February 1978
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Articles
At Last, the Demise of Gaullism
On the eve of its national elections, France faces the end of two decades of political stability.
"The Arabs, Their Money ... and Ours"
If oil is $22 a barrel, does that mean $2 bread and 10 cent dollars? Do oil countries care about unemployment and inflation in the West? If USC fields a winning football team, will the Saudi Arabians be nicer to us? And what are they going to do with all that wealth? These are some of the many questions Adam Smith found himself asking when he traveled to the Middle East recently with the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Peru: The Mismanaged Revolution
Striving to combine social justice and economic growth , Peru’s revolutionary junta has both overspent and overpromised.
Robert Browning, Meet Johnny Carson
Correction
France: At Last, the Demise of Gaullism
On the eve of its national elections, France faces the end of two decades of political stability.
Lunch With T. S. Eliot
Here is another voyage into improbability from Fifty Lunches, the memoirs-in-the-making of an improbable person who calls himself Count H. Bibesco and asserts that he has broken bread and popped corks with most of the leading literary lights of the recent past and the present. At last report, Bibesco was suspended from his job as fencing teacher at an academy for young women in New England.
Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired
Of Writers and Class: In Praise of Edith Wharton
“It was an article of faith that no one in Society could ever be a writer”—and particularly not a woman. Both her sex and her social station have obscured the genius of Edith Wharton. According to the author, she should properly be ranked with Henry James as one of the “two great American masters of the novel.”
Orphanage Boy
A Field of Silence
On a Saturday morning in early September, she climbed the barnyard fence and strolled through the pasture. Stillness. The silence gathered and struck her and this is what she saw.
Midwinter Thaw
A Cultural Exchange
Equinoctial
A Day in the Country
One Nightmare, Two Daydreams
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945-1948
Just and Unjust Wars
Marina and Lee
True Confessions
Uncertain Greatness
Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self
Sergeant Getúlio
A Flann O'Brien Reader
The Last Caravan
Letters From the Field
Ada, Countess of Lovelace
I Hardly Knew You
The Maimie Papers
1066: The Year of the Conquest
The Village Indians of the Upper Missouri
Listening to Billie
The Atlantic Puzzler
