April 1969
In This Issue
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Articles
The Politics of Günter Grass
Words Into Skin
The Landscape of Madness
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Brazil
No Thrills, Lotta Laughs
Ormandy's Orchestra
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 in E-Flat; Symphonic Study, "Falstaff"
Franck: Symphony in D Minor
Golden Age of Wind Music
Haydn: Heiligmesse
Barry Morell in Famous Tenor Arias
Rameau: Le Temple De La Gloire; Grétry: Suite of Ballet Music
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Secular Music Circa 1300
Sibelius: The Seven Symphonies
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1; Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2
Nancy Tatum in a Recital of American Songs
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Twentieth Century Flute Trios
Vivaldi: l'Estro Armonico, Opus 3, Concertos Nos. 1 to 4
Zorbá
Voyage to Atlantis
Secondary Worlds
Three Cheers for the Paraclete
My Father and Myself
Private Parts in Public Places
The Man Who Plays Alone
Slaughterhouse Five or the Children's Crusade
Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship
Will Soule, Indian Photographer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma 1869-74
Black and White
The Deep-Sea Bed
Iceland
Washington
The New American Militarism
Its roots are in the experience of World War II. The burgeoning military establishment and associated industries fuel it. Anti-Communism provides the climate which nurtures it. “It" is a “new American militarism.”General Shoup. a hero of the Battle of Tarawa in 1943, who rose to become Commandant of the United States Marine Corps for four years until his retirement in December, 1963, doesn’t like it. He has written this essay in collaboration with another retired Marine officer, Colonel James A. Donovan.
Of Cabbages and Kings
An Internal Landscape
The Journey of Philip Roth
This essay on Philip Roth places the writer and the man within the perspective of a personal memoir. Mr. Solotaroff is editor of NEW AMERICAN REVIEW and a contributor to many periodicals. Roth and Solotaroff grew up in northern New Jersey, studied together at the University of Chicago, and this article is dedicated to Napier Wilt, now retired, who was one of their teachers.
The Labyrinth
