Harper's Magazine: May 1969

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May 1969

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Sheila Berger PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Awards; Dickey, James; John Thompson; National Book Awards; Mailer, Norman; Portraits PDF IMAGES
6-12	Letters/Department Letters On The Stevenson we lost, from February 1969: Letter By Daniel E. Connell Letter By Midge Decter On Ballet, from February 1969: Letter By Igor Youskevitch On 536 characters in search of a legislative program, from March 1969: Letter By William R. Rice Letter By Michael E. Withey On Vietnam and the end of the age of superpowers, from March 1969: Letter By Michael Brody Letter By Prof. Jay Jensen Letter By Peter E. Boyes On Harold E. Hughes, from March 1969: Letter By Rosa E. Cunningham On The new geography, from March 1969: Letter By Curtis K. Stadtfeld On No. 9, from April 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Say, Charles, that thing wasn't there yesterday, was it?” SEE ALSO: Earth; Middle class PDF IMAGES
14-26	The easy chair/Article Seattle's modern-day vigilantes By John Fischer SEE ALSO: City planning; Contribution to city planning in Seattle, Wash.; Ellis, James R. (James Reed); Public works; Seattle; Seattle (Wash.); Urban policy; Washington (State); World's Fair (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) PDF IMAGES
28-32	After hours/Article The academy that overlooks Rome By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art schools; Art students; Classical literature; Foreign study; Rome PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article The new black myths By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Afrocentrism; Black nationalism; Black power; Career as Black nationalist leader; Malcolm; Race identity PDF IMAGES
41	Cartoon “ . . . or should it be two drummers and one fifer?” SEE ALSO: Willard, Archibald M. PDF IMAGES
43-51	Article Yesterdays in Grand Rapids By John Thompson SEE ALSO: Adolescence; Childhood and youth; Grand Rapids; Grand Rapids (Mich.); Homes and haunts—Michigan—Grand Rapids; John Thompson PDF IMAGES Collection [Going home in America] PDF IMAGES
52-53	Poem Living there By James Dickey PDF IMAGES
54-60	Article One can suffer anywhere By Oscar Lewis SEE ALSO: 1952-; Patients; Poor; Poor women; Puerto Rico; San Juan; Tuberculosis PDF IMAGES
65-70	Fiction Since when do they charge admission By Wright Morris PDF IMAGES
71-94	Article Nobody knows . . .: Reflections on the McCarthy campaign (part II) By Jeremy Larner SEE ALSO: Career as presidential hopeful; Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); The Democratic Party; McCarthy, Eugene J.; 1968; Primaries; Kennedy, Robert F. PDF IMAGES
77	Cartoon “Today is the anniversary of the day the computer matched us!” PDF IMAGES
80	Cartoon “Well, here comes Mister Know-it-all.” SEE ALSO: Sheep; Sheep dogs PDF IMAGES
85	Poem The vealers By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
88	Cartoon “Not bad for a hippopotamus.” SEE ALSO: Animal training; Hippopotamus PDF IMAGES
93	Cartoon “Keep moving! It's no good unless you go through the pain barrier!” SEE ALSO: Cycling; Physical fitness PDF IMAGES
96-102	Books/Review The wounds of all generations By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Baker, Carlos; Ernest Hemingway, a life story (Book) PDF IMAGES
97	Poem Lines from California By Arthur Miller PDF IMAGES
100	Cartoon “You know something, Joe, you're the poor man's Eric Hoffer.” SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Hoffer, Eric; Homeless persons; Poor men PDF IMAGES
102-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A dog's life (Book); Thompson, Andrew; Kinross, Patrick Balfour, Baron; Between two seas (Book); Bullet park (Book); Crews, Harry; Colegate, Isabel; Gould, Jean; Cheever, John; Case, Josephine Young; Paustovsky, Konstantin; Harari, Manya; Holroyd, Michael; Naked in Garden Hills (Book); Orlando King (Book); The poet and her book: the life and work of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Book); This very tree (Book); Years of hope (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-109	Performing arts/Review Into the Fillmore East By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Hollander, Lorin; Performances; Portraits PDF IMAGES
110-111	Music in the round/Review A great Handel recording . . . and more By Discus SEE ALSO: Handel, George Frideric; Verdi, Giuseppe; Handel: Theodora (Sound recording); Strauss, Johann; Somary, Johannes; Danon, Oskar; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich; Stolz, Robert; Solti, Georg, Sir; Strauss: Die fledermaus (Sound recording); Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (Sound recording); Verdi: Requiem (Sound recording); Vienna Philharmonic PDF IMAGES
111	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
112	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 10: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES