March 1995
In This Issue
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Articles
Darling
Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery
Infection
Stephen Sondheim ‘s Passion was more than most Broadway showgoers want from a musical
The Perilous Iditarod
Critics say the Iditarod puts sled dogs at needless risk, and that the race should be either halted or significantly modified. But, says the author, the evidence of animal mistreatment is inconclusive
The Price of Orthodoxy: A Runaway Best Seller, the New Catholic Catechism Is a Summa of Certainty
In the Place of Fallen Leaves
Beef
East, West
The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-De-Siècle France
Charles M. Russell: Sculptor
The Puzzler
Word Improvisation: Boy Scouts and Boondoggles
I n ccs tiga lions of slung by the editor of the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang
The March Almanac
How the Lawyers Stole Winter: Pond Skating in the Changed Context of Childhood
Schwab's of Memphis
You might not actually need anything this dry-goods emporium sells, but you do need to visit it if you’re passing through town
Seeds of Doubt
A successful donor-insemination service catering to heterosexual single women and lesbians raises some difficult questions
Ella's Diamonds...and Duds
The Wizard of Odd
Second Coming of a Delta Blues Legend
Irish Pops
Kirov on the Hudson
Immortal Heartstrings
Sight and Sound in the Balance
The Echoes of Northumbria: From Hadrian's Wall to Durham Cathedral
From York to Jorvik: The Viking Past Lives on in England
The New Intellectuals
Nearly a decade after an influential book declared the public intellectual extinct, an impressive group of African-American writers and thinkers have emerged to revive and revitalize that role. They are bringing moral imagination and critical intelligence to bear on the definingly American matter of race—and reaching beyond race to voice what one calls “the commonality of American concern”
745 Boylston Street
Contributors
Bad People
Moral Credibility and Crime
Moral authority, rather than rehabilitation or deterrence, may be the key ingredient in a criminal-justice system that can reduce violent crime That authority has been deeply eroded by the system's own rules and procedures,the author contends, and he offers ten major cases in point
Righter Than Newt
Phil Gramm is the most conservative Republican on the national scene He is running for President. His candidacy will test just how audacious his adventuresome party really is
Bluebonnets
Stories of Our Lives
