July 1972
In This Issue
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Articles
Italy
Innocent Bystander: "Never Such Innocence": July, 1914
Contributors
A Light That Failed
"Top Secret"
Top Secret: The Prophecy the President Rejected: How Valid Are the Assumptions Underlying Our Viet-Nam Policies?
The Editor's Page
The War in the Back Seat
In those days, nice girls didn’t lead on the dance floor, or . . .
Old Girl
Science: A Technocratic Trap
The day of the great lone wolves, embattled heretics, and outsiders—the Faradays, the Galileos, the Pasteurs, toiling away in modest laboratories and private garrets with makeshift equipment— is gone. Bigness, thickly structured professionalism, and governmentcorporation subvention have become indispensable to the progress of both research and development.
France
The Dreamer, the Dream
The Renoirs in the Delicatessen: And Other Notes From the Diary of an Art Dealer
Aging in the Land of the Young
What burden are years if you have lived no more than thirty? The author has searched for answers from friends and strangers twice and three times her age, and writes of what it is like to learn the feeling of no longer growing, in a culture that worships youth.
The Last Laugh
One's Twenty-Fifth
The British Novel Lives
Listen to Painting
A La Recherche Du Pain Perdu
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Nixons
The Levanter
Meditations on Hunting
Enemies, a Love Story
Of Mosquitoes, Moths, and Mice
Police in Trouble
Police in Trouble
Coco Chanel
The Fifth World of Forster Bennett
Lillian Hellman
Gustav Klimt
Shaft Among the Jews
Private Faces/Public Places
