June 1990
In This Issue
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Articles
Inside the Collapsing Soviet Economy
What Kind of Democracy?
At a time when citizens in Eastern Europe and elsewhere were demanding the right to self-determination and converting their governments to democracies, a social scientist considered the degree to which civil liberties within a democracy require protection.
Untroubled Brewing: Ways to Improve Your Coffee
An Intellectual and Emotional Adventure
Populism in the Age of Celebrity
Coleridge: Early Visions
The Suitcase
Steinlen's Cats
Three Behaim Boys
Mozart in Vienna
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Tuning the Rig
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 June Almanac
Notes: New Findings
Hold on to your hat
New York City: Subway Orpheus
The unpredictable pleasures of a busker’s life
Politics: Interracial Coalitions
“New moderation" doesn’t account for the dramatic gains that black politicians made in the last elections
Cuba: Succeeding Castro
Will Cuba’s revolutionary hero share the fate of other Communist leaders?
Biotechnology: Getting the Bugs Out
Genetic engineering is a stunningly ingenious process. But should genetically altered bacteria, for all their usefulness, be let outside?
Growing Up Scared
Spurred on by family instability, violent crime now touches millions of young lives. The control of crime in the streets, in the schools, and in the home ought to be the pre-eminent “children’s issue”
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Mother's Day
Westward Without Clementine
This wasn’t any way to go through life, meeting her naked, boom in love, boom broken up
The Affect of Elms
