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October 1967 Issue
October 1967 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Where Ghetto Schools Fail
    Jonathan Kozol
  • Maybe God Will Come and Clean Up This Mess
    Robert Coles, M.D.
  • Dynamite
    Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
  • What I Need Don't Come in Suitcases
    Ralph Maloney
  • The Difficulties of Being Major: The Poetry of Robert Lowell and James Dickey
    Peter Davison
  • Where Praise Is Due
    Charles W. Morton

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By Richard O’Connell
October 1967 Issue
Saved Stories

The owl that guards the grammarian’s tomb Correctly hoots

to-wit, to-whom.