Harper's Magazine: December 1968

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December 1968

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Open letter to the next president, from September 1968: Letter By Sen. Joseph D. Tydings On New Orleans mon amour, from September 1968: Letter By Rep. F. Edward Hebert Letter By Walker Percy On James Baldwin, from September 1968: Letter By K. Turok Kalkstein On Life in the yellow submarine, from October 1968: Letter By Marcus Klein Letter By Howard Wolf Letter By “The Editors” On No. 4, from November 1968: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
8	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Adam (Biblical figure); Eve (Biblical figure) PDF IMAGES
13-28	The easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Packer, Alferd; Boulder; Cannibalism; Career as director of fur shop; Career as founder of Colony Catherine (Tex.); Career as professor of law at Yale—Humor; Career as warden of Sing Sing prison; Buck, Catherine; Colorado; Contribution to environmental engineering; Contribution to knowledge about sex distribution; Conviction for cannibalism—Humor; Faculty; Food service; Rodell, Fred; Glass; Kaplan, Jacques; Deegan, John T.; Tenney, Mark W.; White, Philip; Pollution; Prisoners; Recycling (Waste, etc.); McKenzie, Robert H.; Hulbert, Samuel F.; Sex distribution (Demography); Student movements; Water; Eschelberger, Wayne F.; Yale University PDF IMAGES
30-40	Washington report/Article Strom's dirty movies By John Corry SEE ALSO: Fortas, Abe; Committees; Freedom of speech; Nomination for chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1968; Obscenity (Law); Officials and employees; Selection and appointment; Thurmond, Strom; United States. Congress; United States. Supreme Court; Views on Abe Fortas; Views on U.S. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
42	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
47-66	Article The man who ran against Lyndon Johnson By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Lowenstein, Allard K.; Career as leader of the Dump Johnson Movement; Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); The Democratic Party; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; 1968; Political and social views; Politics, Practical; Protest movements; Public opinion; Student movements PDF IMAGES
67-75	Article A warning to the rich white world By Peter Ferdinand Drucker SEE ALSO: Developing countries; Economic assistance, American; International relations; Poverty PDF IMAGES
76-89	Fiction An exorcism By Bernard Malamud PDF IMAGES
90-100	Article The lady as publisher By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Career in publishing; Graham, Katharine; Newspaper publishing; Newsweek (American periodical); Periodicals, Publishing of; Washington Post (American newspaper) PDF IMAGES
101-108	Article Stravinsky and some writers By Robert Craft SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Anecdotes; Isherwood, Christopher; Waugh, Evelyn; Friends and associates; Stravinsky, Igor; Craft, Robert; Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) PDF IMAGES
110-127	Books/Article The writer and the city By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Chicago (Ill.); City and town life in literature; Adams, Henry; James, Henry; In literature; Dreiser, Theodore; Views on Chicago (Ill.); Views on New York (New York); Views on Washington (D.C.); Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
128-131	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A small town in Germany (Book); An exaltation of larks (Book); Bricker, Charles; Eicke, Edna; Lanning, George; Green corn moon (Book); MacInnes, Helen; Lipton, James; Le Carré, John; Landmarks of mapmaking: an illustrated survey of maps and mapmakers (Book); Mankind may never make it! (Book); Man's rise to civilization (Book); Farb, Peter; Tooley, R.V.(Ronald Vere); Meryman, Richard S.; Osborn, Robert Chesley; The best of Beaton (Book); The Salzburg connection (Book); The Thanksgiving visitor (Book); The work of Andrew Wyeth (Book); Capote, Truman; Sackville-West, V. (Victoria); V. Sackville West's garden book (Book); What's your name? (Book) PDF IMAGES
132-135	Performing arts: the state of jazz/Review House of the surprising Sun By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; Performances; Sun Ra PDF IMAGES Cartoon “The card you picked was the Jack of Diamonds, right?” SEE ALSO: Card tricks PDF IMAGES
136-137	Music in the round/Review Will the real Richard Wagner please sing out? By Discus SEE ALSO: Berlin Philharmonic; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Wohlfahrt, Erwin; Stolze, Gerhard; Karajan, Herbert von; Veasey, Josephine; Ridderbusch, Karl; Talvela, Martti; Performances; Wagner, Richard; Wagner: Das Rheingold (Sound recording); Kelemen, Zoltan PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Buttermilk! — You've been jogging again!” SEE ALSO: Dairy workers; Farm life; Netherlands PDF IMAGES
138	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 5: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES