August 1988
In This Issue
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Articles
Cuba: Havana's Military Machine
On Castro's island, most of the population is under arms
The Museum As Bazaar
There's even a place for art
Are We Alone?
Scanning the universe to see if we have company has fallen out of favor among many scientists, but the true believers who continue to search raise diverting questions—like why planets form where they do, and how life began, and where we might end up.
The August Almanac
Notes: What's in a Name?
Washington: The Case for a National Caucus
Silly Sports
Contributors
The Poet in the Asylum
He later called it “stupid suburban prejudice,” but for a time Ezra Pound could barely get through a sentence without an eruption of anti-Semitism. Vile ,pathetic ,and seemingly insane ,he left a young visitor with a thorny memory
The Achill Woman
Dog People
Holy War Against India
It is one of the grimmer and more ironic developments of the late twentieth century: religion, which is on the whole a benign force in Western societies, often combines combustibly with nationalism to fuel political murder in the Third World. In India, for example, the teachings of a militant guru are used to justify the atrocities committed by Sikh terrorists in their campaign to dismember the nation and establish “Khalistan”
The New House
Wings
Strings in Jazz
Babes in Day Care
The Mountebank King
Why We Can't Give Up the Bomb
A Far Cry From Kensington
John Cheever: A Biography
The Two Deaths of Senora Puccini
Charlotte Mew and Her Friends
A Thief of Time
Exploring the West
Kourion
Acrostic No. 37
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.
