January 1985
In This Issue
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Articles
Destiny
A Short Story
Postscript to the Name of the Rose
George Segal
Murder at the Big Store
The Conquest of the Sahara
Ivy
Swallow
With Hemingway
From the Ballets Russes to Vogue
Prince of Cats
The Atlantic Puzzler
Scotland: The Origin of the Kilt
It is not a vestige of the ancient clans but an invention of enterprising merchants
Egypt: The Future of the Past
Egypt would like to solve its new archaeological crisis alone—but non-Egyptians have the expertise
Italy: Turin, City of Prophecy
On rule by robots, aristocrats, and a Communist mayor
Getting Along With the Russians
Stranger in a Strange Land: A Moviegoer at the Theater
The Awful Privacy of Baby Doe
Should infants born with treatable or manageable handicaps be “allowed” to die? One civil libertarian says no
Married Love
Igor Stravinsky and W. H. Auden
Vietnam's Vietnam
Why did Vietnam invade Cambodia six years ago, and why does it continue to occupy the country despite the intensification of the resistance?
Ode to Rot
Long Live Big Bands
Classics in Context
The Changing Image of the New Deal
The Complexities of E. M. Forster
Reluctant Revolutionaries
