April 1984
In This Issue
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Articles
Shedding Light on Lebanon
An examination of the historical roots of a conflict that Americans are peculiarly ill suited to understand
Coercion in the Classroom Won't Work
Learning by doing and sensitivity to feelings are the keys to academic progress
The Last Time Shorty Towers Fetched the Cows
Perfectionism
Running Away
Bowing to the Empress
In Memoriam Herbert ("Piggy") Sewall
NOTE: Last week, colorful Metro Examiner commentator and former sportswriter Herbert (“Piggy”) Sewall succumbed after suffering a freak accident in the line of duty, while covering the South State Handicap at Sportsworld Meadows. For the Exam family of staff and readers, the loss of this beloved veteran scribe is a blow that cannot be measured. Today, in the space long allotted to the irregularly appearing column “Straight from the Pen, by Piggy Sewall,” the Editors offer tributes and reminiscences solicited from Piggy’s colleagues at the Exam.
Lost in America
Gershwin's Genius
Chronicles of Our Times
Novelist as Preacher
Necessary Inhibitions
The March of Folly
Maira
Childhood
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
School for Murder
Mrs. Pat
Lines and Shadows
Austin and Mabel
The Atlantic Puzzler
Washington: Endless Spending
Proposals for cutting the deficit ignore its real cause—the growing costs of providing for the middle class
School Reform: Coercion in the Classroom Won't Work
Learning by doing and sensitivity to feelings are the keys to academic progress
Africa: Drought of the Century
Conditions are worse now than they were during the famine of 1973-1974, in which half a million Africans starved to death
The Atlantic International Travel Planner
The Atlantic International Travel Planner: 1984 the Year to Honor the Best
Bridging
The Dynamic of Decline
An examination of two ironies of the world economy: the military spending necessary for imperial success assures imperial failure; national programs to foster development and attack poverty bring about stagnation
