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September 1964

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On Reducing the hazards of birth, from January 1964: Letter By Allan C. Barnes On The strange twilight of Harry Bridges, from March 1964: Letter By Burton H. Wolfe On Give slum children a chance, from May 1964: Letter By Jerome R. Reich Letter By Mrs. Ralph Wagner On The Scotch in Canada, from June 1964: Letter By William J. Scott Letter By Jerry B. Riseley Letter By John Kenneth Galbraith On The job-finding machine, from July 1964: Letter By G.L. Williams On Juno in limbo, from July 1964: Letter By “A faithful 'Harperite'” Letter By Betty Lowry Letter By Alice Gilliam Letter By Raphael Malsin Letter By “Name Withheld” On The cheerful Mongolians, from July 1964: Letter By Gabriel Reiner On The American way of birth, from July 1964: Letter By Allan C. Barnes On What's to become of architecture?, from June 1964: Letter By Ralph J. Epstein PDF IMAGES
14-24	The editor's easy chair/Article The Japanese intellectuals: Cliques, soft edges, and the dread of power By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Intellectuals; 1945-1989; 1949-1976 PDF IMAGES
21	The editor's easy chair/Article About Japan By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
26-30	After hours/Article A base in Maine called Blotner By William S. Ellis SEE ALSO: Homes and haunts—Maine—Humor; Blotner, Sam; Surplus military property PDF IMAGES
30	Poem An investigation into the nature, function, and attendant circumstances of radiators By John L'Heureux PDF IMAGES
32	Article The romance of Pewee Valley By Ray Corns SEE ALSO: Reformatories for women; Remarriage PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article The minds of Barry Goldwater By Richard Halworth Rovere SEE ALSO: Goldwater, Barry; Career in politics; Conservatism; 1963-1969 PDF IMAGES
42	Article A primer for voters By Luis Muñoz Marín SEE ALSO: Puerto Rico; Suffrage; Voting PDF IMAGES
43-48	Article Einstein: An intimate memoir By Thomas Lee Bucky and Joseph P. Blank SEE ALSO: Einstein, Albert; Biography; Physicists; Pictorial works; Princeton PDF IMAGES
49-57	Collection The making of a writer PDF IMAGES Article The making of a writer: Part I By Jean Paul Sartre and Bernard Frechtman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Biography; Sartre, Jean Paul PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article Jean-Paul Sartre By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Sartre, Jean Paul; The words (Book) PDF IMAGES
52	Article In a bad mood By Jean Paul Sartre and Bernard Frechtman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Biography; Sartre, Jean Paul PDF IMAGES
54	Article To the critics of this work By Jean Paul Sartre and Bernard Frechtman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Biography; Sartre, Jean Paul PDF IMAGES
56	Article Welcome everything By Jean Paul Sartre and Bernard Frechtman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Giacometti, Alberto; Anecdotes; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
58-63	Article American radio today: The listener be damned By Desmond Smith SEE ALSO: Radio advertising; Radio broadcasting policy; United States. Federal Communications Commission PDF IMAGES
64-70	Article Race and renaissance in Philadelphia By Nathaniel Burt SEE ALSO: City planning; Housing; Philadelphia (Pa.); Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article My son came late By Charles Bonner SEE ALSO: Child rearing; Discipline of children PDF IMAGES
72	Poem Lines (written to Martyn Skinner before his departure from Oxfordshire in search of quiet—1961) By John, Sir Betjeman PDF IMAGES
74-78	Article The Illinois legislature: A study in corruption By Paul Simon and Alfred Balk SEE ALSO: 1951-; Political corruption; Syndicate (Chicago, Ill. : Gang) PDF IMAGES
79-90	Fiction A walk in the forest: A story By Monica Sterba PDF IMAGES
92-96	Article Ballet in America: One-man show? By Harold C. Schonberg and Rosalyn Krokover SEE ALSO: Ballet; Career as choreographer; Choreographers; Balanchine, George; New York City Ballet; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
98-103	Article How to put the states back in business By Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) Brown SEE ALSO: Federal government; Governors; Powers and duties; Regional planning PDF IMAGES
104	Collection Poems from “Markings” By Dag Hammarskjöld PDF IMAGES Poem Haiku By Dag Hammarskjöld, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (Trans.), and Leif Sjöberg (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem June 8, 1961 By Dag Hammarskjöld, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (Trans.), and Leif Sjöberg (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem July 30, 1961 By Dag Hammarskjöld, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (Trans.), and Leif Sjöberg (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
106-110	The new books/Review Character building: '64 By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: A single man (Book); Powell, Anthony; Isherwood, Christopher; Dolci, Danilo; The valley of bones (Book); Waste (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-114	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Nolan, Alan T.; As sounding brass (Book); Hecht, Ben; Kielty, Bernardine; Edith Hamilton; Wharton, Edith; Harvey, Frank; Frame, Janet; Letters from Bohemia (Book); Nightmare county (Book); Old New York (Book); Scented gardens for the blind (Book); The ever-present past (Book); The girl from Fitchburg (Book); The Greek way (Book); The Roman way (Book) PDF IMAGES
112	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
114	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A little learning: an autobiography (the early years) (Book); Beginning again (Book); Lake, Carlton; Chaplin, Charles; Sitwell, Edith, Dame; Diaries, 1898-1918 (Book); Waugh, Evelyn; Sánchez Cantón, F.J. (Francisco Javier); Gilot, Françoise; Goya (Book); Lautrec by Lautrec (Book); Woolf, Leonard; Life with Picasso (Book); Kirstein, Lincoln; More in sorrow (Book); My autobiography (Book); Klee, Paul; Huisman, Philippe; Rhymes of a PFC (Book) PDF IMAGES
115-116	Music in the round/Review The big ones By Discus SEE ALSO: Also sprach Zarathustra (Sound recording); Bartók, Béla; Bartók: Cantata profana; Miraculous Mandarin (Sound recording); Boston Symphony; Ives, Charles; Leinsdorf, Erich; Ormandy, Eugene; Lehel, György; Ives: Quartet #1; Quartet #2 (Sound recording); Ferencsik, Janos; Kohon Quartet; Philadelphia Orchestra; Prokofiev: Fifth symphony (Sound recording); Prokofiev: Symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra (Sound recording); Strauss, Richard; Prokofieff, Sergey PDF IMAGES
117	Jazz notes/Review Bean By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Hawkins, Coleman; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances PDF IMAGES