Harper's Magazine: April 1960

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April 1960

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt PDF IMAGES
6-14	Letters/Department Letters On Public women, from January 1960: Letter By George C. Roberts Letter By Jack Harrison Pollack On Mr. Nixon's remedy for inflation, from February 1960: Letter By William B. Smith Letter By Gwynn Nettler Letter By Violet V. Ruckman On A good house nowadays is hard to find, from February 1960: Letter By John L. Davies Letter By Norbert N. Turkel On The rebirth of Jonny, from February 1960: Letter By Nathalie Kennedy Letter By Brenda Augustine Letter By Michael E. Freelund Letter By Bernadine Z. Paulshock Letter By Kurt Goldstein Letter By Jr. and W.C. Rippy On How to look at billboards, from February 1960: Letter By J.W. Fontana Letter By “The Editors” Letter By E.E. MacCrone Letter By Keith Monroe Letter By Eugene Tashoff On How to engineer a perfect cup of coffee, from February 1960: Letter By Howard R. Safarik Letter By Patricia Pearce Letter By Fred Lichtgarn Letter By Sally L. Wells Letter By Henry Kane PDF IMAGES
16-23	The editor's easy chair/Article Hard questions for Senator Kennedy By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Balance of power; Catholic Church and world politics; Disarmament; Interviews; Kennedy, John F.; 1953-1961 PDF IMAGES
26-28	After hours/Article Kenneth Tynan at “The Connection” By Kenneth Tynan SEE ALSO: American drama; Gelber, Jack; Stories, plots, etc.; The connection (Play) PDF IMAGES
28-31	After hours/Article Please touch the flowers By Arline Thomas SEE ALSO: Blind; Fragrant gardens; Recreation PDF IMAGES
30	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
31	After hours/Poem Run, sweet panther By Vonna H. Adrian PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article American colleges: What their catalogues never tell you By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; College teachers; College teaching; Curricula; Education, Higher; Job satisfaction PDF IMAGES
36	Article The voice of the turtle SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Kissing; Traffic accidents PDF IMAGES
40	Article An Englishman looks at American colleges By D.D. (David Daiches) Raphael SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Comparative education; Curricula; Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
41-45	Fiction Royal Ascot: A story By Mira Michal PDF IMAGES
46-50	Article How small business cuts its throat By George S. Odiorne SEE ALSO: Entrepreneurship; Management; Small business; Subsidies PDF IMAGES
51-59	Article San Francisco rebuilds again By Allan Temko SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; City planning; Public architecture; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.); Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
60-65	Fiction The glass-brick apartment: A story By Max Steele PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article Caribou year By William O. (William Obadiah) Pruitt SEE ALSO: Migration; Northwest Territories PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article Why waste our five-year-olds? By Virginia C. Simmons SEE ALSO: Education, Preschool; Kindergarten; Reading (Early childhood) PDF IMAGES
74-81	Article Playing the rare book market By John Carter SEE ALSO: Antiquarian booksellers; Book collecting; Rare books PDF IMAGES
82-91	Article Where democracy doesn't work . . . yet By Erskine B. Childers SEE ALSO: Africa; Afro-Asian politics; Arab countries; Asia; Democracy; Economic development PDF IMAGES
91	Poem On the centenary of the Civil War By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
94-101	Public and personal/Article In defense of congressional investigations By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Ethics; Governmental investigations; 1953-1961; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
102-106	Music in the round/Review Opera with love—holy and otherwise By Discus SEE ALSO: Aïda (Sound recording); Cluytens, André; Lewis, Anthony; Tebaldeo, Antonio; MacLeish, Archibald; Bergonzi, Carlo; Carmen (Sound recording); Gounod, Charles; Rubio, Consuelo; MacNeil, Cornell; Faust (Sound recording); Bizet, Georges; Puccini, Giacomo; Simionato, Giulietta; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Verdi, Giuseppe; Purcell, Henry; Karajan, Herbert von; J.B. (Sound recording); Dryden, John; King Arthur (Sound recording); Manon Lescaut (Sound recording); Callas, Maria; Opera; Paris Opera Orchestra; Performances; Philomusica Orchestra of London; Le Conte, Pierre-Michel; Beecham, Thomas, Sir; St. Anthony Singers; Serafin, Tulio; Angeles, Victoria de los; Vienna Philharmonia PDF IMAGES
106	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Bach: Musical offering (Sound recording); Handel, George Frideric; Handel: Organ concertos #13, #14, #15, #16 (Sound recording); Bach, Johann Sebastian; Münchinger, Karl; London Philharmonic; Boult, Adrian, Sir PDF IMAGES
107	Jazz notes/Review Jukebox By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1951-1960; Popular music PDF IMAGES
108-115	The new books/Review Varieties of commitment By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Aimez-vous Brahms (Book); Mauriac, Claude; Edge of day (Book); O'Connor, Flannery; Sagan, Françoise; From the hand of the hunter (Book); Braine, John; Lament for a generation (Book); Lee, Laurie; Bates, Marston; Name and address (Book); Toledano, Ralph de; Matthews, T.S. (Thomas Stanley); The dinner party (Book); The forest and the sea (Book); The violent bear it away (Book) PDF IMAGES
115-118	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Dakin, A. Hazard (Arthur Hazard); De Céspedes, Alba; American son (Book); Between then and now (Book); Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon; MacManus, Francis; Full circle (Book); Glass slippers always pinch (Book); Priestley, J.B. (John Boynton); Literature and modern man (Book); Bawden, Nina; Paul Elmer More (Book); Heilbroner, Robert L.; The future as history (Book) PDF IMAGES
119	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A visit down there (Book); Bid me live (Book); Isherwood, Christopher; Fielding, Gabriel; Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); Robinson, Henry Morton; West, Jessamyn; Roy, Katherine; Auchincloss, Louis; Waltari, Mika; Coulehan, Norbert; Thompson, Sally; South of the angels (Book); The fourth king (Book); The gentle fraud (Book); The house of five talents (Book); The keener love (Book); The leopard (Book); The secret of the kingdom (Book); The view from the fortieth floor (Book); White, Theodore Harold; Through streets broad and narrow (Book); Water of life (Book) PDF IMAGES
121-144	Article A fresh appraisal of the Civil War By D.W. (Denis William) Brogan PDF IMAGES