TITLE: ATLANTIC Monthly Magazine
[Founded in 1857, and still in publication, one of America's oldest magazines! ATLANTIC MONTHLY features interesting and intelligent articles, and vintage advertisements of the day. Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below!]
ISSUE DATE: August, 1984; Vol. 254 No. 2
CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

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ARTICLES:
UNDERSTANDING TELEVISION ... DAVID MARC -- The "most effective purveyor of language, image, and narrative in American culture" is still more reviled and laughed at than seriously examined.

THE AIRPLANE THAT DOESN'T COST ENOUGH ... GREGG EASTERBROOK -- A good fighter, designed by the Northrop Corporation, is not in production because the Pentagon, for bureaucratic reasons, doesn't want it.

HOW THE UNIVERSE WORKS ... ROBERT P. CREASE AND CHARLES C. MANN -- The ultimate goal of physics is a theory that explains all matter and energy. Today physicists may be close to achieving that goal, in large part because of the efforts of Sheldon L. Glashow.

REPORTS & COMMENT:
NOTES:
COMMA ... NICHOLSON BAKER.
1884 ... PETER BAIDA.
ALASKA: NIGERIA OF THE NORTH ... JAMES FALLOWS. WASHINGTON: A BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY ... JEFFREY E. GARTEN.
BRAZIL: A NEW GIANT IN THE ARMS INDUSTRY ... JOHN HOYT WILLIAMS.

HUMOR AND FICTION:
MUSEUMS, No ... ROBERT M. STROZIER.
AFTERNOON ... GUY BILLOUT.
FIRE BLIGHT ... JOYCE KORNBLATT.

POETRY:
THE STORM ... ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT.
THE WINDOWSILL OVER THE SINK ... VERN RUTSALA.

BOOKS:
LOOSE TALK ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER: RICHARD WILSON --
The Cult of the Atom by Daniel Ford.
The War Against the Atom by Samuel McCracken.
How Safe Is Nuclear Energy? by Sir Alan Cottrell.
AN OBSCURE LIFE ... PHYLLIS ROSE -- The Letters of Jean Rhys edited by Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly.
BRIEF REVIEWS PHOEBE-LOU ADAMS.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MUSIC: THE Loss OF COUNT BASIE ... FRANCIS DAVIS.
FOOD: SUMMER ICES ... CORBY KUMMER.
SPORTS: BOXER WITH A FUTURE ... G. A. TAUBES.
THE ATLANTIC PUZZLER ... EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON.
Typographic cover illustration by Gerard Huerta.
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