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February 1962

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Martin Rosenzweig PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On My escape from the CIA, from October 1961: Letter By “The Editors” On What Chicago could be proud of, from December 1961: Letter By Margaret Dusenberry On The future, if any, of comedy, from December 1961: Letter By James Kotsilibas-Davis On The uses of the moon, from December 1961: Letter By Freeman Keith Letter By Nickolaus E. Leggett On A hopeful letter to Fowler Hamilton, from November 1961: Letter By Hamilton Fowler Letter By John Fischer On Fiction, non-fiction, and pseudo-fiction, from November 1961: Letter By Mary E. Roberson Letter By Paul Pickrel On You tell them, Pop—; you've got the vox, from December 1961: Letter By Irving Crespi On How to put Kennedy back in the Senate, from December 1961: Letter By Alvin B. Lebar On Art books, 1960-1961, from December 1961: Letter By Leo Steinberg PDF IMAGES
14-24	The editor's easy chair/Article The Kennedy era: Stage two By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Agricultural subsidies; Career as U.S. president; Federal aid to education; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; 1961-1971; Social Security PDF IMAGES
25-27	After hours/Article Bookman in San Juan By Al Hine SEE ALSO: Book collectors; Career as book collector; Adler, Elmer; Exhibitions; Puerto Rico; San Juan; San Juan (P.R.) PDF IMAGES
29-36	Article The Kennedy era: Stage two By Joseph Kraft SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; European cooperation; International economic relations; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Tariff PDF IMAGES
36	Poem Sleep in the Mojave Desert By Sylvia Plath PDF IMAGES
37-43	Article Oral Roberts: High priest of faith healing By Hayes B. Jacobs SEE ALSO: Career as healer; Healers; 1960; Roberts, Oral; Spiritual healing PDF IMAGES
44-45	Cartoon White paper on foreign affairs SEE ALSO: Cold War; International relations; Peace Corps (U.S.) PDF IMAGES
46-56	Collection Indian entries from a diary PDF IMAGES Article Introduction By Santha Rama Rau SEE ALSO: A passage to India (Book); British occupation, 1765-1947; Diaries; Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); Journeys—India PDF IMAGES
47-56	Article The diary By E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster SEE ALSO: A passage to India (Book); Diaries; Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); English fiction; Journeys—India PDF IMAGES
56	Poem But that is another story By Donald Rodney Justice PDF IMAGES
57-62	Fiction A compound in Passalonia: A story By Richard Rogin PDF IMAGES
62-69	Article A valentine for Chicago By Richard G. Stern SEE ALSO: Buildings, structures, etc.; Chicago (Ill.) PDF IMAGES
70-77	Article Roy Thomson invades America By Francis Williams SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Thomson of Fleet, Roy Herbert Thomson, Baron; Canadian newspapers; Career in publishing; English newspapers; Newspaper publishing; Ownership; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
76	Article The web and the block SEE ALSO: Los Angeles; Physiological aspects; Schizophrenia; Spider webs; Spiders PDF IMAGES
78-84	Article Report from a peevish pathologist By Sigmund L. Wilens SEE ALSO: Congresses; Hospitals; Medical misconceptions; Pathologists; Wagers PDF IMAGES
84	Poem Edward Hicks's old picture By John Holmes PDF IMAGES
85-91	Article The birth pangs of Arab socialism By Edward R.F. Sheehan SEE ALSO: Career as United Arab Republic president; Egypt; Nasser, Gamal Abdel; 1952-; Socialism PDF IMAGES
92-95	Article The uses of fear By Gabriel Fielding SEE ALSO: Emotions; Fear; Fear in children; Phobias; Sociological aspects PDF IMAGES
95	Notice A long and happy life by Reynolds Price By John Fischer SEE ALSO: A long and happy life (Book); Price, Reynolds; Special numbers PDF IMAGES
96-102	Public and personal/Article The Kennedy era: Stage two By William Smith White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Executive power; Kennedy, John F.; 1961-1963; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
103-109	The new books/Review The definition of the human: Mostly recent novels By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: Anonymous (20th century) (Book); Mazar, Benjamin; Adler, Edward; Gunn, Elizabeth; Waugh, Evelyn; Joy to Levine! (Book); Ricci, Leonardo; Avi-Yonnah, Michael; Spark, Muriel; Rosen, Norma; Notes from a dark street (Book); Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren; Sylva (Book); The end of the battle (Book); The fox in the attic (Book); The illustrated world of the Bible (Book); The last summer (Book); The prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Book); The whole creation (Book); Morrison, Theodore; Vercors PDF IMAGES
108	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
110	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Taylor, A.J.P. (Alan John Percivale); A Marianne Moore reader (Book); Daughter of the house (Book); Ames, Evelyn Perkins; Sanderson, Ivan Terence; Moore, Marianne; The continent we live on (Book); The night of trees (Book); The origins of the Second World War (Book); Williams, Thomas PDF IMAGES
111-112	Review What's in a dictionary? By Ethel Reed Strainchamps SEE ALSO: Encyclopedias and dictionaries PDF IMAGES
113-116	Music in the round/Review Forty tenors, and then some By Discus SEE ALSO: Di quella pira (Sound recording); Caruso, Enrico; Zimmermann, Erich; Schmidt, Franz Albert; Völker, Franz; Verdi, Giuseppe; Tietjen, Heinz; Rosvænge, Helge; Prohaska, Jaro; Manowarda, Josef von; Schmidt, Joseph; Klose, Margarete; Müller, Maria; Lorenz, Max; Performances; Anders, Peter; Wagner, Richard; Bockelmann, Rudolf; Wagner: Bayreuth 1936 (Sound recording); Wagner: The golden age of Bayreuth 1932-1936 (Sound recording) PDF IMAGES Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: Segovia, Andrès; Searle, Humphrey; London Philharmonic; Seiber, Mtys; Performances; Searle: Symphony #1. Seiber: Elegy for viola and small orchestra; Three fragments from portrait of the artist as a young man (Sound recording); Boult, Adrian, Sir PDF IMAGES
116	Jazz notes/Review Reunion By Eric Larrabee SEE ALSO: Hawkins, Coleman; Jazz; 1961-1970; Russell, Pee Wee; Performances PDF IMAGES