April 1993
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Articles
Low-Class Conclusions
A widely reported new study claiming that all classes shared the burden of the Vietnam War is preposterous
Dan Quayle Was Right
The social-science evidence is in: though it may benefit the adults involved, the dissolution of intact two-parent families is harmful to large numbers of children. Moreover, the author argues, family diversity in the form of increasing numbers of single-parent and stepparent families does not strengthen the social fabric but, rather, dramatically weakens and undermines society
The First Postmodern Presidency
The office Bill Clinton has assumed is smaller than it has ever before been in the modern era.
Anti-Depression Economics
A distinguished economist argues that the basic cause of the recession haunting our economy today is the same as one of the chief causes of the Great Depression—the luck of an agent of “transformational growth.”Whereas the automobile served that function in the 1920s, there is today no technologically equivalent breakthrough for new private investment. Therefore, he argues, government investment must catalyze growth
Salzburg Speculation: Bracing New Life, and International Controversy, for an Old Festival
Italy's Coziest Corner: Friuli Is Ancient, Beautiful, Big-Hearted, and Untouristed
Tusk, Tusk
The Shipping News
Chickenhawk: Back in the World
Touched With Fire
Touched With Fire
A Coyote Reader
The Aye-Aye and I
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History
The Puzzler
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 April Almanac
Notes: The People's Business
Washington: The First Postmodern Presidency
The office Bill Clinton has assumed is smaller than it has ever before been in the modern era
Arts & Entertainment Preview
Zimerman Unbound
To Verdi's Rescue
Kaleidoscope in Sound
The Other Barber
Charging Up This Guy's Electric Blues
It's 1957, and You Are There
Mick Stops Gathering Moss
Brad's a Pearl
Sinatra in the Twyla Zone
Never-Ending Tune
The Good Mother?
A Legend Lives
Swan Songs
Vanishing Director Reappears
Obscure Objects of Desire
Bloody Good?
Vietnam: Low-Glass Conclusions
A widely reported new study claiming that all classes shared the burden of the Vietnam War is preposterous
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Contributors
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