May 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
The Case for Dr. Kinsey
A review of two biographies of the controversial sex researcher
Notes on the New Journalism
The New Journalist is in the end less a journalist than an impresario. Tom Wolfe presents ... Phil Spector! Norman Mailer presents ... the Moon Shot!
Non Traveling
It Hurts to Look Back
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Closed Enterprise System
The Case History of Comrade V
The Lionheads
Antarctica
America, My Wilderness
The Dead of the House
A Woman of Feeling
The Edge of Impossibility
Victor Vasarely
Diaboliad and Other Stories
The Mystery of Things
The Party's Over
The Stone and the Violets
Ireland
Innocent Bystander: The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1872
Programmed for Disaster: The Story of Rca's $490 Million Computer Debacle
The Editor's Page
Outside Biba's
A Season at Middle-America U
“This used to be a reallv straight, conformist campus. Now everybody wears jeans and the blue work shirt,” —editor of the Post, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
On Opposing Communism
"Against Woodwaxen..."
In Another Country
Primaries and Opinion Polls
A Day
The War on Crime: The First Five Years
Nixon and Mitchell vowed to turn the tide. “Operation Intercept” and three years later, it’s their turn to face a fact of life: crime is rising, and law enforcement alone won’t stop it.
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
Father and Son
The Senate Observed: A Recollection
Where men are actors, part of a great public show. And where a student of personality may observe whatever it is that makes men strong or weak, driving or passive, hard or vulnerable.
The Way We Lived Then
Drug Laws Abroad
