December 1971 Issue [The Easy Chair] Christmas honors list Download PDF Adjust Share Balancing laurels and brickbats by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Archibald MacLeish Arizona Attica Correctional Facility (N.Y.) Bloomington Book collectors Boy Scouts Boys California Charlie Hahn Charlotte Cherokee Indians China Davis Strait Environmentalists Exile (Punishment) Frederick W., Jr. Goodrich Indiana James T. Kinne Joseph Alsop Journalists Lou Torok Mobile hospitals Nayaug (Conn.) Norman H. Strouse North Carolina Politics and government Prisoners Religious life Richard Ries Saint Helena Salmon fishing United States William Wayne Keeler World War II, 1939-1945 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