September 1971
In This Issue
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Articles
Stonewall
Are We the Coming Race?
Beyond the Pale
The Sense of Period
Song: Reconciliation
The Peripatetic Reviewer
Willy Remembers
Parthian Words: The Barrel Organ's Complaint to the Sixties
The Fall of the House of Savoy
Absolute Zero
Hallucinations
Hallucinations
Dante's Infernal Guide to Your School
The Ra Expeditions
Gateways and Caravans
Pegasus Descending
The American Indian Almanac
Louvre Dialogues
Winchell
Washington
Gambling in Britain
Innocent Bystander: The Bus Line in the Sky and Other Expensive Indignities
The Editor's Page
Contributors
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French Africa
Taking It Big: A Memoir of C. Wright Mills
Ginsberg and the beatniks can be associated chronologically with the aggressively activist sociology of C. Wright Mills—let us say with the publication of Mills’ Causes of World War III (1957), which is about the point at which Mills’ writing turned from scholarship to first-class pamphleteering. Mills was by no means the first postwar figure who sought to tell it like it is about the state of American public life and culture. . . . But it was Mills who caught on. His tone was more blatant; his rhetoric, catchier. He was the successful academic who suddenly began to cry for action in a lethargic profession, in a lethargic society. . . .
How My Father Was Murdered
X-Ray
Nabokov: A Portrait
Happy Ending
A Woman
Merle Haggard: "When You're Runnin' Down Our Country, Hoss, You're Walkin' on the Fightin' Side of Me"
