Harper's Magazine: November 1969

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November 1969

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	Photo [Cover art] By Leonard Soned (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Galbraith, John Kenneth; Aldridge, John W.; 1961-1971; Portraits; Views on American youth; Views on U.S. economy PDF IMAGES
6-19	Letters/Department Letters On Harvard on my mind, from August 1969: Letter By Renée D. Chotiner Letter By Michael R. Gardner Letter By Jeff Elman Letter By Harry Levin Letter By Michael Holroyd On In Russia, from September 1969: Note/correction On No. 15, from October 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES Correction Correction SEE ALSO: Reed, John PDF IMAGES
21-26	The easy chair/Article Planning for the second America By John Fischer SEE ALSO: City planning; New towns; Population; Urban policy PDF IMAGES
28-36	Performing arts/Article Absolutely free By Margot Hentoff SEE ALSO: Presley, Elvis; Journeys—Nevada—Las Vegas; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Hentoff, Margot; Music critics; Nevada; Performances PDF IMAGES
36	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
40-52	Article Letters from Hamburger Hill By Neil Sheehan SEE ALSO: Campaigns; Correspondence; Kennedy, Edward Moore; Soldiers' writings, American; Vietnam; Views on Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 PDF IMAGES
55-62	Article 1929 and 1969: Financial genius is a short memory and a rising market By John Kenneth Galbraith SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Financial crises; 1961-1971; Stock exchanges; Stock Market Crash, 1929 PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article My summer vacation in Biafra By Herbert Gold SEE ALSO: Children and war; Gold, Herbert; Hunger; Journeys—Eastern Nigeria; Nigeria PDF IMAGES
69-86	Article The flight from City Hall . . . four mayors who aren't running again By Fred Powledge SEE ALSO: Naftalin, Arthur; Atlanta (Ga.); Career as mayor of Atlanta (Ga.); Career as mayor of Detroit (Mich.); Career as mayor of Minneapolis (Minn.); Career as mayor of New Haven, Conn.; City and town life; Detroit (Mich.); Allen, Ivan; Cavanagh, Jerome P.; Mayors; Minneapolis (Minn.); New Haven (Conn.); Portraits; Lee, Richard C. (Richard Charles); Urban policy PDF IMAGES
87-89	Fiction The third son By Andreæi Platonovich Platonov PDF IMAGES
90-92	Article Ask not what Ted Sorensen can do for you . . . By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Career as advisor to President John F. Kennedy; Career in politics; Kennedy, Edward Moore; 1961-1963; 1963-1969; The Kennedy legacy (Book); Sorensen, Theodore C. PDF IMAGES
92	Poem In the Badlands By David Wagoner PDF IMAGES Article In the country of the young, part II By John W. Aldridge SEE ALSO: Alienation (Social psychology); Baby boom generation; Conflict of generations; Hippies; Student movements; Youth PDF IMAGES
97	Photo Sleeping groovy: At the Woodstock Festival in a polyethylene bag on a mattress of mud By Anders Holmquist (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
108-110	Article The undeclared witch-hunt By Tom Wicker SEE ALSO: Intelligence service; Internal security; Radicals; Subversive activities; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES
111-122	Article Igor Stravinsky: On illness and death By Robert Craft SEE ALSO: Concert tours; Conductors (Music); Health; Stravinsky, Igor; Relationship with Igor Stravinsky; Relationship with Robert Craft; Craft, Robert PDF IMAGES
127-134	Books/Review The clever, the true, and the marvelous: Three fiction writers By John Thompson SEE ALSO: A special providence (Book); Drabble, Margaret; Taylor, Peter Hillsman; Yates, Richard; The collected stories of Peter Taylor (Book); The waterfall (Book) PDF IMAGES
136-137	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel and John Hollander SEE ALSO: Johnson, Ben; Schulberg, Budd; Elliott, David W.; Lahr, John; Listen to the silence (Book); Notes on a cowardly lion (Book); Sanctuary V (Book); Orgel, Stephen; The complete masques (Book) PDF IMAGES
138-139	Music in the round/Review Romanticism on the make By Discus SEE ALSO: Henselt, Adolf von; Ciccolini, Aldo; Scriabin, Aleksander Nikolayevich; Bamberg Symphony; Boston Symphony; Goldmark, Carl; Weber, Carl Maria von; Chabrier: Pièces pittoresques (Sound recording); Chabrier, Emmanuel; Wild, Eric; Leinsdorf, Erich; Svetlanov, Evgeniæi Fedorovich; Schubert, Franz; Semkow, Georg; Goldmark: Rustic wedding symphony (Sound recording); Henselt: Concerto in F minor; Twelve etudes (Op. 2) (Sound recording); Thomas, Jess; Keilberth, Joseph; Bernstein, Leonard; London Philharmonic; Halsey, Louis; Reger, Max; Ponti, Michael; Estrin, Morton; New York Philharmonic; Naga, Othmar; Performances; Philharmonia Hungarica; Reger: Variations on a theme of Hiller (Sound recording); Scharwenka: Concerto in B flat minor. Balakirev: Reminiscences of “A life for the Czar.” Medtner: Improvisation (Op. 31, no. 1). D'Albert: Scherzo in F sharp minor (Sound recording); Schubert: Part songs (Sound recording); Scriabin: Divine poem (Symphony no. 3) (Sound recording); Scriabin: Symphony no. 2 (Sound recording); Scriabin: Twelve etudes (op. 8) (Sound recording); U.S.S.R. Symphony; Weber: Oberon (Sound recording); Schüchter, Wilhelm; Scharwenka, Xaver PDF IMAGES
140	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 16: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES