December 1971
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Articles
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Herewith a sampling of reader response to R. J. Herrnstein’s discussion of Intelligence, Heritability, and Environment in the September Atlantic.
Georgia O'Keeffe at Eighty-Four
‘’Imagine owning turkeys who appreciate the genius of Monteverdi.”
Give Me Back My Rags
The Fingerers Fingered
Over the Waves
Visions of the End
The Peripatetic Reviewer
In a Free State
Bruegel
Cities in the Sea
Fillets of Plaice
Academic Graffiti
Body Time
Touch the Earth
The Fourth World of the Hopis
Tolstoy, My Father
Sliprock
Dreams of a Young Girl
Cosmopolitan World Atlas
Rabbit Redux
East Pakistan
The Editor's Page
Innocent Bystander: Presenting the Next Great Western Movie
Contributors
In the City of Power
The Education of a Senator
“I said it in 1956, and I still say it. Our policy has been weak against the strong and strong against the weak. But I see things now that I didn’t see before.” So says Stuart Symington, who started his Washington career as a Pentagon superhawk and some thirty years later finds himself a Senate dove.
Marrakech
Three Washington Stories
On Satirizing Presidents
An interview with Philip Roth
American Christmas
The Animals
Warning: The Chain Saw Cometh
“The timber industry is not worrying much about the wildlife on Admiralty Island or anywhere else ...” and unless there is a potent public outcry, the U.S. Forest Service is about to preside over the destruction of the largest stand of virgin forest in the United States.
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