Harper's Magazine: December 1969

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December 1969

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Daniel Schwartz SEE ALSO: Portraits; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Career in journalism; Friedrich, Otto; Portraits; Saturday evening post (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
6-24	Letters/Department Letters On The selling of the president, from August 1969: Letter By William F. Gavin Letter By Joe McGinniss On The question is what kind of army?, from September 1969: Letter By Steven Sentler Letter By Thomas C. Reeves Letter By Richard S. Schweiker Letter By Peter J. Ognibene Letter By Robert W. Hintermaier Letter By Jonathan B. Dubitzky Letter By Stephen Andrew Letter By Blair Clark On Goodbye, Dolly!, from September 1969: Letter By Joel Pomerantz Letter By Joel N. Shurkin Letter By Ed Hershey On San Francisco State, from September 1969: Letter By Margot Champagne On Taps at Utah Beach, from October 1969: Letter By Col. Red Reeder On No. 16, from November 1969: Note/correction On No. 17: Acrostickler , from December 1969: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
26-37	The easy chair/Article Christmas list By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Alberta; Arizona; Gonzales, Bennie M.; Woodford, Bob; Bread; Broadcasting; Career as legislator; Career as wig seller; Career in automobile industry; Perry, Charles; Communal living; Contribution to architecture; Contribution to chemistry; Contribution to public art in Watts, Los Angeles, Calif.; Cree Indians; Customizing; Flavor and odor; Human ecology; Hunter, Irving R.; Scherer, James P.; Pastore, John O. (John Orlando); Eisenhardt, Charles A., Jr.; Library buildings; Los Angeles; Walden, Mayo K.; Purifoy, Noah; Stern, Philip M.; Public art; Public buildings; Lundin, Robert E.; San Francisco; Scottsdale; Taxation; Television; University of Wisconsin; Views on taxation; Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965; Wigs; Hess, Willard C. PDF IMAGES
40-44	Performing arts/Article At home in Calcutta By Bernard Taper SEE ALSO: Career in filmmaking; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors; Ray, Satyajit PDF IMAGES
44	Poem Clouds By John Ashbery PDF IMAGES
46-52	Music in the round/Review Great performances By Discus SEE ALSO: Cortot, Alfred; Schnabel, Artur; Solomon, Cutner; Hess, Myra, Dame; Fischer, Edwin; Schumann, Elisabeth; Strauss, Johann; Performances; Crooks, Richard; Rosenkavalier (Sound recording); Gieseking, Walter PDF IMAGES
54	Article A year for the books PDF IMAGES
57-73	Article California: The rending of the veil By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Career as governor of California; Career as president of San Francisco State College; Conservatism; Wakefield, Floyd; Tunney, John; Rafferty, Max Lewis; 1951-; Political and social views; Reagan, Ronald; Hayakawa, S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé); Student movements; University of California at Berkeley PDF IMAGES
64	Poem The presence By Maxine Kumin PDF IMAGES
68-71	Photo California primitives By Mike Salisbury (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Church buildings; Motels PDF IMAGES
74-82	Article The Los Angeles Times By John Corry SEE ALSO: Career as publisher of the Los Angeles times; Editing; Los Angeles; Los Angeles times (American newspaper); Newspaper publishing; Chandler, Otis; Reporters and reporting PDF IMAGES
81	Poem Beginning of the plains By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
83-90	Article The young people of North Long Beach By James Q. Wilson SEE ALSO: High school students; Los Angeles; Social networks; Suburbs; Teenagers; Youth PDF IMAGES
90-91	Poem The hen flower By Galway Kinnell PDF IMAGES
92-121	Article “I am Marty Ackerman. I am thirty-six years old and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Company rich again.” By Otto Friedrich SEE ALSO: Career as publisher of the Saturday evening post; Ackerman, Martin S.; Periodicals, Publishing of; Saturday evening post (American periodical) PDF IMAGES Collection “I am Marty Ackerman. I am thirty-six years old and I am very rich. I hope to make the Curtis Publishing Company rich again.” PDF IMAGES
99	Article Post script By Otto Friedrich SEE ALSO: Career in publishing; Periodical editors; Emerson, William A. PDF IMAGES
122-128	Article France: A struggle against the second-rate By Friedel Ungeheuer SEE ALSO: Malraux, André; Arts; Career as French minister of cultural affairs; Career as French president; Career as president of France; Gaulle, Charles de; General Strike, France, 1968; Pompidou, Georges; 1958-; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
130-146	Books/Review New black writers By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: A different drummer (Book); A wilderness of vines (Book); African American authors; Polite, Carlene Hatcher; Bennett, Hal; Hue and cry (Book); Reed, Ishmael; James Alan McPherson; Williams, John Alfred; Wright, Sarah E.; Sons of darkness, sons of light (Book); The black wine (Book); The flagellants (Book); The free-lance pallbearers (Book); This child's gonna live (Book); Kelley, William Melvin; Yellow back radio broke-down (Book) PDF IMAGES
144	[Coming in Harper's]/Department [Coming in Harper's] PDF IMAGES
146-152	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, John Hollander, and Marion Magid SEE ALSO: Wyden, Barbara; Hoffmann, E.T.A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus); Knight, Elizabeth C.; Hemingway, Ernest; Schwartz, Gwen Gibson; Olsen, Jack; Landau, Jacob; Fowles, John; Borges, Jorge Luis; Sissman, L.E.; Kent, Leonard J.; Guerrero, Margarita; Turner, Michael R.; Night of the grizzlies (Book); Di Giovanni, Norman Thomas; Parlour poetry. A casquet of gems (Book); Scattered returns (Book); Selected writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann (Book); The book of imaginary beings (Book); The fifth column and four stories of the Spanish Civil War (Book); The French lieutenant's woman (Book); The Jewish wife (Book) PDF IMAGES
153	Notice A contest for those who've had it with rubber-stamp criticism PDF IMAGES
154	Harper's puzzle/Department No. 17: Acrostickler By Henry Allen PDF IMAGES