September 1986

Articles

• Women in the Work Force

  Gender disparity in the workplace might have less to do with discrimination than with women making the choice to stay at home

  George Guilder

• Sex in Our Time

  Phyllis Rose

• The Triumph of the Nerds

  Lloyd Rose

• Alaska: Southeast to McKinley

• Impostors

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Men's Lives

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Velázquez

• Velázquez

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Portrait of Delmore

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• The Hiroshima Murals

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Acrostic No. 14

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• The September Almanac

• New Zealand: The Politics of Identity

  A pastoral country, threatened by “Americanization,” seeks to find its own voice

  David Harlan

• Jobs: Women in the Work Force

  Most married women work, but only 29 percent of them hold full-time jobs—a fact that may have more to do with choice than with discrimination

  George Gilder

• The Law: Trust Versus Antitrust

  No one wants bad doctors, but procedures for barring them from practice may run afoul of federal law

  Katrin Bridget Snow

• The Enchanted Glade

  George Starbuck

• The Japanese Are Different From You and Me

  Our man in Japan admires the efficiency and social cohesion he sees everywhere around him. But he finds certain Japanese practices and beliefs less admirable

  James Fallows

• Contributors

• John L. Sullivan and Alfred I. Du Pont

  Nancy Caldwell Sorel

• "The Target Is Destroyed"

  Seymour M. Hersh

• Words Form the Wise

  A tale spun from the archives of the BBC, in which a star chamber of eminences sets out to refine, improve, purify, and otherwise put aright the Mother Tongue, with consequences that fall far short of those intended and yet somehow amount to more than meets the ear

  Vivian Ducat

• Bayswater

  Marilyn Hacker

• My Father's Shirt

  Sharon Olds

• Epithalamion

  Katha Pollitt

• Analogies of the Leaf

  Stanley Plumly

• Late Loving

  “What Christ was saying, what he meant [in the story of Mary and Martha] was that the pleasures of that hair, that ointment, must be taken. Because the accidents of death would deprive us soon enough. We must not deprive ourselves, our loved ones, of the luxury of our extravagant affections. We must not try to second-guess death by refusing to love the ones we loved. . . .”
  —Mary Gordon, Final Payments

  Mona Van Duyn

• A Third-Stream Opera

  Francis Davis

• From a Spark to a Flame

  Robert P. Crease

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