May 1971

Articles

• The Obsolescent Mother

  Is the artificial womb inevitable?

  Edward Grossman

• Big Bird, Meet Dick and Jane

  A critique of Sesame Street

  John Holt

• Moving Toward the Clonal Man

  Is this what we want?

  James D. Watson

• Out of Reach of All the Glory

  From 1927 to 1939, Wes Ferrell was a pitcher with Cleveland, the Yankees, and the Red Sox. In this interview he tells what it was like to face some of the great hitters as well as to stand in the batter's box.

  Donald Honig

• Mick Jagger Shoots Birds

  The Beatles don’t exist anymore. You’ve got to get it through your heads. There’s only us. —Mick Jagger

  Sara Davidson

• Broadway's Banner Years

  Louis Kronenberger

• A Crucifix of Sugar

  Robert Evett

• The Lure of the Surf

  Nelson Bryant

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Bell Jar

• The Bell Jar

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Female Eunuch

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Medieval Bestiary

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Negroes and the Jews

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The White Dawn

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Mf

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Carrington

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Photographs

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Smith's Gazelle

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Untitled

• South Vietnam: The Tran Ngoc Chau Affair

  Elizabeth Pond

• Innocent Bystander: In the Heart of Downtown 1935

  L. E. Sissman

• The Editor's Page

• Lunches With Luce

  Gerald Holland

• Washington

  Elizabeth Drew

• Outfox the Fellow in the Bright Nightgown

• I. Debts

  Grace Paley

• Ii. Wants

  Grace Paley

• Gedaliah

  Alfred Kazin

• Standing Fast: Fox Into Hedgehog

  Peter Davison

• Welcome to Charnel Castle

  J. P. Donleavy

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