October 1983
In This Issue
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Articles
Housing: Examining a Media Myth
The “new poor” and homeless discovered by the press a few months ago seem to have vanished; meanwhile, the real poor still need help.
Movies: Alfred Again
Upward Mobility: How to Be an X
The Journalism of the Right
Papa Lives
The reissue of four Hemingway novels prompts an assessment of the author’s reputation
Handmade in America
Cold Heaven
The Garden of Eloquence
The Devil's Stocking
The Rosenberg File
In the Beginning
This Manand Music
Marbot
Tikal
The Atlantic Puzzler
Paris: Architecture as Politics
As they traditionally have, French leaders are using control of public building plans as a way of showing who’s boss
Washington: Foreign Danger
Some congressmen find it best to concentrate on domestic, rather than foreign, policy—if they want to be re-elected
Raising Kids
Psychologists are helping parents to control bratty behavior by teaching them how and when to use rewards and punishments
And Echoes for Direction
The Political Economy of Milk
Dairy policy costs the public billions of dollars every year and is producing an enormous stockpile of surplus milk products
Prosody 101
The Edge
The Naked Vulture and the Thinking Ape
The campaign to rescue the condor has divided biologists into two bitterly opposed camps— those who emphasize captive breeding and those who would protect the bird in its natural environment
Other People's Photographs
A New Life
Mountain Pass
Lite College
