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September 1961

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson SEE ALSO: Street signs PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The people-machine, from January 1961: Letter By “The Editors” On A plan for revolution in Latin America, from July 1961: Letter By Lloyd Wilkie Letter By Mike Mansfield On New York is different, from July 1961: Letter By Stanley M. Isaacs Letter By Jr. and V.O. Key On “Realism” in the American theatre, from July 1961: Letter By Paddy Chayefsky Letter By Ivan B. Gluckman On Quebec's revolt against the Catholic schools, from July 1961: Letter By Dorothy S. Brown On The search for William E. Hinds, from July 1961: Letter By Harold E. Simon On Teachers College, from July 1961: Letter By Irving J. Sloan Letter By Anne Russell Callen Letter By Donald J. Leu Letter By “The Editors” On Old Junior's progress—from prep school to severance pay, from July 1961: Letter By D. Carson Letter By “Name Withheld” PDF IMAGES
10-16	The editor's easy chair/Article Money bait By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Planned communities PDF IMAGES
16	The editor's easy chair/Article The people-machine By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Conflict of interests; Objectivity PDF IMAGES Notice A special supplement on the college scene: The new undergraduates and their teachers By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Special numbers PDF IMAGES
21-23	After hours/Article Monk talk By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Career as jazz musician; Jazz; Jazz audiences; Jazz musicians; 1961-1970; Monk, Thelonious PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article Kennedy's economists: What they want . . . where they disagree . . . where the power lies . . . what they are likely to do By Hobart Rowen SEE ALSO: Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas); Career as government economist; Career as U.S. president; Career as U.S. secretary of treasury; Deficit financing; Government economists; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; 1961-1971; Unemployment; Heller, Walter W. PDF IMAGES
32	Article A faith for tough times? By Bertrand Russell SEE ALSO: Cold War; Democracy; Dictatorship; Science and state PDF IMAGES
33-36	Article On both your houses By Sylvia Wright SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Home economics; Housewives; Station wagons; Vacation homes PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article Violence in the city streets: How our “housing experts” unwittingly encourage crime By Jane Jacobs SEE ALSO: City and town life; City planning; Crime; High-rise apartment buildings; Sociological aspects; Sociology, Urban PDF IMAGES
44	Poem For Anna Akmatova By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Collection Seven poems: new versions PDF IMAGES
45	Poem In the woods By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem September By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
46	Poem Hamlet in Russia, a soliloquy By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Wild vines By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
47	Poem The landlord By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Sparrow hills By Boris Leonidovich Pasternak and Robert Lowell (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
48-57	Fiction Mr. Future: A story By Leo Calvin Rosten PDF IMAGES
58-62	Article Jules Feiffer and the almost-in-group By Julius Novick SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Career as cartoonist; Cartoonists; Comics; Feiffer, Jules; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
63-68	Article The Peace Corps' secret mission By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: Community development; Developing countries; Economic development projects; 1961-1963; Peace Corps (U.S.) PDF IMAGES
67	Poem The husking By Dilys Laing PDF IMAGES
68	Article The dike and the village By Kusum Nair SEE ALSO: Flood dams and reservoirs; Irrigation; Peasantry PDF IMAGES Article The invisible aborigine By Eugene Burdick SEE ALSO: Australian aborigines PDF IMAGES
77-80	Article Why we don't wipe out polio By Leonard Engel SEE ALSO: Medical laws and legislation; Poliomyelitis; Public health laws; Rabies in animals; Reporting; Vaccination; Vaccination of children PDF IMAGES
80	Poem The thread By Denise Levertov PDF IMAGES
81-91	Article Canada's luxury ghost town By Fred Bodsworth SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Growth; Ontario; Planned communities PDF IMAGES
92-95	Public and personal/Article Twelve at the table By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; Staff PDF IMAGES
94	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
96-101	The new books/Review Democracy and its discontents By Irving Kristol SEE ALSO: American suffrage from property to democracy, 1760-1860 (Book); Williamson, Chilton; Democracy; Schattschneider, E.E.(Elmer Eric); Excellence (Book); Dietze, Gottfried; Morgenthau, Hans Joachim; Murray, John Courtney; Gardner, John William; Tussman, Joseph; Benson, Lee; Obligation and the body politic (Book); The concept of Jacksonian democracy (Book); The Federalist: a classic on federalism and free government (Book); The purpose of American politics (Book); The semi-sovereign people: a realist's view of democracy in America (Book); We hold these truths: Catholic reflections on the American proposition (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-105	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A history of modern music (Book); A season of mists (Book); Waugh, Auberon; Walter, Bruno; Bernstein, Burton; Everybody's guide to music (Book); Faces in the water (Book); Tracy, Honor; Frame, Janet; Sarton, May; Music; Hentoff, Nat; Of music and music making (Book); Collaer, Paul; Abeles, Sally; The foxglove saga (Book); The grove (Book); The jazz life (Book); The small room (Book); Miller, William Hugh PDF IMAGES
102	Books in brief/Review Check list: Books about arms and nuclear control By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Arms control; Arms control, disarmament, and national security (Book); Arms reduction program and issues (Book); Hadley, Arthur Twining; Frisch, David H.; Disarmament: the challenge of the nineteen sixties (Book); Brennan, Donald G.; Warburg, James P. (James Paul); Hydeman, Lee M.; Halperin, Morton H.; Strategy and arms control (Book); The Atomic Energy Commission and regulating nuclear facilities (Book); The nation's safety and arms control (Book); Schelling, Thomas C.; Berman, William H. PDF IMAGES
104-105	Music in the round/Review The American Offenbach? By Discus SEE ALSO: Faris, Alex; Arabella (Sound recording); Millöcker, Carl; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Der Rosenkavalier (excerpts) (Sound recording); Kleiber, Erich; Lehár, Franz; Dunn, Geoffrey; London, George; Güden, Hilde; Iolanthe (Sound recording); Offenbach, Jacques; Richter, Kurt; Lehár: Schön ist die welt. Millöcker: Dubarry (Sound recording); Bernstein, Leonard; Della Casa, Lisa; Weber, Ludwig; Reining, Maria; On the town (Sound recording); Orpheus in the underworld (Sound recording); Performances; Strauss, Richard; Jurinac, Sena; Solti, Georg, Sir; Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Vienna Philharmonia; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck) PDF IMAGES
105	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A dictionary of plant names (Book); Cronin, A.J. (Archibald Joseph); Sauvy, Alfred; America's quest for peace (Book); Seton, Anya; Smith, Archibald William; Assembly (Book); Foley, Daniel J.; Fleming, Denna Frank; Devil water (Book); Perkins, Dexter; Ellis, Edward Robb; Grayson, Esther C.; Rockwell, F.F. (Frederick Frye); False entry (Book); Fertility and survival: population problems from Malthus to Mao Tse-Tung (Book); Fourteen stories (Book); Gardening; Allen, George N.; Ground covers for easier gardening (Book); Bates, H.E. (Herbert Ernest); Askwith, Herbert; Calisher, Hortense; Graaff, J. de; Bennett, John Coleman; O'Hara, John; Roche, John Pearson; Mao Tse-tung on guerrilla warfare (Book); Roche, Mary Alice; Brooks, Myra J.; New horizons in flower arrangement (Book); Nuclear weapons and the conflict of conscience (Book); Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker); Batchelder, Robert C.; Griffith, Samuel B.; The Cold War and its origins (Book); The complete book of lilies (Book); The complete guide to modern flowers (Book); The enchantress and other stories (Book); The irreversible decision: ethics and the atom bomb (Book); The Judas tree (Book); Traitor within: our suicidal problem (Book); Mao, Zedong PDF IMAGES Jazz notes/Review Django By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Reinhardt, Django; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances PDF IMAGES