1.Face to Face with Hurricane Camille&Joseph P.Blank 1
2.Marrakech&George Orwell 29
3.Pub Talk and the King s English&Henry Fairlie 58
4.Inaugural Address&John F.Kennedy 84
5.Love is a Fallacy&Max Shulman 112
6.Disappearing Through the Skylight&Osborne Bennet Hardison Jr 149
7.The Libido for the Ugly&H.L.Mencken 174
8.The Worker as Creator or Machine&Erich Fromm 200
9.The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas&Ursula Le Guin 231
10.The Sad Young Men&Rod W.Horton and Herbert W.Edwards 254
11.The Future of the English&J.B.Priestley 287
12.The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American&James Baldwin 321
13.In Favor of Capital Punishment&Jacques Barzun 348
14.Loving and Hating New York&Thomas Griffith 386