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August 1974 Issue
August 1974 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.
  • Computers Aren’t So Smart, After All
    Fred Hapgood
  • The "Today" Show
    Raymond A. Sokolov
  • Innocent Bystander: Last Tango in London
    L. E. Sissman
  • Jerry Ford: The Eisenhower of the Seventies?
    Rowland Evans Jr. and Robert D. Novak
  • Nakedness
    John Updike
  • Whispered Into the Ground
    William Stafford
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Whispered Into the Ground

By William Stafford
August 1974 Issue
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