The Atlantic Monthly 1995 - Abstracts

The Atlantic Monthly 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
A Chicago of a novel: in 'The Adventures of Augie March,' Saul Bellow retired the cup.News, opinion and commentaryMartin Amis
A French mirror.(civic solidarity in France)News, opinion and commentaryHans Koning
American harvest: the present period in American contemporary music may have no name, but the music itself is flourishing.News, opinion and commentaryAllen Shawn
A model prison.(McKean federal correctional institution)News, opinion and commentaryRobert Worth
An element of doubt: disinterested research casts doubt on claims that lead poisoning from paint is widespread among American children.News, opinion and commentaryEllen Ruppel Shell
An explosion of green.(reforestation of eastern U.S.)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryBill McKibben
A nice place to visit. (Santa Barbara, California)News, opinion and commentaryRobert Plunket
Atomic overreaction: a close look at plutonium's unearned reputation as the pre-eminent poison.News, opinion and commentaryJeff Wheelwright
Between the sea and the jungle: a remote hotel in Costa Rica puts the rain forest first.(Lapa Rios resort)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Davison
Beyond efficiency. (methods of reducing traffic congestion)News, opinion and commentaryMark Derr
Bow ties: some rules of thumb for the neck.News, opinion and commentaryJohn D. Spooner
Bridge between cultures: Chinese bridge players are ready to take on the world.News, opinion and commentaryJim Kaplan
Built pieces: like Igor Stravinsky, Duke Ellington was a brilliant assembler of other people's music.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Schiff
Cosmic chants. (the music of Carl Orff)News, opinion and commentaryMatthew Gurewitsch
Cowboyography: how the songwriter and singer Ian Tyson has remade cowboy music.News, opinion and commentaryMichael Stern, Jane Stern
Delayed childbearing.(how a woman's fertility declines with age)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryGina Maranto
Doin' the chameleon: after a lifetime of virtuosic imitation of dozens of pianists, Dick Hyman is coming into his own.News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Knowlton Zinsser
Downsizing cities: to make cities work better, make them smaller.News, opinion and commentaryWitold Rybczynski
Empowering species: the best way to save endangered species may be to help them pay their own way.News, opinion and commentaryCharles C. Mann, Mark L. Plummer
Female circumcision comes to America.News, opinion and commentaryLinda Burstyn
Ferocious differences.(differences between Mexico and the U.S.)News, opinion and commentaryJorge G. Castaneda
Flying down to Europe: Chile is surprisingly European - except that it's warm in February.News, opinion and commentaryBarbara Wallraff
From York to Jorvik: the Viking past lives on in England.(Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England)News, opinion and commentaryPhoebe-Lou Adams
Gale-force kayaking. (storm-sea surf skier Steve Sinclair)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Todhunter
How sweet it wasn't.(writing jokes for Jackie Gleason's TV show)News, opinion and commentaryJack Winter
How the lawyers stole winter: pond skating in the changed context of childhood.(effect of public caution about liability on children's activities)News, opinion and commentaryChristopher B. Daly
How to save Social Security: a presidential speech we'd like to hear.News, opinion and commentary 
If the GDP is up why is America down?(need to replace the gross domestic product as a measure of economic progress)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryJonathan Rowe, Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead
In the strawberry fields.(migrant workers and the California strawberry industry)News, opinion and commentaryEric Schlosser
Let's do the hobble: the generation that won't go away.(influence of the Baby Boom Generation)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam S. Rukeyser
Links with history: courses designed by Donald Ross put golfers in touch with a more philosophical era.News, opinion and commentaryRobert Cullen
Moments not to remember: at least not on videotape.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Owen
Moral credibility and crime.News, opinion and commentaryPaul S. Robinson
My reputation: a liberal reflects on the perils of holding modulated views.News, opinion and commentaryWendy Kaminer
On abortion: a Lincolnian position. (Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryGeorge McKenna
Our interests in Europe.(Foreign Policy)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryAlan Tonelson, Robert Gaster
Overselling depression to old folks.News, opinion and commentaryStanley Jacobson
Paris is finished. (public architecture in Paris, France)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Lawday
Pure roots: the Smithsonian has reawakened Folkways Records, a peerless repository of our native music.News, opinion and commentaryTom Piazza
Raiding nation.(need to cut military spending)News, opinion and commentary 
Realized ambitions.(film director Walter Hill)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Sragow
Really reinventing government. (Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryPeter F. Drucker
Reinventing the wheels. (Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles automobile redesign project)News, opinion and commentaryAmory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
Righter than Newt.(presidential candidate Phil Gramm)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Frum
Scaling the heights: a skier's pilgrimage to Switzerland - and how to afford one.News, opinion and commentaryGeoffrey Wheatcroft
Schwab's Memphis.(A. Schwab variety store in Memphis, Tennessee)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Stern, Jane Stern
Seeds of doubt: a successful donor-insemination service catering to heterosexual single women and lesbians raises some difficult questions.(Sperm Bank of California)News, opinion and commentarySusan V. Seligson
Speaking in tongues.(Wycliffe Bible Translators)News, opinion and commentaryLowell Weiss
Suffering children and the Christian Science Church.News, opinion and commentaryCaroline Fraser
Surviving deer season: a lesson in ambiguity.News, opinion and commentaryCastle Freeman Jr.
The barefoot bank with cheek: the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh, which makes small loans to some of the poorest people on earth, has become a model for economic developers all over the world.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Bornstein
The cat in the hat: a tale of a headpiece.News, opinion and commentaryLeonard L. Riskin
The crisis of public order.(includes related excerpt from speech by Rep. John Lewis)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryAdam Walinsky
The diphtheria zone. (incidence of diphtheria in Russia)News, opinion and commentaryMurray Feshbach
The diversity myth: America's leading export.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryBenjamin Schwarz
The domestic core of foreign policy.News, opinion and commentaryRonald Steel
The echoes of Northumbria: from Hadrian's Wall to Durham Cathedral.(hiking vacation in Northumbria, England)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Davison
The elite primary.(presidential primary politics)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Frum
The feel of wood.(growing popularity of wood tennis rackets)News, opinion and commentaryMarshall Fisher
The great sorting.(history of the Educational Testing Service)News, opinion and commentaryNicholas Lemann
The indestructible Mr. Bone.(carnival performer Howard Bone)News, opinion and commentaryTeller
The Jerusalem syndrome: each year a number of travelers to Jerusalem become convinced that they themselves are the Messiah or the Virgin or King David or God or Satan.News, opinion and commentaryRebecca Lee
The new intellectuals.(African American intellectuals)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryRobert S. Boynton
The nutria problem. (nutria infestation of Louisiana)News, opinion and commentaryCalvin Trillin
The perilous Iditarod.(Iditarod Sled Dog Race and animal mistreatment)News, opinion and commentaryMark Derr
The structure of success in America. (educational testing, college admissions, and the social elite)(part 1)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryNicholas Lemann
The struggle to govern Johannesburg: the transition to nonracial rule is proceeding more slowly - and more viciously - than expected.(Johannesburg, South Africa)News, opinion and commentaryLynda Schuster
The taming of the saw. (chain saw narrative)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Todhunter
The trouble with dams. (environmental problems, high cost of operation)News, opinion and commentaryRobert S. Devine
The undiscovered world of Thomas Edison.News, opinion and commentaryKathleen McAuliffe
The warring visions of the religious right.(Regent University)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryHarvey Gallagher Cox
The world's toughest competition.(Best Ranger Competition)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Finkel
Too representative government.(why Congress is ineffective)News, opinion and commentarySteven Stark
Traveling collections.(collection-sharing by art museums)News, opinion and commentaryCarol Kino
Troubled waters.(depletion of New England fishing grounds)News, opinion and commentaryDeborah Cramer
"Ulysses" in Chinese: the story of an elderly pair of translators and their unusual best seller.News, opinion and commentaryCait Murphy
Unconstructed modernist: how does one account for the fall of Pierre Boulez the composer and the rise of Pierre Boulez the conductor?News, opinion and commentaryDavid Schiff
Was it right?(morality of the 1945 bombing of Japan)News, opinion and commentaryThomas Powers
What Main Street can learn from the mall.(redesigning downtown shopping areas)News, opinion and commentarySteven Lagerfeld
What should children learn?(need for educational standards)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryPaul Gagnon
Who was Shostakovich? (Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich)News, opinion and commentaryRichard Taruskin
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