January 1978
In This Issue
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Articles
Poland: A Culture in Hiding
Poles are united in quiet protest against a system of government that seems at best irrelevant, at worst oppressive.
Party of One: Equality's Uneven Hand
The Canniness of the Long-Distance Runner
“People who stand for an idea that has energy connected with it that’s power,”says the governor of California. Whatever power is, Jerry Brown wants more of it.
The Editor's Page
Home Is the Hero
On the road he saw a jogger moving toward him, a man with a blue band tied around his head. The man slowed down as Dubin halted. “What are you running for?" the biographer asked. “All I can’t stand to do. What about you?" “Broken heart. I think.”"Ah, too bad for that.”They trotted away from each other.
The Absence of Light
The Urban Farm
Old MacDonald had a house. And in that house he had solar panels, honey bees, a graywater system, rabbits, a Clivus Multrum, chickens, a Savonius rotor. . . .
Washington: A Town With a Memory
The Carter Administration follows no precedents, and Washington still doesn’t know what to make of him, or it.
Who Killed Hollywood?
“They weren’t making my kind of movies anymore"—so the author decided to write one himself. And thus began his education in a cutthroat industry made up of “highly motivated, good, sweet, kind, lovable, brilliant, and highly cultured people.”
The Question
More About the Bakke Case
In the November Atlantic, McGeorge Bundy argued that educational institutions must be free to consider the race of their applicants as a qualification for admission, and urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the use of “affirmative action" aimed explicitly at helping racial minorities. Here is a selection of responses to that article, many of them edited in the interests of brevity and variety.
The Champ
Equinoctial
Other People's Houses
The New Big One
Filming the Unknown
Two Reporters: At Peace and War
Le Bestiaire Ou Cortège d'Orphée
The Violins of Saint-Jacques
My Life and Times With Mr. Anonymous
The Tall Stones
Byron's Letters and Journals
Gnomes
Treasures of Irish Art 1500 b.c-1500 a.d
The River Congo
The Miraculous Journey of Mahomet With Introduction and Commentaries
Three Alexander Calders
The Atlantic Puzzler
