November 1977
In This Issue
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Articles
It Takes a Heap of Compost to Make a House a Mess
The Gold of the Tigers
Cannibals and Kings: The Origins of Cultures
Arrest Sitting Bull
Hemingway: High on the Wild
Little Boy Lost
In the Suicide Mountains
The Show and Tell Machine
The Wayward Gate
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One 1915-1919
Browse at Your Own Risk
Louisa May Alcott
The Art of India
Six Men
Eyes, Etc./Dear Me/the Book of Sand
The Atlantic Puzzler
Argentina: A State of Fear
Party of One: Leaving It to the Experts
The Editor's Page
The Issue Before the Court: Who Gets Ahead in America?
The case revolves around one white man’s claim that he was discriminated against in favor of blacks, but far more is at stake in the deliberations now getting under way before the Supreme Court of the United States. Is America ever really going to be the Land of Opportunity for all its citizens?
How the Barber Finally Got Himself Into a Fable
Lies, Lies, Lies
They poison the heart, they cripple friendship and love. But sometimes they are the beginning of honesty.
Belgrade: Spinning a European Web
Horses
The Spanish Bed
Pile-Driver
Putting One Over on Opec
Making Milk: The Survival of a Farm
Farming in New England takes place in an atmosphere of siege, but those Yankee dairymen who endure are among the best farmers in the United States.
Domestic Manners of the English
Starring . . . The Writer
Culture Watch