Cover artist: James Stevenson Publication Date: January 1, 1972 Page Count: 64 pages In this issue:The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg. Profiles SOLO by Berton Roueche. PROFILE of Dr. Elwood L. Schmidt, a general practitioner who is the only doctor in Jal, N.M. The Jal General Hospital, which stands in the rich Permian Basin oil fields of southeastern N.M., was built as a unit of the Lea County hospital system in 1961. It serves a community... Letter from the Azores by Tad Szulc. Tells about the recent meeting between Pres. Nixon & Pres. Pompidou of France on Terceira Island in the Azores. The historic Azores Agreement was formulated here, in which for the first time in 37 yrs. the dollar was devalued in terms of gold. It has also made official the existence... Books by George Steiner. Our Local Correspondents MCGOVERN by James Stevenson. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about spending a day with Sen. George McGovern, in his campaign for the Dem. nomination for President. McGovern says his campaign is concentrating on grass-roots organization, & comments on Pres. Nixon's position on the Vietnam war. He speaks first at Hunter College. Then he appears on... Comment by Lillian Ross. Obituary of Ralph Johnson Bunche, who died last month. He was an Under-Sec. & an Under-Sec. General of the U.N for the past 16 years. Born in Detroit in 1904, he grew up in New Mexico & Los Angeles. After graduating at the head of his class at... The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of Stanley Kubrick's film "A Clockwork Orange" Writer is critical of its excessive violence & she goes on to discuss the fact that at the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence... The Current Cinema BEARING WITNESS by Brendan Gill. Fiction Twice-Told Tales: The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges. 5 mystical stories. 3) "The Mirror of Ink". The cruelest of the rulers of Sudan was Yaqub the Ailing, who left his country to the Egyptian tax xollectors & died on the 14th day of the moon of Barmahat, in 1842. The wizard Abd-er-Rahman al-Masmudi ("Servant of... Fiction I-Disquiet, Please, We're Turning by S. J. Perelman. Writer discusses his experiences during the time he was employed by impresario Michael Todd as a scriptwriter on Todd's film production of "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne. Writer was first employed by Todd in 1955. Todd had the reputation of being a first string con artist... Poetry At Vera Frost's Pony Farm by Peter Kane Dufault. In dusty blockhouses of oak... Poetry On Actors Scribbling Letters Very Quickly In Crucial Scenes by Jean Garrigue. The velocity with which they write... |