Cover artist: Albert Hubbell
Publication Date: August 12, 1974
Page Count: 100 pages
In this issue:Comment by Jonathan Schell. In Greece, a military dictatorship has yielded in favor of a democratic civilian regime. Performing an act that we think is without precedent, a general who was serving on the military junta put through a call to a civilian in exile and invited him to come home and form a... Books by John Updike. The Talk of the Town Coupla Tourists In London Again by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about writer's visit to England with his friend Henry. He talks about the latest hairdo for teenage boys in London: a flat-top crew cut on top with shoulder length hair on the sides. Tells of rumor in London: the British will get tired of keeping troups in... Fiction The House of My Dreams by Edna O'Brien. The writer is moving out of her house in London and reminisces about her past in the house & before that. She remembers her cruel husband who wanted custody of their children when they separated. She resisted and kept the children. The house has been her fortress. And yet there... The Current Cinema FINDING THE HAM IN "HAMLET" by Penelope Gilliatt. Annals of Politics THE POWER BROKER III-HOW THINGS GET DONE by Robert A. Caro. ANNALS OF POLITICS about Robert Moses, whose power in N.Y. City was based in control of the Triborough Bridge Authority & other organizations. In 1933, Moses told Mayor LaGuardia he would be N.Y.C. parks commissioner only if he controlled the Triborough Bridge Authority, which was the key to a unified... Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant. Obituary by Brendan Gill. Obituary of Lois Long, who died Monday, July 29, at the age of 72... Fiction By The Grain Elevators by W. S. Merwin. Here in the north they are still harvesting. All day yesterday the harvesters maneuvered like tanks across the grain fields. Last night they harvested long after dark... I listened to the night harvest, the approaching and receding noises of machines in the dark ... It came into my mind how suddenly... The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Owner of Laughing Bridge who won one section of the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga Springs... Poetry Walking in Coney Island by Irving Feldman. Encountered at estuary... Poetry August: A Jingle Man by L. E. Sissman. A landler enters the heat-stifled land... | 
