April 1973

Articles

• The President and the Press

  “I was determined to tell my story directly to the people rather than to funnel it to them through a press account.” —Richard Nixon, Six Crises

  David Wise

• Proposition to a Perfect Stranger

  Jarold Ramsey

• The Last Laugh

  Fernando Krahn

• Cecil and Greta: A Love Story

  William Abrahams

• Psychic Farming: Country Books

  Richard Todd

• Media Orgy

  David Denby

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Hawk Is Dying

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Escape From the Shadows

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Digger's Game

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• No Neutral Ground

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Macaulay

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The White Island

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• A China Passage

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Young Winston's Wars

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• X-Raying the Pharaohs

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Fairy Tale

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

  Sanford J. Ungar

• Innocent Bystander: Gutenberg 7, McLuhan Tech. 0

  L. E. Sissman

• The Editor's Page

• Contributors

• The First Amendment on Trial: The Government, the Press, and the Public

  Charles Rembar

• Washington

  Elizabeth Drew

• Project for a Trip to China

  Susan Sontag

• Democracy in the Factory

  David Jenkins

• Two Poems

  Anna Akhmatova

• The Faithful

  James Alan McPherson

• A Very Good Puzzle

  Arthur Freeman

• Snake Clothes

  Ya Hsien

• Alternatives

  Alice Adams

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