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December 1977 Issue - 23 Articles- Letters, p. 4
- Cartoon
MacNelly
, pp. 4-10 - The Easy Chair
Lewis H. Lapham
, pp. 11-15 The American Experiment
- River: Still Shot
Theodore Enslin
, p. 16 - My One
Peter Mandel
, p. 16 - A Commonwealth's Choice
John Bartlow Martin
, pp. 17-20 - The Road Less Traveled
Erazim Kohak
, pp. 21-27 - The Official Avant-Garde
Sally Helgesen
, pp. 28-32 - The Politician's Art
Henry Fairlie
, pp. 33-48 - Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
William Tucker
, pp. 49-56 - Posters
Edward Penfield
, pp. 57-82 - On the 32nd Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Denise Levertov
, p. 83 - Mirages
Annie Dillard
, pp. 84-85 The fugitive light shows of the islands
- In Our Time
Tom Wolfe
, pp. 86-87 - Succurrere Vitae
Joel Agee
, pp. 88-94 A visit to the municipal necropolis
- Flirting With Guilt and Tyranny
Eric Larsen
, pp. 95-101 -
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Images at Random (Review) Hugh Kenner
, pp. 102-106 The Random House Encyclopedia, by James Mitchell and Jess Stein
- The Random House Encyclopedia by James Mitchell and Jess Stein
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Books in Brief (5 Reviews) Michael Malone
, pp. 107-109 Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph, by Edgar Johnson
- Charles Dickens: His Tragedy and Triumph by Edgar Johnson
- The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman by J.P. Donleavy
- Bliss by Elizabeth Gundy
- An Autobiography by Agatha Christie
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- An Appreciation of Robert Lowell
Hayden Carruth
, pp. 110-113 - The Fourth Estate
Claud Cockburn
, pp. 114-116 The barons of Fleet Street had madness in their method
- Hyperbole's Child
A.B. Giamatti
, pp. 117-127 The fast and furious dance of Muhammad Ali
- Puzzle
E.R. Galli and Richard Maltby, Jr.
, pp. 128-130 The Djintecs
- Cover photograph
Terry Stevenson