June 1991
In This Issue
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Articles
History's Cauldron
Until the advent of Communist dictatorships in the Balkans, the region known as Macedonia was Europe’s Lebanon. Today the lid is coming off once again, offering a timely reminder of the destructive power of ethnic passions.
Control
The Capital of Nature
Government Issue
Immortality
Imaginary Homelands
Monkey Brain Sushi
You've Had Your Time
George Soper's Horses
George Soper's Horses
A Life of Picasso: Volume 1, 1881-1906
The Joy of Insight
The House on Mango Street
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 June Almanac
Notes: Starting Over
The same old stories
Finance: Highly Speculative
The financial-services industry has increased greatly—and uneconomically —in the past decade, partly owing to a preference for short-term investment strategies, which destabilize the market
The Soviet Union: The Great Patriotic War as Myth and Memory
In Soviet eyes the Second World War is being transformed from heroic farce to grotesque tragedy
From Appalachia to Zaire
A Step Ahead
Bergman in Brooklyn
The Rover Crosses Over
Kid Vid
From Italy With Love
Identity Crises
Trailers
Retro Is Active
Lone Stars
Melodies From Mali
Jazz Utopia
Ring of Fire
New Century at Carnegie
Festival Overture
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Therapy for Children
Though most clinicians who treat the emotional problems of children say they borrow from a variety of diagnostic and treatment approaches, the principal divisions in the field are psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family-systems therapies .Here is a close look at each, along with an assessment of the chances for, and the meaning of, successful therapy
One for the Life List
Same Place, Same Things
Something about the way she looked at him suggested toughness .Before long he knew why
