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January 1971

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Robert Bishop SEE ALSO: Gore, Albert; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Frady, Marshall; Views on writing PDF IMAGES
6-20	Letters/Department Letters On An American innocent in the Middle East (part I), from October 1970: Letter By Herbert F. Morris Letter By Nathan A Barack Letter By Stuart M. Levine On Blowing my mind at Harvard, from October 1970: Letter By Stuart M. Levine On Americana by the acre, from October 1970: Letter By Leigh Heisinger Letter By [The Rev.] L. David Harris On Where the classics have gone, from October 1970: Letter By Vincent R. Tortora Letter By R.A. Perry On Manson wins! A fantasy, from November 1970: Letter By Barbara Hudgins On The politics of style, from November 1970: Letter By Jeff Greenfield Letter By C. Mason McAllister Letter By Ivor B. Thomas PDF IMAGES
22-27	The easy chair/Article The babble of American place-names By John Hollander SEE ALSO: Stewart, George Rippey; Names, Geographical; Names on the land; a historical account of place-naming in the United States (Book) PDF IMAGES
28-33	Performing arts/Review Great lives on TV By Richard Schickel SEE ALSO: Composers in motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Elgar, Edward; Delius, Frederick; Duncan, Isadora; Russell, Ken PDF IMAGES
35-45	Article The end of a populist By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Gore, Albert; Halberstam, David; Journeys—Tennessee; Populism; Senate campaign, 1970 PDF IMAGES
46-53	Article Ali on Peachtree By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Atlanta; Boxing; Boxing matches; Fight against Jerry Quarry, Atlanta, 1970; Fight against Muhammad Ali, Atlanta, 1970; Quarry, Jerry; Ali, Muhammad; Public opinion PDF IMAGES
54-61	Article In search of Kissinger By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Kissinger, Henry; 1969-1974 PDF IMAGES
60	Poem November larches By Stephen Sandy SEE ALSO: Fall foliage PDF IMAGES Poem So she said By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
62-64	Fiction The unworthy friend By Jorge Luis Borges and Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Argentina; Gangs; Jews PDF IMAGES
65-79	Article In Israel: An American innocent in the Middle East (part III) By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Israel; Jewish-Arab relations; Jews; Journeys—Israel; Frady, Marshall; 1949-; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
82-89	Article Midtown and the Village By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Kazin, Alfred; Anecdotes; Wilson, Edmund; Friends and associates; Rosenfeld, Isaac; Bellow, Saul; Views on World War II, 1939-1945 PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books/Review Mann's letters By John Thompson SEE ALSO: Winston, Clara; Correspondence; Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 (Book); Winston, Richard; Mann, Thomas PDF IMAGES
92-96	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, Jean M. Halloran, John Hollander, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder, Larry L. King, and Julia Whedon SEE ALSO: A White House diary (Book); Karmel, Alex; Charles Sumner and the rights of man (Book); Jenkins, Dan; Donald, David Herbert; “Don't fall off the mountain” (Book); Frederick the Great (Book); Burns, James MacGregor; Trager, James; Keats, John; Brown, John Mason; Johnson, Lady Bird; My revolution; promenades in Paris, 1789-1794, being the diary of Restif de la Bretonne (Book); Mitford, Nancy; Gary, Romain; Roosevelt: the soldier of freedom (Book); Saturday's America (Book); MacLaine, Shirley; The ordeal of a playwright; Robert E. Sherwood and the challenge of war, by John Mason Brown. Including there shall be no night by Robert E. Sherwood (Book); White dog (Book); You might as well live; the life and times of Dorothy Parker (Book) PDF IMAGES
97-98	Music in the round/Review The market for operas By Discus SEE ALSO: Weber, Carl Maria von; Ciani, Dino; Four piano sonatas (Sound recording); Meyerbeer, Giacomo; Verdi, Giuseppe; Dernesch, Helga; Karajan, Herbert von; Sutherland, Joan; Dussek, Johann Ladislaus; Field, John; Böhm, Karl; Crowson, Lamar; Boehm, Mary Louise; Clementi, Muzio; Nocturnes, piano (Sound recording); Opera; RCA Italiana Orchestra and Chorus; Bonynge, Richard; Strauss, Richard; Wagner, Richard; Evans, Geraint, Sir; Solti, Georg, Sir PDF IMAGES Poem Red moonset By May Swenson SEE ALSO: Moon PDF IMAGES Poem Terminus By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES