Harper's Magazine: August 1968

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August 1968

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Western intellectuals vs. Myrdal's brutal facts, from June 1968: Letter By Kenneth J. Rothwell Letter By Prof. Sonia S. Gold Letter By Thomas J. Eybye On Washington, the world, and Joseph Alsop, from June 1968: Letter By Joseph Alsop Letter By Ward S. Just Letter By Mary Ellen Arnold On The court-martial of captain Noyd, from June 1968: Letter By Giorgio De Santillana PDF IMAGES Poem Ghost women By Peter Swerdloff PDF IMAGES
6	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Hinduism; Mysticism PDF IMAGES
9-12	The easy chair/Article The case for the rebellious students and their counterrevolution By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; College teachers; Education, Higher; Education, Humanistic; Humanities; Workload PDF IMAGES
13-16	After hours/Article Lusitania from the back seat By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Antiques; Journeys—Portugal; Portugal; Lynes, Russell PDF IMAGES
19-24	Article America 1968: The politics of violence By Arthur Meier Schlesinger SEE ALSO: Protest movements; Violence PDF IMAGES
25-36	Article Daley of Chicago By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Career as mayor of Chicago, Ill.; Chicago (Ill.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); Municipal government; 1951-; Political corruption; Public opinion; Daley, Richard J. PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article Lindsay of New York By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Career as mayor of New York, New York; John V. Lindsay; Mayors; 1951-; Public opinion; Social problems PDF IMAGES
45-50	Fiction Walking wounded By John Bart Gerald PDF IMAGES
47	Poem Tree By Lenore Marshall PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article Since Freud By Donald M. Kaplan SEE ALSO: Freud, Anna; Contributions to infant psychology; Contributions to psychoanalysis; Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger); Psychoanalysis; Psychologists; Spitz, René A.(René Arpad); Freud, Sigmund PDF IMAGES
61-65	Article Oil shale: Hidden scandal or inflated myth? By Chris Welles SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Northwestern States; Petroleum industry and trade PDF IMAGES
64	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Husband and wife PDF IMAGES
66-72	Foreign report/Article Prague By Claire Sterling SEE ALSO: Communist parties; Czechoslovakia; Freedom of the press; Journalists; 1945-1992; Prague (Czechoslovakia) PDF IMAGES
68	Poem Observations of P. Ovidius Naso on the incidence of sex in the contemporary novel By Archibald MacLeish PDF IMAGES
71	Cartoon “He's good . . . But he's certainly not worth $185,000.” SEE ALSO: Bulls; Cows PDF IMAGES
73-77	Books/Review New books of poems By Louis Aston Marantz Simpson SEE ALSO: After experience (Book); Hecht, Anthony; Adoff, Arnold; Bending the bow (Book); Meyers, Bert; Body rags (Book); Ignatow, David; Hölderlin, Friedrich; Kinnell, Galway; Snyder, Gary; Nemerov, Howard; I am the darker brother (Book); Listen to the warm (Book); Hamburger, Michael; Poems and fragments (Book); Pop poems (Book); Rescue the dead (Book); Bly, Robert; Duncan, Robert Edward; McKuen, Rod; Gross, Ronald; The back country (Book); The blue swallows (Book); The dark birds (Book); The hard hours (Book); The lice (Book); The light around the body (Book); Snodgrass, W.D. (William De Witt); Merwin, W.S. (William Stanley) PDF IMAGES
77-80	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Huxley, Aldous; Aldous Huxley (Book); Biographies—Book reviews; Boyer, David; Lapierre, Dominique; Atkins, John Alfred; Collins, Larry; Huxley, Laura Archera; Benchley, Nathaniel; Calder, Nigel; Or I'll dress you in mourning (Book); Clark, Ronald William; The Huxleys (Book); The sidelong glances of a pigeon kicker (Book); This timeless moment: a personal view of Aldous Huxley (Book); Unless peace comes (Book); Welcome to Xanadu (Book) PDF IMAGES
78	Cartoon “It's all over. I found the perfect wave.” SEE ALSO: Surfers PDF IMAGES
80	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
81-83	Performing arts/Review Television's finest: An Emmy log By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Awards; Documentary films; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
84-85	Music in the round/Review The masterpiece no one knows By Discus SEE ALSO: Berg, Alban; Rothenberger, Anneliese; Berg: Lulu (Sound recording); Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Lear, Evelyn; Böhm, Karl; Borg, Kim; Ludwig, Leopold; Performances PDF IMAGES
86	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 1: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES