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February 1972 Issue
February 1972 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Nixon and the Square Majority: Is the Fox a Lion?
    Stewart Alsop
  • Ivan Galamian
    Faubion Bowers
  • Three Visionary Poets
    Peter Davison
  • The Peripatetic Reviewer
    Edward Weeks
  • The Scorpion God
    Phoebe Lou Adams
  • Not From the Apes
    Phoebe Lou Adams

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A Roman Spring

By Leslie Norris
February 1972 Issue
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