February 1967
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Articles
Kilmainham Gaol: Monument to the Rising
How nostalgia and the tourist trade have put a new sheen on the site of much history and human agony is detailed in this small confection from DUBLIN,a new book by the distinguished English critic and novelist, to be published in the fall by Harper & Row.
Return to Paradise
Even for those born too late to experience the twenties in American history, those days have come to be associated with the “twenties” in our lives, says Mr. Wakefield in this study of the lives and times of the many writers who populate the pages of John Dos Passos ’ newly published memoir, THE BEST TIMES (New American Library).
Return to Paradise
Even for those born too late to experience the twenties in American history, those days have come to be associated with the “twenties” in our lives, says Mr. Wakefield in this study of the lives and times of the many writers who populate the pages of John Dos Passos ’ newly published memoir, THE BEST TIMES (New American Library).
Among the Cypresses at the End of the Way of the Cross
Twilight of the He-Man
The Variable Look
Critic and humorist for PUNCH magazine. R. G. G. PRICE appears frequently in Accent on Living.
No Greater Reward
PARKER H. KENDALL, who lives on Long Island, teaches in the New York schools, where the rewards are material as well as psychic.
She Does
Here We Go Gathering Nichols and May
RAY IRWIN is a former Midwesterner and graduate of the University of Minnesota who is now teaching at Syracuse University.
Inquisition of an Aphorist
Stratford-on-Avon
Once Around the "Ring"
The Philippines
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Reader's Choice
Potpourri
London
Can History Use Freud? The Case of Woodrow Wilson
The speculations of Sigmund Freud are the basis for THOMAS WOODROW WILSON: TWENTY-EIGHTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - A PSYGHOLOGICAL STUDY, just published by Houghton Mifflin. The book was written in 1932 in conjunction with the former diplomat William C. Bullitt, and withheld from publication until now. The odd, controversial volume, its values and its mischiefs, is here examined by the author of THE ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM, THE GUNS OF AUGUST,and THE PROUD TOWER.
Washington
The Labyrinth in Foggy Bottom: A Critique of the State Department
A widely traveled journalist and onetime aide to Adlai Stevenson, Mr. Attwood served the Kennedy Administration as Ambassador to Guinea (1961-1963), was Special Adviser to the United States UN delegation (1963-1964), and was President Johnson’s Ambassador to Kenya from the beginning of its independence until this year. He is now editor in chief of Cowles Communications, Inc. This article is drawn from his book THE REDS AND THE BLACKS, to be published in March by Harper Row.
What Culture? What Boom?
Henry S. Resnik is twenty-six, a native New Yorker, and a graduate of Yale.
Babe the Blue Ox
Mr. Fowles, born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1940, and a graduate of Loomis School, has traveled widely in the United States, Mexico, Europe, and India (where he held a Fulbright Scholarship) and has worked “at various mundane jobs.” He prefers writing.
Capitol Hill's Ugliness Club
The movement to assure architectural ugliness on Capitol Hill has the kind of support Washington lobbyists dream about, numbering among its adherents the Speaker of the House, the Senate Minority Leader, the House Minority Leader, the Vice President of the United States, and, of course the Architect of the Capitol. Curiosity inspired the author, a history major at Harvard College, to inquire into how the atrocities get committed.
After the Grand Union
Lloyd George: Britain's Great Radical
Long before he began to walk “the corridors of power ” in Great Britain, the eminent scientist-novelist Lord Snow came to know many influential Britons. Lloyd George picked him out of a dining room crowd at Antibes because “I thought you had an interesting head.” It was the beginning of a long intimacy, here recounted in one of nine sketches and profiles to be published in the spring by Scribner’s under the title VARIETY OF MEN. Next month the ATLANTIC will print Lord Snow’s recollections of the great mathematician G. H. Hardy.
On the Birthday of a Forgotten Poet
(For Chidiock Tichborne, executed on September 20, 1585, for his attempt to kill Queen Elizabeth)
The Election Fiesta in Ultra
This is the first published fiction of Mr. Griffith, a Tacoma-born journalist who is now senior staff editor of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE,and the other Luce publications. He is author of THE WAIST-HIGH CULTURE.
The Fight for America's Alps
What future do we want for what remains of wild America, and to whom shall it be entrusted? This question boils at the heart of conservation polities, and nowhere more hotly than in the growing controversy over the magnificent North Cascades in Washington. The author of this report on the tangled struggle over the Cascades’ future is editor in chief of Houghton Mifflin Company, a director of the Sierra Club, and the author of ROADLESS AREA.
