October 1998
In This Issue
William McDonough and Michael Braungart, “The Next Industrial Revolution”; John E. Schwarz, “The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy”; David Schiff, “Misunderstanding Gershwin”; Erika Krouse, “My Weddings”; and much more.
Articles
The NEXT Industrial Revolution
"Eco-efficiency," the current industrial buzzword, will neither save the environment nor foster ingenuity and productivity, the authors say. They propose a new approach that aims to solve rather than alleviate the problems that industry makes
Should Election Day Be a Holiday?
A simple, practical step might summon the ranks of nonvoters from the civic void
Journalism Today
An intimate look at a great citizen (I'd like to work for)
Saturday Night at the Haçienda
Once a city of dying mills, Manchester, England, has been revived by the music and nightclub industries. But has it merely traded one "dark Satanic" economy for another?
Misunderstanding Gershwin
The composer mixed popular and classical idioms like no one before or since, and performers are still baffled
The Hidden Side of the Clinton Economy
The official government measures of unemployment and poverty disguise the fact that millions of Americans can't make a decent living
My Weddings
"I'm single because I was born that way."
A Mediterranean Mix
Off the coast of Tunisia, a speck of Italy
The Enemy Within
What has come to be known as McCarthyism should, with more respect to chronology and power, be known as Hooverism.
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Letters
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Say What?
Investigations of slang by the editor of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang.
