Harper's Magazine: September 1970

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September 1970

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By George William Gardner (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Bodybuilders; Wayne, Rick; Transvestites PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Criminal statistics; Shaw, Irwin PDF IMAGES
6-9	Letters/Department Letters On Tribute to an American poet, from June 1970: Letter By Scott Donaldson On Who needs the Democrats? . . . and what it takes to be needed, from July 1970: Letter By Paul F. McGouldrick Letter By William E. Boeddener Letter By Harry Perlstadt On Washington, sex, and power, from July 1970: Letter By Katherine Hoover Schwab Letter By Kenneth R. Mitchell Letter By M.D. and Abram L. Van Horn Letter By “The Very Anonymous Wife of a Very Un-anonymous Congressman” PDF IMAGES
12-20	The easy chair/Article Outwitting Wall Street: You too can get little rich By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Investments; Speculation; Wall Street PDF IMAGES
22-25	American notes/Article Baseball and the national mythology By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Ball four; my life and hard times throwing the knuckleball in the big leagues (Book); Baseball; Baseball players; Schaap, Dick; Bouton, Jim; Seaver, Nancy; The perfect game; Tom Seaver and the Mets (Book); Seaver, Tom PDF IMAGES
26-35	Performing arts/Article Happy in Cannes By Irwin Shaw SEE ALSO: Cannes Film Festival; Petri, Elio; Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (Motion picture); Bergman, Ingmar; Buñuel, Luis; MASH (Motion picture); Motion pictures; Passion (Motion picture); Politics in motion pictures; Sex in motion pictures; Tristana (Motion picture); Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
37-51	Article Homo/hetero: The struggle for sexual identity By Joseph Epstein SEE ALSO: Gays; Homophobia; Homosexuality and literature; Psychoanalysis and homosexuality PDF IMAGES
52-63	Article Whatever happened to Brother Dave? By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Career in stand-up comedy; Comedians; Gardner, Dave; Political and social views; Rednecks; Stand-up comedy PDF IMAGES
64-71	Article Black crime: The lawless image By Fred P. Graham SEE ALSO: African American criminals; Crimes against; Criminal statistics; Criminology; 1964-1975 PDF IMAGES
72-78	Fiction Father Buh buh boo By Joseph Ronald Sweat SEE ALSO: Catholic Church; Political fiction; Priests PDF IMAGES
79-82	Article Son of the Catskills: Portrait of a country boy, making it By John Corry SEE ALSO: Attitudes; Automobile dealers; Biography; Catskill Mountains (New York); Delaware County; Hamilton, Jack PDF IMAGES
83-93	Article Never nothing By George P. Elliott SEE ALSO: Atheism; Childhood and youth; Elliott, George P.; Sade, Marquis de; Nihilism (Philosophy); Philosophy PDF IMAGES
93	Poem Syrinx By James Ingram Merrill PDF IMAGES Poem Last words of the human fly By David Wagoner PDF IMAGES
94-100	Books/Review What's it about? What's it like? By John Thompson SEE ALSO: A reasonable doubt (Book); Hill, Carol; Harington, Donald; Smith, Edgar; Owen, Guy; Jeremiah 8:20; a novel (Book); Journey for Joedel; a novel (Book); Lightning bug (Book); Stewart, Mary; Griffith, Patricia Browning; White, Patrick; Cabot, Robert; The crystal cave (Book); The future is not what it used to be (Book); The Joshua tree (Book); The vivisector (Book) PDF IMAGES
100-102	Books/Review Books Books By Harold Clurman SEE ALSO: Civilisation: a personal view (Book); Clark, Kenneth PDF IMAGES
103-109	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, Jean M. Halloran, John Hollander, and Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder SEE ALSO: Hope, A.D. (Alec Derwent); Burnett, David; Smith, Gene; Vidal, Gore; Cooper, Henry S.F.; Justice; the crisis of law, order, and freedom in America (Book); Gould, Lois; Foley, Martha; Moon rocks (Book); New poems, 1965-1969 (Book); O. Henry: the legendary life of William S. Porter (Book); Gregory, R.L. (Richard Langton); Harris, Richard; O'Connor, Richard; Lubell, Samuel; Such good friends (Book); The best American short stories (Book); The hidden crisis in American politics (Book); The intelligent eye (Book); The shattered dream; Herbert Hoover and the great depression (Book); Two sisters; a memoir in the form of a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
109	Poem Histrionic landscape By Daryl Hine SEE ALSO: Mountains PDF IMAGES
110-112	Music in the round/Review Revivals By Discus SEE ALSO: Ambrosian Singers; Rubinstein, Artur; Britten, Benjamin; Czerny, Carl; Carvalho, Eleazar de; English Chamber Orchestra; Blumental, Felicja; Ries, Ferdinand; Schlusnus, Heinrich; Froschauer, Hellmuth; Shirley-Quick, John; Melchior, Lauritz; London Symphony Orchestra; Cebotari, Maria; Grainger, Percy; Pears, Peter; Lewenthal, Raymond; Ponselle, Rosa; Salute to Percy Grainger (Sound recording); Vienna Chamber Orchestra; Scharwenka, Xaver PDF IMAGES
112	Poem Under the rose: A granfalloon for Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. By L.E. Sissman PDF IMAGES