Harper's Magazine: November 1968

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November 1968

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Kicking drugs, from July 1967: Letter By Willie Morris On Whatever happened to the peaceful atom?, from October 1963: Letter By Willie Morris On Pleasure dome '66, from July 1966: Letter By Willie Morris On Walking wounded, from August 1968: Letter By Paul E. Tracy On Oil shale, from August 1968: Letter By E.D. Brockett Letter By Chris Welles On Universities as big business, from September 1968: Letter By A.E. Siegman Letter By James Ridgeway Letter By Stephen B. Bedrick Letter By Curtis K. Stadtfeld On Take my saddle from the wall, from September 1968: Letter By Rev. Gerald Kline On New Orleans mon amour, from September 1968: Letter By Harry Cylinder On No. 3, from October 1968: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6	Poem Song from Asoka (Martin, Malcom, Medgar) By Stanley Crouch PDF IMAGES
13-30	The easy chair/Article The Lazarus twins in Pennsylvania: How Scranton and Wilkes-Barre are rising from the dead By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Appalachian Regional Commission; Coal mines and mining; Economic development projects; Industries PDF IMAGES
18	Cartoon “You may be a recording, baby. But you're all heart.” SEE ALSO: Alcoholics; Telephone PDF IMAGES
32-38	After hours/Article Museums: Playing the cultural odds By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: Art museums; Museums; Northeastern States PDF IMAGES
34	Cartoon “When you say it's a jungle, what do you mean?” SEE ALSO: Jungles; Lions PDF IMAGES
41-130	Article Miami Beach and Chicago By Norman Mailer SEE ALSO: Career as mayor of Chicago, Ill.; Career as U.S. presidential candidate, 1968; Chicago (Ill.); Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.); The Democratic Party; McCarthy, Eugene J.; Experience at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill.; Experience at the Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, Fla.; McGovern, George S. (George Stanley); Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio); Miami Beach; 1951-; 1968; Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich); Mailer, Norman; Protest movements; Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); The Republican Party; Daley, Richard J.; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); Riots; Reagan, Ronald; Student movements PDF IMAGES
131-133	Illustration Democrats By Jules Feiffer SEE ALSO: Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) PDF IMAGES
134-136	Poem The eye-beaters By James Dickey PDF IMAGES
137-139	Article Goodnight Chet, goodnight David, goodnight Rosemarie By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Republican National Convention (1968 : Miami Beach, Fla.); Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
140-144	Fiction Jack Frost By John Thompson PDF IMAGES
145	Status report/Article Heating up the fish By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Nuclear power plants PDF IMAGES Status report/Article A way out for addicts By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Drug abuse; Methadone maintenance; Treatment PDF IMAGES Status report/Article Rock and rue? By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Noise; Physiological effect; Rock music PDF IMAGES
146-158	Books/Review A masterpiece regained By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Martin Du Gard, Roger; Gilbert, Stuart; The Thibaults (Book) PDF IMAGES
148	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Rock groups PDF IMAGES
154	Poem Flowers at the airport: 1968 By William Stafford PDF IMAGES
156	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Traffic accidents PDF IMAGES
159-162	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Bowen, Elizabeth; Eva Trout (Book); Kosinski, Jerzy N.; Kouwenhoven, John Atlee; Braine, John; Lutyens, Mary; Millais and the Ruskins (Book); Spark, Muriel; My dearest Augusta (Book); Partners in banking. An historical portrait of a great private bank, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 1818-1968 (Book); Gunn, Peter; Steps (Book); The crying game (Book); The public image (Book) PDF IMAGES
162	Poem The dictionary gerrymander By Robert Wallace PDF IMAGES
165-166	Music in the round/Review Brave new worlds By Discus SEE ALSO: Schoenberg, Arnold; Dissvelt-Boltan: Song of the second moon (Sound recording); Boltan, Kid; Ramor Quartet; Schoenberg: String quartets (Sound recording); Dissvelt, Tom PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Isn't that strange, Louis . . . You seem to be up to your ears in something you can't even see.” PDF IMAGES
166	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
168-171	Performing arts/Review Films: Star! . . . Finian's Rainbow . . . Hot Millions By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Freeman, Al; Newhart, Bob; Lane, Burton; Career as composer; Career as lyricist; Career as motion picture producer; Massey, Daniel; Francks, Don; Harburg, E.Y.; Till, Eric; Astaire, Fred; Wallach, Ira; Andrews, Julie; Malden, Karl; Wynn, Keenan; Smith, Maggie; Performances; Ustinov, Peter; Clark, Petula; Wise, Robert; Chaplin, Saul; Star! (Motion picture : 1968); Steele, Tommy PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Hippies PDF IMAGES
172	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 4: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES