The Atlantic Monthly 1997 - Abstracts

The Atlantic Monthly 1997
TitleSubjectAuthors
Abortion in American history.News, opinion and commentaryKatha Pollitt
A civic duty to annoy: we tend to forget that criticism sometimes expresses greater respect than praise.News, opinion and commentaryWendy Kaminer
A Democrat who admits it.(Rep. Richard Gephardt)News, opinion and commentaryJames Fallows
A grief like no other.(parents of murdered children)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryEric Schlosser
All sales are vinyl; shopping for LPs in the many villages of downtown New York City.News, opinion and commentaryJonathan Scull
A man from Mars. (John Gunther, author of 'Inside U.S.A.')News, opinion and commentaryArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
A memory of the nineteen-nineties.(Max Beerbohm's book 'Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties.')News, opinion and commentaryTeller
An anatomy lesson: looking at Rembrandt between sessions of the Yugoslav war-criminal tribunal in The Hague.News, opinion and commentaryLawrence Weschler
An Audubon in sound: Messiaen's radiant birdsongs, the crown of his creation, belong as much to the artist as to nature.(Olivier Messiaen)News, opinion and commentaryMatthew Gurewitsch
Arts and entertainment. (Chicago, Illinois)(Special Advertising Supplement)News, opinion and commentaryNancy Dalva, John Istel, Bob Blumenthal, Charles M. Young, Ella Taylor
A subversive sympathy: the stories of Peter Taylor and the illusions they bring to life.News, opinion and commentaryRobert Wilson
A train to Spain: across northern Spain by rail, from Galicia to the Basque Country.News, opinion and commentaryLucy McCauley
A war that never ends.(controversy over laws of grammar)News, opinion and commentaryMark Halpern
Blood and motherly advice.(American Forces TV Network)(Americana)News, opinion and commentaryGregg Easterbrook
British islets.(visits to Isles of Scilly and the Channel Islands)News, opinion and commentaryHatsy Shields
But not least: a tribute to those who are forgotten but not gone. (last surviving members of historical groups)News, opinion and commentaryRichard Rubin
Can the government prevent divorce?News, opinion and commentaryFrancine Russo
Citizen 501(c)(3): an increasingly powerful agent in American life is also one of the least noticed.(private foundations)News, opinion and commentaryNicholas Lemann
Cuba's entrepreneurial socialism.News, opinion and commentaryJoy Gordon
De Sade's daughters.(new erotic literature by women)(Books)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryLee Siegel
Diamond nuggets: all the weekly baseball notes you'll ever really need.(baseball comments and facts)News, opinion and commentaryRoy Blount Jr.
Dostoyevsky behind a camera: Oliver Stone is making great American novels on film.News, opinion and commentaryGarry Wills
Do we consume too much?News, opinion and commentaryMark Sagoff
Forgotten benefactor of humanity. (agronomist Norman Borlaug)News, opinion and commentaryGregg Easterbrook
Good news! From Boston to San Francisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods.News, opinion and commentaryAlexander Von Hoffman
Here come the frosh.(origin of 'frosh' and 'freshmen')(Word Improvisation)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryJ.E. Lighter
Hidden colors: the rubble on one of the few remaining gray blocks near the old Checkpoint Charlie reveals much about what Berlin is losing, and losing fast. (Germany)News, opinion and commentaryDavid Lawday
How to rewrite economic history: the Boskin Commission's attack on the Consumer Price Index is weak on the merits and scary as policy. (Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Chairperson Michael Boskin)(Column)News, opinion and commentaryThomas I. Palley
In the monster's maw: fishing holds a different thrill when you yourself are the bait.(barehanded catfish catching)News, opinion and commentaryBurkhard Bilger
Keeping the modern modern: by trying to keep up with the times, the Museum of Modern Art may obliterate its architectural diary of modernism.(New York, NY)News, opinion and commentaryWitold Rybczynski
Late edition: the mighty Miehle, a letterpress the size of a truck, which for thirty years printed the news for Yellow Springs, Ohio, falls victim to the computer.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Fleischman
Maria, not Callas: Terrence McNally's 'Master Class' deliberately plays fast and loose with historical fact in search of artistic truth.News, opinion and commentaryMatthew Gurewitsch
More reefer madness. (government policy on marijuana)News, opinion and commentaryEric Schlosser
My race problem - and ours.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryRandall Kennedy
New-alphabet disease: it's tough suddenly changing from one alphabet to another. Azerbaijan is on its third one this century.News, opinion and commentaryToby Lester
Noisy highways: noise barriers give essential protection to people who live near crowded roads - and a growing number of designers are showing that they needn't be eyesores.News, opinion and commentaryPhilip Langdon
No middle way on the environment.News, opinion and commentaryGretchen C. Daily, Norman Myers, James Salzman, Paul R. Ehrich, Scott C. Daily
Notes on the twentieth century: it was the bloodiest ever, but still some surprising good has come out of it.News, opinion and commentaryHans Koning
Off the Maine coast: the island as foreign country; the vacationer as admiring expat. (expatriate; Vinalhaven in Penobscot Bay)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Davison
Our real China problem.(environmental crisis in China)News, opinion and commentaryMark Hertsgaard
Peeping in peace: not only New England has fall foliage worth traveling to see - Canada's uncrowded Maritime Provinces do too.News, opinion and commentaryBarbara Wallraff
Pleasure islands; the Canaries offer different visions of the sublime.News, opinion and commentaryRose Moss
Rails to trails: across America disused railbeds are being converted to trails for hiking and biking; soon a national trail will link the coasts.News, opinion and commentaryTony Hiss
Resurgence of a deadly disease.(malaria)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryEllen Ruppel Shell
Rough-terrain unicycling.News, opinion and commentaryMichael Finkel
Running scared. (political behavior of politicians)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryAnthony King
Scaling Alaska's heights: within Juneau's city limits are handsome mountains that novices can climb.(Travel)News, opinion and commentaryCharles Thompson
Secondhand music: the chance harmonies of everyday sounds may mean more than we think.News, opinion and commentaryToby Lester
Should English be the law?(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryRobert D. King
Slam and jam.(US air traffic control system)News, opinion and commentaryWilliam Langewiesche
Slow death in the Great Plains.(low birth rate in Great Plains states)News, opinion and commentaryHarlow A. Hyde
So long to bad dogs; animal behaviorism is an infant science, but it has dramatically changed the way many dog owners understand their animals.News, opinion and commentaryMark Derr
Taking notice of POTUS. (President of the United States)(US slang)News, opinion and commentaryJ.E. Lighter
The AIDS exception: privacy vs. public health.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryChandler Burr
The capitalist threat.(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryGeorge Soros
The computer and the economy; will information technology ever produce the productivity gains that were predicted?News, opinion and commentaryRichard E. Quandt, Alan S. Blinder
The computer delusion.(computers in education)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryTodd Oppenheimer
The disunited states: "devolution" - shifting power from Washington to the fifty states - is no cure for what ails American government.(Column)News, opinion and commentaryJohn D. Donahue
The mall of fame: even in neglect, a shrine to our society's values embodies them still.(original Hall of Fame in New York; changing meaning of fame)News, opinion and commentaryRichard Rubin
The man from heaven.(composer Burt Bacharach)News, opinion and commentaryFrancis Davis
The man who counts the killings. (George Gerbner, violence on television)News, opinion and commentaryScott Stossel
The most eminent Victorian. (former English Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone)News, opinion and commentaryGeoffrey Wheatcroft
The music of silence: a portrait of an unlikely monk - a former concert pianist, once legendary in Paris for his talent, looks, and charm....News, opinion and commentaryPhyllis Rose
The near-myth of our failing schools.News, opinion and commentaryPeter Schrag
The poses of Howard Hawks.(filmmaker)News, opinion and commentaryGarry Wills
The reading wars.(political dispute over reading education methods)News, opinion and commentaryNicholas Lemann
The widening gap between the military and society.News, opinion and commentaryThomas E. Ricks
The Wittgenstein controversy.(publication of the papers of Ludwig Wittgenstein)News, opinion and commentaryEvelyn Toynton
The worst thing Bill Clinton had done.(welfare reform)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryPeter Edelman
Time to end the Korean War.News, opinion and commentaryBruce Cumings
To whale or not to whale.(whaling)News, opinion and commentaryMark Derr
Underground Rome: a good way to study ancient Rome is to explore the cellars - and subcellars - of modern Rome. (Italy)News, opinion and commentaryTom Mueller
Underwater daredevils: divers compete to see who can go deepest on just one breath - and who can survive the yet-more-perilous ascent to air.News, opinion and commentaryColin Beavan
Vaccinating against cancer.News, opinion and commentaryStephen S. Hall
Vigilance: what's a dad to do in a world of sharp corners?News, opinion and commentaryMeg Cimino
Visitations: the graveyards of a lifetime.(man's fascination with cemeteries)News, opinion and commentaryGerald Dumas
Warm-blooded plants and freeze-dried fish: the future of space exploration.(Atlantic Monthly Looks Ahead to the 21st Century, part 1)(Cover Story)News, opinion and commentaryFreeman J. Dyson
Watch word. (definitions of newly coined terms)News, opinion and commentaryAnne H. Soukhanov
What Jefferson helps to explain.(Thomas Jefferson)News, opinion and commentaryBenjamin Schwarz
What nurses stand for.News, opinion and commentarySuzanne Gordon
White snow, red rocks: is Sedona, Arizona, cosmically energizing or simply refreshing?News, opinion and commentaryPeter Davison
Whose right to die? America should think again before pressing ahead with the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.News, opinion and commentaryEzekial Emanuel
Word watch. (newly coined terms, terms with new meanings or currency)News, opinion and commentaryAnne H. Soukhanov
Zero.(debate over when the millennium actually starts)News, opinion and commentaryDick Teresi
Zoot! A new software program on the Internet shows the usefulness and flexibility of shareware. (shareware)News, opinion and commentaryJames Fallows
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