February 1969
In This Issue
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Articles
A Nation of Schweiks
Southern Desegregation
Directions for My Funeral: (Written After the Burial of W. B. Yeats)
Child's Play
Back to the Primitive
Bits and Pieces of Trips
The Peripatetic Reviewer
In 660 Easy Lessons
Switched-on Bach
W. C. Fields
Man of La Mancha
La Marseillaise and Other French Show-Pieces
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart: Quintet in C, K. 515; Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C Minor
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor; Haydn: Sonata No. 52 in E-Flat
Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin
Sibelius: Four Legends
Beverly Sills in Bellini and Donizelti Heroines
Verdi: Rigolotto, Act Iv
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Zarzuela Love Duets
Woman Destroyed
The Druids
Petishism
The Other Side of the Mountain
Queen Christina
Journey Into the Mind's Eye
The Battle of Silence
The Family Carnovsky
Ghana Folk Tales
Police Power
Window to the Past
Flames Over Persepolis
Skyblue the Badass
Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo
North African Arms Race
Soviet Technology
Cambodia
The Police and the Rest of Us
The War Against the Democratic Process
This discussion that began in our October issue under the heading “ The War Against the Young” continues unabated, a battle fortunately still confined to conventional weapons, ranging from the popgun to the five-syllable howitzer. This forceful counterblast to defenders of student demonstrators, from the pen of the distinguished philospher, teacher, and civil libertarian Sidney Hook, is given addition relevance by the latest explosions of violence and storm-trooper activities at San Francisco State and Professor Hook’s own base, NYU.
