Harper's Magazine: October 1961

Archive > 1961 > Jan · Feb · Mar · Apr · May · Jun · Jul · Aug · Sep · Oct · Nov · Dec

October 1961

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Charles Goslin PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On America under pressure, from August 1961: Letter By George C. Roberts Letter By J.S. Swart On Your unknown heirs, from August 1961: Letter By Marion Deane Perkins On McNamara and his enemies, from August 1961: Letter By George M. Landon On How to play the unemployment-insurance game, from August 1961: Letter By Edward Corsi Letter By Lazare Teper Letter By Seth Levine Letter By Lewis Lederer Letter By Helen Wanger On Our national talent for offending people, from August 1961: Letter By Frank R. Shea Letter By Bertha P. Klenova On A matter of motive, from August 1961: Letter By Martha L. Ware On Point of no return? . . . a puzzled report from Yugoslavia (part I), from July 1961: Letter By John Fischer On Yugoslavia's flirtation with free enterprise (part II), from August 1961: Letter By John Fischer Letter By R.B. Werey PDF IMAGES
12-25	The easy chair/Article “Private vs. public”: Could Kenneth Galbraith be wrong? By Henry Christopher Wallich SEE ALSO: Consumption (Economics); Government spending policy; Medical care, Cost of; Mixed economy; 1961-1971; Social Security PDF IMAGES
26-29	Advertising Supplement “El Cid” By Harold Lamb SEE ALSO: Charlton Heston; El Cid; El Cid (Motion picture); Fiction; Historical films; 711-1516; Portraits; Bronston, Samuel; Loren, Sophia PDF IMAGES
30-32	After hours/Article The case of the vanishing product By Donald Barthelme SEE ALSO: Art and industry; Commercial art PDF IMAGES
32-34	After hours/Article Precious throwaways By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Antiquarian booksellers; Career as antiquarian bookseller; Commercial catalogs; Romaine, Lawrence B. PDF IMAGES
37-42	Article A way out of the welfare mess By Edgar May SEE ALSO: Public welfare; Social case work; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
42	Article New frontiers of science: The squawk and blat sector By John Cunningham Lilly and Alice M. Miller SEE ALSO: Animal communication PDF IMAGES
43-47	Article My escape from the CIA By Hughes Rudd SEE ALSO: Intelligence service; Officials and employees; Recruiting; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
48-56	Article Houston's superpatriots By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Anti-communist movements; Houston; Houston (Tex.); John Birch Society; Religious fundamentalism; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
57-63	Fiction A bird on the mesa: A story By William Eastlake PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article The uncanny world of plasma physics By John L. Chapman PDF IMAGES
69-75	Article “The new thing” in jazz By Martin T. Williams SEE ALSO: Parker, Charlie; Gillespie, Dizzy; Jazz; Jazz musicians; Armstrong, Louis; 1961-1970; Coleman, Ornette; Portraits PDF IMAGES Collection “The new thing” in jazz By Martin T. Williams PDF IMAGES
75	Review Discography By Martin T. Williams SEE ALSO: Bags' groove (Sound recording); Russo, Bill; Bley: Bent eagle (Sound recording); Bley, Carla; Taylor, Cecil; Mingus, Charles; Coleman: Free jazz (Sound recording); Coleman: Lonely woman; Peace (Sound recording); Coleman: Ramblin'; The face of the bass (Sound recording); Coleman: Tears inside; Lorraine (Sound recording); Coleman: The blessing (Sound recording); Davis: Kind of blue (Sound recording); Ellis, Don; Ellington, Duke; Ellington: Ko ko; Harlem air shaft; Concerto for Cootie (Sound recording); Ellington: Sepia panorama (Sound recording); Ellis: Improvisational suite (Sound recording); Russell, George; Schuller, Gunther; Jazz; Konitz, Lee; Looking ahead (Sound recording); Davis, Miles; Modern Jazz Quartet; 1961-1970; Coleman, Ornette; Performances; Russo: An image (Sound recording); Schuller: Conversations (Sound recording); Schuller: Transformation (Sound recording); Monk, Thelonious PDF IMAGES
76-79	Article Corsica out of season By Wallace Earle Stegner SEE ALSO: Corsica; Corsica (France); Registration and transfer PDF IMAGES
80-81	Article The proper tool will do the job By Norman Halliday SEE ALSO: Mississippi River; Steamboats PDF IMAGES
82-96	Article The culture monopoly at Lincoln Center By Herbert Kupferberg SEE ALSO: Arts facilities; Buildings, structures, etc.; Carnegie Hall (New York, New York); Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York, New York); Metropolitan Opera (New York, New York); New York City Ballet; New York Philharmonic PDF IMAGES
88	Poem Variations on a Lorca form By Ruth Krauss PDF IMAGES
97	Poem Our friends the Russians By Henrietta Fort Holland PDF IMAGES
98-103	Public and personal/Article The lady from Oregon By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; Death and burial; Legislators' spouses; Neuberger, Maurine Brown; Oregon; Neuberger, Richard L. (Richard Lewis); United States. Congress. Senate; Women legislators PDF IMAGES
104-111	The new books/Review Notes on the writing of history today By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Toynbee, Arnold Joseph; Between past and future: six exercises in political thought (Book); Kennan, George; Arendt, Hannah; Thomas, Hugh; Joll, James; Hilberg, Raul; Daniels, Robert Vincent; Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin (Book); The conscience of the revolution: communist opposition in Soviet Russia (Book); The destruction of the European Jews (Book); The Spanish Civil War (Book); Three intellectuals in politics (Book) PDF IMAGES
111-115	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: McCullers, Carson; Clock without hands (Book); Franny and Zooey (Book); Waller, George; Salinger, J.D. (Jerome David); Kidnap: the story of the Lindbergh case (Book); Last things first (Book); Love, Paula McSpadden; Harris, Sydney J.; The Will Rogers book (Book); Pritchett, V.S. (Victor Sawdon); Van Gogh: a self-portrait; letters revealing his life as a painter (Book); Gogh, Vincent van; Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh); When my girl comes home (Book); Rogers, Will PDF IMAGES
115	Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A Marianne Moore reader (Book); A prologue to love (Book); King, Alexander; Catton, Bruce; “Dear Mr. G—”; the biography of Clark Gable (Book); Sagan, Françoise; I should have kissed her more (Book); Chase, Ilka; Cocke, Inez; Garceau, Jean; Porter, Katherine Anne; Kantor, MacKinlay; Moore, Marianne; Schorer, Mark; Peale, Norman Vincent; Ship of fools (Book); Sinclair Lewis: an American life (Book); Spirit Lake (Book); Taylor Caldwell; The Carthaginian rose (Book); The tough-minded optimist (Book); The wonderful clouds (Book) PDF IMAGES
116-118	Music in the round/Review From Hungary to here By Discus SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Bartók: String quartets (Sound recording); Carter: Quartet #2. Schuman: Quartet #3 (Sound recording); Carter, Elliott; Juilliard String Quartet; Ramor Quartet; Schuman, William PDF IMAGES
118	Jazz notes/Review Some stereo By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Peiffer, Bernard; De Franco, Buddy; Barnet, Charlie; Pell, Dave; Russell, George; Jazz; 1961-1970; Performances; Stereophonic sound systems PDF IMAGES
119-182	Collection The college years PDF IMAGES
120	Article Foreword By John Fischer PDF IMAGES
121-128	Article The next thirty years in the colleges By Christopher Jencks SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Higher; General education; Graduate work PDF IMAGES
129-132	Article Sex: The problem colleges evade By Maya Pines and Milton I. (Milton Isra) Levine SEE ALSO: Sex instruction; Sexual behavior; Sexual ethics PDF IMAGES
133-138	Article The young Negro rebels By Charlotte Devree SEE ALSO: Career in civil rights movement; Civil rights demonstrations; Lewis, John; Nonviolence; Segregation PDF IMAGES
139-146	Article Eager Swarthmore By David Boroff SEE ALSO: Curricula; Education, Humanistic; Swarthmore College PDF IMAGES
145	Article The common predicament By Judy Roses SEE ALSO: College teachers; Counseling in higher education; Job satisfaction PDF IMAGES
147-153	Article The wasted classroom By Nathan Glazer SEE ALSO: Classroom management; College teaching; Examinations; Lecture method in teaching; Teacher effectiveness; Teaching, Departmental system of PDF IMAGES
153	Article How they might teach By Benjamin DeMott SEE ALSO: College teaching; Teacher effectiveness PDF IMAGES
154-155	Poem The examination By W.D. (William De Witt) Snodgrass PDF IMAGES
156-163	Article The mirage of college politics By Philip Rieff SEE ALSO: African American college students; Developing countries PDF IMAGES
164-167	Article Notes on Polish student life By Reuel K. Wilson SEE ALSO: Poland; Socialism and youth PDF IMAGES
168-172	Article The new campus magazines By Richard Volney Chase SEE ALSO: College student newspapers and periodicals; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
173-178	Article God in the colleges By Michael Novak SEE ALSO: Religion and culture; Religious education PDF IMAGES
177	Poem Chance what comes By Christopher Z. Hobson PDF IMAGES
179-182	Article What they'll die for in Houston By Marjorie K. McCorquodale SEE ALSO: Houston PDF IMAGES