May 1972 Issue, THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

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- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
- Primaries and Opinion Polls
  Michael Wheeler
  , pp. 6-11
- Ireland: The View from Dublin
  Denis Donoghue
  , pp. 12-16
- Ireland: A Visit to Belfast
  Mary Manning
  , pp. 17-24
- Innocent Bystander
  L.E. Sissman
  , pp. 25-26
- The Mail, pp. 27-29
- Contributors, pp. 30-32
- Programmed for Disaster
  Katharine Davis Fishman
  , pp. 33-41
  The Story of RCA's $490 Million Computer Debacle
- Outside Biba's
  Grey Gowrie
  , p. 42
- Notes on the New Journalism
  Michael J. Arlen
  , pp. 43-47
- A Season at Middle-America U.
  Herbert Gold
  , pp. 48-53
- On Opposing Communism
  Leopold Tyrmand
  , pp. 54-57
- "Against Woodwaxen..."
  George Seferis
  , p. 58
- In Another Country
  Wright Morris
  , pp. 59-61
  A Story
- A Day
  Harvey Shapiro
  , p. 62
- The War on Crime: The First Five Years
  James Vorenberg
  , pp. 63-69
- Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
  Grace Paley
  , pp. 70-74
  A Story
- Father and Son
  William Stafford
  , p. 75
- The Senate Observed: A Recollection
  Harry McPherson
  , pp. 76-93
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  The Way We Lived Then (Review)
  V.S. Pritchett
  , pp. 94-98
  Anthony Trollope, by James Pope-Hennessy
  1. Anthony Trollope by James Pope-Hennessy
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  The Case for Dr. Kinsey (2 Reviews)
  Paul A. Robinson
  , pp. 99-101
  Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research, by Wardell B. Pomeroy
  1. Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research by Wardell B. Pomeroy
  2. Kinsey: A Biography by Cornelia V. Christenson
- Nontraveling
  William Zinsser
  , pp. 102-104
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  It Hurts to Look Back (Review)
  David Denby
  , pp. 105-107
  The Sorrow and the Pity (1972 Film), by Marcel Ophuls
  1. The Sorrow and the Pity (1972 Film) by Marcel Ophuls
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  The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews)
  Edward Weeks
  , pp. 108-111
  Nunaga, by Duncan Pryde
  1. Nunaga by Duncan Pryde
  2. The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
  3. As Ever, Scott Fitz--- by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jennifer McCabe Atkinson, ...
  4. The Crown of Mexico by Joan Haslip
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  Short Reviews: Books (13 Reviews)
  Phoebe Adams
  , pp. 112-118
  The Closed Enterprise System, by Mark J. Green, Beverly C. Moore, Jr., and Bruce Wasser...
  1. The Closed Enterprise System by Mark J. Green, Beverly C. Moore, Jr., and Bruce Wasserman, ...
  2. The Case History of Comrade V by James Park Sloan
  3. The Lionheads by Josiah Bunting III
  4. Antarctica by Charles Neider
  5. America, My Wilderness by Frederic Prokosch
  6. The Dead of the House by Hannah Green
  7. A Woman of Feeling by Violet Weingarten
  8. The Edge of Impossibility by Joyce Carol Oates
  9. Victor Vasarely by Werner Spies
  10. Diaboliad and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ellendea Proffer, and Carl R. Proffer, ...
  11. The Mystery of Things by Patrik Le Nestour
  12. The Party's Over by David S. Broder
  13. The Stone and the Violets by Milovan Djilas