December 1971
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Articles
More About i.q
Herewith a sampling of reader response to R. J. Herrnstein’s discussion of Intelligence, Heritability, and Environment in the September Atlantic.
Georgia O'Keeffe at Eighty-Four
‘’Imagine owning turkeys who appreciate the genius of Monteverdi.”
Give Me Back My Rags
The Fingerers Fingered
Over the Waves
Visions of the End
The Peripatetic Reviewer
In a Free State
Bruegel
Cities in the Sea
Fillets of Plaice
Academic Graffiti
Body Time
Touch the Earth
The Fourth World of the Hopis
Tolstoy, My Father
Sliprock
Dreams of a Young Girl
Cosmopolitan World Atlas
Rabbit Redux
East Pakistan
The Editor's Page
Innocent Bystander: Presenting the Next Great Western Movie
Contributors
In the City of Power
The Education of a Senator
“I said it in 1956, and I still say it. Our policy has been weak against the strong and strong against the weak. But I see things now that I didn’t see before.” So says Stuart Symington, who started his Washington career as a Pentagon superhawk and some thirty years later finds himself a Senate dove.
Marrakech
Three Washington Stories
On Satirizing Presidents: An Interview With Philip Roth
Philip Roth’s new book is called Our Gang, and its central character is a President named Trick E. Dixon, whose residency in the White House ends abruptly when he is assassinated and stuffed into a baggie. After having written it, but prior to publication, the author was asked by Alan Lelchuk to address himself to fundamental questions about the uses of satire, and also to anticipate the controversy and cries of outrage that would arise when a serious writer attacked and ridiculed the President of the United States in a relatively unused literary genre.
American Christmas
The Animals
Warning: The Chain Saw Cometh
“The timber industry is not worrying much about the wildlife on Admiralty Island or anywhere else ...” and unless there is a potent public outcry, the U.S. Forest Service is about to preside over the destruction of the largest stand of virgin forest in the United States.
