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June 1969

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Sheila Berger SEE ALSO: Targets (Shooting) PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in journalism; Frady, Marshall PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On 536 characters in search of a legislative program, from March 1969: Letter By William F. Ryan On Harold E. Hughes, from March 1969: Letter By Lonny R. Bartels On England's cruel earth, from April 1969: Letter By M.D. and Lewis D. Stevenson On A friend of the family, from April 1969: Letter By Mrs. Nancy Yohn On Have you seen Thomas?, from April 1969: Letter By Mrs. Nancy Yohn On First snow, from April 1969: Letter By Mrs. Nancy Yohn On Waxing wroth, from April 1969: Letter By Louise Stapp Letter By Edward Kutner Letter By Murray Schlanger On Conforming with the avant-garde, from April 1969: Letter By Andrew Stiller Letter By Discus On A rose for Emily, from March 1969: Letter By Mrs. Marion Tucker PDF IMAGES
12-28	The easy chair/Article The artist and the university By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Art critics; Arts; Faculty; Scholars PDF IMAGES
31-46	Article How to control the military By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Arms race; Cold War; Defense industries; Military Industrial Complex; 1961-1971 PDF IMAGES Collection How to control the military PDF IMAGES
36-37	Article The ideas by which we are ruled SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Cold War; LeMay, Curtis E.; Generals; Twining, Nathan F.(Nathan Farragut); Power, Thomas S. (Thomas Sarsfield); Views on United States foreign relations—Quotations PDF IMAGES
44	Poem A word in your ear on behalf of indifference By Peter Davison PDF IMAGES
49-55	Article My wife, the naked movie star By Leslie H. Farber SEE ALSO: Erotic films; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Sex in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
56-61	Article St. Paul and the American condition By Midge Decter SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Journeys—Minnesota—Saint Paul; Decter, Midge; Saint Paul (Minn.) PDF IMAGES Collection [Going home in America] PDF IMAGES
58	Poem Epitaph for a ladies' man By David Wagoner PDF IMAGES
62-64	Poem Cal Coolidge & the Co: Poem for $98.41 plus, hopefully, bonuses By John Ciardi PDF IMAGES
65-72	Article Cooling off with LBJ By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Ex-presidents; Homes and haunts—Texas; Journeys—Texas; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Frady, Marshall; Psychology PDF IMAGES
68	Cartoon “All those years not buying war toys—for what?” SEE ALSO: National Guard; Parent and child; Riots; Tanks (Military science); War toys PDF IMAGES
72	Cartoon “I liked it better when we shuffled along any old way.” SEE ALSO: Penguins PDF IMAGES
73-78	Article The return of Ted Williams By John Corry SEE ALSO: Baseball; Baseball players; Career in baseball; Williams, Ted PDF IMAGES
77	Poem A deathplace By L.E. Sissman PDF IMAGES
79	Poem Letter to Jorge Luis Borges: Apropos of the Golem By John Hollander PDF IMAGES
81-86	Article Farce kept breaking in: A memoir By Frank O'Connor SEE ALSO: O'Connor, Frank; Friends and associates; Librarians; Poets PDF IMAGES
87-92	Books/Review The rebel as writer By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: An unfinished woman (Book); Hellman, Lillian PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Did you take your pill?” SEE ALSO: Drugs; Middle class men PDF IMAGES
90	Cartoon “When Arthur hit fifty he jumped in the pool with all his clothes on.” SEE ALSO: Middle aged men; Middle aged women; Middle class PDF IMAGES
92-95	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Malamud, Bernard; Colonel Blessington (Book); Costello, David Francis; Raymond, Diana; Moraes, Dom F.; O'Connor, Flannery; Edel, Leon; My son's father (Book); Mystery and manners (Book); Open horizons (Book); Frankau, Pamela; Pictures of Fidelman (Book); Fitzgerald, Robert; Fitzgerald, Sally; Olson, Sigurd F.; The life of Henry James: the treacherous years (Book); The prairie world (Book); The sound of mountain water (Book); Stegner, Wallace Earle PDF IMAGES
96-100	Performing arts/Article Conversations with Pierre Boulez By Roland Gelatt SEE ALSO: Avant-garde (Music); Musicians; Boulez, Pierre; Portraits; Views on music PDF IMAGES
101-103	Music in the round/Review Wild romantics By Discus SEE ALSO: Scriabin, Aleksander Nikolayevich; Nielsen, Carl; Ansermet, Ernest; Berwald, Franz; Liszt, Franz; Gould, Glenn; Liszt: Faust symphony (Sound recording); Melos Ensemble; Nielsen: Symphony no. 6 (Semplice) (Sound recording); Nielsen: Woodwind quintet. Berwald: Septet for strings and winds (Sound recording); Performances; Scriabin: Piano sonata no. 3. Prokofiev: Sonata no. 7 (Sound recording); Prokofieff, Sergey; Landau, Siegfried PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Football; Mothers-in-law PDF IMAGES
102	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
104	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 11: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES