January 1970
In This Issue
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Articles
Quality Corrupted
Beethoven L. Van
The Price of My Soul
Wild Flowers of the United States
Passport to Magonia
Clemens of the Call
Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America
Ishmael
Marry Me! Marry Me!
Hannibal
Man Is the Prey
Victorian Painters
The Man Shakespeare
Barnett Frummer Is an Unbloomed Flower
Nato
Americans in Paris
The Rumble at Camp Lejeune
"There's Nothing Going on Here That We Can't Handle."
Washington
Pieces of the Frame
T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound: Collaborators in Letters
“I think of a friend who, in the early days, was as much concerned with the encouragement and improvement of the work of unknown writers in whom he discerned talent, as with his own creative work; who formulated, for a generation of poets, the principles of good writing most needful for their time; who tried to bring these writers together for their reciprocal benefit; who, in the face of many obstacles, saw that their writings were published; saw that they were reviewed somewhere by critics who could appreciate them; organized or supported little magazines in which their work could appear —and incidentally, liked to give a good dinner to those who he thought could not afford it, and sometimes even supplied the more needy with articles of clothing out of his own meagre store. To him, several other authors, since famous, have owed a great deal.”
Irene, Goodnight
Girl and Horse, 1928
The Betrayal of the Poor
For all the rhetoric of recent years about the war on poverty, the poor in America are almost as numerous as ever. Half of them are young, and unless the government makes immensely greater commitments of resources and planning, the country is doomed to a social explosion in the seventies that will make the turbulent sixties seem tranquil by comparison. So says the author of “The Other America” and “Toward a Democratic Left” in this disturbing analysis.
How I Made $193.85 Selling Cars
The Lowering Hemisphere
While we squander young lives, resources, and prestige in Vietnam, we persist in shortsighted, niggardly policies in Latin America, an area far more vital to our national security than Southeast Asia. A noted historian examines our hypocrisy toward the Good Neighbors and offers some remedial suggestions.
The Wireless Set
Fishing the Teifi
Bringing It All Back Home
1876: Is That All There Was?
The Peripatetic Reviewer
