Harper's Magazine: April 1969

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April 1969

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Lawrence Ratzkin SEE ALSO: Castro, Fidel; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article A fine madness By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career as speechwriter to Eugene McCarthy; Larner, Jeremy; Corry, John; Journeys—Cuba PDF IMAGES
6-10	Letters/Department Letters On The New York Times, part I, from January 1969: Letter By Arthur Seeger On What you can do to improve TV, from February 1969: Letter By Jerome T. Holland On God, country, and Billy Graham, from February 1969: Letter By Lois Duffield Letter By Hugo Borresen Letter By Billy Graham On The New York Times, part II, from February 1969: Letter By Arthur Seeger On Trash, art, and the movies, from February 1969: Letter By Elliot Sirkin Letter By Lee Atwell On No time for heroes, from February 1969: Letter By Anthony Frank Renzo On Ballet, from February 1969: Letter By Margaret R. Katzenstein On No. 8, from March 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
12-32	The easy chair/Article The Minnesota experiment: How to make a big city fit to live in By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Metropolitan government; Minneapolis Metropolitan Area (Minn.); Minnesota; Urban policy PDF IMAGES Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Aged men; Caricature and cartoons; Maxims; Money; Values PDF IMAGES
37-45	Article Castro's Cuba: Drums, guns, and the new man By John Corry SEE ALSO: Communism; Cuba; Castro, Fidel; 1959-; Psychology; Public opinion; Youth PDF IMAGES
43	Cartoon “Are you trying to seduce me, Miss Farnsworth?” SEE ALSO: Seduction; The graduate (Motion picture : 1968) PDF IMAGES
46-57	Article England's cruel earth By Ronald Blythe SEE ALSO: Agricultural laborers; Personal narratives, English; Trade-unions; Villages PDF IMAGES
58-61	Fiction Rubbings By Julia Whedon PDF IMAGES
62-72	Article Nobody knows . . .: Reflections on the McCarthy campaign (part I) By Jeremy Larner SEE ALSO: Career as presidential hopeful; The Democratic Party; McCarthy, Eugene J.; 1968; Primaries; Kennedy, Robert; Youth PDF IMAGES
68	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Chickens; Easter eggs; Roosters PDF IMAGES
70-71	Poem A friend of the family By Louis Aston Marantz Simpson PDF IMAGES
76	Cartoon “So you're back.” SEE ALSO: Astronauts PDF IMAGES
79	Poem Have you seen Thomas? By John Nagenda PDF IMAGES
81-86	Article Temptations of a Boston atheist By Nat Hentoff SEE ALSO: Black nationalism; Black power; Career in journalism; Friends and associates; Journalists; Hentoff, Nat; Radicalism; Social advocacy; Social problems PDF IMAGES
85	Poem First snow By Harvey Shapiro PDF IMAGES
87-91	Article From beyond the cigarette: Notes of a redeemed smoker By John Hollander SEE ALSO: Cigarette smokers; Cigarettes; Ex-smokers; Smoking; Smoking in literature PDF IMAGES
92-103	Article Arms dealer Sam By George Thayer SEE ALSO: Arms transfers; Career as arms dealer; Central Intelligence Agency; Defense industries; Firearms industry and trade; Illegal arms transfers; Cummings, Samuel; Surplus military property PDF IMAGES
104-107	Books/Review Waxing wroth By Kingsley Amis SEE ALSO: Roth, Philip; Portnoy's complaint (Book) PDF IMAGES Cartoon “Well, I can see that he's short. What does he do?” SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties; Short men PDF IMAGES
106	Cartoon “It isn't exactly saucer-shaped!” SEE ALSO: Unidentified flying objects PDF IMAGES
108-111	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A compass error (Book); Carnelisen, Ann; McLeish, Dougal; Foxes on the hill (Book); Simenon, Georges; Maigret in Vichy (Book); Jones, Richard; Capon, Robert Farrar; Hilsinger, Serena Sue; Supper with the Borgias (Book); Bedford, Sybille; The supper of the lamb (Book); The Valentine victim (Book); Torregreca (Book) PDF IMAGES
112-114	Music in the round/Review Conforming with the avant-garde By Discus SEE ALSO: Berlin Philharmonic; Busoni: Konzertstuck; Divertimento; Rondo arlecchinesco; Concertino (Sound recording); Bünte, C.A. (Carl August); Ives, Charles; Busoni, Ferruccio; Ives: Holidays symphony (Sound recording); Stockhausen, Karlheinz; Bernstein, Leonard; Messiaen: Oiseaux exotiques; La Bouscarle; Reveil des oiseaux (Sound recording); New York Philharmonic; Messiaen, Olivier; Performances; Stockhausen: Gruppen; Carré (Sound recording); Stockhausen: Prozession (Sound recording); Takemitsu: Coral Island; Water music; Vocalism ai (Sound recording); Takemitsu, Toru; Neumann, Václav; Loriod, Yvonne PDF IMAGES
115-117	Performing arts/Review Films: Aspects of love By Robert Kotlowitz SEE ALSO: Truffaut, François; Ivory, James; Anderson, Lindsay; Motion pictures; Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer PDF IMAGES
116	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
118	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 9: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES