Lesson 1 Face to Face with Hurricane Camille&Joseph P.Blank 1
Lesson 2 Marrakech&George Orwell 28
Lesson 3 Pub Talk and the King's English&Henry Fairlie 55
Lesson 4 Inaugural Address&John F.Kennedy 80
Lesson 5 Love Is a Fallacy&Max Shulman 106
Lesson 6 Disappearing Through the Skylight&Osborne B.Hardison Jr. 143
Lesson 7 The Libido for the Ugly&Henry L.Mencken 167
Lesson 8 The Worker as Creator or Machine&Erich Fromm 191
Lesson 9 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas&Ursula Le Guin 220
Lesson 10 The Sad Young Men&Rod W.Horton and Herbert W.Edwards 242
Lesson 11 The Future of the English&John B.Priestley 273
Lesson 12 The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American&James Baldwin 306
Lesson 13 In Favor of Capital Punishment&Jacques Barzun 331
Lesson 14 Loving and Hating New York&Thomas Griffith 367