December 1992
In This Issue
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Articles
Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao
A recent return to deifying Mao is less straightforward than it seems
Liberia
"Always in the crunch they are not there," says one Liberian about the United States and its share of responsibility for the bloodletting in his country
The New Generation Gap
It isn’t yet at a sixties boil, but the emerging conflict between fortysomethings and twentysomethings will help to define this decade.
Nights Can Turn Cool in Viborra
“How lucky the Crimms are to have scraped acquaintance with me,” thought prizewinning travel writer Chick Jardine, ‘ for I seldom reveal my identity to ordinary people ”
Slatland
For every situation there is a proper distance. Sometimes you need to rise above the earth to gain perspective
The Sun at Night
Encounter
The Greatest Opera House: La Scala Is One Thing Opera Lovers Can Agree On
Recognition Humor: Seinfeld Shows Why Television Is Today's Best Medium for Comedy
Imperishable Wine: The Tempered Virtues of Madeira
Capitalism Versus Conservatism
The Wrong Men
The American Way of Birth
The Names of the Lost
In My Place
American Gothic
The Very Rich Hours
Café Berlin
The World Book
Word Watch
Here are a few of the words being tracked by the editors of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition (Houghton Mifflin). A new word that exhibits sustained use may eventually make its way into a future edition of the dictionary. The information below represents preliminary research.
The Puzzler
The December Almanac
Notes: Let Them Call Room Service
Putting the cost of tuition in perspective
China: Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao
A recent return to deifying Mao is less straightforward than it seems
Kurdistan: After Saddam Hussein
The Kurds have set up a cohesive administration in northern Iraq, but the UN embargo is an unnecessary thorn in their daily life—and counterproductive to the aim of upsetting the Baghdad regime
Much Much Too Much!
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Portrait of an Oscar?
In Small Packages
Mystery of the Keyboard
Midsummer Night in Midwinter
Sounds of the Renaissance Revisited
Czech Mates
For Diaghilev
Celebrating 100 Years of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
That Buck Just Doesn't Stop
Still Plugged In
Hawaiian Specialty: Pahinui on Ry
Great Scots
Here's Holiday for the Holidays
