October 1997
In This Issue
Francine Russo, “Can the Government Prevent Divorce?”; Witold Rybczynski, “Keeping the Modern Modern”; William Langewiesche, “Slam and Jam”; William Matthews, “Dire Cure”; and much more.
Articles
Slam and Jam
For all the reports of equipment failures and "close calls" and controller burnout, the nation's air-traffic-control system is in fact far less precarious, in terms of safety, than people imagine it to be. The real threat to the system's integrity has as yet received little attention
White Snow, Red Rocks
Is Sedona, Arizona, cosmically energizing or simply refreshing?
Can the Government Prevent Divorce?
Researchers say that they can—and some states feel they should—reduce the likelihood of divorce by altering the course of bad marriages in the making
The Near-Myth of Our Failing Schools
Ideologically inspired lamentations about the parlous state of American education mask the much more complex truth.
An Anatomy Lesson
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholaes Tulp.
Maria, Not Callas
Terrence McNally's Master Class deliberately plays fast and loose with historical fact in search of artistic truth.
To Whale or Not to Whale
A controversy over subsistence and commercial hunting threatens to tear apart the International Whaling Commission and worsen the problem of illegal whaling
The Music of Silence
A portrait of an unlikely monk
Keeping the Modern Modern
By trying to keep up with the times, the Museum of Modern Art may obliterate its architectural diary of modernism
An Underhistory of Mid-Century America
A Dantean Novel, to be talked about for years to come
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Letters
The October 1997 Almanac
Taking Notice of POTUS
Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang.
