December 1990
In This Issue
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Articles
Rad Storm Rising
A ghastly tour of a land of radioactive sausage, poisoned onions, and bald children
Sanity
The Accident
Ecology
The Cava Jive: Spanish Sparkling Wines Aren't Beneath Consideration Just Because They're Not Champagne
An Ideal Pair
The Generals of Saratoga
The Generals of Saratoga
Robert Graves: The Years With Laura
The Hidden Nations
Diary of a Confederate Soldier
Voices in the Mirror
A Cat, a Man, and Two Women
Mediterranean Color
Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs and Selected Letters and the Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
The Puzzler
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.
The December Almanac
Notes: Great Expectations: Acquiring Tomorrow Today
Argentina: Living With Hyperinflation
How an out-of-control economy, and the political discontent it exacerbated, has humbled one of Latin America’s most cosmopolitan cultures
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
The Soviet Union: Rad Storm Rising
A ghastly tour of a land of radioactive sausage, poisoned onions, and bald children
The Hands That Would Shape Our Souls
The changing and often deeply troubled world of America’s Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish seminaries
Silence
The Prose (And Poetry) of Mario M. Cuomo
The New York governor likes to distinguish the “poetry” of politics—the cheers, the charisma—from the hard “prose" of government. As the presidential-election cycle approaches, its a good time to ask, How has this poet done with that prose? What kind of governor has he been and what does his record say about the kind of President he might make?
Polishing the Silver
