May 1989
In This Issue
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Articles
Containing Japan
Japan's one-sided trading will make the U.S.-Japanese partnership impossible to sustain—unless we impose limits on its economy.
The Road Through Miyama
The Paintingsok Noel Coward
More Like Us: Making America Great Again
Acrostic No. 46
The Puzzler
Edward A. Weeks: 1898-1989
The May Almanac
Notes: Whodunit?
Health: Order on the Couch
A major new psychiatric reference work is soon to be unveiled, and its potential consequences make many therapists uneasy
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
An ancient and, to some, mysterious faith is enjoying new vitality in America
Contributors
Only Alice
Esther
Victim of Himself
Reactionary Rhetoric
Unwilling to argue directly against reform, opponents of progressive impulses in society have attempted to show instead that reformist measures will invariably have effects that are contrary to the ones intended
Crocuses
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman
Iq and Falling Birth Rates
Bright, well-educated A merican women of all races are having fewer children, a phenomenon the author believes may affect national productivity and the gene pool
In Galway's Fair City
This old seaport can be the ideal centerpiece of a trip to Ireland
Birding by the Numbers
In pursuit of a record number of bird species seen in a single year
The Saddest Englishman
World Statement
Born-Again First Novels
The Progress of the Seasons
Flaubert
The Blooding
