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December 1971 Issue
December 1971 Cover
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    Fred S. Fehr, David Elkind, Robert Paul Wolff, Donald A. Swan, Natalie Shainess, Robert A. Gordon, Raymond A. Bauer, Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Varda One, Michael A. Duniho, Arthur R. Jensen, Susan Brownmiller, S. S. Stevens, Glenn T. Wilson, David M. Gray, Nathan Hare, Daniel N. Robinson, James Q. Wilson, Gary D. Martin, and William F. Brazziel
  • Georgia O'Keeffe at Eighty-Four
    Leo Janos
  • Give Me Back My Rags
    Vasko Popa
  • The Fingerers Fingered
    Jessica Mitford
  • Over the Waves
    Louis Kronenberger
  • Visions of the End
    David Denby

Visions of the End

By David Denby
December 1971 Issue
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