August 1977
In This Issue
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Articles
Getting Whitey
"The white is being paid back for years of portraying blacks in movies as simple, shiftless, and stupid, although occasionally faithful and brave as well"
Michigan: If Something Odd Happens . .
Turin: Nostalgic Communism
I Know It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, but I Hate It
Correction
The Politics of Fish
With the coming of the 200-mile limit, and the resulting scramble to establish fishing sovereignties, an ominous fact often gets overlooked: the worldwide catch has leveled off. Can the nations of the world learn to husband their undersea resources? Here is a firsthand view of the international fishing community as seen from the decks of a West German factory trawler.
The Hitchhiker
Memories
Lunch With Uncle Ez
The author describes himself as Count H. Bibesco, who teaches fencing at an academy for young women in the Wellesley, Massachusetts, area and is writing his memoirs, Fifty Lunches. He claims to have gained his title by way of parricide and he withholds other biographical data in order to avoid termination of his remittance from Rumania. A likely story!
Passage to a New India
The stunning defeat of Indira Gandhi’s Congress party may have signaled a new era, though poverty, inflation, and ideological strife remain to plague India. An Indian-born journalist returns home to find among his countrymen fresh hope and untested vitality.
Brazil: Letter From a Coffee Planter
How I Defeated the Germans
Two Night Poems
The Problem of Li T'ang
Coming to Grips
A Keeper of the Bees
The Naked Coward
I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Seuss the Reason Why I Cant Deduce
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Saville
The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Five Seasons: A Baseball Companion/a Season in the Sun
The Incompleat Angler
Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination
Charleston & Other Stories
Henry Moore Sculpture and Environment
The Newscasters
Building 6
Juan the Landless
Yukon Gold
The Ivankiad
Nabokov: His Life in Part
Ecology Out of Joint
Sweet Nothings
