The Atlantic Monthly 1996 - Abstracts

The Atlantic Monthly 1996
TitleSubjectAuthors
745(Boylston Street)(composer-contributor David Schiff)(Editorial)(Interview)News, opinion and commentary 
Abloom with art: works by renowned modern sculptors can be viewed outdoors in the New York area - and across America.News, opinion and commentaryAndre Emmerich
Accompanying Franz. (mock book tour with piano virtuoso Franz Liszt)News, opinion and commentaryIan Frazier
Adventures in liposuction: a bitter controversy over a surgical technique reveals much about consmetic surgery, a strikingly unregulated branch of medicine.News, opinion and commentaryJudith Gingold
A man on horseback. (character of George Washington)News, opinion and commentaryRichard Brookhiser
America's search for public philosophy: despite their disagreements, liberals and conservative share an impoversihed vision of citizenship, leaving them unable to address the anxiety and frustration abroad in the land.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryMichael J. Sandel
A movable feast. (traveling by barge through the French countryside)News, opinion and commentaryBarbara Wallraff
An American requiem. (relationship between an Air Force General and his priest son is destroyed by the Vietnam War)News, opinion and commentaryJames Carroll
An encore for chaos? (ethnic battles in Kenya)News, opinion and commentaryBill Berkeley
A new iron curtain. (implications of North Atlantic Treaty Organization eastward expansion for Russia)News, opinion and commentaryAnatol Lieven
A race too far?(William Weld and John Kerry campaign for Massachusetts Senate seat)News, opinion and commentaryJack Beatty
Barking up the right tree. (coon hunting)News, opinion and commentaryBurkhard Bilger
Big, brilliant American sound: Garrick Ohlsson comes back to Chopin and rethinks his career as a pianist. (classical music)News, opinion and commentaryMichael Ullman
Blowback. (CIA inadvertently helped create militant Islamist terrorist groups)News, opinion and commentaryMary Anne Weaver
Buffed and polished: health spas are more numerous and diverse than ever before.News, opinion and commentaryDeborah Fallows
Can we still afford to be a nation of immigrants?: Comparing yesterday's immigration with today's, a historian is struck by the unprecedented nature of our present situation.(The Price of Immigration)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryDavid M. Kennedy
Child labor in Pakistan.News, opinion and commentaryJonathan Silvers
Clinton scandals, Inc. (books that purport to chronicle the life of Bill Clinton)News, opinion and commentaryMartin Walker
Express yourself: it's later than you think. If you're confused about postmodernism, that may mean you understand it. (some basic terms)News, opinion and commentaryBrad Holland
Finished symphonies. (a revived appreciation for the works of classical composer Muzio Clementi)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam H. Youngren
For everyman, by Everyman: in creating himself according to the nation's enthusiasm for his songs, Irving Berlin helped create a national identity.News, opinion and commentaryDavid Schiff
Gap politics. (more women have moved to the Democratic Party and more men have gone over to the Republicans)News, opinion and commentarySteven Stark
Germania irredenta. (Germans are trying to legally reclaim lands lost in Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland after World War II)News, opinion and commentaryHans Konig
Good news and bad news about breast cancer.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Plotkin
High resolution, unresolved: private companies will soon launch satellites powerful enough to spot environmental hazards - or a car in your driveway.News, opinion and commentaryMary Graham
Home from nowhere. (zoning laws' affects on quality of life)News, opinion and commentaryJames Howard Kunstler
In a Chinese orphanage. (public-policy concerns behind the plight of Chinese orphanages)News, opinion and commentaryAnne F. Thurston
India's Bandit Queen: a saga of revenge - and the making of a legend of "the real India." (rebel leader Phoolan Devi)News, opinion and commentaryMary Anne Weaver
In full bloom: strolling through an array of England's private gardens.News, opinion and commentaryHatsy Shields
Innocents abroad: making Britain fun for a child can be fun for a parent, too. (traveling with children)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Owen
In the land of conservative women. (Republican Party)News, opinion and commentaryElinor Burkett
In tune with Ireland. (Wexford, Ireland's annual opera festival)News, opinion and commentaryGeoffrey Wheatcroft
"It's Lew, babe, just Lew." (wife takes charge of her husband's career)News, opinion and commentaryLynn Caraganis
Living room galleries. (an alternate to showing in art galleries in New York, NY)News, opinion and commentaryCarol Kino
Log me a river: as old-growth longleaf pine becomes scarce, thousands of valuable logs are being raised from riverbeds where they have lain for close to a century.News, opinion and commentaryHeather Millar
Magic time; observations of a cancer casualty.News, opinion and commentaryMichael Davitt Bell
Mideast oil forever? (funding for alternative-energy programs in the US may be eliminated because of budget cuts)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryJoseph J. Romm, Charles B. Curtis
Mississippi Monte Carlo. (gambling industry in Tunica County)News, opinion and commentaryBenjamin Schwarz, Christina Schwarz
My grandfather's last tale. (composer Ernst Toch)News, opinion and commentaryLawrence Wechsler
My sex mentors: Barbara Stanwyck, meet Janet Reno. (film actress and the Attorney General)News, opinion and commentaryLynn Caraganis
No phone, no pool, no pets: living in a van.News, opinion and commentaryIan Frazier
On France's blessed south coast. (the Cote d'Azur)News, opinion and commentaryHans Koning
Otherworldly Madagascar.News, opinion and commentaryPeter Tyson
Remembering Ross Thomas: he made crime fiction a genre of moral consolation in twenty-five award-winning books.News, opinion and commentaryHiss Tony
Right-wing populist. (presidential candidate Pat Buchanan)News, opinion and commentarySteven Stark
Say something: they're only children. (adult's social responsibility toward children)News, opinion and commentaryLucie Prinz
Second thoughts on the Second Amendment.(gun control)News, opinion and commentaryWendy Kaminer
Someplace like home. (house depicted in painting by Edward Hopper became a model for homes that appeared in various movies)News, opinion and commentaryPaul Bochner
Sounds as good as it looks. (new concert hall in Tanglewood, MA)News, opinion and commentaryWitold Rybczynski
Stuck with strangers. (helpful winter drivers in Vermont)News, opinion and commentaryCastle Freeman Jr.
The economic consequences of Mr. Clinton. (Pres. Bill Clinton's thrust to balance the budget at all costs is compared to the unfortunate economic policies of Winston Churchill)(Recipe for a Depression)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryRobert A. Levine
The empty symbolism of American politics.News, opinion and commentaryRobert A. Levine
The forces making for an economic collapse: why a depression could happen.(Recipe for a Depression)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryThomas I. Palley
The Great Society in camouflage. (social conditions in the military)News, opinion and commentaryThomas E. Ricks
The idea of disorder at Key West. (the depiction of South Florida in popular fiction)News, opinion and commentaryPhyllis Rose
The insufficiency of honesty. (honesty versus integrity)News, opinion and commentaryStephen L. Carter
The last roundup.(country music star Merle Haggard)News, opinion and commentaryTony Scherman
The latest fashion in irrationality. (mass-appeal books on spirituality)News, opinion and commentaryWendy Kaminer
The new economics of immigration: affluent Americans gain; poor Americans lose.(The Price of Immigration)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryGeorge J. Borjas
The nitrous oxide philosopher. (Philosopher William James and his experiments with drugs)News, opinion and commentaryDmitri Tymoczko
The old made new. (cultural rebirth of East Germany)News, opinion and commentaryR.W.W. Apple Jr.
The paradoxical case of Tony Blair. (Britain's Labor Party leader)News, opinion and commentaryGeoffrey Wheatcroft
The precipitous world of Dan Osman. (rock climber and free faller)News, opinion and commentaryAndrew Todhunter
The protean president. (Bill Clinton's partisan makeover)News, opinion and commentaryThomas Byrne Edsall
The rancher subsidy. (how American ranchers survive)News, opinion and commentaryTodd Oppenheimer
The search for a no-frills Jesus; Q. (Greek text of the sayings of Jesus)News, opinion and commentaryCharlotte Allen
The sub-seabed solution. (radioactive waste disposal)News, opinion and commentarySteven Nadis
The uncertain leviathan: spectators, pulse-takers, anger, and frustration - a look into the void of American politics.News, opinion and commentaryJonathan Schell
The year of talking radically. (parallels between the state of the US economy in the 1890s and 1990s)News, opinion and commentaryJack Beatty
Thomas Jefferson: radical and racist. (argument against former president's rightful place in history)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryConor Cruise O'Brien
Two kinds of paradise. (Caribbean island of Nevis)News, opinion and commentaryBarbara Wallraff
Vessel of last resort. (trip along Africa's Congo River)News, opinion and commentaryJeffrey Taylor
Watering to endanger. (the invasive quality of the Singapore police)News, opinion and commentarySteven Wrage
Welcome to our tomb: visitors to Ulysses S. Grant's final resting place have an opportunity to preserve their reactions for posterity. (guest book at New York, NY monument)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryRichard Rubin
Welcome to the Next Church.(megachurch trend)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryCharles Trueheart
Why America thinks it has to run the world. (US efforts to exert global economic and political power through its military presence)News, opinion and commentaryBenjamin Schwarz
Will America grow up before it grows old?(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryPeter G. Peterson
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