October 1968
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Articles
The War Against the Young
The war is a real one, though many of the elders who wage it will not acknowledge it. Campus after campus blows. The "hot minority" of the disenchanted grows, in number and in anger. In this article, the distinguished author (A World Elsewhere), editor (Partisan Review) and professor of English (Rutgers) Richard Poirier warns that by repressing the rebellion of youth instead of understanding, we are in danger of losing the best of our natural resources—"youth in its best and truest form, of rebellion and hope."
The Class of ’43 Is Puzzled
While the rebels in the present college generation raised their voices and their barricades, men and women of earlier generations traveled back to campuses to raise their glasses in that long-standing late spring rite, the class reunion. Most lavish of reunions is the 25th, and nowhere is it staged with such flourish as at Harvard. This year’s 25th brought back to Cambridge nearly 500 Harvard men of the class of 1943, men (and wives) of that “middle generation” whom Richard Poirier addresses earlier in these pages. The Atlantic invited Nicholas von Hoffman, author and reporter for the Washington Post, to cast an anthropological eye on the event. Fresh from a field trip into hippieland, which provoked his recently published book, We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against, Mr. von Hoffman did not have to look hard to find the generation gap; it yawned before him.
Speak Into the Cupcake, Please: A Primer on How to Read the Pols and the Press
“I had always thought of cliché as a suburb of Paris until I read the political reporting in America,” a visitor to these shores is said to have remarked, bringing to mind the newspaper editor who proclaimed to his staff assembled: “What this newspaper needs is some new clichés.“ In this presidential year, the boys in the press room and those in the camera lenses are fulsomely obliging. Martin Nolan, formerly national correspondent for the defunctREPORTER and now a Washington correspondent for the BOSTONGLOBE,finds, however, that for all their energy the campaign reporters are mostly telling readers what might happen at the expense of telling them what has already happened.
Justice and Psychiatry
Victorians, Edwardians, Historians
That Crystal Teardrop
The Miracles of Muriel Spark
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Comrade Prokofiev
Anytown, Alabama
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique and Lelio, or the Return to Life
The Art of Alexander Kipnis
Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 20 in D Minor and No. 25 in C Major
Mozart: Symphonies No. 32 in G, No. 35 in D, No. 38 in D
Regina Resnik Recital
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Night Ride and Sunrise
Soler: Eight Piano Sonatas
Wagner: Die Meistersinger
Weill: Symphonies No. 1 and 2
Fragments of a Journal
No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories
Come Along With Me
Nikos Kazantzakis
The White/Garnett Letters
An Orderly Life
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition
How to Be a Party Girl
Lost in the Fun House
In the Wake of the Sea-Serpents
The Man on the Balcony
Harold Nicolson: The Later Years, 1945-1962
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The First Americans
Art and the Seafarer
The Exaggerations of Peter Prince
The Transkei
The Fbi
Khesanh
Portugal
Why We're Against the Biggees
