July 1967 Issue [The Editor’s Easy Chair] Announcing some changes Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century David Halberstam Harper's John Fischer Larry L. King New York New York (State) Periodical editors Robert Kotlowitz Willie Morris 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