August 1961

Articles

• The Voyage

  From Baudelaire: Le Voyage  

  Robert Lowell

• Haiti

• Thailand

• J. D. Salinger: "Everybody's Favorite"

  In his novel, THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, and in his short stories, J. D. Salinger has exerted an extraordinary influence on the young students and teachers of English in this country, and with this in mind we have invited ALFRED kAZIN,the distinguished critic, to examine the style and content of Mr. Salinger’s new book, FRANNY AND ZOOEY, which is to be published on August 24.

  Alfred Kazin

• Will Growth Increase Federal Control? The Coming Crisis

  A writer on public affairs and a consultant to private industry and to the government, EDWARD T. CHASE is at present organizing national conferences on urban planning, transportation, and medical economics. In the article which follows, he shows why he believes that we are heading toward a profound change in the relationship of the government to our economy.

  Edward T. Chase

• God and the State Railways

  Having completed the film of a most successful play, ROMANOFF AND JULIET,and having received an Oscar for his superlative supporting part in SPARTACUS, PETER USTINOV is now immersed in the production of a new film,BILLY BUDD,in the casting of a new play for fall production, and in writing stories for theATLANTIC.

  Peter Ustinov

• America the Beautiful--and Its Desecraters

  VANCE PACKARD regards his work as social criticism, although,he adds, “others would use other labels.”However controversial they hare been,his books have been immensely successful; foremost among them are THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS, THE STATUS SEEKERS,and THE WASTE MAKERS.

  Vance Packard

• Dog Days

  NEWTON F. TOLMAN,with his wife, Janet, lives on a thousand-acre farm in New Hampshire, where he fishes and hunts, trains bird dogs, and communicates, when necessary, with the hermits and hedgehogs. His humorous account of life in the country, NORTH OF MONADNOCK, will be published next month by Atlantic-Little, Brown.

  Newton F. Tolman

• The Sugawn Chair

  An Irish writer of great distinction who, unlike his predecessors George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce, has never broken his home lies with Dublin, SEAN O’FAOLAIN has made many visits to the United States and occasionally has added his luster to the English Department at Princeton University.

  Sean O’Faolain

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• The West German Elections

  Terence Prittie

• Words for a Nursery

  A poem

  Sylvia Plath

• Father and I

  SIR OSBERT SITWELL’Sfive volumes of reminiscences, which were published in this country under the AtlanticLittle, Brown imprint, stand as a peerless monument to Victorian and Edwardian England, and those who have read, them will be unlikely to forget the brilliant portrait of the original and irascible Sir George Sitwell and of Henry Moat, his discerning and eloquent butler. Sir Osbert is now engaged in a further book about his father, from which we are privileged to draw these lively encounters.

  Osbert Sitwell

• Island Zoo

  Zoologist and author, GERALD DURRELL was born in India, was educated on the European continent, and made his first expedition to the British Cameroons to collect animals in 1947. Since that time he and his wife have traveled to British Guiana, Argentina, and Paraguay and have made two more trips to the Cameroons, bringing back with them rare specimens for their zoo in the Channel Islands. Mr. Darrell’s books include THE OVERLOADED ARK, MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS, and A zoo IN MY LUGGAGE.

  Gerald Durrell

• Homer and the Scholars

  GEORGE STEINER, a young and lively critic, attacks one of the most fascinating and durable literary mysteries: who was the real author of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY? He proves a sure guide through the tangles of nineteenthcentury textual criticism and offers his own solution to the obvious differences between the two classics ascribed to Homer. Mr. Steiner’s second book, THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY, was published last spring by Knopf.

  George Steiner

• Accent on Living

  Charles W. Morton

• Pamela, Paula, and Chung

  H. F. ELLIS is widely known for his light prose and is a frequent contributor to the pages of the ATLANTIC.

  H. F. Ellis

• A Report of the City Manager

  David Ball

• Girlie Magazines

  Robert Berkowitz

• Spot Announcement

  WILLIAM O’HALLAREN now devotes all his time to writing, after long experience in radio and television work in Los Angeles.

  William O’Hallaren

• They Shall Have Music

  John M. Conly

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Reader's Choice

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• Potpourri

  Phoebe Lou Adams

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