to business

  James Fallows

• Word Histories: Etymologies Derived From the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English

  Craig M. Carver

• The December Almanac

• Notes: The Way We Were

  Cullen Murphy

• Washington: Hide and Seek

  The Census Bureau can count people who it can’t prove exist. One day it may not have to count at all

  Brad Edmondson

• Williamsburg: Revising Colonial America

  Harsh historical truths transform a historical landmark

  Fergus M. Bordewich

• The Unfinished War

  A product of the conflicting ambitions of the men who shaped it, the War on Poverty was ill-fated—but its fate need not be that of all anti-poverty programs

  Nicholas Lemann

• Contributors

• The Bridge of Sighs

  Steve Orlen

• Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass

  A short story

  Alice Munro

• Powers of Congress

  Alice Fulton

• À La Française

  Guy Billout

• Not Log Cabins: Timber Framing Is an Innovative Alternative to Stud Framing

  Philip Langdon

• Cook Pork Pink: No Matter What Your Mother Used to Say

  Corby Kummer

• Fun With Kurt and Bert

  Paul Hoffman

• Memories of Amnesia

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Captain and the Enemy

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The First Salute

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Nagle Journal

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Alexandre Dumas

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Mezzanine

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 41

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

Get the digital edition of this issue.

Subscribers can access PDF versions of every issue in The Atlantic archive. When you subscribe, you’ll not only enjoy all of The Atlantic’s writing, past and present; you’ll also be supporting a bright future for our journalism.

SubscribeAlready a subscriber? Sign In