January 1969
In This Issue
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Articles
Fanatic of Disaster
Deprived of Liberty
The Pushkin Boom
The Peripatetic Reviewer
The Ghost of Brecht
Miss Yerrett Joins the Ball Game
Cartoon Empires
Beethoven: Mass in C, Opus 86
Bizet-Shchedrin: The Carmen Ballet
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B Minor
The Brains Trust
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Original Version
Evensong for Ascensiontide
Debussy: La Mer, Nuages, Fêtes, Prélude Á l'Après-Midi d'Un Faune
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Complete
Handel: Arias
Haydn: Symphonies No. 93 in D and No. 94 in G, "Surprise"
Romantic Duets
A Bouquet for Marcella Sembrich
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3, "Pastoral"; In the Fen Country
Schumann: Symphonies No. 3 in E-Flat, "Rhenish," and No. 4 in D Minor
Richard Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite; Johann Strauss: Fledermaus Overture, Wine Women and Song, Thunder and Lightning
Student Music in Seventeenth Century Leipzig
Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Sammy Younge, Jr
My Music, My Life
African Art
The Day Kennedy Was Shot
God's Country and My People
Exploring Space With a Camera
An Editor's Treasury
Gordon Craig
Palace of Ice
An Exaltation of Larks Or, the Venereal Game
The First Folio of Shakespeare
Portuguese Africa
Labor Arbitration: Britain and the u.s
Notes on Losing a War
There are some who claim we won it — but from the Pentagon to MACV headquarters at Tansonnhut, reports Mr. Just, the search is on for scapegoats for what went wrong in Vietnam. Since 1965 a WashingtonPOST correspondent in the field, in Saigon, and here on the home front, Mr. Just published a book,TO WHAT END: A REPORT FROM VIETNAM (Houghton Mifflin), last year. He covered the 1968 election campaign, and made a return visit to South Vietnam last fall before filing this account.
Washington
Ernest Hemingway: Living Loving Dying
He was thirty-seven when this chapter of his life begins, already established as one of the greatest American writers, and living as if to prove Alfred Kazin’s characterization of him as “the bronze god of the whole contemporary literary experience in America.” THE SUN ALSO RISES, A FAREWELL TO ARMS, and Some of the finest short English prose ever written were behind him. So was one marriage, that to Hadley Richardson, and his second, to Pauline Pfeiffer, was moving toward the rocks. He had three young sons, John (of his first marriage), Patrick and Gregory (of the second). This installment, and a second to follow in the February ATLANTIC, are drawn from ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY by Carlos Baker of Princeton. The authorized biography will be published in April by Scribner’s, publishers of almost all of Hemingway’s seven novels, dozens of short stories, and one play.
