Harper's Magazine: December 1959

Archive > 1959 > Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

December 1959

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Carl Ramirez SEE ALSO: Pyramid (Geometry) PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The alone generation, from October 1959: Letter By Elaine Dundy Letter By Edward Dickson On The decline of book reviewing, from October 1959: Letter By Robert Erwin Letter By George P. Brockway Letter By Max Cosman Letter By Dan H. McCullough Letter By Richard J. Stonesifer On How and why I write the costume novel, from October 1959: Letter By Mrs. Simon Rubin On The lost art of writing for television, from October 1959: Letter By Al Silverman On On the teaching of writing, from October 1959: Letter By Thomas H. Uzzell PDF IMAGES
12-19	The editor's easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Falk, Alexander A.; Maremont, Arnold H.; Career as member of Texas State Insurance Board; Career as New York (State) racetrack steward; —Career as president of Civil Service Commission in New York (State); Career as U.S. senator; Career in philanthropy; Civil service positions; Community power; Conflict of interests; Corporations; Irons, David; Espionage, Soviet; Ethics; Dunn, Francis P.; Gibney, Frank; Lavery, George; Horse racing; Houston; Insurance crimes; Naples; Noise; Orphanages; Deriabin, Peter; Philanthropists; Political corruption; Political ethics; Puerto Ricans; Leibowitz, Samuel Simon; Young, Stephen M. (Stephen Marvin); The secret world (Book); United States. Congress. Senate; Views on political activity of corporations; Views on social conditions in New York (New York) PDF IMAGES
19	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
20-25	Personal and otherwise/Article Among our contributors: Dangling man By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Correspondence; Forensic psychiatry; Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus) PDF IMAGES
25	Personal and otherwise/Article Awards By John Fischer SEE ALSO: American periodicals; Awards; Finney, Charles G. (Charles Grandison); Burnett, David; Rosten, Leo Calvin; Foley, Martha; Engle, Paul; Praeger, Polly; Prize stories 1958: the O. Henry awards (Book); The best American short stories 1959 (Book); Eastlake, William PDF IMAGES
27-31	Article Best buys in small cars: American and foreign By Ken W. Purdy SEE ALSO: Automobiles, Foreign; Compact cars; Purchasing PDF IMAGES Collection Best buys in small cars By Ken W. Purdy PDF IMAGES
31	Graphs and Charts Thirty-four small cars compared By Ken W. Purdy SEE ALSO: Automobiles, Foreign; Compact cars; Purchasing; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
32-37	Illustration American natives By Erich Sokol SEE ALSO: African American girls; African American students; Automobile racing drivers; Baseball players; Bathing beaches; Bodybuilders; Intellectuals; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
38-43	Article In their summer dresses in Moscow By George Feifer SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, Soviet; 1945-1991; Relations PDF IMAGES
40	Poem Winter evening: London By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
44-49	Article The Senate's wizard of ooze: Dirksen of Illinois By William Barry Furlong SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Dirksen, Everett McKinley; Leadership; 1951-; 1953-1961; Portraits; The Republican Party; United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
50-57	Fiction The left fielders: A story By Theodore Jacobs PDF IMAGES
56	Poem Fall morning By James L. Montague PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article The pain in everybody's back By Howard Simons SEE ALSO: Back; Backache; Diseases; Psychosomatic aspects; Surgery PDF IMAGES
64-69	Article Boston: The lost ideal By Elizabeth Hardwick SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.); Harvard University PDF IMAGES
69	Poem For Clarice By Gwendolyn Brooks PDF IMAGES
70-78	Article California's five-college experiment By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Mergers; Women college students PDF IMAGES
77	Poem Sonnet to my father By Donald Rodney Justice PDF IMAGES
79-82	Article The new power behind Eisenhower's throne By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of treasury; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961; Officials and employees; Anderson, Robert B. (Robert Bernerd); Staff; United States. Dept. of Treasury PDF IMAGES
84-86	After hours/Article The great Soviet-American map game By Kenneth Mack SEE ALSO: Diplomatic and consular service, American; Diplomatic and consular service, Soviet; Diplomatic privileges and immunities PDF IMAGES
86-87	After hours/Article It's not the gift it's the wrapping By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Gift wraps PDF IMAGES
88-100	The new books/Review The new books By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A life in the theatre (Book); As others see us (Book); Walker, Augusta; Rice, Elmer; Fiction of the fifties (Book); Joseph, Franz M.; Gold, Herbert; Wallace, Irving; Ross, Irwin; Men at the top (Book); Midwest story (Book); Elliott, Osborn; Guthrie, Tyrone, Sir; The fabulous showman (Book); The image merchants (Book); The Living Theatre (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-103	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A mirror of the ministry in modern novels (Book); Cook, my darling daughter (Book); Cookery, American; Fannie Farmer cookbook (Book); Gentlemen, scholars and scoundrels (Book); Paloczi-Horvath, George; Good cooking (Book); Medina, Harold R. (Harold Raymond); Hit and run (Book); Horace Knowles; Davies, Horton; Howells: his life and world (Book); Creasey, John; Kieran, John; Krutch, Joseph Wood; Street, Julian; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Chute, Marchette Gaylord; Knopf, Mildred O.; Natural history of New York City (Book); Roosevelt, Nicholas; One hour (Book); Poor no more (Book); Wolfe, Reese; Ruark, Robert Chester; Shakespeare and company (Book); Beach, Sylvia; Table topics (Book); The anatomy of freedom (Book); The garden world (Book); The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga (Book); The undefeated (Book); Two gentlemen: the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Perkins, Wilma Lord PDF IMAGES
104-108	Music in the round/Review High on the Christmas list By Discus SEE ALSO: Bach: St. Matthew passion (Book); Del Monte, Carlo; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Santini, Gabriele; Puccini, Giacomo; Gianni Schicchi (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Liszt: Harmonies du soir; Feux follets; Valses oubliées #1 and #2. Schubert: Moment musical in C; E flat impromptu; A flat impromptu (Sound recording); Wöldike, Mogens; Performances; Richter, Sviatoslav; Gobbi, Tito; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES
108	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Boston Symphony; Munch, Charles; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Heifetz, Jascha; Mendelssohn: Violin concerto. Prokofieff: Violin concerto #2 in G minor (Sound recording); Performances; Prokofieff, Sergey PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review State of the art By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Wilson, John S. (John Steuart); Williams, Martin T.; 1951-1960; The art of jazz (Book); The collector's jazz, modern (Book) PDF IMAGES