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March 1960

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Ira Silberlicht and Tony Palladino PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance, from January 1960: Letter By William O. Moeser Letter By Martin M. Kanin Letter By Timothy Roth On The missile mess, from January 1960: Letter By S.H. Isaacs Letter By C.D. Cockburn On The job the lawyers shirk, from January 1960: Letter By Nelson Algren Letter By Robert M. Hamlin On High fidelity—to what? A musician looks at recorded music, from January 1960: Letter By Leonard A. Rose Letter By David T. Benedetti Letter By Felix De Cola On Public women, from January 1960: Letter By Minnie Fisher Cunningham Letter By Frances Story On New hope for television?, from January 1960: Letter By Shirley Harris Letter By Jerome Sill Letter By Ralph G. Crafts PDF IMAGES
14-25	The editor's easy chair/Article The corpse on horseback By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Balance of power; Defenses; Disarmament; Europe, Western; Intercontinental ballistic missiles; North Atlantic Treaty Organization PDF IMAGES
26-31	After hours/Article The art of theatre criticism By Stark Young SEE ALSO: Drama; Dramatic criticism; Technique; Theater critics PDF IMAGES
33-41	Article How to choose a psychiatrist By Maya Pines and Fredrick C. (Fredrick Carl) Redlich SEE ALSO: Evaluation; Fees; Mental health services; Psychiatrists; Psychotherapist and patient PDF IMAGES
38	Poem As the analyst sees it By Hilbert Schenck PDF IMAGES
40	Poem A short true story By Ellen Theroux Ferber PDF IMAGES
42-44	Article The non-conformist and the gorillas By Arthur Watterson Hoppe SEE ALSO: Children and politics; Classroom environment; Progressive education; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
45-51	Article How Stalin ruined the American Communist Party By Earl Browder SEE ALSO: Career as leader of American Communist Party; Career as Soviet leader; Cold War; Browder, Earl; Stalin, Joseph; 1936-1953 PDF IMAGES
52-56	Fiction The touchable: A story By John Berry PDF IMAGES
56	Poem A fairy tale By Robert Mezey PDF IMAGES
57-61	Article White House fever: Why candidates campaign By Robert Bendiner SEE ALSO: 1960; Television in politics; Voting research PDF IMAGES
61	Article What hath Allah wrought? By John M. Johnston SEE ALSO: Islam; Islamic countries; Loudspeakers; Prayer PDF IMAGES
62-66	Article The three Harlems and what is happening to them By Kate Simon SEE ALSO: Caribbean Americans; Harlem (New York, New York); Puerto Ricans PDF IMAGES
67-72	Article Isak Dinesen tells a tale By Glenway Wescott SEE ALSO: Denmark; Dinesen, Isak; Journeys; Journeys—United States; Philosophy; Portraits PDF IMAGES Collection Isak Dinesen tells a tale PDF IMAGES
69-70	Fiction Alexander and the sibyl By Isak Dinesen PDF IMAGES
72	Poem Puella academica By Carl Alfred Lanning Binger PDF IMAGES
73-86	Article Two millionaires, two senators, and a Faubus: The curious constellation of Arkansas politics By Louis E. Lomax SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Career as U.S. senator; Career in Arkansas politics; Civil Rights; Elections, 1960; Fulbright, J. William (James William); McClellan, John L. (John Little); 1951-; Faubus, Orval Eugene; Political corruption; Racism; School integration; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
87-98	Collection Torture in Paris PDF IMAGES Article Introduction By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Algeria; Algerians; Boumaza, Béchir; Imprisonment; Police brutality; Revolution, 1954-1962; Terrorists; Torture PDF IMAGES
94-98	Article Narrative By Béchir Boumaza SEE ALSO: Algerians; Boumaza, Béchir; Imprisonment; Police brutality; Torture PDF IMAGES
100-105	Public and personal/Article Eisenhower's dangerous legacy of “good will” By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David); 1953-1961; 1960; Visits of state PDF IMAGES
106-114	The new books/Review A sense of difference By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A separate peace (Book); Aikman, Ann; Parkinson, C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote); Cort, David; Kuby, Erich; Waugh, Evelyn; Is there an American in the house? (Book); Knowles, John; O'Hara, John; Kiss kiss (Book); Msgr. Ronald Knox (Book); Ourselves to know (Book); Dahl, Roald; Rosemarie (Book); Southern, Terry; The law and the profits (Book); The magic Christian (Book); The others (Book) PDF IMAGES
110	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
114-117	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A twist of sand (Book); Macdougall, Allan Ross; Dangerous silence (Book); Diary of a D.A. (Book); MacKenzie, Donald; Jenkins, Geoffrey; Here lies the heart (Book); Isadora: a revolutionary in art and love (Book); Bowen, John; Davenport, Marcia; Frank, Martin M.; Acosta, Mercedes de; The center of the green (Book); The constant image (Book) PDF IMAGES
117	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Flexner, Abraham; Skira, Albert; Turnbull, Andrew; Berenson (Book); Hoffman, Betty Hannah; Biography; Keaton, Buster; Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers); Conversations with myself (Book); Copey of Harvard: a biography of Charles Townsend Copeland (Book); Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon; Vining, Elizabeth Gray; Valentin, Erich; F. Scott Fitzgerald: a portrait of the artist (Book); Frankfurter, Felix; Finklehoffe, Fred F. (Fred Franklin); Kane, Harnett Thomas; Truman, Harry S.; Hell, Henri; Piper, Henry Dan; I kid you not (Book); Adams, J. Donald; Paar, Jack; Garland, Judy; Murray, Kathryn Kohnfelder; Mosley, Leonard; Leonardo (Book); Lord Curzon (Book); Mozart (Book); Mr. Citizen (Book); My husband, Arthur Murray (Book); Paperback wholesalers; Poulenc (Book); Return to Japan (Book); Friedenthal, Richard; Scott Fitzgerald (Book); Sprigge, Sylvia; The full circle (Book); The Judy Garland story (Book); The Longs of Louisiana (Book); Brandt, Willy; Woodrow Wilson: an intimate memoir (Book) PDF IMAGES
118	Poem Tenement spring By Samuel Menashe PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review There were giants in those days By Discus SEE ALSO: Archduke trio (Sound recording); Schnabel, Artur; Beethoven: Piano quartet in E Flat. Brahms: Piano quartet in C minor. Schumann: Piano quartet in E flat (Sound recording); Beethoven: Quartets, op. 18 (Sound recording); Brahms: Violin concerto (Sound recording); Budapest Quartet; Curzon, Clifford; Concerto #21 in C, K. 467; Concerto #27 in B flat, K. 595 (Sound recording); Die Walküre (Sound recording); Schubert, Franz; Leider, Frida; Kreisler, Fritz; Götterdämmerung (Sound recording); Brahms, Johannes; Melchior, Lauritz; London Philharmonic; London Symphony; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mozart: Quintet for piano and winds; Clarinet trio (Sound recording); Performances; Wagner, Richard; Schumann, Robert; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Trout quintet (Sound recording); Vienna Octet; Panhoffer, Walter; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES
120	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Schein, Ann; Chopin: Scherzos (Sound recording); Ludwig, Christa; Ansermet, Ernest; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Chopin, Frédéric; Mahler, Gustav; Janacek String Quartet; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen (Sound recording); Mendelssohn: Octet (Sound recording); Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Performances; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Philharmonia Orchestra; Boult, Adrian, Sir; Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake excerpts (Sound recording); Vandernoot PDF IMAGES
121	Jazz notes/Review Blues By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Lomax, Alan; Blues in the Mississippi night (Sound recording); Jazz; 1951-1960; Charters, Samuel Barclay; The country blues (Book) PDF IMAGES