Harper's Magazine: January 1969

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January 1969

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: New York times PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The news on TV and how it is unmade, from October 1968: Letter By William R. Williams Letter By Victor M. Ratner On The joys of Yiddish, from October 1968: Letter By Cleveland Carmichael Letter By Mrs. Lillie F. Rosen On The Lazarus twins in Pennsylvania, from November 1968: Letter By Gregory R. Wolf On Miami Beach and Chicago, from November 1968: Letter By John Holt Letter By Giorgio De Santillana Letter By Mrs. Barklay D. Samson Note/correction Letter By Mrs. Duval H. Tyler Letter By Bruce R. Moody Letter By G.H. Smith On Goodnight Chet, goodnight David, goodnight Rosemarie, from November 1968: Letter By Rev. Waldemar A. Haupt On No. 5, from December 1968: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
10-20	The easy chair/Article Letter from Leete's Island: Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Guilford (Conn.); Fischer, John; Journeys—Connecticut; Leetes Island (Conn.); New Englanders PDF IMAGES
22-24	Article President Nixon and Vietnam By David Halberstam SEE ALSO: Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); 1963-1969; Policy on Vietnam; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES Cartoon “You always say you just want to dance.” SEE ALSO: Birds; Courtship of animals PDF IMAGES
26	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 6: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES
31-45	Article The White House and the intellectuals By Eric Frederick Goldman SEE ALSO: Art and state; Arts; Career as Special Consultant to Lyndon Johnson; Macdonald, Dwight; Goldman, Eric Frederick; Hersey, John; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Van Doren, Mark; Policy on Vietnam; Political and social views; Relations with artists and intellectuals; Lowell, Robert PDF IMAGES
46-53	Article The golden dreams of Zelda Fitzgerald By Nancy Milford SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Family; Friends and associates; Homes and haunts; Montgomery (Ala.); Portraits; Fitzgerald, Zelda PDF IMAGES
54-78	Article The New York Times, part I: Inside a great newspaper By Gay Talese SEE ALSO: Ochs, Adolph S. (Adolph Simon); American newspapers; Sulzberger, Arthur Hays; Career at the New York times; Oakes, George Washington Ochs; Sulzberger, Iphigene Ochs; Reston, James; Oakes, John B. (John Bertram); Green, Monroe; New York times; Newspaper editors; Newspaper publishing; Dryfoos, Orvil; Ownership; Press and politics; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
65	Poem Memorial Hall, Cambridge, July 3 By L.E. Sissman PDF IMAGES
73	Cartoon “Hugh just loves to drive.” SEE ALSO: Driving of horse-drawn vehicles PDF IMAGES
76	Cartoon “Every time I look at this damn thing, I lose my appetite.” SEE ALSO: Cornucopias PDF IMAGES
79-84	Fiction The offal kind By Ayi Kwei Armah PDF IMAGES
84	Poem Gates to the city—Bowery hotel By Donald McCaig PDF IMAGES
85-92	Article Prague: The grand illusion By Claire Sterling SEE ALSO: Communism; Czechoslovakia; Intervention, 1968; 1945-1992; 1953-1975; Prague (Czechoslovakia) PDF IMAGES
98-103	Books/Review George Orwell: “As the bones know” By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Collected essays, journalism and letter of George Orwell vols. 1-4 (Book); Orwell, George; Angus, Ian; Orwell, Sonia PDF IMAGES
103	Introduced in Harper's/Department Introduced in Harper's PDF IMAGES
104-106	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A world of profit (Book); Russell, Francis; God's country and my people (Book); Parks, Gordon; Gordon Parks: A poet and his camera (Book); In our time (Book); Kruuse, Jens; Auchincloss, Louis; Bundy, McGeorge; McGrady, Patrick M.; Douglas, Paul H.; Kunhardt, Philip B.; Garvin, Richard M.; Burger, Robert E.; Spender, Stephen; The shadow of Blooming Grove (Book); The strength of government (Book); The youth doctors (Book); War for an afternoon (Book); Where they go to die (Book); Morris, Wright PDF IMAGES
107-109	Performing arts/Review Victims: Two films and a play By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Bates, Alan; Malamud, Bernard; Warner, David; Bogarde, Dirk; Sackler, Howard; Holme, Ian; Jones, James Earl; Goldman, James; Frankenheimer, John; Hepburn, Katharine; Performances; O'Toole, Peter; The fixer (Book); The great white hope (Play); The lion in winter (Play) PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Nature (Aesthetics); Rising and setting; Sun PDF IMAGES
109	Performing arts/Correction Note By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Lawrence, Gertrude; Performances; Star! (Motion picture : 1968) PDF IMAGES
110-111	Music in the round/Review Miss Sutherland and a crazy plot By Discus SEE ALSO: Gigli, Beniamino; Donizetti; Donizetti: La Fille du Régiment (Sound recording); Ribetti, Edda; Barbieri, Fedora; Bechi, Gino; Verdi, Giuseppe; Sutherland, Joan; Pavarotti, Luciano; Caniglia, Maria; Sinclair, Monica; Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Sound recording); Performances; Bonynge, Richard; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus; Malas, Spiro; Serafin, Tulio; Verdi: Un ballo in Maschera (Sound recording); Kremm, Werner; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus PDF IMAGES Cartoon “You waited until you were ten to compose that!” SEE ALSO: Composers; Gifted children PDF IMAGES
111	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES