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December 1971

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By John Paul Endress (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Greeting cards PDF IMAGES
4	About this issue/Article About this issue By Robert Shnayerson SEE ALSO: Career as scholar; Forecasting; Greeting cards; Thompson, William Irwin PDF IMAGES
6-15	Letters/Department Letters On White ethnic, from September 1971: Letter By John V. Lindsay On Professors, unite!, from October 1971: Letter By Jr. and Ralph S. Brown Letter By Bertram H. Davis Letter By Belle Zeller Letter By Myron Lieberman On Not nature alone, from October 1971: Letter By Leon S. Minckler Letter By L.H. Wullstein Letter By Frank E. Smith Letter By Richard Neuhaus PDF IMAGES
16-28	The easy chair/Article Christmas honors list: Balancing laurels and brickbats By John Fischer SEE ALSO: MacLeish, Archibald; Arizona; Bloomington; Book collectors; The Boy Scouts; Career as author; Career as book collector; Career as environmentalist; Career as Indian activist; Career as mayor of Nayaug, Conn.; Career as physician; Hahn, Charlie; Charlotte; Cherokee Indians; Environmentalists; Exile (Punishment); Kinne, James T.; Alsop, Joseph; Journalists; Goodrich, Frederick W., Jr.; Torok, Lou; Strouse, Norman H.; Prisoners; Religion; Ries, Richard; Saint Helena; Salmon fishing; Scratch (Play); Views on military strategy; Keeler, William Wayne PDF IMAGES
18	Poem Season By Irving Feldman PDF IMAGES Poem Now is the time By Allen Kanfer PDF IMAGES
30-38	Performing arts/Article Lecture notes By Richard Schickel SEE ALSO: Career as lecturer; Lecturers; Lectures and lecturing; Schickel, Richard PDF IMAGES
40-53	Television/Article Freedom of the press can be a matter of self-interested definition By Martin Mayer SEE ALSO: Governmental investigations; Journalistic ethics; Television broadcasting of news; The selling of the Pentagon (Television program); Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
55-60	Article Municipal monopoly By Emanuel S. Savas SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Civil service; Monopolies PDF IMAGES
61-66	Article Packaged sentiment By Richard Rhodes SEE ALSO: Greeting cards; Greeting cards industry PDF IMAGES
71-78	Article Planetary vistas By William Irwin Thompson SEE ALSO: Philosophy; Social evolution; Technology and civilization PDF IMAGES
79-82	Article The sloughs of secrecy By Fred Feldkamp SEE ALSO: Chapman, Edward; In motion pictures; Official secrets; Pictorial works; Spies PDF IMAGES
86-94	Fiction Elena, unfaithful By Gloria Kurian Broder PDF IMAGES
96-98	Article Nixon's secret strategy By Richard Reeves SEE ALSO: 1969-1974; 1972; Presidential campaign, 1972; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
100-110	Article Eccles no. 6 By Laurence Leamer SEE ALSO: Coal miners; Coal mines and mining; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
112-122	Books/Article Joan Didion: Portrait of a professional By Alfred Kazin SEE ALSO: Biography; Criticism and interpretation; Didion, Joan; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
124-129	Books in brief/Review How to buy a coffee-table book By Samuel Antupit SEE ALSO: Gregory, Albert; Davidson, Bruce; Oldenburg, Claes; East 100th Street (Book); Hopper, Edward; Edward Hopper (Book); Face of an island (Book); Miner, Leigh Richmond; Rockwell, Norman; Norman Rockwell (Book); Notes in hand (Book); Overlap (Book); Specimen days (Book); Vasarely 2 (Book); Vasarely, Victor; Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
130-132	Music/Article Enter aesthetic populism By Harold C. Schonberg SEE ALSO: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.); Bernstein, Leonard; Mass (Music); Music PDF IMAGES