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March 29, 1984 Issue - 14 Articles-
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Triumph of a Naturalist (Review) Stephen Jay Gould
, pp. 3-7 A Feeling for the Organism, by Evelyn Fox Keller
- A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller
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History Lessons (Review) Gordon S. Wood
, pp. 8-10 The March of Folly, by Barbara W. Tuchman
- The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman
- American Roulette
Felix Rohatyn
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A Nymph of the New (Review) Alfred Kazin
, pp. 15-16 Herself Defined, by Barbara Guest
- Herself Defined by Barbara Guest
- The SoHoiad
Junius Secundus
, pp. 17-19 A Satire in Heroic Couplets
- In Love with the Adverb
Gore Vidal
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Slithering over the Brink (2 Reviews) James Joll
, pp. 21-22 Russia and the Origins of the First World War, by D.C.B. Lieven
- Russia and the Origins of the First World War by D.C.B. Lieven
- France and the Origins of the First World War by John F.V. Keiger
- Oscar Wilde at Oxford
Richard Ellmann
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The Power of the Doctors (Review) Arnold S. Relman
, pp. 29-32 The Social Transformation of American Medicine, by Paul Starr
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
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The Bloom Is Off (3 Reviews) Eleanor Perenyi
, pp. 33-37 Vita, by Victoria Glendinning
- Vita by Victoria Glendinning
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography, Vol. II: 1930-1968 by James Lees-Milne
- Harold Nicolson: A Biography, Vol. I: 1886-1929 by James Lees-Milne
- Nabokov's Passion
Edmund White
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The New Eighteenth Century (14 Reviews) Lawrence Stone
, pp. 42-47 In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714-60, by Linda Colley
- In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714-60 by Linda Colley
- The Birth of a Consumer Society by John H. Plumb, Neil McKendrick, and John Brewer
- Industrialization Before Industrialization by Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick, and Jurgen Schlumbohm, ...
- Augustan England by Geoffrey Holmes
- Bath, 1680-1850: A Social History by R.S Neale
- The Impact of English Towns, 1700-1800 by P.J. Corfield
- The Georgian Triumph 1700-1830 by Michael Reed
- The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry by John Rule
- Marriage Settlements, 1601-1740 by Lloyd Bonfield
- Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England by John A. Phillips
- Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Paul-Gabriel Bouce
- Hogarth's Marriage A-la-Mode by Robert L.S. Cowley
- Strict Settlement by Barbara English and John Saville
- English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter
- Letters
Jonathan Schell, George W. Ball, and Robert Giroux, ...
, pp. 48-52 - Cover illustration
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