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November  1989  Issue
 
 
 
Government Funding of the Arts

 
COMMUNISM AND CAPITALISM: HOW CAN THEY MEET?
Introduction
Editor
The Failure of Socialist Economics
Jan S. Prybyla
The Soviet Economy: Is Perestroika Possible?
Gertrude Schroeder
Eastern Europe at the Midnight Hour
Janusz Bugajski
Traveling Through China's Turbulent Spring
Roy F. Grow
A Model of Reform for Communism?
Ivan Volgyes
Transforming the Command Economies
Christian Watrin
Western Assistance and Eastern Reform
Jan Zielonka

 

ANALYSIS
Are Drug Kingdoms South America's New Wave?
Richard B. Craig
The Soviet Impasse: 'No Exit'?
Charles F. Elliott
The Pain of Cambodia
William J. Duiker

COMMENTARY
Third World Debt: Toward a New Strategy
Richard E. Feinberg
Stopping Missile Proliferation
Seth Carus
Abolish the Death Penalty
John G. Healey
Murderers Deserve the Death Penalty
Ernest van den Haag

 

 
FAMILY
'I'm Thankful For…'
Jeanne Viner Bell

FASHION
'Peak of Chic'--Revised
Wendi Winters

FOOD
Ethnic Thanksgiving
Eloise Paananen

GARDENS
Thoughts From a Grateful Gardener
Virginia Greiner

HEALTH
Pain: A Focus on Relief
Evelyn B. Kelly

HUMOR
We Gather Together
Kathryn N. Hardin

PASTIMES
Volunteers: The Heartbeat of America
Steve Kaplan

PROFILE
Trapped in the Wreckage
Linda Lee Brubaker

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: Richard Rhodes' Farm
Introduction
Editor

Pirate on the High Seas of the Sun
Tom Montag

Cornucopia of Waste
James Bovard

REVIEWS
Don't Fence Me in
Peter B. Golden
NOMADS OF EURASIA
Vladimir N. Basilov, ed.

Hitchhiking Through the World of Douglas Adams
J.W.P. Traphagan
THE LONG DARK TEA-TIME OF THE SOUL
Douglas Adams
DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETERCTIVE AGENCY
Douglas Adams

Ancient Wisdom or New Age Nonsense?
Robert Royal
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, 1098-1179
Sabina Flanagan

Light in the Mirror
Michael D. Aeschliman
A SEASON IN THE WEST
Piers Paul Read

The Bay of Pigs Revisited
Jose M. Hernandez
AND THE RUSSIANS STAYED
Nestor Carbonell

The Price of Command
Ross Weiner
THE PUEBLO SURRENDER
Robert A. Liston

So Serious It Was Ridiculous
George Garrett
WARTIME: UNDERSTANDING AND BEHAVIOR
Paul Fussell

Gone With the Wind?
Clyde Wilson
OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL
Allan Gurganus

Indians, Real and Wooden
James J. Thompson, Jr.
GOD GAVE US THIS COUNTRY
Bil Gilbert
PANTHER IN THE SKY
James Alexander Thom

Murder as a Joint Venture
Stanislav Levchenko
POLAR STAR
Martin Cruz Smith

Americans Struggling to Learn
Robert L. Spaeth
LIVES ON THE BOUNDARY
Mike Rose

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Renzo Piano: Renaissance Man Reincarnate
Kenneth Powell

ART
Hokusai the Great
Stephen Addiss
Eastern Tradition, Western Aesthetics
Robert Kehlmann

CRAFT & DESIGN
Has Fiber Art Come of Age?
Mavis Guinard

DANCE
Pacific Northwest Ballet: Leaping Out of the Hinterlands
Jessica Maxwell
Comes the Revolution: A Tired Liberal Take on 1789
Maya Wallach

FILM
Spiking the Joint
Paul Coates

MUSIC
Dido and Aeneas: Untethered Passion
Lawrence O' Toole
Discovering Unknown Masters
Robert R. Reilly

PHOTOGRAPHY
When Style Isn't Enough: The Mapplethorpe Case
Eric Gibson

THEATER
The New Orthodoxy in British Theater
Herb Greer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Mastering the Wind
Darrell Dodge
Shifting to a New Idea
Jeffrey Hansen
Farm Animals of the Future
Sandy Miller Hays

IMPACTS
Sunlight and Life
Michael I. Sobel

NATURE WALK
A Long Winter's Nap
Larry S. Underwood

SCIENCE ESSAY
A Frontier of Great Potential
Theodore E. Kalogeropoulos

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Thomas Midgley, Jr.: Antiknock and CFC Pioneer
George B. Kauffman

 

   
CROSSROADS
Not East Not West, Not Old Not New: Trends and Genres in Japanese Popular Music
James Stanlaw

FOLK WISDOM
Folklore and Andean Peasant Society
Glynn Custred

HERITAGE
German-American Names
George Fenwick Jones

PEOPLES
On Wings of Waxed Paper: Kite-Flying in Kelantan, Malaysia
Douglas Raybeck
The Delight Makers
Ronald McCoy
Santeria: A Secretive Afro-Cuban Religion
Lesley A. Northup

 

   
ESSAYS
Does Commercial Pressure Make for Bad Science?
David Lindley
Ain't Got No Home
Geoffrey Godbey
The African God of Isak Dinesen
Chris Woltermann
Sacralizing the Secular: A New Perspective on Modernity
Stephen A. McKnight
A Posthumous Conversation With Arnold Gehlen
Thomas Molnar
Terrorism in History: Its Politics and Mentality
Wayne Allen
Beyond Rationalism and Romanticism: A Critique of Narrative Theology
Anthony M. Matteo

 
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