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May  1990  Issue
 
 
The Sense of Identity and the American Character

 
SPECIAL REPORT--BUIDING A DEMOCRATIC EASTERN EUROPE
Introduction
Editor
The Rebirth of Politics After the Revolution
Herbert J. Ellison
Gorbachev and Eastern Europe
John H. Farrar
Who's Helping?
G. Peter Lauter
A Peek Into Eastern European Minds
Forum
One Europe?
Terry McNeill

ANALYSIS
Springtime for Moscow-Seoul Relations?
Daryl M. Plunk
Drug Legalization: Now or Never?
Forum
Latin America Views the U.S. Post-Panama
Mark Holston

COMMENTARY
Soviet Youth Today
Richard Tempest
The Cold War Endgame in Central America
Tom Cox
Lebanon: The Case for a Secular Solution
Wade R. Goria
National Service: A Solution in Search of a Problem
Thomas J. DiLorenzo

 

 
ADVENTURE
The Great Outdoors: A Family Affair
Meredith Nelson Wiltsie

CAREER
Family-Friendly Corporations
Kathleen Prentice

FAMILY
Homeless in Hollywood
Deborah Kaye

FOOD
Afternoon Tea: Proper and Pristine
Mindy Leaf

GARDENS
Romancing the Garden
Virginia Greiner

HEALTH
Superwoman: Myth, Reality - or What?
Robin Parker

HUMOR
Get in Touch With Thine Own Self
K.N. Nance

 

 
BOOKS FROM ABROAD
Little Pink Books
John Whittier Treat

FEATURED BOOK: Frederic Flach's Rickie
Introduction
Editor

No Miracle Cures
David Shore, M.D.

Psychotically Frightened to Death
Ann-Louise Silver, M.D.

The Dilemma of the Undiagnosed Daughter
Douglas F. Levinson, M.D.

REVIEWS
The ACLU Streers Left
William A. Donohue
IN DEFENSE OF AMERICAN LIBERTIES
Samuel Walker

Cynic's Progress
Buddy Matthews
THE DIVINE SUPERMARKET
Malice Ruthven

An Embittered Man
John Braeman
THE DIARY OF H.L. MENCKEN
Edited by Charles A. Fecher

From Apocalypse to Nostalgia
Robert F. Geary
VINELAND
Thomas Pynchon

 

 
 
   

 
ARCHITECTURE
Fay Jones: Gold Medal Architect
Allen Freeman

ART
The Many Ways of Looking at Monet
Eric Gibson
Jan Lenica: Philosopher With a Brush
Frank Fox

CRAFT & DESIGN
The Children of Ramses
Michael Gibson

DANCE
Twelve Men for the Nineties
Otis Stuart

FILM
The Hallmark of True Virtue
Alan L. Keyes
In the Shadow of the Sleeping Giant
Scarlet Cheng

MUSIC
A Woman Saves Rigoletto
Herb Greer
The Last Truly Civilized Opera
Lawrence O'Toole

PHOTOGRAPHY
Berenice Abbott: Photographer Extraordinaire
Karen S. Chambers

POETRY
Spring, Summer, and a World of Night
Martin Galvin

THEATER
A Clockwork Lemon
Claudia Woolgar

 

   
AT THE EDGE
Glassy Aluminum Alloys
G.J. Shiflet
The Language of Color
John Rossheim
Inertial Confinement Fusion
S.A. Stephenson

IMPACTS
Concrete: Universal Building Material
Kenneth C. Hover

NATURE WALK
Coastal Lagoons
Bjorn Kjerfve

SCIENCE AND SPIRIT
The Finality of Death: The Underlying Issue
William A. Reinsmith

SCIENTISTS: PAST AND PRESENT
Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television
Corrie Lynne Player

 

   
CROSSROADS
Facing the Facts: Losing and Finding Face in the Land of the Rising Sun
William J. Bohnaker
A Way of Life: Cricket in the Caribbean: A Sociocultural Metaphor
Fitzroy Fraser

FOLK WISDOM
The Lore and Language of American Children
Sheila K. Webster

HERITAGE
The Knot and the Coil: African Reaffirmations in Sea Island Baskets
Mary Arnold Twining

PEOPLES
More Music for the Saints: Religious Feasts in Malta
Jeremy Boissevain
Karagoz and Hadjivat: Disappearing Puppet Shows in Turkey
Herb Greer
Living Under Mongibello: Role Playing in the Sicilian Character
Angelo Costanzo

 

   
EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
How Do You Spell Distinguished?
Peter Arnott

IN SEARCH OF AMERICAN CHARACTER
Introduction
Editor
American Character and the Organizational Man
Michael Maccoby
The Disorder of American Society: Daniel Bell's Cultural Analysis
David Gress
Freedom and Virtue: John Courtney Murray on the Truths We Hold
Jude P. Dougherty
The Culture of Narcissism Revisited
Christopher Lasch
Changing Styles of American Character: The Lonely Crowd Forty Years Later
Joseph R. Gusfield
Rugged Individualism: Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis
Forrest McDonald
The Immigrant Experience and American Character: Margaret Mead's And Keep Your Powder Dry
Nathan Glazer

JOURNALISTS AND HISTORIANS
Who Is Fidel Castro?
Georgie Anne Geyer

TELEVISION AND SOCIETY
Television and American Parents
Linus Wright

U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS
The Japanese Political Economy: An Expatriot's Point of View
Martin Bronfenbrenner

 
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