Harper's Magazine: October 1970

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October 1970

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Paul Davis SEE ALSO: Egypt PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Willie Morris SEE ALSO: Knowledge and learning; King, Larry L. PDF IMAGES
6-17	Letters/Department Letters On Yazoo . . . notes on survival, from June 1970: Letter By Russell I. Thackrey On Letters, from August 1970: Letter By Russell I. Thackrey On Black Panthers and their white hero-worshipers, from August 1970: Letter By Craig K. Harris Letter By Richard K. Gershon and M.D. Letter By Barry D. Glazer Letter By John Fischer On Money in America, from August 1970: Letter By Seymour E. Harris Letter By James A. Sansoterra Letter By Ernest Van Den Haag Letter By William P. Keim Letter By Robert Lekachman On Going home, from August 1970: Letter By John V. Lindsay and Mayor On Serving the moderns, from August 1970: Letter By Jim Roos PDF IMAGES
16	Poem On its way By May Swenson SEE ALSO: Seasons PDF IMAGES Poem This tree By Alvin Feinman SEE ALSO: Trees PDF IMAGES
21-40	The easy chair/Article The coming upheaval in Congress By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Albert, Carl Bert; 1969-1974; Reform; Speaker; United States. Congress; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
44-50	Performing arts/Article Good days, good years By Richard Schickel SEE ALSO: Dwan, Allan; Career in motion picture industry; Ford, John; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture industry; Motion picture producers and directors; Walsh, Raoul PDF IMAGES
55-80	Article An American innocent in the Middle East (part I) By Marshall Frady SEE ALSO: Egypt; Israel; Journeys—Egypt; Frady, Marshall; 1970-1981 PDF IMAGES
81-84	Article A man called Perry Horse By John Corry SEE ALSO: Attitudes; Biography; Ethnic identity; Kiowa Indians; Horse, Perry G. PDF IMAGES
85-94	Article The city game By Pete Axthelm SEE ALSO: African American youth; Basketball; Basketball players; Drug abuse; Harlem (New York, New York); High school athletes; Smith, Pat; Views on basketball PDF IMAGES
94	Poem A prayer for the self By John Berryman PDF IMAGES
95-105	Article Blowing my mind at Harvard By Larry L. King SEE ALSO: Education, Higher; Harvard University; Journalists; Knowledge and learning; King, Larry L.; Nieman Fellowship PDF IMAGES
106-108	Fiction Boul' Mich By Ted Morgan SEE ALSO: Bohemianism PDF IMAGES
109-119	Article Americana by the acre By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Fairs PDF IMAGES
120-125	Books/Review Great man going down By Irving Howe SEE ALSO: Hemingway, Ernest; Islands in the stream (Book) PDF IMAGES
126-131	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Richard Schickel, John Hollander, Edwin M. (Edwin Milton) Yoder, and Suzanne Mantell SEE ALSO: Sarris, Andrew; Wensinger, Arthur S.; Wattenberg, Ben J.; Moore, Brian; Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema, 1955-1969 (Book); Fergus, a novel (Book); Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph; Christian, George; Hogarth on high life: The Marriage à la mode series, from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's commentaries (Book); Cross, Jennifer; West, Paul; Scammon, Richard M.; The president steps down: a personal memoir of the transfer of power (Book); The real majority (Book); The supermarket trap; the consumer and the food industry. Drawings by Helen Fulkerson (Book); Coley, W.B.; Words for a deaf daughter (Book) PDF IMAGES
132-134	Music/Article Where the classics have gone By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: Sound recording industry PDF IMAGES
134	Poem One more time By A.R. Ammons PDF IMAGES