July 1963 Issue [The New Books] The writer as middleman Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags Books Daniel Bell Geoffrey Grigson Kingsley Amis Nancy Mitford Peter L. Bernstein Reuben Arthur Brower Reviews Robert Frost Robert L. Heilbroner More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share