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September 1976 Issue
September 1976 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.
  • Vienna
    Frances Koltun
  • Party of One: Knowing Your Place
    Thomas Griffith
  • While Alma Mater Burns: Professors Fiddle, Trustees Temponze, Foundations Fumble
    Gail Thain Parker
  • East Asia: Our One-China Problem
    John K. Fairbank
  • Newly Discovered Poems of Ezra Pound
    James Laurence Laughlin
  • Three Shots for Charlie Retson
    Leslie Norris

A Fatal Slaying of the Very Worst Kind

Murder to the nth degree. Victim: the English language. Who did it? Just about everyone but the butler.

By Edwin Newman
September 1976 Issue
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