November 1984
In This Issue
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Articles
Sentences for a Friend Snowed In
The Comedian
Mtm's Past and Future
William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley
The Search for Life on Other Planets
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is preparing for the first large-scale search for radio signals from alien civilizations
Pilgrims' Progress
Arbus in Wonderland
Forsyth's Travels
Romantic Longings
A Don Juan Among the Intelligentsia
The Malaise of Modernity
1982 Janine
Unlikely Stories, Mostly
The House of Nire
What's to Be Come of the Boy?
Gllgamesh
Half Moon Street
The Leaning Tower of Babel
Omnibooth
The Atlantic Puzzler
Voting: Big Business in Ballots
With 188,432 U.S. precincts, the demand for fast, secret, dependable systems is great and constant
Military Strategy: The Lessons of Conflict
This “holy crusade" has shown that men ,not machines ,still dominate warfare
Thailand: The Domino That Didn't Fall
Why in a country riven by coups did an apparently robust and growing insurgency collapse?
m.d. By d.v.: (Or, Diana Vreeland Goes Whaling)
Nuclear Winter and Nuclear Strategy
The Path Into Night
Scholarship Versus Culture
The self-glorification and self-concertedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom and in its high springtime— which does not mean that in this case self-praise smells sweet.—Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
