April 1961

Articles

• What Has Happened to the American Dream?

  In 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt called for Americans to rededicate themselves to the country’s democratic ideals.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

• They Shall Have Music

  John M. Conly

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Reader's Choice

  Charles J. Rolo

• Potpourri

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Science and Industry

• France

• Letter to and From the Editor

  Luis Muñoz Marín, Devereux Butcher, Joseph L. Thompson, Olaus J. Murie, Antoinette Friedman, George Cheever Shattuck, E. C. Robertson, Geneva L. Parmley, George Begun, Clinton P. Anderson, Ellen Aikenhead, Averill Olsson, Mary Brenner, Stanley F. Koss, Charles Reynolds, J. E. Sinclair, Ernest Lynn, and Chester W. Nimitz

• Where Is the College Generation Headed?

  After teaching and practicing law, DAVID RIESMAN became in 1946 a member of the staff of the College of Social Science at the University of Chicago, and thereafter a member of the Committee on Human Development and of the Department of Sociology. In 1958 he was appointed the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, his alma mater. With a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Dr. Riesman investigated the problems of higher education discussed in this article; his observations originally appeared in the CHICAGO REVIEW for January, 1958, and have since been amplified and brought up to date for the ATLANTIC.

  David Riesman

• Bonn

• Prayer of a Young Girl

  Lynne Lawner

• The Boston Evening Transcript: The Athens of America

  This is the fourth in a series of articles by CHRLES W. MORTON, the associate editor of the ATLANTIC, about his work as a news reporter in the early thirties for the BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, defunct since April, 1941.

  Charles W. Morton

• The Squeeze on the Unions

  A. H. has been covering major labormanagement developments for the New York TIMES for almost thirty years. In World War II he received the Distinguished Service Medal for his contributions to the Army’s labor relations program. His journalistic awards include the Sidney Hillman Memorial Award, the George Polk Award, and the Page One Award of the New York Newspaper Guild.

  A. H. Raskin

• The Passing of the Ice

  HARRY MARK PETRAKIS held a variety of jobs as steelworker, real-estate salesman, and speech writer before he broke into print in the ATLANTIC in 1957, with his story “Pericles on 34th Street,” which won a Benjamin Franklin Magazine Citation and an Atlantic “First” Award. Since then his novel, LION AT MY HEART, has been published, and he is now at work on his second book.

  Harry Mark Petrakis

• The Pressures on College Girls: A Mother Speaks

  Binger

• The Key

  R. P. Lister

• The Necessity for the Image

  Draftsman, wood engraver, and sculptor, LEONARD BASKIN, one of the best-known artists in America,is now teaching at Smith. He was born in New Jersey, turned to the graphic arts in his mid-twenties, and has developed a philosophy which he fluently expresses in his lectures,in his publications,under the imprint of the Gehenna Press, and in his works of art.

  Leonard Baskin

• Intangibility

  Smith Palmer Bovie

• Liverpool Is Brooklyn King Size

  A native of New York City, SHEPARD RIFKIN has worked a wide variety of jobs, ranging from tugboat-man and chimney sweep to bookstore manager and editor of a small vanity press. Writing has been his lifelong ambition, and he has studied on fellowships at the MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo. His first novel in hard covers will be published by Knopf.

  Shepard Rifkin

• North Shore

  Peter Davison

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