December 1965
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Articles
The Useful Critic
"What counts is that the critic should be really involved with a work; that he should follow the track of his curiosity into it just as long and as passionately as may be necessary."
Vacation Bargain
Trend in Toys
GEORGE BOWMAN is a former Army officer, a West Point graduate, and a technical writer for an aircraft company in California.
Cuidado! El Traffic Cop
CELIA DARLINGTON lives in Berkeley, California, where she works for her doctor husband and does free-lance writing on the side.
Rage in the Lab
A regular contributor to PUNCH of light articles and literary criticism, R. G. G. PRICE lives in Sussex and writes for the ATLANTIC on a variety of subjects.
The Neurotic's Notebook
Le High-Life in Guadeloupe
Realites in America
Mozart: An Undiminishing Appeal
Statement of Ownership Management and Circulation
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Bolivia
Reader's Choice
Books for Children: A Christmas List
Potpourri
The Tuned Car Requires One (1) Pilot and Up to Five (5) Passengers. All Seats First Class
Italy
u.s. Rubber
Gibraltar
Strong Medicine for India
Lawyer, industrialist, and a constant visitor to India in the past three years, Leland Hazard is professor emeritus in industrial administration and law at Carnegie Institute of Technology, and vice-chairman of the National Planning Association. His recent book, EMPIRE REVISITED,demonstrates his capacity to think about global problems.
The Scramble for College Athletes
The president of Hamline University in St. Paul, Paul Giddens here questions the increasing professionalism of college athletics with a candor which is not too often heard in the Midwest.
Teaching Is Better Than Ever
Dr. Killian graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1926 and has been associated with his alma mater through almost four decades, rising to be its president (1948 to 1959). For two years he served President Eisenhower as a Special Assistant for Science and Technology, and chairman of the President’s Science Advisory Committee. He also served under President Kennedy.
Secret Police
“Geoffrey Household,”writes Orville Prescott in the New York TIMES, “is an Englishman who has lived almost as adventurous a life as his imaginary heroes. No wonder his tales are colorful. What is more, they are immensely readable .”Mr. Household is the author of ROGGE MALE and WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS,and his latest novel, OLURA,has been gaining new readers here and abroad.
Washington
Federico Fellini: Wizard of Film
GIULIETTA OF THE SPIRITS, which was recently released in this country, is the tenth of Federico Fellini's films, the most notable of which have been LA STRADA, LA DOLCE VITA, and 8½. For a portrait of one of the most original and controversial movie directors of our time, we have turned to Eugene Walter, who has lived in Rome since the early 1950s, wrote the English dialogue for LA DOLCE VITA, and acted the part of the highbrow journalist in 8½.
Lady Bird's Beauty Bill
ELIZABETH BRENNER DREW, Washington writer on government affairs, examines the highway cleanup and beautification bill to ascertain the real winners in this struggle, as she did in the September ATLANTICwith the cigarette-labeling controversy.
Winter Reflections
A Soft Touch
In her country place on the outskirts of Danvers, Massachusetts, Elizabeth R. Choate has been hostess to a number of stray animals, some of which, like The Man Who Came to Dinner, slay on for quite a time.
Unwilling to Wake
Spoofing and Schtik
Author, lecturer, and an authority on films, Pauline Kael has been manager of an art cinema and has worked on experimental films. Her collection of criticism, I LOST IT AT THE MOVIES, was published last spring by Atlantic-Little, Brown. Here she tackles the gimmicks used in the communications media to attract the new generation.
The Friendship of Holmes and Brandeis
A member of a famous Philadelphia clan and a graduate of the Harvard Law School, Francis Biddle served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice Holmes between 1911 and 1912, long before he moved into national prominence as the Attorney General of the United States (1941-1945). As a young man and in his maturity, he was well placed to observe the friendship between those two great judges Brandeis and Holmes.
December Night
Sahara Holiday
A Californian who has followed her forester husband to the far corners of the earth, Agnes Newton Keith went as a bride to North Borneo, where she wrote the Atlantic Prize book LAND BELOW THE WIND. There in Sandakan she and her infant son, George, and her husband, Harry, were captured by the Japanese, and after three and a half years of prison camp she wrote her next great book, THREE CAME HOME.For the past decade the Keiths have been working for the United Nations in Libya, and what follows is an excerpt from Mrs. Keith’s new book, CHILDREN OF ALLAH,to be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in February.
