June 1968
In This Issue
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Articles
The Deathbed Notes of Henry James
The Origin of Laughter: (After Desmond Morris)
Black Anger
Nabokov's Card Trick
Rubaiyyating With Robert Graves
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Spain
The Sins of the Sons
Bach: B Minor Mass
Beethoven: Nine Symphonies, Four Overtures
Brahms: Four Symphonies, Two Overtures; "Haydn" Variations
Elliott Carter: Piano Concerto
Gilbert and Sullivan: The Sorcerer
Gluck: Orfeo, Italian Version
James Joyce: Passages From Finnegans Wake
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Songs of a Wayfarer
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos. 1 in D Minor and 2 in C Minor
The Comic Mozart
Rossini: Barber of Seville
Joan Sutherland in the Golden Age of Operetta
The Swingle Singers: Spanish Masters
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
The End of Obscenity
The Real Thing
The Irish
T. H. White
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
Onwards!
Aspects of Antiquity
Colonel Sun
Ellen Terry
The Survival of Scotland
Iberia
The Walls of Jerusalem
The Golden Age
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Jerusalem
The Media Barons and the Public Interest: An FCC Commissioner's Warning
The message aside, the medium may be turning into a quadruple threat, argues Federal Communications Commissioner Johnson. Local monopolies, regional baronies, nationwide empires, and corporate conglomerates are more and more in control of the nation’s communications media — newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, books, the electronic “knowledge industry.” The commissioner offers a brief in protest against the trend and in favor of steps to stop it. At thirty-three, Mr. Johnson already has one spirited David-Goliath role behind him: the President named him head of the Maritime Administration in 1964, where he fought for shipping industry reforms over the protests of both management and labor. He became one of the seven members of the FCC in 1966.
The Aerospace Bonus Boys
In growing numbers, the space-age talent hunters comb the campuses — and each other’s laboratories — in search of brains. Bob and Ray, creators of“Mr. Trace, Keener Than Most Persons” and “Jack Headstrong, All-American American,” follow up their fantasy about the proposed National Data Center (“The Day the Computers Got Waldon Ashenfelter ,”in the November ATLANTIC)with a guide to co-option, presented in all its military-scientific-industrial complexity.
