July 1968
In This Issue
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Articles
Carnival of Excess
TV at the conventions
The Freedom Rides Revisited
“By and large, as far as my white eyes could see, there is de facto desegregation in the Southern metropolis. Despite the turbulence following Martin Luther King’s assassination, bus riding continued pretty much as usual.”
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Dada and Son
Brahms: Horn Trio in E-Flat
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Haydn: The Creation
I Have a Dream--Martin Luther King, Jr
Ives: The Four Symphonies
Lalo: Namouna (Ballet); Rapsodie Pour Orchestre
Mozart: The Impresario
The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music
Poulenc: Quatre Cycles De Melodies
Tehaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Telemann: Suite in G, "The Prostitute"
Verdi: Ernani
Ethel Waters
John Williams Plays Two Guitar Concertos
Mound Builders of Ancient America
Joseph Conrad
The Carnal Myth
Exile
The Horsemen
The French
Permanent Poverty
House Made of Dawn
The Art of North America
A Brand New Life
The Wolves
The Jeweler's Eye
The Burglar
The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales
Social Organization of Hamadryas Baboons
Late and Soon
Excerpts From the Diaries of the Late God
Yugoslavia
Campaigning: Nixon
Sorel's Unfamiliar Quotations
Edwin O'Connor and the Irish-American Process
Beginning as a tribute to a departed friend, John Kelleher ‘s reflections grew into a beguiling progress report on the decline or rise — lake your choice — of the Irish Americans to the point “when nobody felt very Irish anymore, or had much reason to.”Mr. Kelleher is professor of modern Irish literature and history at Harvard.
Europa's Letter
The ATLANTIC’S door is always open lo promising new writers, and here in this Young Poets section we introduce four fresh talents to our readers.
