February 1962
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Articles
While I'm Away
RIXFORD KNIGHT,who is now living in Ayers Cliff, Quebec, has supplied many light essays for Accent on Living.
The Indestructible Electric
KEN W. PURDY is widely known for Ins writing on motoring subjects. His book KINGS OF THE ROAD is a standard work on the automobiles of bygone days. Mr. Purdy here presents some technical information about the modern electric automobile, whose other characteristics he reported in Accent last month.
Barbados
They Shall Have Music
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
Red China
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
Correction
In Time of Trial
‟The trial we face today,” says BARBARA WARD,‟is to out dream the Communist visionaries, outwork the Communist fanatics, and outdare the voices of defeatism within our own society.” Author and lecturer on international affairs. Barbara Ward has tired in Ghana for the past five years and makes frequent trips to the United States. Her new book, THE RICH ACTIONS AND THE POOR NATIONS,will soon be published.
New York in the Twenties
SIR OSBERT SITWELL’Sfive volumes of reminiscences, which were published in this country under the AtlanticLittle, Brown imprint, stand as a unique monument to Victorian and Edwardian England. Recently he has been at work on a new book, about his father, TALES MY FATHER TAUGHT ME. In the following essay he gives us a glimpse of what New york was like in the late twenties, before the Depression cast its shadow.
Contingencies
Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY and THE LIBERAL HOUR, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH is now the United States Ambassador in India. He, made these forthright remarks at Annamalai University, where he received an honorary degree.
Dissent in a Free Society
Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY and THE LIBERAL HOUR, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH is now the United States Ambassador in India. He, made these forthright remarks at Annamalai University, where he received an honorary degree.
Beware, Madam!
Gaston
Author of MY NAME IS ARAM, MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS, THE HUMAN COMEDY, and THE YULE RIDER IN BEVERLY HILLS, WILLIAM SAROYAN has been tenting since he teas thirteen years old and has published almost forty books and plays, He refused the Pulitzer Prize for THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE but accepted the Drama Critics Circle Award for the same play ‟because there was no money invoiced
Eichmann and the Private Conscience
MARTIIA GELLIIORN,who was present at the Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, here reports on some of the facts and some of the lessons to be learned from this Trial,which is unique in the history of the world.
London
At the Hemingways: Ernest Returns From War
BY MARCELLINE HEMINGWAY SANFORDIn .June of 1917, Ernest Hemingway graduated from Oak Park High School in the same class with his older sister Marcelline. All thoughts of college had been driven from his mind hv the war. Ernest’s efforts to enlist, what the family heard from him, the wounds which he received in Italy, and the long, sometimes restive convalescence which he submitted to at home are here described in affectionate detail. This is the third installment to be drawn from Mrs. Sanford’s family portrait, AT THIS HEMINGWAYS,which will shortly be published by Atlantic, Little-Brown.
O. K. Balogun
The daughter of the Canon Residentiary of Chichester Cathedral, VIRGINIA. BNOWNE-WILKINSON has taught at an English university and, very recently, at a university in Nigeria. She is non) at work on a novel and has given up her lecturing in order to devote full time to tenting. This is her first appearance in the ATLANTIC.
Saint Joan
There is every evidence of an increasing interest in ATLANTIC poetry. Is an incentive for writers yet unestablished. twice a year ice set aside a number of pages in the ATLANTIC to be devoted to the work of young poets.
Death of a War Dog
To Landladies in General and Mine in Particular
The Body of a Murdered Wetback Is Found by Children in an Orange Grove
Though I Am One
In honor of Imre Nagy, executed for treason against the state
In the Year of the Drought
Slums and Schools
While he teas still president of Harvard University, James Bryant Conant took an active interest in improving onr public schools. His latest book, SLUMS AND SUBURBS,is his best and most courageous, and for an evaluation of it we turn to AGNES E. MEYER, herself a staunch defender of public schools.
The Limits of Defense
The arms rare with nuclear weapons is the central and most terrifying reality we live with today. What are the true limits of our national defense, and what hope is there for a rational alternative to war? A graduate of Johns Hopkins. ARTHUR I. WASKOW served as legislative assistant la Congressman Robert W. Kastenmeier of Wisconsin from 1959 to 1961. The following study will form part of his new hook, to he published by Doubleday.
Grapes Is Grapes?
