Harper's Magazine: May 1954

Archive > 1954 > Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

May 1954

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Fred Zimmer SEE ALSO: Automobile travel PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
8-13	The easy chair/Article Fantasy at noonday By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Civil Rights; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
14-19	Personal and otherwise/Article The arithmetic of foreign affairs By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
19	Personal and otherwise/Article Just friends By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; McCarthy, Joseph; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
23-29	Article A bipartisan policy for Asia By Chester Bowles SEE ALSO: Asia; Cold War; Diplomatic and consular service, American; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
29	Poem Doomsday By Sylvia Plath PDF IMAGES
30-37	Fiction The operator: A story By Elizabeth Enright PDF IMAGES
38-39	Article Prose of champions: Or, the literary fist in the boxing glove By Lee Rogow SEE ALSO: Criticism; Metaphor in literature; Sports journalism PDF IMAGES
39	Poem Bargain By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
40-45	Article Helen Keller By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Biography; Blind-deaf; Keller, Helen PDF IMAGES
46-52	Article What it costs to run for office By Henry Varnum Poor SEE ALSO: Campaign funds; Politics, Practical PDF IMAGES
53-60	Article The interpretation of dreams: Unpublished personal letters (part II) By Sigmund Freud, Eric Mosbacher (Trans.), and James Strachey (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Austria; Correspondence; Psychoanalysts; Freud, Sigmund; Vienna; Fliess, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES
60	Article Sic semper . . . By Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) Fairless SEE ALSO: Legislative hearings; Libel and slander PDF IMAGES
61-67	Article De Voto's New England By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Hotels; Restaurants PDF IMAGES Collection Travel in northern America PDF IMAGES
68-70	Article Roads running west By A.B. (Alfred Bertram) Guthrie SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Oregon Trail PDF IMAGES
69	Article Travel guides: Canada and the U.S.A. SEE ALSO: Guides PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Wilderness north of Chicago By John Bartlow Martin SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Mines and mineral resources; Wilderness areas PDF IMAGES
77-81	Article Tourists, stay away from my door By Thomas Hornsby Ferril SEE ALSO: Colorado; Rocky Mountains; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
82-84	Article Montreal—and beyond By James R. Conant SEE ALSO: Château Frontenac (Québec, Québec); Montréal (Québec); Québec (Province) PDF IMAGES
84	Article A young man of promise SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Prime ministers; Churchill, Winston, Sir PDF IMAGES
85-89	Article The Northwest—tailored to all tastes By Richard L. (Richard Lewis) Neuberger SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; British Columbia; Northwestern States PDF IMAGES
90-91	After hours/Article Man in a white shirt By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Shirts, Men's; Textile fibers, Synthetic PDF IMAGES
91-92	After hours/Article Light-weight champion By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Musicals; Phoenix Theater (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
92-93	After hours/Article The way East By John Fischer SEE ALSO: New Yorkers; San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
94-103	The new books/Review Whales, gypsies, children By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: A pride of lions (Book); A time to laugh (Book); Bouquet, Alan Coates; Taylor, Alexander L.; Blunt, Anthony; Architecture in Britain 1530-1830 (Book); Art and architecture in France 1500-1700 (Book); Bless this house (Book); Bouvard and Pécuchet (Book); Casino royale (Book); Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard; Child with a flower (Book); Bossi, Elda; García Lorca, Federico; Stonier, G.W.; Flaubert, Gustave; Gypsy ballads (Book); Carson, Harold Dean; Tredennick, Hugh; Fleming, Ian; In Sara's tents (Book); Barzun, Jacques; Brooks, John; Krutch, Joseph Wood; Heim, Karl; Tynan, Kenneth; Thompson, Laurence; Lofts, Norah; Douglas, Norman; Of whales and men (Book); Rombi, Paride; Perdu (Book); Persona grata (Book); Plato; Robertson, R.B. (Robert Blackwood); Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy, Sir; Summerson, John Newenham, Sir; South wind (Book); The Caroline affair (Book); The dictionary of accepted ideas (Book); The last days of Socrates (Book); The measure of man (Book); The old country store (Book); The sacred books of the world (Book); The transformation of the scientific world-view (Book); The white knight (Book); Earp, Thomas Wade; Starkie, Walter PDF IMAGES
104-106	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Born on snowshoes (Book); But we were born free (Book); McDowell, Charles R.; Bowen, Croswell; Davis, Elmer Holmes; Shore, Evelyn Berglund; Bell, Harry; Evans, Jean; Godden, Jon; Matthiessen, Peter; Race rock (Book); The city and the wave (Book); The iron baby angel (Book); They went wrong (Book); Three men (Book); We adopted a daughter (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-107	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A wreath for the enemy (Book); Benjamin Franklin and a rising people (Book); Biography; Catton, Bruce; Attlee, C.R. (Clement Richard); Bowers, Claude Gernade; Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame; Fleming, Donald; Brandon, Dorothy; Elihu Root and the conservative tradition (Book); Elisha Kent Kane and the seafaring frontier (Book); Bagnold, Enid; Keyes, Frances Parkinson; Future indefinite (Book); Fergusson, Harvey; Mirsky, Jeannette; Mamie Eisenhower (Book); Mary Anne (Book); Deasy, Mary; My mission to Spain (Book); Shute, Nevil; Coward, Noel; Larkin, Oliver W.; Handlin, Oscar; Frankau, Pamela; Pictures from an institution (Book); Jarrell, Randall; Rendezvous (Book); Leopold, Richard William; Marshall, Rosamond; Franken, Rose; Samuel F.B. Morse and American democratic art (Book); Slide rule (Book); The conquest of Don Pedro (Book); The Corioli affair (Book); The girl's journey (Book); The library of American biography (Book); The loving meddler (Book); The royal box (Book); U.S. Grant and the American military tradition (Book); Crane, Verner Winslow; William H. Welch and the rise of modern medicine (Book) PDF IMAGES
107	Books in brief/Correction Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Never victorious, never defeated (Book); Taylor Caldwell PDF IMAGES
108-110	The new recordings/Review The new recordings By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Rother, Artur; Dorfmann; Grieg, Edvard; Reesen, Emil; Leinsdorf, Erich; Tuxen, Erik; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Grieg: Lyric suite, op. 54. Reesen: Himmerland (Danish rhapsody) (Sound recording); Grieg: Norwegian peasant dances, op. 72 (Sound recording); Grieg: Peer Gynt (Original stage version) (Sound recording); Grieg: Piano concert #1. Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain (Sound recording); Grieg: Piano concerto #1. Mendelssohn: Piano concerto #1 (Sound recording); Grieg: Piano concerto #1. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini (Sound recording); Novaes, Guiomar; Swarowsky, Hans; High-fidelity sound systems; Boehm, K.; Falla, Manuel de; Gruner-Hegge, Odd; Oslo Philharmonic; Performances; Pro Musica Symphony; Radio Berlin Symphony; Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Vienna Philharmonic PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby PDF IMAGES