October 1971 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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- About This Issue, pp. 4-5
- Letters, pp. 6-13
- The Easy Chair
  John Fischer
  , pp. 14-31
- Performing Arts
  Richard Goldstein
  , pp. 32-45
- Record Album Notes
  Robert Thompson
  , pp. 46-47
- Letter from Cape Cod
  Jan Adkins
  , pp. 48-57
- Some Days of Its Gift; Hide and Go Seek at the Cemetary
  William Stafford
  , p. 58
- Crow Maiden
  Richard Brautigan
  , pp. 58-60
- Professors, Unite!
  Myron Lieberman
  , pp. 61-71
  With nothing to lose but status, angry academics are donning union labels
- The Balkanization of the Suburbs
  Samuel Kaplan
  , pp. 72-75
  A single traffic light illuminates America's political darknes
- Baffled Bishops
  Robert G. Hoyt
  , pp. 76-81
  The moral confusion within the American Catholic hierarchy
- Tom Castro, the Implausible Impostor
  Jorge Luis Borges
  , pp. 82-85
- China & the U.S.
  Alan H. Grossman
  , pp. 86-95
  The Twain Shall Meet:An overture to this fall's dramatic production at the U.N.
- Our Lost Honesty
  George Bernard Shaw
  , pp. 96-99
  A celebrated wit advances a beguiling argument for Socialism
- Not Nature Alove
  Richard Neuhaus
  , pp. 100-105
  Too many eco-ideologists are blind to human needs
- A Modest Proposal
  Charlton Ogburn
  , pp. 106-107
  How to save car-choked cities with everyman's Electricart
- In the Sticks
  Laurence Lafore
  , pp. 108-115
  A provincial Easterner discovers the unexpected joys of Iowa
- Requiem for Feldman
  Jack Richardson
  , pp. 116-119
  An imaginary defense of a man imbued with the spirit of his time
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  Books (17 Reviews)
  John Thompson
  , pp. 120-125
  It's a mystery
  1. The Very Breath of Hell by George Beare
  2. The Temple Tree by David Beaty
  3. Match for a Murderer by Dorothy Dunnett
  4. The Dream by Lucy Freeman
  5. The Warsaw Document by Adam Hall
  6. Like Any Other Fugitive by Joseph Arnold Hayes
  7. The Fly on the Wall by Tony Hillerman
  8. The Copper Beeches by Arthur H. Lewis
  9. Sleep Is for the Rich by Donald Mackenzie
  10. Loophole by Arthur Maling
  11. Fisherman's Luck by Tom Pace
  12. Ransom by Robert Kimmel Smith
  13. Slayground by Richard Stark
  14. The Disappearance of Dr. Parkman by Robert Sullivan
  15. Murder at Harvard by Helen Thomson
  16. The Dead Piano by Henry Van Dyke#2
  17. The Burnt Orange Heresy by Charles Ray Willeford
- Music in the Round, pp. 126-128
- Cover painting
  Paul Davis