September 1970
In This Issue
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Articles
Critics and the Public
When it comes to judging culture, there are very real questions of what should be reviewed and, of course, who should review it.
Bloody Ulster
"England must rule us, directly, totally," writes a former Ulsterman, who sees firm rule from London as the only hope for peace in tortured Northern Ireland.
On Being a Scientist
American Lingo
The End of the C. P. Snow Affair
The Critics and the Public
The Peripatetic Reviewer
J. M. Barrie
Greased Samba
Eagle in the Snow
Imaginations
The Disciple and His Devil
Butterflies of the Province
Island at the Center of the World
Destroy, She Said
Hogarth on High Life: Lichtenberg's Commentaries
The Human Animal
Geronimo: His Own Story
Going All the Way
Soldiers
Pesticides
Students in France
Zambia
The Vatican
A Theory of the Lower Class: Edward Banfield: The Maverick of Urbanology
“The lower-class individual lives in the slum and sees little or no reason to complain. He does not care how dirty and dilapidated his housing is either inside or out, nor does he mind the inadequacy of such public facilities as schools, parks, and libraries: indeed, where such things exist he destroys them by acts of vandalism if he can. Features that make the slum repellent to others actually please him. He finds it satisfying in several ways.”
—The Unheavenly City by Edward C. BanfieldFragments of an Interview in the Tenth Year of Exile
Exchanges
—being in the form of a dialogue with Joseph Trumbull Stickney (1874-1904)
"If Asia Were Clay in the Hands of the West": The Stilwell Mission to China, 1942-44
The Pilgrimage
Fresh Pond
Easyrider and Its Critics
Big Science Under Fire
Wartime breakthroughs carried science to new heights, and Russia’s first Sputnik opened wide the public purse. Now the broad enthusiasm and support for scientific research have given way to widespread animosity; these are lean times for universities and institutes that have drawn sustenance from scientific research. Here a Harvard historian examines the lovehate cycle and calls for “a new way of looking at science.” On page 101, a scientist-turnednovelist talks about the scientists themselves, how they think about their work, and what makes them different from nonscientists.
