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December 1960

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Burt Goldblatt SEE ALSO: Cuba; Flags PDF IMAGES
6-16	Letters/Department Letters On Command performance, from October 1960: Letter By George Olshausen Letter By Roger Reger Letter By Mrs. M. Abbott Letter By Clyde W. Park On Hierosulem, from October 1960: Letter By Mrs. Amos Selavan Letter By Hilary Corke On The mathematics of polygamy, from October 1960: Letter By Morris L. Ernst Letter By Leonard J. Arrington On Our exiled airmen in England, from October 1960: Letter By Carroll S. Shershun On The cults of “research” and “creativity”, from October 1960: Letter By Peter F. Bonventre Letter By Alan J. Downes Letter By William R. Hutchison On What the press has done to Boston and vice versa, from October 1960: Letter By Robert Choate Letter By Peter Braestrup On Not really a sin, from September 1960: Letter By E.C. Nickerson On FM on wheels, from October 1960: Letter By John Ferris Letter By “The Editors” PDF IMAGES
12	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
19-23	The editor's easy chair/Article Ten Christmas cards, and that's all By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Alabama; Huxley, Aldous; Austria; Awards; Birmingham; Book industries and trade; Bridges; Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright); Career as civil engineer; Career in education; Censorship; Civil engineers; Customs administration; Steinman, D.B.(David Barnard); Discrimination; English literature; Exhibitions; Orwell, George; Irish; Laney, J.C.; Davies, Jerry; Derthick, Lawrence; Literacy; Radin, Maxim; Medical care, Cost of; Medicine, State; Miami; Military policy; Janowitz, Morris; Officials and employees; Ontario; Publishers and publishing; The power elite (Book); The professional soldier (Book); Toronto; Trade-unions; Traveling exhibitions; Vienna; Views on abstract expressionism; Views on cost of medical care; Views on featherbedding; Von Braun, Wernher; White Plains; Women art patrons; Yugoslavia PDF IMAGES
24-28	After hours/Article Encounter with Cocteau By Hans Bendix SEE ALSO: Authors, French; Homes and haunts; Interviews; Cocteau, Jean; Portraits PDF IMAGES
28-29	After hours/Article The muffled dernier cri SEE ALSO: Capri Island; Capri Island (Italy); Creation; Cameron, Elizabeth Stark; Journeys—Italy—Capri Island; Mythology PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article “Listen, Yankee”: The Cuban case against the United States By C. Wright (Charles Wright) Mills SEE ALSO: Cuba; Foreign economic relations; 1933-1959 PDF IMAGES
38-42	Fiction The reluctant giver: A story By Gertrude Friedberg PDF IMAGES
43	Poem Wood odors By Walt Whitman PDF IMAGES Collection Wood odors PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Rena V. Grant SEE ALSO: Manuscripts; Manuscripts, American; Poets, American; Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
44-51	Article Repertory fever By Robert Sanford Brustein SEE ALSO: Drama; New York Shakespeare Festival (New York, New York); Repertory theater; Technique PDF IMAGES
48	Poem Directions for Christmas By Richard Frost PDF IMAGES
52-57	Article Beachcombing in the Virgin Islands By Paul Brooks SEE ALSO: Beachcombing; Virgin Islands of the United States PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article An open letter to the corner grocer By Elaine Kendall SEE ALSO: Consumer behavior; Grocery shopping; Supermarkets PDF IMAGES
60-66	Article The next summit meeting By Henry Kissinger SEE ALSO: Balance of power; Diplomacy; 1945-1991; 1953-1961; Summit meetings PDF IMAGES
71-77	Article A Christian view of the future: A conversation with Reinhold Niebuhr By Henry Brandon SEE ALSO: Christian ethics; Christianity and politics; Interviews; 1960; Philosophy and religion; Portraits; Niebuhr, Reinhold; Theologians PDF IMAGES
77	Poem To Mary By Robert Mezey PDF IMAGES
78-88	Article The cracked lens: Notes on Hedda, Hollywood, TV, and me By Sumner Locke Elliott SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; Hopper, Hedda; Hollywood (Calif.); Los Angeles; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion pictures and television; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
89-94	Article “Friendship U” in Moscow By Priscilla Johnson McMillan SEE ALSO: Moscow; 1945-1991; Student exchange programs; Students, Foreign PDF IMAGES
100-105	Public and personal/Article Christmas in the vernacular By William Smith White PDF IMAGES
106-120	The new books/Review Art books of 1960 By Leo Steinberg SEE ALSO: Malraux, André; Ottino Della Chiesa, Angela; Antonio Gaudi (Book); Schönberger, Arno; Art and architecture in Belgium: 1600-1800 (Book); Art and architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American dominions: 1500-1800 (Book); Art and illustion (Book); Artists' books; Menen, Aubrey; Baroque churches of Central Europe (Book); Baroque in Italy (Book); Raeburn, Ben; Rowland, Benjamin; Botticelli and his contemporaries (Book); Dodwell, C.R. (Charles Reginald); De Tolnay, Charles; Morgan, Charles; Sterling, Charles; Claude Monet (Book); Claude Monet: seasons and moments (Book); Buxton, David Roden; Discourses on architecture (Book); Drawings for a living architecture (Book); Gombrich, E.H. (Ernst Hans); Kaufmann, Edgar; Mâle, Emile; Kuile, Engelbert H. ter(Engelbert Hendrik); Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique; Panofsky, Erwin; Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel; Battisti, Eugenio; Borsook, Eve; Wormald, Francis; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Frank Lloyd Wright (Book); Frank Lloyd Wright: writings and buildings (Book); From baroque to rococo, an introduction to Austrian and German architecture from 1580 to 1790 (Book); Kubler, George; Collins, George Roseborough; Gerrit van Honthorst (Book); Stein, Gertrude; Giotto (Book); Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta; Greek art (Book); Greek sculpture (Book); Gerson, H. (Horst); Soehner, Halldor; How prints look (Book); Stone, Irving; Pindborg, J.J. (Jens Jørgen); Judson, J. Richard (Jay Richard); Jarves, James Jackson; Lees-Milne, James; Porcher, Jean; Bourke, John; Held, Julius Samuel; Clark, Kenneth; Kouroi: archaic Greek youths (Book); Marvitz, Leif; Life of Michelangelo (Book); Looking at pictures (Book); Louis Sullivan as he lived (Book); Marcel Duchamp (Book); Soria, Martin; Hirmer, Max; Friedländer, Max J.; Seuphor, Michel; Michelangelo: the final period (Book); Powell, Nicolas; On art and connoisseurship (Book); Picasso (Book); Schoder, Raymond V.; Renaissances and renascences in Western art (Book); Henri, Robert; Lebel, Robert; Rome for ourselves (Book); Rubens: selected drawings (Book); Still life painting (Book); Gilbert, Stuart; The agony and the ecstasy (Book); The art-idea (Book); The art spirit (Book); The benedictional of St. Ethelwold (Book); The dentist in art (Book); The early churches of Rome (Book); The great Lambeth Bible (Book); The metamorphosis of the gods (Book); The mural painters of Tuscany (Book); The Rococo Age: art and civilization of the 18th century (Book); The Rohan book of hours (Book); The sculpture of this century (Book); Velazquez (Book); Scully, Vincent Joseph; Connelly, Willard; Seitz, William Chapin; Ivins, William Mills PDF IMAGES
120-123	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A noble profession (Book); A zoo in my luggage (Book); Copland, Aaron; American natives (Book); Garve, Andrew; Ismay, Hastings Lionel Ismay, Baron; Bryson, Bernarda; Amory, Cleveland; Copland on music (Book); Moraes, Dom F.; Fisher, Ed; Sokol, Erich; Bradlee, Frederic; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Gone away: an Indian journey (Book); Good bye, Ava (Book); In the cool of the day (Book); McGinley, Phyllis; Boulle, Pierre; Bissell, Richard Pike; Osborn, Robert Chesley; Betjeman, John, Sir; Summoned by bells (Book); Ertz, Susan; The far sands (Book); The memoirs of General Lord Ismay (Book); The twenty miracles of Saint Nicolas (Book); The vulgarians (Book); Times three (Book); Vanity Fair: a cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s (Book); Wine, women, and woad: a tale of decadent Rome (Book) PDF IMAGES
124-130	Music in the round/Review A new generation of pianists By Discus SEE ALSO: Schein, Ann; Bach: Italian concerto; Partitas (Sound recording); Brahms: Handel; Paganini variations (Sound recording); Weber, Carl Maria von; Chopin: Piano concerto in F minor (Sound recording); Chopin, Frédéric; Liszt, Franz; Schubert, Franz; Graffman, Gary; Gould, Glenn; Haebler, Ingrid; Bach, Johann Sebastian; Brahms, Johannes; Katchen, Julius; Fleisher, Leon; Liszt: Paganini etudes; A flat liebestraum; Hungarian rhapsody #11 (Sound recording); Liszt: Piano sonata in B minor. Weber: Piano sonato #4 in E minor; Invitation to the dance (Sound recording); Performances; Schumann, Robert; Schumann: Kinderscenen; Papillons. Schubert: Piano sonata in A major, op. 120; German dances, op. 33 (Sound recording); Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Vienna State Opera Orchestra PDF IMAGES
130	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, op. 110; Sonata in C minor, op. 111 (Sound recording); Rosen, Charles; Chopin: Ballade in F minor; Scherzo in C sharp minor; Polonaise in A flat; Three mazurkas; Two nocturnes (Sound recording); Chopin: Piano concerto #1; Krakoviak (Sound recording); Dohnanyi: Variations on a nursery tune. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini (Sound recording); Dohnányi, Erno; Chopin, Frédéric; Richter-Haaser, Hans; Katchen, Julius; London Philharmonic; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Performances; Rachmaninoff, Sergei; Boult, Adrian, Sir; Askenase, Stefan; Otterloo, Willem van PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Porgy II By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Potts, Bill; Gershwin, George; Evans, Gil; Jazz; Davis, Miles; Miles Davis, Porgy and Bess (Sound recording); Lowe, Mundell; 1951-1960; Faith, Percy; Percy Faith plays Porgy and Bess (Sound recording); Porgy and Bess (Sound recording); Burns, Ralph; Garcia, Russell; The jazz soul of Porgy and Bess (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES