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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction · David Remnick
Part One · American Scenes
A Note by Elizabeth Kolbert
Success (On Jackie Robinson, TV salesman) · John Graham and Rex Lardner
Fallout (On radioactive debris) · Daniel Lang
Ahab and Nemesis (On Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) · A. J. Liebling
Mr. Hunter’s Grave (On a Staten Island cemetery) · Joseph Mitchell
The Cherubs Are Rumbling (On juvenile gangs) · Walter Bernstein
Part Two · Artists & Entertainers
A Note by Rebecca Mead
The Perfect Glow (On Oscar Hammerstein II) · Philip Hamburger
Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs! (On John Huston and the making of The Red Badge of Courage) · Lillian Ross
Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (On Marianne Moore) · Winthrop Sargeant
The Duke in His Domain (On Marlon Brando in Kyoto) · Truman Capote
A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain (On Richard Avedon) · Winthrop Sargeant
Part Three · Shifting Grounds
A Note by Jill Lepore
The Foolish Things of the World (On Dorothy Day) · Dwight MacDonald
Notes and Comment (On the case against Senator McCarthy) · E. B. White
The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber (On fifties jargon) · James Thurber
A Meeting in Atlanta (On an NAACP assembly) · Bernard Taper
Letter from Chicago (On the Democratic Convention) · Richard H. Rovere
Letter from San Francisco (On the Republican Convention) · Richard H. Rovere
Letter from Washington (On Eisenhower and Little Rock) · Richard H. Rovere
Part Four · Far-Flung
A Note by Evan Osnos
No One but the Glosters (On a Korean War battle) · E. J. Kahn, Jr.
The Seventeenth of June (On an uprising in East Germany) · Joseph Wechsberg
The Old Boys (On Chiang Kai-shek) · Emily Hahn
Letter from Paris (On the Algerian War) · Janet Flanner
Letter from Gaza (On refugees in the Strip) · A. J. Liebling
Cuban Interlude (On Cuba and its rebels) · Norman Lewis
Part Five · Takes
A Note by Malcolm Gladwell
Characters
Ernest Hemingway · Lillian Ross
Jackson Pollock · Berton Roueché
Toots Shor · John Bainbridge
Harold Ross · E. B. White
Sylvester Weaver · Thomas Whiteside
Emily Post · Geoffrey T. Hellman
Frank Lloyd Wright · Geoffrey T. Hellman
Bobby Fischer · Bernard Taper
Mort Sahl · Whitney Balliett
Leonard Bernstein · Robert Rice
Lorraine Hansberry · Lillian Ross
Computers
I.B.M.’s New Brain · John Brooks
The Nim Machine · Rex Lardner
Data Processing Systems · John Brooks
Election Results via Univac · Philip Hamburger
The Perceptron Simulator · Harding Mason
Curious Developments
The Home Freezer · Brendan Gill
Jazz Class at Columbia · Whitney Balliett
Vaccinating Against Polio · John McNulty
Marketing Miltown · Thomas Whiteside
Rock ’n’ Roll’s Young Enthusiasts · Dwight MacDonald
The Push-Button Phone · Harriet Ben Ezra
The Arrival of Videotape · Louis P. Forster
The Quiz-Show Scandals · John Updike
Part Six · The Critics
A Note by Adam Gopnik
Books
The Vision of the Innocent (On The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger) · S. N. Behrman
Green on Doting (On Henry Green) · V. S. Pritchett
Black Man’s Burden (On Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) · Anthony West
The Book-of-the-Millennium Club (On Mortimer Adler’s Great Books set) · Dwight MacDonald
Doctor Life and His Guardian Angel (On Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) · Edmund Wilson
The Current Cinema
Good Tough Stuff (On On the Waterfront) · John McCarten
No Sanctuary (On The 400 Blows) · John McCarten
The Theatre
Bouquets, Brickbats, and Obituaries (On Guys and Dolls) · Wolcott Gibbs
Something to Remember Us By (On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) · Wolcott Gibbs
Beep the Meem (On Marcel Marceau) · Wolcott Gibbs
Shaw with Music (On My Fair Lady) · Wolcott Gibbs
Points West (On A Raisin in the Sun) · Kenneth Tynan
Cornucopia (On Gypsy) · Kenneth Tynan
Television
Peeping Funt (On Candid Camera) · Philip Hamburger
Bananas in General (On TV comedians) · John Lardner
Thoughts on Radio-Televese (On on-the-air language) · John Lardner
Art & Architecture
Extremists (On Jackson Pollock et al.) · Robert M. Coates
Styles and Personalities (On an Abstract Expressionism show) · Robert M. Coates
The Mud Wasps of Manhattan (On tall buildings gone wrong) · Lewis Mumford
The Roaring Traffic’s Boom (On a congested metropolis) · Lewis Mumford
The Lesson of the Master (On the Seagram building) · Lewis Mumford
Music
Jazz Records (On Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk) · Whitney Balliett
Man with a Manner (On Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall) · Winthrop Sargeant
Jazz Records (On Coleman Hawkins) · Whitney Balliett
Part Seven · Poetry
A Note by Paul Muldoon
Boy at the Window · Richard Wilbur
Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze · Theodore Roethke
Love for a Hand · Karl Shapiro
The Artist · William Carlos Williams
Living in Sin · Adrienne Cecile Rich
Questions of Travel · Elizabeth Bishop
Sparrows · Hayden Carruth
First Things First · W. H. Auden
Voices from the Other World · James Merrill
Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor · Sylvia Plath
Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow? · Ogden Nash
The Arctic Ox · Marianne Moore
The Goodnight · Louis Simpson
Lying Awake · W. D. Snodgrass
The Road Back · Anne Sexton
Part Eight · Fiction
A Note by Jonathan Franzen
Taste · Roald Dahl
No Place for You, My Love · Eudora Welty
The Other Paris · Mavis Gallant
Six Feet of the Country · Nadine Gordimer
Pnin · Vladimir Nabokov
The State of Grace · Harold Brodkey
The Country Husband · John Cheever
The Happiest I’ve Been · John Updike
Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth
Acknowledgments
Contributors
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