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December 1981 Issue - 19 Articles- Letters to the Editor, pp. 4-7
Reports & Comment
- Reagan's MX Surprise
James Fallows
, pp. 8-13 - Air Travel: Strike Means Friendly Skies for Airlines
Frederick C. Thayer
, pp. 14-21 - Agriculture: Will the Corn Belt End Up in the Rivers?
Michael Lenehan
, pp. 22-26 - The Education of David Stockman
William Greider
, pp. 27-40 Sometimes reality has a sobering effect
- Season's Bleatings
Edward Sorel
, pp. 41-54 A cartoon
- Drawing Names
Bobbie Ann Mason
, pp. 55-59 A short story
- 108 East Nineteenth
William Stafford
, pp. 60-61 - Private Jokes in Public Places
Moshe Safdie
, pp. 62-68 The Post Modernist architects have turned from social concerns to pure design
- Advent Calendar
Gjertrud Schnackenberg
, p. 69 - Melanie and the Purple People Eaters
Irvin Faust
, pp. 70-73 A story
- Vertebrae
Robley Wilson, Jr.
, pp. 74-78 - A New Approach to the New Journalism
Robert M. Strozier
, pp. 79-80 The virtues of haziness, great length, and inaccuracy
- Ballet/A Classic "Beauty"
Holly Brubach
, pp. 81-85 The Royal Ballet's Sleeping Beauty
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Books/Happiness Is No Laughing Matter (Review) Alfred Kazin
, pp. 86-87 Clifford Odets: American Playwright, by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
- Clifford Odets: American Playwright by Margaret Brenman-Gibson
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Books/Continuity and Change (Review) Irvin Ehrenpreis
, pp. 88-91 Rumor Verified: Poems, 1979-1980, by Robert Penn Warren
- Rumor Verified: Poems, 1979-1980 by Robert Penn Warren
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Short Reviews (7 Reviews) Phoebe-Lou Adabs
, pp. 92-95 The Language of Clothes, by Alison Lurie
- The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie
- William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked by Paul Mariani
- The First Emperor of China by Arthur Cotterell
- Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman by Marjorie Shostak and Nisa
- An Indecent Obsession by Colleen McCullough
- Bismarck by Edward Crankshaw
- Death's Gray Angel by James Sherburne
- The Atlantic Puzzler
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
, pp. 96-98 - Cover illustration
J.C. Suares
