December 1971 Issue, THE HARPERS MONTHLY

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- About This Issue, pp. 4-5
- Letters, pp. 6-15
- The Easy Chair
  John Fischer
  , pp. 16-17
- Season
  Irving Feldman
  , p. 18
- Now Is the Time
  Allen Kanfer
  , pp. 18-29
- Performing Arts
  Richard Schickel
  , pp. 30-39
- Television
  Martin Mayer
  , pp. 40-54
- Municipal Monopoly
  E.S. Savas
  , pp. 55-60
  The cities need efficiency, but it's not built into the present system
- Packaged Sentiment
  Richard Rhodes
  , pp. 61-70
  Categories of emotion to fit every occasion of our lives
- Planetary Vistas
  William Irwin Thompson
  , pp. 71-78
  The next stop in man's cultural evolution
- The Sloughs of Secrecy
  Fred Feldkamp
  , pp. 79-85
  Outflanking the British Official Secrets Act
- Elena, Unfaithful
  Gloria Kurian Broder
  , pp. 86-95
- Nixon's Secret Strategy
  Richard Reeves
  , pp. 96-99
  Of politicians and reality and gaps
- Eccles No. 6
  Laurence Leamer
  , pp. 100-111
  A West Virginia coal mine, where the job is a privilege
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  Books (Review)
  Alfred Kazin
  , pp. 112-123
  Joan Didion: portrait of a professional
  1. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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  Books in Brief (9 Reviews)
  Samuel N. Antupit
  , pp. 124-129
  The Whole Earth Catalog,
  1. The Whole Earth Catalog
  2. East 100th Street by Bruce Davidson
  3. Face of an Island
  4. Specimen Days by Walt Whitman
  5. The Essential Edward Hopper by Edward Hopper
  6. The Essential Norman Rockwell by Norman Rockwell
  7. Vasarely 2 by Vasarely
  8. Overlap by Albert Gregory
  9. Notes in Hand by Claes Oldenburg
- Music
  Harold C. Schonberg
  , pp. 130-134