October 2, 1972 Issue, THE NATION

- Editorials, pp. 258-261
- Arctic Pipeline
  Quincy Dadisman
  , pp. 262-265
  Known Problems & Unknown Effects
- Censorship by Taxation
  Joseph A. Ruskay
  , pp. 266-268
  New Muzzle for Churchmen
- Northern Ireland
  Andrew Boyd
  , pp. 269-271
  The Implacable Terrorism
- Black Students
  J.K. Obatala
  , pp. 272-273
  Where Did Their Revolution Go?
- Counter Commercials
  Thomas De Baggio
  , pp. 274-277
  The Customers Fight Back
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  They Were Speaking Prose All the Time (Review)
  Robert L. Chapman
  , p. 278
  Black English, by J.L. Dillard
  1. Black English by J.L. Dillard
- Radiant Fathers, Alienated Sons
  Dusty Sklar
  , p. 279
- Typewriter Without Keys
  Phyllis Janowitz
  , p. 280
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  Looking Back to the Future (Review)
  Charles Lam Markmann
  , p. 281
  Inveighing We Will Go, by William F. Buckley Jr.
  1. Inveighing We Will Go by William F. Buckley Jr.
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  The Greeks We Do Not Recognize (Review)
  Peter Mackridge
  , p. 282
  Eighteen Texts, by Willis Barnstone
  1. Eighteen Texts by Willis Barnstone
- For Such a Bird He Had No Convenient Cage
  Jean Garrigue
  , p. 283
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  Prophet of Death and 'Voidancy' (Review)
  Alan Cheuse
  , p. 284
  The Interpreters, by Wole Soyinka
  1. The Interpreters by Wole Soyinka
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  The Decade of Axel's Castle (Review)
  Robert Emmet Long
  , pp. 285-288
  Edmund Wilson, by Leonard Kriegel
  1. Edmund Wilson by Leonard Kriegel