February 1983
In This Issue
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Articles
Washington: Less Red Ink
An argument that the balanced-budget amendment would be a rare merging of public and private interests.
Marginal Memoirs
A Useful Mirror
The Klamath Knot
Robert Lowell
Freud and Man's Soul
Lusitania
The Plantation Mistress
Fingerprint
The Eye of the Heron
Supermex
Forgotten Founders
Mrs Hurst Dancing and Other Scenes From Regency Life 1812-1823
The Atlantic Puzzler
Voting: What Midterm Results Mean
Because local issues and party preferences govern House elections, no national message is evident
Paris: Unhappy Allies
The French blame America for many of their economic difficulties
Watching the Russians
What are the Soviet Union‘s military manpower problems? What are its population trends? What is the state of its scientific training? When NATO and the Pentagon and the Commerce Department want answers to such questions, they turn to Murray Feshbach or one of his fellow scholars, who, working with sketchy data, are trying to describe the texture of Soviet life. We have never had a greater need for their efforts, but, because of severe budget cutbacks by government, foundations, and academe since the late 1960s, Soviet studies is a fragile enterprise.
Mrs. Six Legs
White Clover
Lift
The Last Bears of Yellowstone
Misguided environmental theory threatens the survival of the grizzly
The Missing Person
Mina Bell's Cows
The Height of Fashion
Ma Barker: A Word Portrait
Interpreting Glenn Gould
