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April 1970

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	Photo [Cover art] By Bob Pike (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Men's clothing; WASPs (Persons) PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Goulden, Joseph C.; Hofstadter, Richard PDF IMAGES
6-16	Letters/Department Letters On The failure of black separatism, from January 1970: Note/correction On The professional radical, 1970, from January 1970: Note/correction On Harry's last hurrah, from January 1970: Note/correction On Notes from the underground, from February 1970: Note/correction On The land of the permanent wave, from February 1970: Note/correction On How I met Joseph Mulligan, Jr., from February 1970: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
18-29	The easy chair/Article How I got radicalized: The making of an agitator for Zero By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Human ecology; Population PDF IMAGES
32-44	After hours/Article Usage, precise and otherwise By Russell Lynes SEE ALSO: The American Heritage dictionary of the English language (Book); Usage; Morris, William PDF IMAGES
38-44	Washington report/Article LBJ's secret brother meditates on history By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Johnson, Sam Houston PDF IMAGES
40	Poem The pack rat By Robert Pack PDF IMAGES
47-53	Article The future of American violence By Richard Hofstadter SEE ALSO: New Left; Political violence; Violence PDF IMAGES
51	Poem The warriors and the idiots By Irving Feldman PDF IMAGES
54-66	Article Going home to Raleigh By Fred Powledge SEE ALSO: Powledge, Fred; Journeys—North Carolina—Raleigh PDF IMAGES
67-78	Article Voices from the silent majority By Joseph C. Goulden SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Middle class; Political letter writing; Public opinion; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
79-84	Fiction Cross my father's ground By Nolan Porterfield PDF IMAGES
85-91	Article The decline of the WASP By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Cultural assimilation; Ethnic groups; Pluralism (Social sciences); WASPs (Persons) PDF IMAGES
92-99	Article The right not to be born By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Abortion; Physician and patient; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
100-105	Books/Review A great man's greatness By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Erikson, Erik H. (Erik Homburger); Gandhi's truth: on the origins of militant nonviolence (Book); Gandhi, Mahatma; Psychology PDF IMAGES
105-111	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, John Hollander, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder, and Deborah Kaetz SEE ALSO: Bickel, Alexander M.; Bless the beasts and children (Book); City without walls, and other poems (Book); Myers, D.H.; Ely, David; Deliverance (Book); George III and the mad-business (Book); Swarthout, Glendon Fred; Macalpine, Ida; Ross, Ishbel; Vizzard, Jack; Dickey, James; Maas, Jeremy; Ashbery, John; Gelmis, Joseph; Poor devils (Book); Hunter, Richard Alfred; See no evil; life inside a Hollywood censor (Book); The double dream of spring (Book); The expatriates (Book); The film director as superstar (Book); The Supreme Court and the idea of progress (Book); The thursday evening art world; the Alfred Weary lectures (Book); Berger, Thomas; Victorian painters (Book); Vital parts, a novel (Book); Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) PDF IMAGES
112-114	Performing arts/Article A maker of libretti By Igor Stravinsky SEE ALSO: Air; Stravinsky, Igor; Pollution; Television programs; Views on opera; Views on television; Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) PDF IMAGES
115-116	Film/Review The damned By Frederic Morton SEE ALSO: Visconti, Luchino; The damned (Motion picture) PDF IMAGES
117-118	Music in the round/Review The opera we won't hear at the Met By Discus SEE ALSO: Bavarian State Opera; Nilsson, Birgit; Weber, Carl Maria von; Der Freischütz (Book); Köth, Erica; Etudes (Book); Moscheles, Ignaz; Ponti, Michael; Gedda, Nicolai; Maga, Othmar; Philharmonia Hungarica; Heger, Robert; Berry, Walter PDF IMAGES
118	Poem Anarchists fainting By Robert Bly SEE ALSO: Political poetry, American PDF IMAGES