Harper's Magazine: May 1956

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May 1956

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Fit of temper?, from March 1956: Letter By S.R. Narayana Ayyar Letter By E.L. Sitton PDF IMAGES
12-15	The editor's easy chair/Article Remembrance in a high valley By John Fischer SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Death and burial; Journalists; “The easy chair” (Harper's); Volunteer workers in conservation of natural resources PDF IMAGES
15	The editor's easy chair/Article Political notes from the learned professions By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); Health—Humor PDF IMAGES The editor's easy chair/Article Strange noises from the steppes By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career as Soviet premier; Communism; 1953-1985; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Propaganda, Communist PDF IMAGES
20-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Primitives in the super market By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Grocery shopping PDF IMAGES
25	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article Republican “giveaways”: The charges and the facts By Warren Unna SEE ALSO: Conservation of natural resources; Deregulation; Forest management; Forest reserves; Gas industry; Indian termination policy; Management; Multiple use; 1953-1961; National parks and reserves; Pasture, Right of; Privatization; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
35	Poem Ash can By Peter Kane Dufault PDF IMAGES
36-39	Article It's only a game By Shirley Jackson SEE ALSO: Baseball for children PDF IMAGES
40-46	Article Music: For money or for love? By Jacques Barzun SEE ALSO: Management; Music trade; Musicians; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
47-49	Article Texans don't know any better By Hugh Russell Fraser SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Censorship; Foreign news; Objectivity; Texans PDF IMAGES
50-54	Article Italy changes her way By Giorgio De Santillana SEE ALSO: Career as president of Italy; Christian democratic parties; Cold War; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Elections; Gronchi, Giovanni; 1945-1976; Petroleum industry and trade PDF IMAGES
55-60	Fiction The sound of Moorish laughter: A story By Harold Brodkey PDF IMAGES
61-66	Article Arthur T. Vanderbilt: Order in the courtroom By Jerome H. Spingarn SEE ALSO: Vanderbilt, Arthur T.; Buildings; Career as N.J. chief justice; Court congestion and delay; Law reform; Pre-trial procedure PDF IMAGES
67-70	Article What early man discovered about food By William H. Adolph SEE ALSO: Folklore; Food; Food habits; Preservation PDF IMAGES
70	Article A soft answer turneth away water: Or, Cooper keeps his eye on the ball SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. ambassador to India; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Economic assistance, American; Floods; Cooper, John Sherman PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article Why the French act that way By Harry Turtledove SEE ALSO: Career in French politics; Democracy; Elections; Merchants; 1945-1958; Poujade, Pierre PDF IMAGES
77-79	After hours/Article The revolution in sports By Fessenden Seaver Blanchard SEE ALSO: Leisure; Recreation; Sports PDF IMAGES
79	After hours/Article Blackball By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Affluent consumers; Class consciousness; Mailing lists; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
80-90	The new books/Review Sir Winston early and late . . . harems and other points of interest By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A history of the English-speaking peoples: the birth of Britain (Book); Menen, Aubrey; Cousins and strangers (Book); Every other bed (Book); Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling; Good behaviour (Book); Imperial woman (Book); Fischer, Louis; Mike Gorman; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); Putt, S. Gorley (Samuel Gorley); Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania (Book); Churchill, Winston, Sir; Nicolson, Harold George, Sir; The abode of love (Book); The dispossessed (Book); This is our world (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-93	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Gordon, Caroline; Comfort me with apples (Book); Lions, tigers, and me (Book); Bromfield, Louis; De Vries, Peter; Red over green (Book); Arkell, Reginald; Henriques, Robert; Proske, Roman; The malefactors (Book); The miracle of Merriford (Book); Walt Disney's vanishing prairie (Book) PDF IMAGES
93	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A walk on the wild side (Book); Don't go near the water (Book); Windsor, Wallis Warfield, Duchess of; Burdick, Eugene; For love of a king (Book); Steen, Marguerite; Mona Lisa: the prince of Taranto (Book); Algren, Nelson; Lofts, Norah; Pemmican (Book); Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia; Beauvoir, Simone de; The afternoon of an autocrat (Book); The bouncing ball (Book); The heart has its reasons (Book); The mandarins (Book); The ninth wave (Book); The unquiet spirit (Book); Thayer, Tiffany; Fisher, Vardis; Brinkley, William; Saroyan, William PDF IMAGES
94-96	The new recordings/Review Big changes By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Adler; Amsterdam Concertgebouw; Argenta, Ataulfo; Ballet Theater Orchestra; C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat in D (Sound recording); Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Prohaska, Felix; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Cowell, Henry; Ländler; Fleisher, Leon; Bernstein, Leonard; Levine; Liszt: A Faust symphony; Les préludes (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: Symphony #2, “Lobgesang” (Hymn of praise). Cowell: Hymn and fuguing tunes #2, #5; Ballad (Sound recording); Gould, Morton; Morton Gould: Fall River legend. Leonard Bernstein: Facsimile (Sound recording); Music audiences; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Paris Conservatory Orchestra; Performances; Schubert: piano sonata in B flat, op. posth. Ländler, op. 171 (Sound recording); Sound recording industry; Vienna Orchestra Society; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Albinoni: Adagio; Concerto in C, op. 5, no. 12; Concerto a cinque in C; Concerto for strings in D (Sound recording); Albinoni: Six concerti from opus 5 and opus 7 (Sound recording); Albinoni: Twelve concerti a cinque, opus 9 (Sound recording); Vivaldi, Antonio; Bryks; Ensemble Orchestre de l'Oiseau-Lyre; Witold, Jean; Albinoni, Tomaso; Vivaldi: Concerto a cinque in D minor, op. VIII, no. 9; Concerto in E minor for bassoon, op. VIII, no. 6 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES