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February 1982 Issue
February 1982 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
    Edward Jay Epstein
  • Jerusalem: Symbols of Recognition
    Richard Sennett
  • Escape to the Past
    Eleanor Perényi
  • Shiny Objects
    Dianne Benedict
  • On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, n.h
    William Matthews
  • The Kennedy Imprisonment: 2. The Prisoner of Toughness
    Garry Wills

Escape to the Past

Seeing Portugal before progress pollutes the air and spoils the countryside

By Eleanor Perényi
February 1982 Issue