Harper's Magazine Archive (1960)

1960

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The missile mess by Frank Gibney The passing of the Paris flea market by Pierre Schneider New hope for television? by John Fischer The erosion of Detroit by Russell Lynes Good-by to the 'fifties—and good riddance: The Stuffy Decade produced some of the most wonderful nonsense in history—but why didn't anybody laugh? by Eric Frederick Goldman Fiction The rain horse by Ted Hughes Poetry Say which by Mark Van Doren On the death of friends in childhood by Donald Rodney Justice
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Exploring the great deeps by Leonard Engel The rebirth of Jonny by Mira Rothenberg How to look at billboards by Howard Luck Gossage How to engineer a perfect cup of coffee by M.N. Stiles Mr. Nixon's remedy for inflation by John Kenneth Galbraith Fiction The betrothal: A story by Lorna Doone Beers Poetry Maybe 15 mph for the candlestickmaker by Helga Sandburg To a mad friend by Peter Davison
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles How to choose a psychiatrist by Maya Pines and Fredrick C. (Fredrick Carl) Redlich Isak Dinesen tells a tale by Glenway Wescott Eisenhower's dangerous legacy of “good will” by William Smith White The corpse on horseback by John Fischer The art of theatre criticism by Stark Young Fiction The touchable: A story by John Berry Alexander and the sibyl by Isak Dinesen Poetry Tenement spring by Samuel Menashe As the analyst sees it by Hilbert Schenck A short true story by Ellen Theroux Ferber A fairy tale by Robert Mezey Puella academica by Carl Alfred Lanning Binger
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Caribou year by William O. (William Obadiah) Pruitt A fresh appraisal of the Civil War by D.W. (Denis William) Brogan Hard questions for Senator Kennedy by John Fischer Kenneth Tynan at “The Connection” by Kenneth Tynan Please touch the flowers by Arline Thomas Fiction Royal Ascot: A story by Mira Michal The glass-brick apartment: A story by Max Steele Poetry Run, sweet panther by Vonna H. Adrian On the centenary of the Civil War by Maxine Kumin
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The biggest office building yet . . . worse luck by Edgar Kaufmann But is it deductible? by Ralph Lee Smith A “little theatre” goes a long way by Russell Lynes Eating towns by Charles Einstein Eisenhower and the new President [(the first of two articles)] by Richard Halworth Rovere Fiction Women must weep: A story by Hazel Heckman Poetry After I wake up by Hilary Corke Dr. Fatt, instructor by Donald Hall Cadetta—C&S by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Massachusetts General: What it takes to make a great hospital by Frances Burns Death of a giant by John Fischer Pursuing the Romanesque by Russell Lynes Young audiences by Roger Maren Politics for a new generation: Part I by Peter Ferdinand Drucker Fiction The fig tree: A story by Katherine Anne Porter The Greeks come to the Isola: A story by Dean Acheson Poetry Country blessing by Thomas B. (Thomas Bacon) Whitbread A hundred nights by Maxine Kumin Crabs by Judson Jerome
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles World's fairs: From Little Egypt to Robert Moses (the first of two articles) by George Ross Leighton A curious conversation with the Dalai Lama by Dom F. Moraes A small buried treasure by John Fischer The ballot on billboards by John Fischer The dangerous one hundred per cent by Russell Lynes Fiction Life in the movies: A story by H.E.F. Donohue Poetry Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath Fourth of July by Ted Hughes Maine by Philip E. Booth
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Christ under communism: An eyewitness report on the churches in Eastern Europe by Milton Sanford Mayer The revolution in small plane flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche Monocle by Marvin Kitman Caveat scriptor by Ethel Reed Strainchamps The year St. Louis enchanted the world (the second of two articles) by George Ross Leighton Fiction Early sin in the early 'thirties: A story by Victor Wolfson Poetry For a senior college textbook by Hans Magnus Enzensberger Thrombosis: A pastoral elegy in business phrases by Donald Hall
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Heroic Israel today: The legend and the facts by Sidney Hyman The soft life in Italy by Robert Neville Not really a sin by John Fischer The overt persuaders by Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi Fiction It's been a long snow: A story by John Medelman Poetry Do I not rage? by John Holmes September: The final word by Hollis Spurgeon Summers House wife by Kate Barnes
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Nadia Boulanger: An affectionate portrait by Aaron Copland Foreword by Marion K. Sanders The politics of medicine by Edward T. Chase The decline of the healing art by Selig Greenberg Fiction The mask: A story by Mira Michal Poetry Finally by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin Hierosulem by Hilary Corke To some uncertain birds by James Arlington Wright
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Why the crime syndicate can't be touched by Gerald L. Goettel State of the theatre: A conversation with Arthur Miller by Henry Brandon Please don't bite the politicians by John Fischer I was a flack for the wild blue yonder by Frederick Taylor Ten million statues by Robert Weeks Fiction Potawatomi's daughter: A story by Johannes V. (Johannes Vilhelm) Jensen Poetry The poem by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin The lost self by Peter Robert Edwin Viereck The losers by Philip Levine
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles “Listen, Yankee”: The Cuban case against the United States by C. Wright (Charles Wright) Mills Christmas in the vernacular by William Smith White Ten Christmas cards, and that's all by John Fischer Encounter with Cocteau by Hans Bendix Repertory fever by Robert Sanford Brustein Fiction The reluctant giver: A story by Gertrude Friedberg Poetry Wood odors by Walt Whitman Directions for Christmas by Richard Frost To Mary by Robert Mezey

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