July 1987

Articles

• Oh, Well

  "My own rough estimate is that several thousand time capsules are ceremoniously squirreled away and forgotten for every one that successfully conveys its cargo into the hands of a future generation"

  Albert Bergesen

• Acrostic No. 24

  Dorothy Osborne

• The Puzzler

  Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon

• Word Watch

  Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin. A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into the dictionary. The information below represents the first stage of research, not the final product.

  Anne H. Soukhanov

• The July Almanac

• Notes: Oh, Well

  Albert Bergesen

• France: The Sexy Computer

  Justine De Lacy

• Zimbabwe: Poised on the Brink

  Jack Shepherd

• Reservations

  Jill Crane

• Contributors

• Chord

  W. S. Merwin

• Inn Essence

  Ralph Lombreglia

• The Republicans in '88

  William Schneider

• Escuintla

  Jeffrey Gray

• A. E. Housman and Willa Cather

  Nancy Caldwell Sorel

• Romance in the Rooftops: To Understand a Condo Builder's Sales Strategy, Look at His Chimneys

  Philip Langdon

• Allons Danser: Cajun and Creole Bands Are Conserving Native Music

  Ben Sandmel

• Papa's Mama Trouble

  Benjamin DeMott

• A Complex Fate

  Alexander Stille

• The Near-Death Cult

  Nicholas Lemann

• Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Alnilam

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• In Siberia It Is Very Cold

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• When Rich Men Die

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Maud: The Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Blues

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

• Brendan

  Phoebe-Lou Adams

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