July 1971
In This Issue
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Articles
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Gift Horse
The Dark Night of Resistance
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Paths Through the Forest
Across the Top of the World
Across the Top of the World
Ready for the Defense
The Whirligig of Time
Hell House
The Art of the Dark Ages
The Book of Nightmares
Birds of America
Suez
Innocent Bystander: High Wind on Madison Avenue
Contributors
Of Cows and Cambodia
The Editor's Page
I. Into the Cage
Ii. Out of the Machine
... a day had to come when women shattered the pearl of their love for pristine and feminine will and found the man, yes that man in the million who could become the point of the seed which would give an egg back to nature, and let the woman return with a babe who came from the root of God’s desire. . . .
Norman Mailer, THE PRISONER OF SEXMail at Your New Address
Confessions of a Stockbroker
Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows
Laos
In the Old Camp
As you can see, these deal with chickens of the old sort, raised on dirt rather than in wire cages. Chickens were more interesting then, although not much.
Sailing
Paths
Nixonomics: How the Game Plan Went Wrong
Nixonomics means that all the things that should go up - the stock market, corporate profits, real spendable income, productivity—go down, and all the things that should go down—unemployment, prices, interest rates— go up.— Lawrence F. O’Brien, chairman of theDemocratic National Committee, onMay 21, 1970.
John Connally Nixon's New Quarterback: "Are We One of You, or Are You One of Us?"
Proust: A Prophet Remembered: B. July 10, 1871
The Rolls-Royce of Composers
Making Out vs. Talking It Out
