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October 1993

14 years ago By admin

Volume

44

Issue

6

The Sex Issue The Sex Issue

Stories published from "October 1993"

From Robert Benchley To Andrew Dice Clay

Authored by: Russell Baker

Is the kind of humor popular today another symptom of the general erosion of civil discourse? Maybe, says a man who has spent a good deal of his life being funny; but more likely it’s just a vigorous breeze from the American frontier.

1943 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Chocolate Diet

1968 Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

October Surprise

The American Environment

Authored by: John Steele Gordon

THE PICTURE IS MORE HEARTENING THAN ALL THE LITTLE ONES.

One Towns Environment

Authored by: The Editors

The ebb and flow of tooth and claw, fifty miles from Times Square

“We Had a Great History, and We Turned Aside”

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

A long-time Republican-party insider and close student of its past discusses how the party has changed over the years, for better and for worse, and where it may be headed.

The American Century Of Bessie And Sadie Delany

Authored by: The Editors

Two extraordinary sisters tell their story—a quiet epic that began in slavery days and isn’t over yet

The Songwriters In Hollywood

Authored by: Wilfrid Sheed

They headed West from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley in the late 1920s, griped and groused when they reached Hollywood, and spent decades there producing the greatest outpouring of song America has ever known

The Destruction of Fighting Joe Hooker

Authored by: Gene Smith

He told President Lincoln that he was better than any other officer on the field at Bull Run, and he got the Army’s top job. He built a beaten force into a proud one, and stole a march on Robert E. Lee with it. He was 24 hours away from winning the Civil War. Then, he fell apart.

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