September 1984
In This Issue
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Articles
Stopping at the Savoy
Appropriate Technology
The Art of Memory
The Pulse of Capitalism
THE LONG WAVE CYCLEby ,translated by Guy Daniels. Richardson & Snyder, $30.00.
Son of the Gulag
Tough Guys Don't Dance
The Birth of Neurosis
The Suburbs of Hell
False Dawn
The Ghosts of Nantucket
The Pyrates
Stories for Lesley
Hilaire Belloc
The Atlantic Puzzler
Notes: Foul Play
Trivial Pursuit is a popular game, but too often it rewards the wrong answer
Fresno: Number 277
Fresnans have rallied to their city since a geographer ranked it as the least desirable place in America to live
Washington: The Culture of Poverty
In the world of the poor neither conservative nor liberal solutions seem to work as predicted
Blow Dry
The American House
How to Begin
The Attack of the Zombi Poets
The Poem
Last Infirmity
The Attack on the Liberty
Israel’s attack on an American ship during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 has been the subject of controversy ever since. Now new evidence throws light on this “tragic accident”
The Poor Are Always With Us
Sarah Bernhardt and Thomas Alva Edison
The Democrats' Coming Civil War Over Industrial Policy
On the vicissitudes of an idea that has come to mean different things to different constituencies
Santo
