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September 1968

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: Dollar sign PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Western intellectuals vs. Myrdal's brutal facts, from June 1968: Letter By Milton Friedman On The fragile ego, from June 1968: Letter By Philip Bloom On Imaginary memos, from July 1968: Letter By A.W. Michalson On The Grand Ole Opry, from July 1968: Letter By Gene H. Powell On The arch-hospital, from July 1968: Letter By M.D. and Raymond S. Duff Letter By M.D. and Daniel M. Lane On No. 1, from August 1968: Note/correction PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Are you sure this is fire?” SEE ALSO: Prehistoric peoples PDF IMAGES
12-22	The easy chair/Article Open letter to the next president By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Bureaucracy; Career as U.S. president; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; Reorganization PDF IMAGES Poem Well and clearing By Frank Polite PDF IMAGES
23-26	After hours/Review Ouch! By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Editorial cartoonists; Editorial cartoons; Great cartoons of the world (Book); Here it comes (Book); Jaf; Jaf by Jaf (Book); Bailey, John; Lady in the shower (Book); Large economy man (Book); Larry; Lorenz, Lee; Arno, Peter PDF IMAGES
26	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Delusions; Mentally ill PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article Universities as big business By James Ridgeway SEE ALSO: College teachers; Corrupt practices; Faculty; Industry and education PDF IMAGES
32	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Authors and readers PDF IMAGES
37-46	Article Take my saddle from the wall By Larry McMurtry SEE ALSO: Cowboys; Family; McMurtry, Larry; Rural men PDF IMAGES
47-50	Article On aiding and abetting: The anguish of draft counseling By Stephen Minot SEE ALSO: Christianity; Selective Service System; Draft resisters; War; Young men PDF IMAGES
50	Cartoon “ . . . However . . .” SEE ALSO: Alligators; Predatory animals; Rabbits PDF IMAGES
51-63	Fiction In the faraway country of Montgomery, Alabama By Almena Lomax PDF IMAGES
60	Poem Off campus By Malcolm Cowley PDF IMAGES
64-71	Article Making a rational foreign policy now By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Communism; Developing countries; Economic development; 1963-1969; Population; Poverty; Revolutions; World politics PDF IMAGES
68	Cartoon “I like it!” SEE ALSO: Advertising agencies; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article The idea of an art museum By Sherman E. Lee SEE ALSO: Art museums; Educational aspects; Museums; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
79	Poem The companions By Nikiphoros Vrettakos and Thomas Doulis (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem The five roads and man By Nikiphoros Vrettakos and Thomas Doulis (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Corner of Aeolos and Byssus By Nikiphoros Vrettakos and Thomas Doulis (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Collection Poems of the 'sixties By Nikiphoros Vrettakos and Thomas Doulis (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
80-90	Article New Orleans mon amour By Walker Percy SEE ALSO: City and town life; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.) PDF IMAGES
92-100	Books/Review James Baldwin: At ease in Apocalypse By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Baldwin, James; Tell me how long the train's been gone (Book) PDF IMAGES
96	Cartoon “Don't touch it! It's the Pill!” SEE ALSO: Rats PDF IMAGES
100-103	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A tree on fire (Book); Christie, Agatha; Sillitoe, Alan; Myrer, Anton; Fielding, Daphne Vivian; Simenon, Georges; Carvic, Heron; Ford, Hugh D.; Maigret's pickpocket (Book); Murder's burning (Book); Nancy Cunard: Brave poet, indomitable rebel, 1896-1965 (Book); Nicolson, Nigel; Ryan, Nigel; Once an eagle (Book); Picture Miss Seeton (Book); Courtier, Sidney Hobson; Nicolson, Harold George, Sir; Spies among us (Book); The later years, 1945-1962 (Book); Those remarkable Cunards: Emerald and Nancy (Book) PDF IMAGES
104-106	Music in the round/Review New life for minor works By Discus SEE ALSO: Kertesz, Anton; Tuckwell, Barry; Shtokolov, Boris; Nielsen, Carl; Dusik: Concerto in B flat for two pianos (Sound recording); Strauss, Franz; Kuhlau, Friedrich; Gade: String quartet in D (op. 63) (Sound recording); Hye-Knudsen, Johan; Dussek, Johann Ladislaus; Kuhlau: Incidental music from Elf Hill. Lange-Müller: Incidental music to Once Upon a Time (Sound recording); Gade, Niels W. (Niels Wilhelm); Nielsen: Quartet no. 1 (Sound recording); Lange-Müller, P. E.; Angerer, Paul; Performances; Schumann, Robert; Grunschlag, Rosi; Russian opera arias and romances (Sound recording); Schumann: Andante and Variations (Sound recording); El'tsin, Sergei Vital'evich; Strauss: Horn concerto (op. 8) (Sound recording); Grunschlag, Toni PDF IMAGES
106	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Samplers PDF IMAGES
107-109	Performing arts/Review Hair: Side, back, and front views By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Career as composer; Career as stage manager; MacDermot, Galt; Rado, James; Ragni, Jerome; Maurer, Michael PDF IMAGES
110	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 2: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES