Summer 1983

Morris Freedman’s “I Teach at CCNY” Oscar Mandel’s “Dr. Watson to Dulcinea” David Wykes’s “Orwell In the Trenches” Harry S. Ashmore’s “Below the Bottom Line” Stories by Morris Freedman, Oscar Mandel, David Wykes, and Harry S. Ashmore Poetry by Louis Simpson, Dabney Stuart, Peter Balakian, and Hank Lazer

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Contributor Profiles

David Wykes

Harry S. Ashmore

Harry S. Ashmore (1916-1998) was the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette during the 1957 desegregation crisis at Little Rock’s Central High School and won the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials on the topic.

Summer 1983

Volume 59/3

Volume 59, Number 3

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Below the Bottom Line

Iran and the United States: What Went Wrong?

The Enduring American Dilemma

Will the Defendant Please Rise

Reprint, Summer 1983

Kenneth Clark and the Vision of Criticism

The Birds

Cosmic Sorrows

Talking Over Chekov, Montauk Point

I Teach at CCNY

Elegy for Jake

Pablo Tamayo

The Rose Garden

Dr. Watson to Dulcinea

Recordings

Where’s Tom?

Staying Power

Orwell In the Trenches

The Green Room, Summer 1983

Virginia In the Window

Notes on Current Books, Summer 1983

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