November 1970
In This Issue
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Articles
Early Frost
Alternatives
John Hersey at Yale
New York Blues
The Moiseyev and Us
Art Out of Apathy
The Peripatetic Reviewer
My Revolution
The Invisible Pyramid
Unbought and Unbossed
Shakespeare's Lives
Shakespeare
Owls
The Conquest of the Incas
My Grandfather, His Wives and Loves
The Anti-Society
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Birds of the Eastern Forest
Between Two Fires: The Unheard Voices of Vietnam
Washington
Donora, Pennsylvania
The Editor's Page
The Government and Martin Luther King
Two of the principal actors—Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy—are dead; the third—J. Edgar Hoover—holds most of the secrets to himself. In this reconstruction, the result of six years of analysis and detective work, a lawyer-turned-writer pieces together the facts about the disturbing case of Washington’s spying on Dr. King.
A Fashionable Kind of Slander
A Lot of Cowboys
Making It
Part Soldiers
“If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.” —Lord Salisbury
The Nixon Doctrine
Burning the Couch
Pigeons
The Hell Poem
Olympus
Tennessee Williams Survives
Was the brilliant playwright finished? Many thought so as bad plays flopped and bad news circulated about the man who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire and a dozen other dramas. But here he is, alive and well in Key West, and much revealed.
