August 1973
In This Issue
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Articles
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Winner Lose All
Peary at the North Pole
Facing the Lions
The Ungodly
Letters From Sardis
The Stone Baby
Borges on Writing
The Age of Arthur
Casablanca
Shakespeare the Man
Equal Danger
Starting Over
Klagenfurt, Austria
Innocent Bystander: Elephantiasis
The Jewish Princess
The year is 1956. Norma Jean Baker has long since blossomed into Marilyn Monroe, “every man’s love affair with America.” She is making some of her best movies, is about to star with Olivier and Gable, has plunged impressively into “method acting” at Lee Strasberg’s Actors Studio. Her marriage to Joe DiMaggio has come to an end, and she is courting Arthur Miller, the playwright. An improbable affair becomes headlinegrabbingly probable. Miller, engaged in combat with the Red hunters of the House Un-American Activities Committee, is fighting to get his passport from the U.S. Government. Here, in an excerpt from a fascinating biography, a great writer tells much about actors and acting, about Hollywood, about sexuality in America, about an ill-starred marriage, and the doomed princess of sex.
The Editor's Page
Miriamu and the King
The Order
The Pentagon Papers Trial
A Watergate Diary: Notes of a Washington Correspondent During the Month of May, 1973
Nietzsche Would Have Been a Great Dart Player
‟DARTS, a predominantly British game played by throwing darts at a circular numbered board. The board is divided by thin wires into 20 sectors, valued at points ranging from l to 20. A narrow outer ring running through all sectors doubles the value of the sector for the dart thrown into that part of the sector and a narrow inner ring triples it, while the bull’s eye itself has a small outer ring worth 25 points, the inner circle worth 50 points. Throwing is free style from 8 to 9 feet away, with the center of the board 5 feet 8 inches from the ground.
The Economics of the American Housewife
The servant role of women, says a notable Harvard economist, is an unstated assumption of most current thinking about “the modern economy.” How women can be emancipated—and the likely consequences of such a drastic rearrangement of our society—is discussed in the essay that follows.
Estrangement
Journal of a Plague Year
The Lonely Calm
Walter Clark's Frontier
Cara Theresa
