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December 1972 Issue - 21 Articles- The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
Reports & Comment
- Washington: The Lavelle Case
George C. Wilson
, pp. 6-26 - Uganda
Stanley Meisler
, pp. 27-39 - Innocent Bystander
L.E. Sissman
, pp. 40-45 - The Mail, pp. 46-51
- Contributors, pp. 52-54
- The Lucky Generation
Malcolm Cowley
, pp. 55-61 - A Brief Life is best in the End, I Suppose
Richard Elman
, pp. 62-67 A Story
- The Inside Story of the Mellon Art Collection
John Walker
, pp. 68-86 With a Portfolio of Reproductions from the National Gallery of Art
- The Trapper
Peter Klappert
, p. 87 - A Day No Pigs Would Die
Robert Newton Peck
, pp. 88-90 A Story
- Ornette Coleman and the Circle with a Hole in the Middle
Robert Palmer
, pp. 91-93 Backstage
- Sailing
April Smith
, pp. 94-100 An Atlantic "First"
- "Yes, Sir, This Has Certainly Been Considered a Safe Mine"
Rachel Scott
, pp. 101-114 - Praying on a 707
Anne Sexton
, p. 115 - The Morning After the War Before
Denis Warner
, pp. 116-125 Life & Letters
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Updike and Barthelme: Disengagement (2 Reviews) Richard Todd
, pp. 126-131 Museums and Women, and Other Stories, by John Updike
- Museums and Women, and Other Stories by John Updike
- Sadness by Donald Barthelme
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Reich at the Orgone Box (3 Reviews) Paul A. Robinson
, pp. 132-137 Character-Analysis, by Wilhelm Reich
- Character-Analysis by Wilhelm Reich
- The Function of the Orgasm by Wilhelm Reich
- Ether, God and Devil, and Cosmic Superimposition by Wilhelm Reich
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Rohmer's Men and Women (Review) David Denby
, pp. 138-140 Chloe in the Afternoon (1972 Film), by Eric Rohmer
- Chloe in the Afternoon (1972 Film) by Eric Rohmer
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The Peripatetic Reviewer (4 Reviews) Edward Weeks
, pp. 141-143 Queen Victoria, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
- Queen Victoria by Cecil Woodham-Smith
- Transparent Things by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
- The Great American Shooting Prints by Robert Elman
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Short Reviews: Books (12 Reviews) Phoebe Adams
, pp. 144-154 The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth
- The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth
- Waiting for the Morning Train by Bruce Catton
- A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Temptation of Jack Orkney, and Other Stories by Doris Lessing
- The Age of Kipling by John Gross
- The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
- Somewhere Else by Robert Kotlowitz
- The Making of a Psychiatrist by David S. Viscott
- Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
- Treasures of the Armada by Robert Stenuit
- Erotic Art Today by Volker Kahmen
- The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
