Harper's Magazine Archive (1970)

1970

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Letter from Leete's Island: The puritan ethic is alive and hard at work in Connecticut by John Fischer The failure of black separatism by Bayard Rustin The professional radical, 1970 by Marion K. Sanders and Saul Alinsky The lessons of 1968 by George S. (George Stanley) McGovern Harry's last hurrah by Richard Rhodes Fiction Shirt talk by Ivan Prashker Poetry Summer by John Ashbery The new poetry handbook by Mark Strand Haunting the maneuvers by James Dickey
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Notes from the underground by John Fischer Italy's happy Communists by Claire Sterling In pursuit of the American woman: Or, Gulliver at the gynecologist's by Edward Grossman The questions which tear us apart by David Halberstam The land of the permanent wave by Edwin Shrake Poetry Cold spring in Essex by Donald Davie A loss of largess: Its recapture (and point after) by L.E. Sissman
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles War as theater of the absurd by John Fischer What will destroy apartheid? by Norman Macrae The Nixon supremacy by Joseph Kraft The many-sided Mr. Meany by John Corry Tennessee lonesome end by Peter Schrag Fiction Just back from the coast by Bruce Jay Friedman Poetry The death of love by Robert Graves In anthropology by William Stafford Letters: March 1969 by Adrienne Cecile Rich
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles A maker of libretti by Igor Stravinsky How I got radicalized: The making of an agitator for Zero by John Fischer Usage, precise and otherwise by Russell Lynes LBJ's secret brother meditates on history by Larry L. King The future of American violence by Richard Hofstadter Fiction Cross my father's ground by Nolan Porterfield Poetry Anarchists fainting by Robert Bly The pack rat by Robert Pack The warriors and the idiots by Irving Feldman
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The view from Hilton Head by Marshall Frady Heaven on earth . . . by Richard Rhodes Lyndon and Walter, telling it like it is by David Halberstam What am I doing here? (Apologia pro februa sua) by John Fischer The making of a majority by Fred R. Harris Fiction The hole in the bucket by Larry McMurtry Poetry On each journey by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Preface to the catalogue of Curmudgeon College by John Fischer Eckhardt of Texas by Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder Yazoo . . . notes on survival by Willie Morris Addicts and zealots by Marion K. Sanders Open land: Getting back to the communal garden by Sara Davidson Fiction Something is there by Isaac Bashevis Singer
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Mark Rothko: Portrait of the artist as an angry man by John Fischer Mr. Nixon meets the language by David Halberstam The Bangkok prince by Arthur Miller Who needs the Democrats? . . . and what it takes to be needed by John Kenneth Galbraith Washington, sex, and power by John Corry Fiction Dragon lady by Johanna Kaplan Poetry Late night in autumn by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Black Panthers and their white hero-worshipers by John Fischer Money in America: The end of the economists' dream by Robert Lekachman America's other radicals by Peter Schrag The best bartender in New York: Evenings in a very respectable place, with an old-fashioned professional man by John Corry Czechoslovaks: Between hope and fear by Friedel Ungeheuer Fiction The rape of Tamar by Dan Jacobson Poetry Lines from an orchard once surveyed by Thoreau by Philip E. Booth House hunting by John N. Morris Going home: New York by John Hollander
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Outwitting Wall Street: You too can get little rich by John Fischer Baseball and the national mythology by David Halberstam Happy in Cannes by Irwin Shaw Homo/hetero: The struggle for sexual identity by Joseph Epstein Whatever happened to Brother Dave? by Larry L. King Fiction Father Buh buh boo by Joseph Ronald Sweat Poetry Histrionic landscape by Daryl Hine Under the rose: A granfalloon for Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. by L.E. Sissman Syrinx by James Ingram Merrill Last words of the human fly by David Wagoner
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Americana by the acre by Edward Hoagland Where the classics have gone by Harold C. Schonberg The coming upheaval in Congress by John Fischer Good days, good years by Richard Schickel An American innocent in the Middle East (part I) by Marshall Frady Fiction Boul' Mich by Ted Morgan Poetry One more time by A.R. Ammons On its way by May Swenson This tree by Alvin Feinman A prayer for the self by John Berryman
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles On Jordan's banks: An American innocent in the Middle East (part II) by Marshall Frady Can the Nixon Administration be doing something right? by John Fischer A day at the studio—Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood by John Aaron Latham Manson wins! A fantasy by Frank Conroy The politics of style by John Corry Fiction The word to go by Joseph Papaleo Poetry The chalk cliffs of Rügen by Richard Howard
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles South Carolina by Bill D. Moyers Washington, D.C. by Bill D. Moyers Musings on the “Met” by Harold C. Schonberg Christmas list by John Fischer Who's afraid of war? by Friedel Ungeheuer Poetry The forebears by W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin A reader by Jorge Luis Borges

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