September 1991
In This Issue
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Articles
Better With Age: At Eighty-Four, Benny Carter Is at the Height of His Musical Powers
An Asian Agenda
A Fairer Likeness
A Voice Against Anonymous Death
Hard Driving
In the Shadow of the Reich
The Dark Sister
The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
Circular Evidence
Brief Lives
The Puzzler
Word Histories: Etymologies Derivedfrom the Files of the Dictionary of American Regional English
The September Almanac
Notes: Coming to Grief
The calibration of misery
Oklahoma City: Separate and Equal
To many black parents, a desegregated school is less important than a good one. A growing number even prefer to send their children to an allblack school, if it is nearby and the equal of any in the system
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Principles of Holistic Medicine Applied to Infrastructure Maintenance: A Test Case
Prairyerth: Portraits From Chase County, Kansas
No one, I discover, begins to know the real geographic, democratic, indissoluble American Union in the present, or suspect it in the future, until he explores these Central States, and dwells awhile on their prairies or amid their busy towns.
Within This Tree
Joan Crawford and Bette Davis
Sole Custody
The Decipherment of Ancient Maya
Hundreds of stone slabs crowded with carved hieroglyphs have much to tell us about one of the ancient world’s most accomplished and mysterious civilizations. A group of brilliant young epigraph ers, most of them from the United States, are deciphering those hieroglyphs at a pace unimagined only thirty years ago, and important new discoveries seem imminent
Honey
