January 1994
In This Issue
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Articles
The Cultural Meaning of the Kennedys
Why JFK has more in common with Elvis than with FDR
Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle
Beneath the Ice: Ice-Diving Opens Up an Eerie, Beautiful World of Unexpected Possibilities
Composers on the Couch: Does It Help Anyone to Psychoanalyze a Composer's Work?
General James Longstreet
Charles M. Russell, Word Painter
Robert Davidson: Eagle of the Dawn
Twilight Country
The Columbia Encyclopedia
The Fus Fixico Letters
Seized: Temporal Lobe Epilepsy as a Medical, Historical, and Artistic Phenomenon
The Puzzler
Word Histories
The January Almanac
The Bomb Squad: A Visit With the Members of a Police Unit Whose Work Load May Be Growing
Timing Is Everything
The country’s newest Vietnamese refugees missed the boat the first time, when Saigon fell. In several ways they are missing the boat again
Seeing Things
Hallstrom in Hollywood
Considering This Woman's Work
The Summer House Divided
Discovering America
Doorway to Paradise
Pioneers of the Out-of-Bounds
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Folk for Thought
Hall the Sun King
Beautiful Steely Angst
An Ottoman Odyssey: A Sail Boat and the Turkish Coast Make a Magical Combination
Twentieth - Century Witness
Ireland's Fissures, and My Family's
What Is an Economy For?
We know the answer: to grow so that we can all buy more and keep the world economy spinning. Asians have a different answer: to grow so that a country can produce more—whoever buys the goods—and keep the country’s, not the world’s, economy spinning
The Closed Forest
Blue Skies
Constance and Ray had been married for six years, and more than five of them had been shaky. Now Ray seemed to have turned a corner, but Constance couldn’t shake her premonitions of disaster
