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May 1963

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson and Paul Charles Berg (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Writing PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On The drip spoon plate society, from February 1963: Letter By Paul J. Buterbaugh On Letters, from March 1963: Letter By Reinhold Niebuhr and John C. Bennett On Martyrs on the moon?, from March 1963: Letter By Robert F. Stengel On The peace ladies, from March 1963: Letter By Rae Brooks Letter By Marion C. Carson Letter By Robert Stein On Congressman Aspinall vs. the people of the United States, from March 1963: Letter By D.P. Eigo Letter By John R. Swanson On New York's “middle-class” homosexuals, from March 1963: Letter By Randolfe Wicker Letter By “Name Withheld” On A “scientific” formula for disarmament?, from January 1963: Letter By Linus Pauling Letter By “The Editors” On The penalty short, from March 1963: Letter By Shamus Culhane PDF IMAGES
14-27	The easy chair/Article Why American political reporting is better than England's By David E. Butler SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; 1945-1964; Press and politics PDF IMAGES
22	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
28-32	After hours/Article Auxilium Latinum By Charles Morrow Wilson SEE ALSO: Warsley, Albert Edward; Career as publisher of Latin language periodical; Latin language; Scholarly publishing PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article America gets an unexpected break By Henry S. Reuss SEE ALSO: European Economic Community countries; Foreign economic relations; Foreign trade regulation; International trade; 1961-1971 PDF IMAGES
43-47	Article A clean rural comedy By Rufus Jarman SEE ALSO: American drama (Comedy); Children's plays; Lascassas; Presentation, etc.; Theater audiences PDF IMAGES
48-52	Collection Letters from a journey PDF IMAGES Article Introductory note By Robert P. Mills SEE ALSO: African American authors; Baldwin, James; Journeys; Journeys—Middle East; The Middle East PDF IMAGES Article Letters from a journey By James Baldwin SEE ALSO: African American authors; Correspondence; Baldwin, James; Journeys—Middle East; The Middle East PDF IMAGES
53-57	Article Allston Wheat's crusade By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Wheat, Allston; Communism; Views on socialism and sports PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article How three-year-olds teach themselves to read—and love it By Maya Pines SEE ALSO: Education, Preschool; Reading (Early childhood); Teaching machines PDF IMAGES
65-75	Article Haiti: Last act of a tragicomedy By Berkeley Rice SEE ALSO: Career as Haiti president; Economic assistance, American; Duvalier, François; Haiti PDF IMAGES
72	Article Whose confessions? By Jenny Marx Longuet SEE ALSO: Interviews; Marx, Karl PDF IMAGES
74	Poem Psychiatric discharges By Richard Moore PDF IMAGES
76-85	Article Music in the age of Zak By Hubert Lamb SEE ALSO: Chance compositions; Music; Music appreciation; Twelve-tone system PDF IMAGES
86-94	Article What the GOP is doing in the South: And how the result may be—paradoxically—a more liberal Congress By Virginius Dabney SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Conservatism; The Democratic Party; Byrd, Harry Flood; 1951-; The Republican Party; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
94	Poem The souvenir (Poland) By Larry Rubin PDF IMAGES
95-105	Fiction Gunfight at the Sure Enough: A story By Robin White PDF IMAGES
106-112	The new books/Review Slightly cheerful news about our schools By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Automation and the challenge to education (Book); Education and the new America (Book); Machlup, Fritz; Arnstein, George E. (George Ernest); Orlans, Harold; Koerner, James D.; McClellan, James E.; Evans, Luther Harris; Mayer, Martin; Kimball, Solon Toothaker; The effects of federal programs on higher education (Book); The miseducation of American teachers (Book); The production and distribution of knowledge in the United States (Book); Where, when, and why: social studies in American schools (Book) PDF IMAGES
112-115	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A little less than kind (Book); . . . and presumed dead (Book); Woodham Smith, Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald; Armstrong, Charlotte; Hughes, Emmet John; Kronenberger, Louis; Fletcher, Lucille; Kaminsky, Max; My life in jazz (Book); The great hunger (Book); The great world: portraits and scenes from Greville's memoirs (1814-1860) (Book); The ordeal of power (Book); Hughes, V.E. PDF IMAGES
115-116	Review Three on the Common Market By John Brooks SEE ALSO: European Economic Community; Nystrom, J. Warren (John Warren); Malof, Peter; Mayne, Richard J.; The Common Market: European Community in action (Book); The community of Europe (Book); The genesis of the Common Market (Book); Henderson, W.O. (William Otto) PDF IMAGES
117-120	Music in the round/Review A day and nightful of opera By Discus SEE ALSO: Lazzari, Agostino; Carmeli, Boris; Milhaud, Darius; di Donni, Ferdinando; Corena, Fernando; Jacopucci, Fernando; Ferrara, Franco; Puccini, Giacomo; Rossini, Gioacchino; Simionato, Giulietta; Sciutti, Graziella; Il trittico (Sound recording); Jordan, Irene; Sutherland, Joan; La scala di seta (Sound recording); La sonnambula (Sound recording); Bernstein, Leonard; Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Rocchi, Manlio; Rinaldi, Margherita; Del Monaco, Mario; Boatswright, McHenry; Milhaud: Les Choéphores (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Monti, Nicola; Performances; Tebaldi, Renata; Bonynge, Richard; Merrill, Robert; Stahlman, Sylvia; Zorina, Vera; Bellini, Vincenzo PDF IMAGES
120	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Parisot, Aldo; Schneider, Alexander; Carter: Double concerto for harpsichord, piano, and two chamber orchestras (Sound recording); Rosen, Charles; Carter, Elliott; Meier, Gustav; Kirchner: Concerto for violin, cello, 10 winds, and percussion (Sound recording); Kirchner, Leon; Horszowski, Mieczyslaw; Casals, Pablo; Performances; Kirkpatrick, Ralph; Spivakovsky, Tossy PDF IMAGES
122	Jazz notes/Review No more water? By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Smith, Bessie; Black man in America (Sound recording); Baldwin, James; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Terkel, Studs PDF IMAGES