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August 1971 Issue - 21 Articles- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
Reports and Comment
- Washington
Murray Seeger
, pp. 6-13 - Prague
Flora Lewis
, pp. 14-23 - Innocent Bystander
L.E. Sissman
, pp. 24-29 - The Mail, pp. 30-31
- Contributors, pp. 32-34
- Recollections of a Cultural Imperialist (j.g.)
James C. Thomson, Jr.
, pp. 35-39 - A Future Literacy
George Steiner
, pp. 40-44 - Welfare: The Best of Intentions, The Worst of Results
Irving Kristol
, pp. 45-47 Viewpoint
- Pop/Mom/Moon
John Updike
, pp. 48-63 - "I Am a Maid, and What Do I Know?"
Robert Coles, M.D.
, pp. 64-67 A Portrait
- Into the Future
Peter Davison
, pp. 68-70 - Najari Levon's Old Country Advice
William Saroyan
, pp. 71-72 A Story
- Staring to Write: Paris, 1921
V.S. Pritchett
, pp. 73-83 - The Faint-Hearted Suicide
Maxine Kumin
, p. 84 Life & Letters
- On Epidemic First Personism
Herbert Gold
, pp. 85-86 -
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"The End of the World Is Coming (3 Reviews) Elizabeth Janeway
, pp. 87-89 Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
- Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
- Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
- Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
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Last Prisoner at Spandau (2 Reviews) Gordon A. Craig
, pp. 90-91 Motive for a Mission, by James Douglas-Hamilton
- Motive for a Mission by James Douglas-Hamilton
- Hess: The Man and His Mission by J. Bernard Hutton
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It Only Hurts When We Laugh (2 Reviews) David Denby
, pp. 92-93 Plaza Suite (1971 Film), by Arthur Hiller
- Plaza Suite (1971 Film) by Arthur Hiller
- Bananas (1971 Film) by Woody Allen
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The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews) Edward Weeks
, pp. 94-95 The Marquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839, by George F. Kennan
- The Marquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839 by George F. Kennan
- Private Worlds by Sarah Gainham
- Mercury by Katherine Montague and Peter Montague
- Myself Among Others by Ruth Gordon
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Short Reviews: Books (11 Reviews) Phoebe Adams
, pp. 96-102 Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
- The Omnivorous Ape by Lyall Watson
- Old Age: The Last Segregation by Claire Townsend
- Graffiti by Robert G. Reisner
- Winners Got Scars, Too by Christopher S. Wren
- Paul Kane's Frontier by Paul Kane
- Madame by Patrick O'Higgins
- Before Columbus by Cyrus H. Gordon
- The World Without Women by Virgilio Martini
- Claude Lorrain by Sabine Cottee
- The Onion Eaters by J.P. Donleavy
