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The Atlantic Monthly, October 1984, pp. 4-25

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      1. The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel
      2. Magnificence and Misery by E. Hazard Wells
      3. The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
      4. Pastels: From the 16th to the 20th Century by Genevieve Monnier
      5. George Bancroft: The Intellectual as Democrat by Lilian Handlin
      6. Landscapes of the Night by Christopher Evans
      7. The Only Problem by Muriel Spark
      8. The Origins of English Words by Joseph T. Shipley
      9. The Annotated Casey at the Bat by Martin Gardner
    21. The Atlantic Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, pp. 116-118
    22. Cover illustration by Gerard Huerta
  9. [+]
    September 1984 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 5-15
    2. Reports & Comment by Cullen Murphy, pp. 16-17
    3. Fresno: Number 277 by Sanford J. Ungar, pp. 18-25
    4. Washington: The Culture of Poverty by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 26-41
    5. Blow Dry by Jill Crane, pp. 42-44
    6. The American House by Philip Langdon, pp. 45-74
    7. The State of Poetry by Leonard Wolf, p. 75
    8. The Attack of the Zombie Poets by Jack Butler, p. 76
    9. The Poem by Mark Strand, p. 77
    10. Last Infirmity by Peter Davison, p. 77
    11. The Attack on the Liberty by Hirsh Goodman and Zeev Schiff, pp. 78-85
    12. The Poor Are Always With us by Tobias Wolff, pp. 86-90
    13. First Encounters by Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel, p. 91
    14. The Democrats' Coming Civil War Over Industrial Policy by Simon Lazarus and Robert E. Litan, pp. 92-96
    15. Santo by James Merrill, pp. 97-109
    16. Travel: Stopping at the Savoy by Holly Brubach, pp. 110-113
    17. Computers: Appropriate Technology by James Fallows, pp. 114-117
    18. Music: The Art of Memory by Richard Sennett, pp. 118-120
    19. [+]
      The Pulse of Capitalism by David M. Gordon, pp. 121-123 - 1 Review
      1. The Long Wave Cycle by Nikolai Kondratieff
    20. [+]
      Son of the Gulag by Bernard Levin, pp. 124-127 - 1 Review
      1. Solzhenitsyn: A Biography by Michael Scammell
    21. [+]
      Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams, pp. 128-131 - 8 Reviews
      1. Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
      2. The Birth of Neurosis by George F. Drinka
      3. The Suburbs of Hell by Randolph Stow
      4. False Dawn by Louis Auchincloss
      5. The Ghosts of Nantucket by Blue Balliett
      6. The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
      7. Stories for Lesley by Robert Frost
      8. Hilaire Belloc: A Biography by A.N. Wilson
    22. The Atlantic Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, pp. 132-134
    23. Cover illustration by Robert Giusti
  10. [+]
    October 1984 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 4-25
    2. Reports & Comment by Cullen Murphy, pp. 26-28
    3. Energy: The Economics of Contamination by Carole Douglis, pp. 29-31
    4. Notes: Rarity by Nicholson Baker, pp. 32-39
    5. Technology: Lie Detectors by Stephen Budiansky, pp. 40-45
    6. The Week in Review by Nicholas Falletta, pp. 46-48
    7. Beyond Demographics by James Atlas, pp. 49-59
    8. The Small Things That Save Us by Brent Spencer, pp. 60-68
    9. Hawk Music by Leslie Norris, pp. 69-70
    10. The Peacetime War by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 71-89
    11. Still Life by Jonathan Galassi, pp. 90-94
    12. Seasons by Guy Billout, p. 95
    13. "I Don't Believe This" by Merrill Joan Gerber, pp. 96-102
    14. Travel: The Pleasures of the Plaza by Wendy Lowe, pp. 103-107
    15. Movies: Tumoresque by Lloyd Rose, pp. 108-109
    16. Food: Kitchen Machines by James Goldman and Barbara Goldman, pp. 110-113
    17. [+]
      The Supreme Partnership by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., pp. 114-120 - 1 Review
      1. Churchill and Roosevelt: the Complete Correspondence by Warren F. Kimball, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, ...
    18. [+]
      Are Blacks Better Off Today? by Bayard Rustin, pp. 121-122 - 1 Review
      1. The Myth of Black Progress by Alphonso Pinkney
    19. [+]
      The Other America Revisited by Tom Wicker, pp. 123-125 - 1 Review
      1. The New American Poverty by Michael Harrington
    20. [+]
      Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams, pp. 126-129 - 8 Reviews
      1. Son of the Morning Star by Evan S. Connell
      2. Encounters with Chinese Writers by Annie Dillard
      3. Harland's Half Acre by David Malouf
      4. Stranger on the Square by Arthur Koestler and Cynthia Koestler
      5. Songs of the Garden by Utamaro Kitagawa
      6. Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman
      7. The Weaker Vessel by Antonia Fraser
      8. A Stranger in My House by Walter Reich
    21. The Atlantic Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, pp. 130-132
    22. Cover illustration by Seymour Chwast
  11. [+]
    November 1984 Issue = 22 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-21
    2. Reports & Comment by Cullen Murphy, pp. 22-25
    3. Military Strategy: The Lessons of Conflict by David Evans and Richard Campany, pp. 26-33
    4. Thailand: The Domino That Didn't Fall by Charles Murray, pp. 34-49
    5. M.D. by D.V. by Polly Frost and Michael Silverblatt, pp. 50-52
    6. Nuclear Winter and Nuclear Strategy by Thomas Powers, pp. 53-59
    7. The Path Into Night by Kathleen Spivack, pp. 60-92
    8. Scholarship Versus Culture by Jacques Barzun, pp. 93-99
    9. Sentences for a Friend Snowed In by James Galvin, pp. 100-105
    10. The Comedian by John L'Heureux, pp. 106-112
    11. MTM's Past and Future by David Marc, pp. 113-120
    12. First Encounters by Edward Sorel and Nancy Caldwell Sorel, p. 121
    13. The Search for Life on Other Planets by Robert P. Chase and Charles C. Mann, pp. 122-125
    14. Pilgrims' Progress by Robert Clinton, pp. 126-128
    15. Photography: Arbus in Wonderland by Hal Hinson, pp. 129-131
    16. [+]
      Movies: Forsyth's Travels by Terrence Rafferty, pp. 132-133 - 1 Review
      1. Comfort and Joy (1984 Film) by Bill Forsyth
    17. Music: Romantic Longings by Annalyn Swan, pp. 134-137
    18. [+]
      A Don Juan Among the Intelligentsia by James Atlas, pp. 138-140 - 2 Reviews
      1. Experiment in Autobiography by H.G. Wells
      2. H.G. Wells in Love by George Philip Wells and H.G. Wells
    19. [+]
      The Malaise of Modernity by Mark Crispin Miller, pp. 141-147 - 1 Review
      1. The Minimal Self by Christopher Lasch
    20. [+]
      Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams, pp. 148-151 - 8 Reviews
      1. 1982, Janine~~Nineteen Eighty-Two, Janine by Alasdair Gray
      2. Unlikely Stories, Mostly by Alasdair Gray
      3. The House of Nire by Morio Kita
      4. What's to Become of the Boy? by Heinrich Boll
      5. Gilgamesh by John Gardner and John R. Maier
      6. Half Moon Street by Paul Theroux
      7. The Leaning Tower of Babel by Richard Mitchell
      8. Omnibooth by George Booth
    21. The Atlantic Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, pp. 152-154
    22. Cover illustration by Robert Giusti
  12. [+]
    December 1984 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Letters to the Editor, pp. 7-23
    2. Reports & Comment by Zhao Ziyang, pp. 24-27
    3. A Reponse by Patrick G. Maddox, pp. 28-31
    4. Medicine: Marketing an Operation by Thomas A. Preston, M.D., pp. 32-39
    5. Notes: Ms. Buxley? by Cullen Murphy, pp. 40-43
    6. Turkey: From Anarchy to Modernity by Fergus Bordewich, pp. 44-54
    7. What You Personally Can Do About the Federal Deficit by Roy Blount, Jr., pp. 55-56
    8. What's Wrong With Congress by Gregg Easterbrook, pp. 57-79
    9. Emerson Elementary by Sharon Bryan, pp. 80-87
    10. Emperor of the Air by Ethan Canin, pp. 88-93
    11. "My Master Is My Purse" by Connie Bruck, pp. 94-110
    12. Drought by Guy Billout, pp. 111-112
    13. Profit Versus Excitement by John D. Spooner, pp. 113-114
    14. II. A High-Risk Numbers Game by William Lanouette, p. 115
    15. Snake Lake by Thomas Lux, pp. 116-120
    16. Music: The Passion of Stephen Sondheim by Stephen Holden, pp. 121-123
    17. Movies: Our Greatest Invisible Actor by Lloyd Rose, pp. 124-127
    18. [+]
      The Heroes of Capitalism by Nicholas Lemann, pp. 128-131 - 1 Review
      1. The Spirit of Enterprise by George F. Gilder
    19. [+]
      A Modern Whitman by James Atlas, pp. 132-135 - 1 Review
      1. Collected Poems, 1947-1980 by Allen Ginsberg
    20. [+]
      What Good Is Arms Control? by James Fallows, pp. 136-140 - 1 Review
      1. Deadly Gambits by Strobe Talbott
    21. [+]
      The Cost of Servitude by Eugene Genovese, pp. 141-144 - 1 Review
      1. Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis
    22. [+]
      Brief Reviews by Phoebe-Lou Adams, pp. 145-150 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Fateful Alliance by George F. Kennan
      2. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
      3. The Dark Brain of Piranesi, and Other Essays by Marguerite Yourcenar
      4. Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children by Judith Martin
      5. Karl Bodmer's America by David C. Hunt, Marsha V. Gallagher, and Karl Bodmer, ...
      6. Digs by Bette Pesetsky
      7. The Sketchbooks of Hiroshige by Sherman E. Lee and Hiroshige Ando
    23. The Atlantic Puzzler by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, pp. 151-154
    24. Cover illustration by Michael C. Witte
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