Harper's Magazine: October 1969

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October 1969

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration The death of Socrates SEE ALSO: Death and burial—Pictorial works; Socrates PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in military; Career in publishing; Portraits; Kotlowitz, Robert PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The very expensive education of McGeorge Bundy, from July 1969: Letter By William L. Chenery Letter By Richard J. Walton Letter By Kingman Brewster Letter By David Halberstam On The forgotten American, from August 1969: Letter By Richard Stiller Letter By John P. Myers Letter By David A. Dudley Letter By John Holt Letter By Peter Schrag On Goodbye, Dolly!, from September 1969: Letter By “The Editors” On No. 14, from September 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES Correction Correction By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Greene, Gael; Name PDF IMAGES
12-19	The easy chair/Article Contrary spirits: A possibly royal poltergeist By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Ghosts; Poltergeists PDF IMAGES
19-20	The easy chair/Article Contrary spirits: The bucksaw ghost By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Ghosts; Poltergeists PDF IMAGES
24-43	Performing arts/Article Participatory theater By Walter Kerr SEE ALSO: Experimental theater; Heller, Joseph; Participatory theater; Theater audiences; We bombed in New Haven (Play) PDF IMAGES
44-46	Music in the round/Review The big British virtues By Discus SEE ALSO: Delius (Sound recording); Elgar, Edward; Elgar: Cockaigne overture; Chanson de matin; Chanson de nuit; Pomp and circumstance marches; Serenade for strings (Sound recording); Elgar: Symphony no. 2 (Sound recording); Delius, Frederick; Weldon, George; Hallé Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic; Barbirolli, John, Sir; Boult, Adrian, Sir; Williams, Vaughan; Williams: Symphony no. 1; Symphony no. 3; The wasps; In the Fen country (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES
49-64	Article In the country of the young [part I] By John W. Aldridge SEE ALSO: Aesthetics, American; American literature; Baby boom generation; Conflict of generations; 1945-1970; Quality of life; Youth PDF IMAGES
65-71	Article Jacqueline Susann: The writing machine By Sara Davidson SEE ALSO: Career as novelist; Susann, Jacqueline; Popular literature; Public opinion; Sex in literature PDF IMAGES
68	Poem To certain English poets By Donald Davie PDF IMAGES
72-81	Article Greece: The death of liberty By John Corry SEE ALSO: Central Intelligence Agency; Dictatorship; Greece; Investments, American; 1963-1969; 1967-1974; Political prisoners; Torture PDF IMAGES
79	Poem Third Psalm: The September vision By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
82-91	Article Missileland By Richard Pollak SEE ALSO: Arms race; Cold War; Guided missile silos; Intercontinental ballistic missile bases; Intercontinental ballistic missiles; Minuteman (Missile); North Dakota PDF IMAGES
86	Poem Natural linguistics By W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden PDF IMAGES
92-94	Article The presidency under scrutiny By Tom Wicker SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive power; Federal government; 1963-1969; Revenue sharing; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Urban policy; Views on presidency PDF IMAGES
94	Poem In our day By Harvey Shapiro PDF IMAGES
95-103	Fiction Memphis By Marianne Leonard PDF IMAGES
104-112	Article Taps at Utah Beach By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Journeys—England; Journeys—France; Normandy; Normandy (France); Kotlowitz, Robert; Tours; Veterans PDF IMAGES
113-124	Article Memories of Joe McCarthy By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Cold War; Contribution to anti-communist movement, 1950s; Acheson, Dean; McCarthy, Joseph; 1945-1953 PDF IMAGES
126-133	Books/Review Dostoevsky—the struggle to create By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Wasiolek, Edward; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor; The notebooks for the possessed (Book) PDF IMAGES
133-136	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, John Hollander, and Marion Magid SEE ALSO: Fat city (Book); How to raise a human being (Book); Merrill, James Ingram; Mitford, Jessica; Salk, Lee; Gardner, Leonard; Howard, Richard; Kramer, Rita; The bamboo bed (Book); The fire screen (Book); The trial of Dr. Spock (Book); Untitled subjects (Book); Eastlake, William PDF IMAGES
137	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
138	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 15: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES