December 1968
In This Issue
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Articles
About Time
The Warmongers
Gorgeous George on the Links
The Peripatetic Reviewer
How Electronic Music Got That Way
Action at Generation Gap
The Children's Trip to the Gallows
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 to 6
Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Opus 35; Four Ballades, Opus 10; Liszt: Study No. 2 in E-Flat
The Canterbury Pilgrims: A Description in Words and Music
Donizetti: La Fille Du Régiment
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "New World"
The Daemonic Liszt
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in a Minor
The Diary of Anaïs Nin
Poets for Peace
Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Songs of Andalusia
Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor, Opus 7
Shostakovitch: Suite From the Incidental Music to Hamlet, Opus 32; Kirchner: Toccata for Strings, Solo Winds, and Percussion
Z
Vibrations
The Parade's Gone By
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
Treasury of Atrocious Puns
Sahara
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Australian Birds
Birds of the Eastern Forest
Currier & Ives
The Literary Life
Ages of Elegance
Buckingham Palace and Its Treasures
Sense Relaxation
Making Peace at Paris: A Special Report on the Negotiations
The ATLANTIC this month devotes its entire Reports section to this account of how the Paris peace negotiations began to progress toward an accommodation. Mr. Terrill,an Australian journalist and political scientist ivho has written extensively about the Far Fast and Communist countries,made five visits to Paris for this assignment.
Going Hungry in America: Government's Failure
“ I don’t know, Orville,”said Senator Robert Kennedy to the Secretary of Agriculture, “I’d just get the food down there. I can’t believe that in this country we can’t get some food down there.”Others too will find it difficult to believe the facts revealed here about the failure of the Congress and the federal government to assure that millions of people in the richest, most bounteous land in the world are saved from malnutrition or starvation. This is the latest in a continuing observation of how government works — or doesn’t — by the ATLANTIC’S Washington editor.
Conjectural Poem
Doctor Francisco Laprida, set upon and killed the 22nd of September 1829 by a band of gaucho militia serving under Aldan, reflects before he dies:
Pictures of Fidelman
The Decentralization Fiasco and Our Ghetto Schools
Dr. Everett is president of the New School for Social Research in New York, and formerly served as chancellor of the City University of New York and president of Hollins College in Virginia.
