Harper's Magazine: February 1956

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February 1956

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4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The country slickers take us again, from December 1955: Letter By S.A. Jorgersen Letter By Bonita P. Cowling Letter By Leon C. Hurtt Letter By John Fischer Letter By Ezra T. Benson Letter By Leonard Wickenden Letter By Roy U. Jordan Letter By George D. Taylor Letter By James G. Patton Letter By G.P. Deyoe PDF IMAGES
10-18	The editor's easy chair/Article Intellectual with a gun By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Criticism; French; Intellectuals; Bruckberger, R.-L. (Raymond-Léopold); Refugees, Political; Views on American intellectuals PDF IMAGES The editor's easy chair/Notice The editor's easy chair By John Fischer SEE ALSO: De Voto, Bernard Augustine; Death and burial; Journalists; “The easy chair” (Harper's) PDF IMAGES
18	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
19-23	Advertising Supplement Toward a generation of safer drivers PDF IMAGES
24-28	Personal and otherwise/Article [various] By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
28	Personal and otherwise/Article Silent Republicans By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1953-1961; The Republican Party PDF IMAGES
31-34	Article Party of the second part: Criticism in politics By Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson SEE ALSO: Communication; Criticism; The Democratic Party; 1953-1961; Opposition (Political science); Political parties PDF IMAGES
34	Poem Tobacco By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
35-37	Article How I met the Loch Ness monster By David M. Slorach SEE ALSO: Credulity; Loch Ness monster; Ness, Loch (Scotland) PDF IMAGES
38-42	Article If we're so rich, what's eating us? By Robert Lekachman SEE ALSO: Business cycles; Consumption (Economics) PDF IMAGES
42	Poem Twentieth century pastoral: Cow at her own drinking fountain By Fred Lape PDF IMAGES
43-49	Collection [untitled] PDF IMAGES Article Greece without ruins By Francis Henry King SEE ALSO: Greece; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
46-47	Illustration Drawings of Athens . . . by Steinberg By Saul Steinberg SEE ALSO: Athens (Greece); Buildings, structures, etc. PDF IMAGES
49	Article Another great tradition of the English-speaking peoples By David, Lord Cecil SEE ALSO: 1837-1901; National characteristics, English PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article The Wall Street lawyers: Part II By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Corporate lawyers; Law firms; Legal ethics; Wall Street PDF IMAGES
57-59	Article A new audience for radio By Alex Haley and Albert Abarbanel SEE ALSO: African Americans in radio broadcasting; Radio audiences PDF IMAGES
60-67	Fiction Bushmen hunting: A story By Jack Cope PDF IMAGES
67	Poem Because I live By Evelyn Perkins Ames PDF IMAGES
68-72	Article An assignment for intellectuals By R.-L. (Raymond-Léopold) Bruckberger and Cornelia Schaeffer (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, French; Intellectuals PDF IMAGES
71	Article But would he be a security risk? By Ralph Waldo Emerson SEE ALSO: Concord; Employment references; Friends and associates; Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
73	Article Teachers, parents, and money SEE ALSO: Teachers; Teaching; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
74-82	Article Dave Beck's Teamsters: Sour note in labor harmony By Sidney Lens SEE ALSO: American Federation of Labor; Career in labor movement; Committee for Industrial Organization; Beck, Dave; Meany, George; Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle); Labor disputes; Labor leaders; Membership; Organizing; Trade-unions; Reuther, Walter PDF IMAGES
83-84	After hours/Article Profusion of virtues By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Dramatists, American; The matchmaker (Play); Theater audiences; Wilder, Thornton PDF IMAGES
84-85	After hours/Article Welcome stranger! By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Pleasants, Henry; Jazz; Music critics; Popular music; The agony of modern music (Book) PDF IMAGES
86-98	The new books/Review Politicians, soldiers, and Hittites By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A secret understanding (Book); Waugh, Alec; Boon Island (Book); Bugles and a tiger (Book); Ceram, C.W.; Frankel, Charles; O'Connor, Edwin; Orwell, George; Chapman, Guy; Island in the sun (Book); Masters, John; Keep the aspidistra flying (Book); Roberts, Kenneth Lewis; Miller, Merle; The case for modern man (Book); The Dreyfus case (Book); The last hurrah (Book); The secret of the Hittites (Book) PDF IMAGES
98-100	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Carr, Archie Fairly; Haworth, David; Wallop, Douglass; Baldwin, James; Shedd, Margaret; Notes of a native son (Book); Run (Book); Wexler, Susan Stanhope; The story of Sandy (Book); The sunken garden (Book); The windward road (Book); We die alone (Book) PDF IMAGES
100	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Don't go near the water (Book); Slaughter, Frank G.(Frank Gill); Shaw, Irwin; Lord, James; Brick, John; Jubilee (Book); Lucy Crown (Book); No traveler returns (Book); Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania (Book); Churchill, Winston, Sir; The scarlet cord (Book); Anderson, Thomas; Brinkley, William; Your own beloved sons (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-103	The new recordings/Review Battle with a real pipe organ By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Adler; Bach: Three sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord (Sound recording); Paumgartner, Bernard; Haskil, Clara; Hoffmann, E.T.A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus); Haydn: 4 themes with variations; Fantasia; Capriccio (Sound recording); Haydn: Harpsichord concerto in D; Harpsichord concerto in G; Harpsichord concerto in F; Harpsichord concerto in C (Sound recording); Horvat; Bach, Johann Christian; Johann Christian Bach: Three quintets and two sonatas (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Gabrielski, Johann Wilhelm; Haydn, Joseph; Mozart, Leopold; Haydn, Michael; Michael Haydn: Symphony in G major; Flute concerto (Sound recording); Mozart: Piano concerto in A, K. 488; Piano concerto in D minor, K. 466 (Sound recording); 18th century children's music: Leopold Mozart: Cassation in G. Gabrielski: March and trio. Hoffman: Symphony for orchestra and children's instruments (Sound recording); Reisenberg, Nadia; Organ music; Sacher, Paul; Performances; Production and direction; Vienna Orchestra Society; Vienna State Opera Orchestra; Vienna Symphony; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES The new recordings/Review Worth looking into . . . By Edward Tatnall Canby SEE ALSO: Lewis, Anthony; Quadri, Argeo; Bach: Prelude and fugue in E minor; Fantasia in G; Passacaglia; Fugue in C minor (Sound recording); Monteverdi, Claudio; Corelli: 12 concerti grossi, op. 6 (Sound recording); English Baroque Orchestra; Ensemble Orchestre de l'Oiseau-Lyre; Corelli, Franco; Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon; Rameau, Jean Philippe; Bach, Johann Sebastian; L÷illet, John; Marenzio, Luca; Lully: Miserere (Sound recording); Monteverdi. Marenzio: Madrigals on texts from “Il pastor fido” (Sound recording); Organ music from Sweelinck to Hindemith (Sound recording); Hindemith, Paul; Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Sound recording); St. Anthony Singers PDF IMAGES