Harper's Magazine: March 1967

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March 1967

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Janet Halverson PDF IMAGES
4-11	Letters/Department Letters On Diary of a Russian surgeon, from December 1966: Letter By Jr. and Ralph A. Deterling Letter By Jody Brbich On New York's late-blooming state university, from December 1966: Letter By Albert H. Bowker On How to rescue America from plumbers, carpenters, and people like that, from January 1967: Letter By James J. Kilpatrick. Letter By Theresa Soulsby Letter By Robert F. Borg On Turned-on and super-sincere in California, from January 1967: Letter By Timothy Burak On A pressure cooker for four-year-old minds, from January 1967: Letter By Mrs. Virginia Lee Fisher Letter By Jule M. Sugarman Letter By Prof. Jerome Kagan On How do you like Africa, white man, is it like New York?, from January 1967: Letter By Gary Gabrielson On Grand ladies of the theater—good-gray and glamorous, from January 1967: Letter By Alan C. Rockwood On In Turkey, everything comes up roses, from February 1967: Letter By Alfred Friendly On Philistine-of-the-month, from November 1966: Letter By David Holstrom Letter By Beverly Vavoulis Letter By Peter W. Williamson Letter By C.H. Webster PDF IMAGES
14-26	The easy chair/Article Field notes on the Europeans ([part I]) By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Relations; Right and left (Political science) PDF IMAGES
16	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Prayer; Ski resorts PDF IMAGES
28-33	After hours/Article Unfinished business: An open letter to the junior senator from Massachusetts By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Bureaucracy PDF IMAGES
33-36	After hours/Article Unfinished business: Venice under water By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Floods; Threat of destruction; Venice; Venice (Italy) PDF IMAGES
36-40	After hours/Article Unfinished business: Anti-anti-Philistines By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Philistinism PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article The real masters of television By Robert Eck SEE ALSO: Production and direction; Television; Television advertising; Television broadcasting PDF IMAGES
50	Cartoon “I am a great believer in the sacrifice.” SEE ALSO: Baseball; Priests PDF IMAGES
52	Poem Hymn to an automatic washer By Richard Moore PDF IMAGES
53-61	Article God, man, and William F. Buckley By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Career as New York mayoral candidate; Conservatism; 1951-; 1963-1969; Social and political views; Buckley, William F. (William Frank) PDF IMAGES
55-57	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Human-alien encounters PDF IMAGES
62-64	Fiction The hugger and the hugged By Jack Luria PDF IMAGES
65	Poem Fears By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko and George Reavey (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Poem Tenderness By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko and George Reavey (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Collection New poems By Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko and George Reavey (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
66-75	Article Redesigning American airports By Wolf von Eckardt SEE ALSO: Air travel; Airports; Location; Planning PDF IMAGES
75	Poem Flat patterns By Peter Rodgers PDF IMAGES
76-95	Article “A very stern discipline”: An interview with Ralph Ellison By James Thompson, Lenox Raphael, and Steve Cannon SEE ALSO: African American authors; Career in literature; Interviews; Race in literature; Ellison, Ralph; Views on art and politics PDF IMAGES Collection “A very stern discipline”: an interview with Ralph Ellison PDF IMAGES
79	Article Notes on the interview By Thomas C. Dent SEE ALSO: Interviews; Ellison, Ralph PDF IMAGES
93-94	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Artists' models PDF IMAGES
97-106	Article Over the edge of the universe By Isaac Asimov SEE ALSO: Astronomers; Astronomy; Beginning; Big bang theory; Cosmogony; Galaxies PDF IMAGES
103	Cartoon “The betterment of mankind! That's all you think of!” SEE ALSO: Scientists PDF IMAGES
107-120	Article A way out for homosexuals By Samuel B. Hadden SEE ALSO: Gays; Homophobia; Homosexuality; Identity; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis and homosexuality PDF IMAGES
121-124	Washington insight/Article Are we being told the truth about Vietnam? By Clayton Fritchey SEE ALSO: Journalists; Mass media and the conflict; Vietnam; War correspondents PDF IMAGES
122	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Bombs PDF IMAGES
126-128	The new books/Review NATO: The ailing alliance By Roger D. Masters SEE ALSO: Beaufre, André; NATO and Europe (Book); North Atlantic Treaty Organization PDF IMAGES
128	The new books/Review New pacifiers for parents By Ernestine Gilbreth Carey SEE ALSO: Bartholomew, Carol; Child rearing; How to raise children at home in your spare time (Book); Gersh, Marvin J.; Most of us are mainly mothers (Book) PDF IMAGES
130-132	The new books/Review In search of God and man By Philip J. Scharper SEE ALSO: Dissenter in a great society: a Christian view of America in crisis (Book); Friedman, Maurice; The new theologian (Book); Theology; To deny our nothingness (Book); Mehta, Ved; Stringfellow, William PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Please, no puns!” SEE ALSO: Authors; Muses (Greek deities) PDF IMAGES
132-136	The new books/Review Gardening under lights and in the greenhouse By Ernesta Drinker Ballard SEE ALSO: Bonsai: indoors and out (Book); Potter, Charles H.; Blake, Claire L.; McDonald, Elvin; Gardening; Greenhouse gardening; Greenhouse gardening for fun (Book); Greenhouse: place of magic (Book); Stowell, Jerald P.; The flowering greenhouse day by day (Book) PDF IMAGES
136-140	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Roderick Cook SEE ALSO: A world elsewhere (Book); Miller, Arthur; Lodge, David; Dahlberg, Edward; Hahn, Emily; Marx, Groucho; I don't need you any more (Book); In orbit (Book); McPhee, John A.; Bowen, John; Oranges (Book); Romantic rebels (Book); The British Museum is falling down (Book); The Groucho letters (Book); The letters of Edward Dahlberg (Book); Morris, Wright PDF IMAGES
141-144	Performing arts/Review Talent hunt in the East Village By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Acting PDF IMAGES
142	Cartoon Cartoon PDF IMAGES
145-146	Music in the round/Review Old operas and real music By Discus SEE ALSO: Kraus, Alfredo; Nilsson, Birgit; Donizetti; Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (Sound recording); Rossini, Gioacchino; Sutherland, Joan; Serge, John; Perlea, Jonel; Rouleau, Joseph; Böhm, Karl; London Symphony; Horne, Marilyn; Caballé, Montserrat; Performances; RCA Italiana Orchestra and Chorus; Bonynge, Richard; Verrett, Shirley; Malas, Spiro; Tristan und Isolde (Sound recording); Windgassen, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
146	Music in the round/Review And also . . . By Discus SEE ALSO: D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; Gilbert and Sullivan: Princess Ida (Sound recording); Royal Philharmonic; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; Sullivan, Arthur, Sir; Gilbert, W.S. (William Schwenck) PDF IMAGES