September 1975
In This Issue
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Articles
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
Principled yet pragmatic, Lincoln's stand on slavery offers a basis for a new politics of civility that is at once anti-abortion and pro-choice
The Man Who Runs the Senate
Robert Byrd, a little-known, fiddle-playing West Virginian, is the Senate’s Democratic whip, probably its next majority leader, and just possibly a favorite son at the 1976 Democratic Convention. Says he: “I believe that a big man can make a small job important.” Some of his colleagues think Byrd also proves the converse: that big job can help a small man to grow.
Campaigning: Eugene McCarthy
Innocent Bystander: The A. J. Liebling Memorial Jeremiad
Composition
Room 635, Wing B
Jimmy Bignell's Sonnet
Millionaire
Poem for the Left and Right Hands
Where There's a Well..
Cuba
Pride of the Tiger: A Memoir
The Review
Moving Again
Dwarfs
In Switzerland
Peking: Heart of Asia
Memories of a Crazy Maionese Maker
A Fan's Note
Escaping False Categories
1776: Year of Illusions
George Sand
Nobody Makes Me Cry
The Fight
Kipling: The Glass, the Shadow and the Fire
Men of Maize
The Poisoned Kiss
The Mutiny on the Globe
Cockpit
Mary Cassatt
A Word Child
The Hatchet Man
The Great Railway Bazaar/the Unexpurgated Code/the Ultimate Athlete
