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February 1959

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By George Samerjan PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On American homes, from October 1958: Note/correction On The Washington phonies, from October 1958: Letter By Patrick Arthur Hill On Eisenhower opens the last act, from December 1958: Letter By Joel Martin Letter By Jack Orr On The Yuletide will get you if you don't watch out, from December 1958: Letter By Charles S. Ascher PDF IMAGES
14-16	The editor's easy chair/Article Love in Cincinnati By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Responsibility PDF IMAGES
16-22	The editor's easy chair/Article Love in China By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Birth control; Nuclear warfare; Population; Views on birth control; Mao, Zedong PDF IMAGES
22-24	The editor's easy chair/Article Love on Madison Avenue By John Fischer PDF IMAGES [Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
26-30	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: A cure for Ivy League myopia By John Fischer SEE ALSO: College choice PDF IMAGES
30	Personal and otherwise/Article American books abroad By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American books abroad; Circulation, loans PDF IMAGES
33-39	Article The faith of a heretic: Beginning a series on modern religious beliefs in America By Walter Arnold Kaufmann SEE ALSO: Belief and doubt; Faith and reason; 1945-1960 PDF IMAGES
39	Article Dictionary for modern geographers SEE ALSO: Cold War; Developing countries; Geography; Terminology PDF IMAGES
40-43	Article The foreign policy of my daughter Ellen By Paul Craig Roberts SEE ALSO: Pen pals PDF IMAGES
44-49	Article Good colleges that are not crowded By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Admission; College choice; Evaluation PDF IMAGES
49	Poem A knee-length trapeze By Felicia Lamport PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article Calm man in a nervous place: Berlin's Willy Brandt By Charles Wheeler Thayer SEE ALSO: Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Career as West Berlin mayor; Cold War; Germans; Mayors; 1945-1990; Portraits; Scandinavia; Socialism; Brandt, Willie; Brandt, Willy PDF IMAGES
57	Article Home on the range SEE ALSO: Architecture, Domestic; Awards; Designs and plans PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article A better break for the mentally ill By John Bartlow Martin SEE ALSO: Care; Mentally ill; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychotropic drugs; Side effects; Sociological aspects PDF IMAGES
60	Poem A charm of goldfinches, a writhe of worms By Marion McLennan Lineaweaver PDF IMAGES
69-76	Fiction Shower of ashes: A story By Robin White PDF IMAGES
73	Poem Lullaby By William Gibson PDF IMAGES
77-82	Article The Florida swamp that swallows your money By L. Boyd Finch SEE ALSO: Davis, Arthur Vining; Ethics; Flood control; Flood dams and reservoirs; Homes and haunts; 1953-1961; Reclamation of land; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
82	Article Automation takes over the pulpit SEE ALSO: Automation; Church buildings; Electronic sound control; Worcester PDF IMAGES
83-90	Collection The love song of J.D. Salinger By Arthur Mizener PDF IMAGES Article The love song of J.D. Salinger By Arthur Mizener SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David); Portraits PDF IMAGES
87	Article J.D. Salinger—biographical By Arthur Mizener SEE ALSO: Biography; Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David); Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
89	Poem Cold-War bulletin from the cultural front By George Starbuck PDF IMAGES
91-98	Article Arthur Flemming: A new breed of civil servant By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Flemming, Arthur S. (Arthur Sherwood); Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of health, education and welfare; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961; Officials and employees; Staff; United States. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare PDF IMAGES
96	Article The poor earnest American By Thomas Griffith SEE ALSO: Popular culture; Social norms PDF IMAGES
104-106	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article The cozy camel of Winston-Salem By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Cigarette smokers; Cigarettes; Consumer behavior; Packaging PDF IMAGES
106-108	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article Temperament on Second Avenue By Murray Schumach SEE ALSO: Jewish theater PDF IMAGES
108	Mr. Harper's after hours/Article “Efficiencies” By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Motels; Names PDF IMAGES Mr. Harper's after hours/Article From here to infinity By John Fischer SEE ALSO: New words PDF IMAGES
109-117	The new books/Review A medley, with some familiar themes By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Snow, C.P. (Charles Percy); Lipsky, Eleazar; Connell, Evan S.; Jones, James; Allen, Johannes; Updike, John; Cary, Joyce; Pfeiffer, Karl G.; Mrs. Bridge (Book); Wood, Robert Coldwell; Suburbia: its people and its politics (Book); The captive and the free (Book); The pistol (Book); The poorhouse fair (Book); The scientists (Book); The search (Book); The waist-high culture (Book); Griffith, Thomas; W. Somerset Maugham (Book); Young love (Book) PDF IMAGES
117-120	Review New art books By Martin Price and Mary Price SEE ALSO: Art and architecture in Italy 1600-1750 (Book); Artists' books; Carpaccio (Book); Claude Monet (Book); Rouart, Denis; Elisofon, Eliot; Forlati, Ferdinando; Flemish painting from Bosch to Rubens (Book); Duthuit, Georges; Heads figures and ideas (Book); Matisse, Henri; Moore, Henry; Italian Renaissance sculpture (Book); Lassaigne, Jacques; Jan Vermeer (Book); Peter, John; Domon, Ken; Degand, Léon; Goldscheider, Ludwig; Masters of modern architecture (Book); Kitagawa, Momoo; Mosaics of St. Mark's (Book); Reverdy, Pierre; Toesca, Pietro; Delevoy, Robert L.; Laffont, Robert; Miller, Roy Andrew; Wittkower, Rudolf; Pope-Hennessy, John Wyndham, Sir; Pignatti, Terisio; The illustrated history of Paris and the Parisians (Book); The last works of Henri Matisse (Book); The Muro-ji, an eighth century Japanese temple, its art and history (Book); The sculpture of Africa (Book) PDF IMAGES
121-124	The new recordings/Review One-man recordings By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Barchet Quartet; Buxtehude: 5 sacred cantatas (Sound recording); Buxtehude: Sonata in D; Suite in B flat; Sonata in D, op. 2, #2; 2 sacred cantatas; 2 Christmas cantatas (Sound recording); Corelli-Geminiani: 12 Concertos, op. 5 (Sound recording); Eckertsen, Dean; Buxtehude, Dietrich; Geminiani, Francesco; Corelli, Franco; Schubert, Franz; Telemann, Georg Philipp; Gorvin; Mozart: Quintet in C minor, K. 406; Quintet in G minor, K. 516 (Sound recording); Mozart: Six string quintets (Sound recording); Schubert: String quartets (Sound recording); Telemann: Four concerti (Sound recording); Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
123	The new recordings/Review Worth hearing . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Bavarian Radio Symphony; Beethoven: Sonata #8, op. 30; Sonata #3 (“Kreutzer”); Sonata #9, op. 47 (Sound recording); Berlioz: Symphonic fantastique (Sound recording); Jochum, Eugen; Ormandy, Eugene; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Schubert, Franz; Berlioz, Hector; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mendelssohn: String quartet #6, op. 80; String quartet #4, op. 44; String quartet #2 (Sound recording); Philadelphia Orchestra; Strauss, Richard; Schubert: Symphony in C major (“Great”) (Sound recording); Beecham, Thomas, Sir; Strauss: Don Quixote (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
124	Jazz notes/Review And poetry By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Chamber Jazz Sextet; Jazz; Music and literature; 1951-1960 PDF IMAGES