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May  1989  Issue
 
 
The Central American Quagmire

 
SPECIAL REPORT--WINDS OF CHANGE HIT INDONESIA
Introduction
Editor
Everyone's Playing the Cambodian Card
Stephen J. Morris
Vietnam: On the Threshold of Change?
Eric Crystal
Will There Be an Afghanistan Syndrome?
Stephen A. Garrett
Asylum and Assimilation in America
Al Santoli
Vietnamese Reforms: A Chinese Perspective
Ma Zongshi

ANALYSIS
Thatcher Challenges 'Euro-Nonsense'
Helle Bering-Jensen
Mending Fences in India, China, and Pakistan
Sumit Ganguly
Organized Crime: Dirty Ring Around the White Collar
Ted Agres
New Soviet Thinking in Latin America
Laurie Abe

COMMENTARY
The Contras: R.I.P.?
William Lewis
Is Peronism Democratic?
David C. Jordan
The Scribe, the Pharisees, and Us
Robert Royal
Ethics in Government: There Still is Hope
Bruce Jennings
Make Collegiate Athletics Honest Again
Morton A. Kaplan

 

 
BEAUTY
Delectable Skin
Robin Easson

FASHION
Fabric: Sport Specific
Wendi Winters

FOOD
Caribbean Cooking: Marvelously Eclectic
Dunstan A. Harris
Weeds: If You Can't Beat'em … Eat'em
Michael F. Havelin

GARDENS
A Backyard Shangri-La
Alice Rindler Shapin
Flowering Trees: Glamour Stocks of the Garden
Virginia Greiner

HEALTH
Foot Abuse
Evelyn B. Kelly

HUMOR
'Earth Revolves on Its Axles'
Mark Evans

LEISURE
Across the Nation: The Inn Way to Travel
Gail Greco

PASTIMES
When Johnny Comes Marching Home…Again
W.J. Elvin

 

 
FEATURED BOOK: Al Santoli's New Americans
Introduction
Editor

Refilling the Reservoir
Robert C. Christopher

Immigrants: America's Challenge or America's Opportunity?
Thomas J. Ward

Bright Light, Bright Country
Herbert London

REVIEWS
Of Rags and Riches
Eric Y. Beaudan
THE FASHION CONSPIRACY
Nicholas Coleridge

Revealing Nature
Catherine Maclay
THROUGH OTHER EYES
Irene Zahava, ed.

The Strategy
Harry G. Summers, Jr.
COMMAND OF THE SEAS
Join F. Lehman, Jr.

Someone to Love
Lucy Mazareski
WHEN CHILDREN WANT CHILDREN
Leon Dash

Fixated on God
James Deese
SIGMUND FREUD'S CHRISTIAN UNCONSCIOUS
Paul C. Vitz

Renewing the Civil Public Square
Robert Spaeth
CATHOLICISM AND THE RENEWAL OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
George Weigel

An Unprotected Woman
Antonio de Nicolas
SOR JUANA
Octavio Paz, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
A SOR JUANA ANTHOLOGY
Translated by Alan S. Trueblood, Foreword by Octavio Paz

Our Revels Now Are Ended
Cynthia Grenier
RICHARD BURTON
Melvyn Bragg

Getting Out From Under Eudora Welty
James J. Thompson, Jr.
DREAMING IN COLOR
Ruth Moose

Living on One's Wits
John H. Fund
PLAYING AWAY
Michael Mewshaw

Dead or Alive?
George Carey
NEW FEDERALISM
Timothy Conlan

 

 
 
   

 
ART
Goya Triumphant
Jason Edward Kaufman
The Rough, Spontaneous Power of Zen
Stephen Addiss

CRAFT & DESIGN
Ginny Ruffner: Provocative Glass Sculptor
Bonnie J. Miller

DANCE
Maya Plisetskaya's Love Affair With Spain
Maya Wallach
The Lifeblood of Ballet
Kathrine Sorley Walker

FILM
For Emily (Whenever I May Find Her)
Paul Coates

MUSIC
P.D.Q. Bach's Alter Ego
Richard Kostelanetz
Hottest Serious Soviet Composer: Alfred Schnittke
Andrew Clark

PERSPECTIVES
American Design Under Fire
David D'Arcy

PHOTOGRAPHY
Surrealist Poet of the Mind: Val Telberg
Darwin Marable

THEATER
Amongst Barbarians: A Gift to Radical Chic
Herb Greer

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Deep Divers of the Antarctic
Randall William Davis
Insulin Delivery Surrogates
Gail Finlayson

IMPACTS
Rubber: Rolling On and On
George B. Kauffman

NATURE WALK
Desert Jewel
Stanley Welsh

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Mathematical Universe
John D. Barrow

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Leonhard Euler: Analyses and Treatises
Ronald Calinger

 

   
CROSSROADS
'Grannies': Fosterage and Fertility Among the Mende of Sierra Leone
Caroline Bledsoe
Miriam's Awakening: A Nambiquara Puberty Festival
David Price

FOLK WISDOM
Ainu Tales of Gods and Bears
Pack Carnes

HERITAGE
California's Punjabi-Mexican-Americans
Karen Leonard

PEOPLES
The Folk Music of Skyros
Sotirios (Sam) Chianis
From Shells to Money: Ceremonial Exchange Among the Simbu of Papua New Guinea
Karl F. Rambo
Yayla: A Pasture Above the Clouds
Paul J. Magnarella

 

   
ARCHAEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE
The Origins and Evolution of European Languages
Colin Renfrew

LAW AND SOCEITY
What Happened to Justice Holmes?
Max Lerner

RABBINIC JUDAISM
Turning History Into Philosophy: The Case of the Sages of Judaism
Jacob Neusner

THE AMERICAN NOVEL
Introduction
Editor
Response
James W. Tuttleton
Tracking the American Novel Into the Void
James W. Tuttleton
The Real and the Romantic in Literary Imagination
Denis Donoghue
Literary Lights From the Void
David S. Reynolds
Realism and the American Novel
Kenneth S. Lynn
The Literature of Negation
Josephine Hendin
The Social Tradition and the American Novel
Audrey Foote
Reassessing the Abnormality of American Literature
Chilton Williamson, Jr.
The Literature of Place
Virgil Nemoianu

THE SIXTIES: DREAMS AND ILLUSIONS
The 1960s Today: A Summing Up
Morris Dickstein

TWO VIEWS ON BORK
Of Robert Bork and Other Matters: A Different Conservative View
Florence A. Ruderman
A Different View of the Bork Affair and the Right to Privacy
Morton A. Kaplan

 
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