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May 1961

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson and Marc Riboud SEE ALSO: 1917-1970 PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The tyranny of multiple-choice tests, from March 1961: Letter By Henry Chauncey Letter By John M. Stalnaker Letter By Roy P. Fairfield Letter By William Jovanovich Letter By Phineas Kadushin Letter By Cameron Fincher Letter By “The Editors” On The Timken edition of Lenin, from March 1961: Letter By John Emmerich On The golden twig, from March 1961: Letter By Stephen G. Bishop On My dear Irish doctors, from March 1961: Letter By Mrs. Gene S. Kupferschmid On California's $2 billion thirst, from March 1961: Letter By Jr. and Charles F. Bennett Letter By Sydney Kossen Letter By George Ballis On “Anti-Americanism” in Canada, from March 1961: Letter By William Laas Letter By Marian Warren PDF IMAGES
12-22	The easy chair/Article A better way with press conferences By Philip M. (Philip Marshall) Wagner SEE ALSO: Press conferences PDF IMAGES
23-25	After hours/Article Exigencies of eighty By Henry H. (Henry Hodgman) Saylor SEE ALSO: Aged; Aging; Clothing; Medical care PDF IMAGES
25-27	After hours/Article A science lecture for any occasion By James L. McPherson SEE ALSO: Atomic theory; Lectures and lecturing PDF IMAGES
29-37	Article The kingdom of silence: The truth about Africa's most oppressed colony SEE ALSO: Africa; Angola; Colonies; Forced labor; 1933-1974; 1961-1963; Portugal; Portuguese PDF IMAGES
33	Poem Naming the colors By Eric Pfeiffer PDF IMAGES
38-42	Article Everything's up-to-date in Texas . . . but me By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern; Architecture, Victorian; Historic preservation; Public architecture; Queen Anne revival (Architecture); Urban renewal PDF IMAGES
43-45	Article A cure for bewitchment By Herbert Passin SEE ALSO: Anthropology; Indian magic; Sierra Madre PDF IMAGES
46-49	Collection Apocalypse PDF IMAGES Article Introductory comment By Benjamin Nelson SEE ALSO: Imagination; Learning and scholarship; Brown, Norman Oliver; Philosophy and civilization; Reason; Views on learning and scholarship PDF IMAGES
47-49	Article The place of mystery in the life of the mind By Norman Oliver Brown SEE ALSO: Imagination; Learning and scholarship; Philosophy and civilization; Reason PDF IMAGES
50-54	Article The pitchman By Long John Nebel SEE ALSO: Broadcast advertising; Selling PDF IMAGES
53	Poem The Danaids By Smith Palmer Bovie PDF IMAGES
55-62	Article Ernest Bevin: Comfortable friend, formidable adversary (second of two articles) By Dean Acheson SEE ALSO: Career as British secretary of state for foreign affairs; Career as U.S. secretary of state; Acheson, Dean; Diplomatic and consular service; Diplomats; Bevin, Ernest; Foreign ministers; 1945-1953; 1945-1964 PDF IMAGES
63-68	Fiction The polarizing force: A story By May Dikeman PDF IMAGES
73-76	Article America's wandering scholars By Richard Mott Gummere SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
77	Poem As I step over a puddle at the end of winter, I think of an ancient Chinese governor By James Arlington Wright PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Which scientists win Nobel prizes? By George W. (George William) Gray SEE ALSO: Michelson, Albert Abraham; Carrel, Alexis; Crompton, Arthur H.; Kornberg, Arthur; Awards; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando; Faculty; Nobel Prizes; Millikan, Robert Andrews; Scientists; Richards, Theodore W. (Theodore William) PDF IMAGES
83-87	Public and personal/Article The invisible gentleman from Kansas City By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. representative; Kansas City; Leadership; 1961-1963; Political ethics; Bolling, Richard Walker; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
88-98	The new books/Review The literature of development By Robert L. Heilbroner SEE ALSO: Hirschman, Albert O.; Schonfield, Andrew; Higgins, Benjamin Howard; Beyond the welfare state (Book); Myers, Charles Andrew; Clark Kerr; Economic development; Economic development (Book); Black, Eugene R. (Eugene Robert); Harbison, Frederick; Kimble, George Herbert Tinley; Myrdal, Gunnar; Wallich, Henry Christopher; Industrialism and industrial man (Book); Dunlop, John; Baran, Paul A.; Ritner, Peter; Political economy of growth (Book); Problems of capital formation in the underdeveloped countries (Book); Nurkse, Ragnar; The attack on world poverty (Book); The cost of freedom (Book); The death of Africa (Book); The diplomacy of economic development (Book); The stages of economic growth (Book); The strategy of economic development (Book); Tropical Africa (Book); Rostow, W.W. (Walt Whitman) PDF IMAGES
92	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
98-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Grzimek, Bernhard; Grubb, Davis; Pettingill, Eleanor Rice; Remarque, Erich Maria; Galapagos: the Noah's ark of the Pacific (Book); Maxwell, Gavin; Heaven has no favorites (Book); Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenaus; Grzimek, Michael; Penguin summer: an adventure with the birds of the Falkland Islands (Book); Ring of bright water (Book); Serengeti shall not die (Book); The watchman (Book) PDF IMAGES
101	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Downer, Alan Seymour; Hoffman, Frederick John; Gertrude Stein (Book); Fuller, Helen; Meyer, Karl Ernest; Unger, Leonard; 1961-1963; Recent American drama (Book); Chase, Richard Volney; Nicolson, Harold George, Sir; Opotowsky, Stan; T.S. Eliot (Book); The age of reason (Book); The first year (Book); The Kennedy government (Book); The making of the President 1960 (Book); The new America: politics and society in the age of the smooth deal (Book); White, Theodore Harold; Wallace Stevens (Book); Walt Whitman (Book); Tindall, William York PDF IMAGES
102-104	Music in the round/Review Experimental music: 1961-1916 By Discus SEE ALSO: Kouguell, Alexander; Epstein, Alvin; Badings: Capriccio for violin and two sound tracks; Genese; Evolutions. Raaijmakers: Contrasts (Sound recording); Spinney, Bradley; Small, Charles S.; Raaijmakers, Dick; Electronic music; Vardi, Emanuel; Badings, Henk; Stravinsky, Igor; Margolies, Jacques; Mitchell, James; Covelli, John; L'histoire du soldat (Sound recording); Glickman, Loren; Douglas, Melvyn; Performances; Javits, Reuben; Riegger: Piano trio; String quartet #2 (Sound recording); Marlowe, Sylvia; Weiss, Theodore Russell; Riegger, Wallingford; Lewis, Walter; Kroll, William PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: MacDowell, Edward; Ansermet, Ernest; Jones, Geraint; Gluck: Excerpts from Alceste (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; MacDowell: Piano concerto #2 in D minor. Prokofieff: Piano concerto #3 in C major (Sound recording); Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Performances; Gluck, Christoph Willibald, Ritter von; Prokofieff, Sergey; Stravinsky: Symphony in C; Symphony in three movements (Sound recording); Cliburn, Van; Hendl, Walter PDF IMAGES
104	Jazz notes/Review Ornette By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Jazz; 1961-1970; Coleman, Ornette; Performances PDF IMAGES
105	Photo [Untitled Photo] By Marc Riboud (Photog.) SEE ALSO: 1917-1970 PDF IMAGES Collection The mood of the Russian people PDF IMAGES
106	Article Foreword By John Fischer SEE ALSO: 1917-1970; 1945-1991 PDF IMAGES
107-112	Article The public mood By Richard Pipes SEE ALSO: Civil rights and socialism; Cost and standard of living; Foreign public opinion, Soviet; 1945-1991; Propaganda, Anti-American PDF IMAGES
112	Article What price rockets? SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; 1945-1991; Rockets (Aeronautics) PDF IMAGES
113-117	Article The grandmothers By Markoosha Fischer SEE ALSO: Child care; Grandmothers; Intergenerational relations; Journeys—Soviet Union; Fischer, Markoosha; Women revolutionaries PDF IMAGES
114	Article What the cultured typist will wear By N. Okuneva SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Women white collar workers PDF IMAGES
118-121	Article “We don't breathe easily” By Patricia Blake SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich; Panfyorov, Fyodor; Homes and haunts; Intellectuals; Interviews; Journeys—Soviet Union; 1917-1970; Blake, Patricia; Socialism and the arts PDF IMAGES
122-131	Article The voice of a dissenter: An interview with a graduate of Moscow University By Robert B. Silvers SEE ALSO: Alumni and alumnae; Antisemitism; Communism; Burg, David; Dissenters; Education, Higher; Intellectuals; Interviews; Jews; Moscow University; 1917-1970; 1945-1991; Socialism and youth PDF IMAGES
127	Article Rumble on the Black Sea By Docent Levitin SEE ALSO: Clothing and dress; Dress codes; Men's clothing; 1945-1991; Socialism and youth PDF IMAGES
129	Article The over-stuffed mind SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; College graduates; Education, Higher PDF IMAGES
132	Article Poems underground By A. Zr. SEE ALSO: Censorship; 1917-1970; Poets, Russian; Translating PDF IMAGES
133	Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
134	Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Poems underground By A. Zr. (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
135-139	Article Among Russia's Jews: Notes from a diary By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Kazin, Alfred; Antisemitism; Authors, Russian; Homes and haunts; çErenburg, Ily`ëiìa; Jews; Journeys—Soviet Union; 1917-1970; Socialism and the arts; Uzbekistan PDF IMAGES
139	Article In search of heroes SEE ALSO: Heroes; Motion pictures; Production and direction PDF IMAGES
140-146	Article Death of a writer By Priscilla Johnson McMillan SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich; Death and burial; Foreign correspondents; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Journeys—Russia—Peredelkino; 1945-1991; McMillan, Priscilla Johnson PDF IMAGES
147-152	Article On the road in Russia By Richard Brain SEE ALSO: Journeys—Soviet Union; 1917-1970; 1945-1991; Brain, Richard PDF IMAGES
151	Article In search of laughter PDF IMAGES