August 1969
In This Issue
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Articles
What’s Good About Children’s TV
American television is fair game for its critics, but think twice, says this student of TV, before you disparage The Friendly Giant, Misterogers’ Neighborhood, and Captain Kangaroo.
Music: Mindless Masters
Short Reviews: Books
Ten brief book reviews
Vietnam
Baker's Island
Travels With Mr. Charlie
An Atlantic editor here chronicles some of the high and low moments of a journey of discovery, of hope and illumination. For him and most of his companions, the trip was their first real experience in the black ghettos.
Stories I Guess I Wont Write
Newark
Postscript
The Farmer in the Till
"Guilty as Charged by the Judge"
“Did He Say 'Guilty as Charged by the Judge'?"
Five men who hardly knew each other found themselves accused, tried, and, in the case of four, convicted of conspiracy. What does this say about the judicial process in America?Risky Business
A Primer of Stock Market Speculation, Part II
The Witch
Poems by Jean Follain
Cadences
Matter
The Square
The Tragic in Time
The Useful
The Song of the Dragoon
The Secret
I Like It Better Now
The Indian Dog
Death the Bungler
The Terminal Future
Atlanta Lullaby
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Theater: The London Show
