Harper's Magazine: May 1957

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May 1957

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Arthur Shilstone SEE ALSO: Deserts PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters PDF IMAGES
12-19	The editor's easy chair/Collection The editor's easy chair By John Fischer PDF IMAGES The editor's easy chair/Fiction The case of the pretty widow By Morris Leopold Ernst PDF IMAGES
13-18	The editor's easy chair/Fiction Here's to crime By Edward Geary Zern PDF IMAGES
18-19	The editor's easy chair/Fiction Here today and gone today, too By Joe L. Williams PDF IMAGES
19	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
22-23	Personal and otherwise/Article Our diplomats go “modern” By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Architecture, American PDF IMAGES
25-31	Article The American West: Perpetual mirage By Walter Prescott Webb SEE ALSO: Deserts; Geography; Rain and rainfall PDF IMAGES
32-35	Article Baseball: The great numbers game By Fred Schwed SEE ALSO: Baseball; Probabilities; Records; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
36-40	Article The architect, more needed than pitied By John E. (John Ely) Burchard and Albert Bush-Brown SEE ALSO: Architects; Architecture; Competitions; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES Collection Where does architecture go from here? PDF IMAGES
40-43	Article The next step beyond “modern” By Henry Hope Reed SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern; Decoration and ornament; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel; Influence PDF IMAGES
44-49	Article Up the runway to Minsky's (second of two articles) By Gypsy Rose Lee SEE ALSO: Biography; Burlesque (Theater); Lee, Gypsy Rose; Stripteasers; Toledo PDF IMAGES
50-55	Article Toads, mushrooms, and schizophrenia By Howard D. (Howard Douglas) Fabing SEE ALSO: Chemotherapy; Human experimentation in medicine; LSD (Drug); Physiological effect; Schizophrenia PDF IMAGES
56-61	Article A last chance for South Africa By Philip C. Woodyatt SEE ALSO: Apartheid; 1948-1961; South Africa PDF IMAGES
62-67	Fiction The lovers By Alex Austin PDF IMAGES
67	Article Cole cites monogamy among American youth By John Dower SEE ALSO: Amherst; Amherst College; College presidents; Dating (Social customs) PDF IMAGES
68-73	Article The dark world of H.G. Wells By Anthony West SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; English literature; Wells, H.G. (Herbert George); Literature and science; Utopias in literature PDF IMAGES
72	Poem The outsider By Robert Graves PDF IMAGES
74-76	After hours/Article Ladies, God bless 'em By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Dingwall, Eric John; The American woman (Book) PDF IMAGES
76-77	After hours/Review Morpheus ascending By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Orpheus descending (Play); Williams, Tennessee PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Not quite a poem on togetherness in the witherness By William F. (William Francis) Gekle PDF IMAGES
78-91	The new books/Review The search for community By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Ross, Albion; Moore, Brian; Rowan, Carl Thomas; Common sense and the Fifth Amendment (Book); Go south to sorrow (Book); Matthews, Herbert Lionel; Kennaway, James; Steinbeck, John; Journey of an American (Book); Kingdom of the saints: the story of Brigham Young and the Mormons (Book); Pagan Spain (Book); West, Ray Benedict; Wright, Richard; Hook, Sidney; The feast of Lupercal (Book); The short reign of Pippin IV (Book); The yoke and the arrows (Book); Tunes of glory (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: And live alone (Book); As love is deep (Book); Barton, Betsey; Birthright (Book); Death of a man (Book); Pitkin, Dorothy; La Roe, Else K. (Else Kienle); Remarque, Erich Maria; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Highet, Gilbert; Wertenbaker, Lael Tucker; Rogers, Lettie Hamlett; My family and other animals (Book); Poets in a landscape (Book); The black obelisk (Book); Woman surgeon (Book) PDF IMAGES
94	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Levenson, J. C. (Jacob Clavner); Thurber, James; Nash, Ogden; Patrick Henry: patriot in the making (Book); Wellman, Paul Iselin; Portage Bay (Book); Promises: poems 1954-1956 (Sound recording); Meade, Robert Douthat; Warren, Robert Penn; Peters, Ruth Marie; White, Ruth Morris; Williams, Ted; The fishing season (Book); The mind and art of Henry Adams (Book); The wonderful O (Book); Tin can on a shingle (Book); White, William Chapman; Long, William J. (William Joseph); Wings of the forest (Book); You can't get there from here (Book); Your garden in town (Book) PDF IMAGES
95-96	The new recordings/Review New numbers, new packaging By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Piano sonata, op. 27; Piano sonata #2 (“Moonlight”); Piano sonata, op. 13 (“Pathétique”); Piano sonata, op. 57 (“Appassionata”) (Sound recording); Beethoven: Piano sonata, op. 53 (“Waldstein”); Piano sonata, op. 109 (Sound recording); Beethoven: Symphony #9 (Sound recording); Berlin Philharmonic; Brahms: Symphony #3; “Tragic” overture (Sound recording); Petri, Egon; Egon Petri plays Brahms (Sound recording); Jochum, Eugen; Lehmann, Fritz; Bauer, Harold; Brahms, Johannes; Kraus, Lili; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Recording and reproducing; Sound; Furtwängler, Wilhelm PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Hovhaness, Alan; Dvorák, Antonín; Vivaldi, Antonio; Smetana, Bedrich; Surinach, Carlos; Cleveland Orchestra; Dvorák: Slavonic dances. Smetana: From my life (Sound recording); Szell, George; Hovhannes: Saint Vartan symphony, op. 80 (Sound recording); M-G-M Chamber Orchestra; Bartók, Péter; Jones, Robert Edmond; Robert Edmond Jones: towards a new theater (Book); The automobile—the sounds of 50 years (Book); Vivaldi: 18 flute concerti (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES