Harper's Magazine: August 1970

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August 1970

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Dollar, American PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Schrag, Peter; Right-wing extremists PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On Preface to the catalogue of Curmudgeon College, from June 1970: Letter By E.A. Schroeder Letter By John F. Gadway Letter By John Fischer On Yazoo . . . notes on survival, from June 1970: Letter By Stewart Alsop Letter By W. Alexander Barton On Open land, from June 1970: Letter By Wheeler Ranch Letter By Sara Davidson On Mark Rothko, from July 1970: Letter By John Fischer On On Beethoven's piano sonatas, from May 1970: Letter By Burton Rothleder On My Lai 4, from May 1970: Letter By Henry Kamm Letter By Seymour Hersh PDF IMAGES Correction Correction By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Rothko, Mark PDF IMAGES
18-26	The easy chair/Article Black Panthers and their white hero-worshipers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Black Panther Party; Seale, Bobby; New Haven; Political violence; Seize the time: the story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton (Book); Yale University PDF IMAGES
29-34	Article Money in America: The end of the economists' dream By Robert Lekachman SEE ALSO: Economists; Money; 1961-1971 PDF IMAGES
35-46	Article America's other radicals By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Hargis, Billy James; Yockey, Francis Parker; Imperium: the philosophy of history and politics (Book); John Birch Society; Political and social views; Right-wing extremists; Welch, Robert Henry Winborne PDF IMAGES
47-51	Article The best bartender in New York: Evenings in a very respectable place, with an old-fashioned professional man By John Corry SEE ALSO: Tisi, Anthony J.; Bartending; Career in bartending PDF IMAGES
54-70	Fiction The rape of Tamar By Dan Jacobson SEE ALSO: David, King of Israel PDF IMAGES
71-77	Article Czechoslovaks: Between hope and fear By Friedel Ungeheuer SEE ALSO: Czechoslovakia; Intervention, 1968; 1945-1992 PDF IMAGES
75	Poem Lines from an orchard once surveyed by Thoreau By Philip E. Booth PDF IMAGES Poem House hunting By John N. Morris SEE ALSO: Suburban homes; Suburban life PDF IMAGES
78-81	Poem Going home: New York By John Hollander PDF IMAGES
82-89	Article A lively commerce: From Jackson Heights to Las Vegas—the compulsive joys of sex and gambling By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Compulsive gamblers; Richardson, Jack; Prostitutes; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
90-92	Performing arts/Article Critics criticized By Ned Rorem SEE ALSO: Music critics; Musical criticism PDF IMAGES
93-98	Books/Review The decline in democratic sentiment By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Democracy; Four essays on liberty (Book); Liberty; Philosophy; Political science; Berlin, Isaiah, Sir PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, Jean M. Halloran, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder, and John Corry SEE ALSO: Almost home: collected stories (Book); Congress and the public trust; report (Book); Human sexual inadequacy (Book); Howard, Jane; Didion, Joan; Schwartz, Jonathan; Kirby, James C., Jr.; Berrigan, Philip; Play it as it lays, a novel (Book); Please touch; a guided tour of the human potential movement (Book); Prison journals of a priest revolutionary (Book); Johnson, Virginia E.; Masters, William H. PDF IMAGES
102	Music in the round/Review Serving the moderns By Discus SEE ALSO: Weissenberg, Alexis; Atlas eclipticalis (Book); Bartók, Béla; Cartridge music (Book); Davis, Colin; Barenboim, Daniel; Schnabel, Dieter; Shostakovich, Dmitriæi Dmitrievich; Ormandy, Eugene; Glossolalia (Book); Stravinsky, Igor; Cage, John; Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Mixtur (Book); Subotnick, Morton; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Boulez, Pierre; Bishop, Stephen; Telemusic (Book); Krause, Tom; Touch (Book); Winter music: 1957 (Book) PDF IMAGES