July 1975
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Articles
Innocent Bystander: The First Time I Saw Paris
How Much Does Freedom Matter?
The men most responsible for making American foreign policy in the last three decades no longer think that policy successful, or no longer think it honorable, or no longer think it can be successfully defended. They are still in place, “but they are mostly immobilized,”says the author of this article. And that is why a dismal silence afflicts the American scene.
The Editor's Page
A Good View From Flagstaff
There Are More Things: To the Memory of H. P. Lovecraft
Misery on the Orient Express
Roughing it from Paris to Istanbul.
Williams for the Defense: The Trial of John Connally
Edward Bennett Williams prances and preens, whispers, shouts, arches his eyebrows, and in the end intones: “The government has no case. Its case is in shambles.”The jury agrees. And John Connally—whose political career was widely thought to be over—is a free man with a bright future.
Indonesia
Sweet and Sour
WARNING: The Surgeon General May Someday Determine That Sugar Consumption Is Dangerous To Your Health
A Performance of Bartķk's Second Piano Concerto
The One-Man Flying Multinational: Part Ii: Armand Hammer Tries Harder
Can a onetime bargain-basement art promoter who strikes it rich in a deserted gas field out west find happiness in the coiling intrigue of international trade? Why, yes. But sometimes big deals move on greased wheels and sometimes they run head on into power politics—such as the Arabs’ quadrupling of the price of oil, and the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t state of Soviet-American détente.
Of Politics and Class
At the N*w Y*rker. Here and There
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Enchanters
Maine Lingo
Circles and Standing Stones
American Food
Moment of Freedom
First Love, Last Rites
George Eliot: The Emergent Self
Lovecraft at Last
Richard Dadd
Mammals of the World
Katia Mann: Unwritten Memories
Perspective
