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Volume 14, Number 1 & 2 · January 29, 1970

Virgil Thomson, Berlioz, Boulez, and Piaf

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz translated by David Cairns

Baudelaire-Berlioz Adam International Review

Berlioz and the Romantic Imagination catalog of an exhibition organized by the Arts Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum on behalf of the Berlioz Centenary Committee in co-operation with the French Government

Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun

Pelléas et Mélisande drame lyrique en 5 actes de Maurice Maeterlinck et Claude Debussy, partition d'orchestre, Durand (Paris, 1904), first performance by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Dec. 1, 1969, Pierre Boulez, conductor

Piaf by Simone Berteaut

Conor Cruise O'Brien, America First

Murray Kempton, A Narodnik from Lynbrook

Odyssey of a Friend: Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954-1961 by Whittaker Chambers, edited with Notes by William F. Buckley Jr., Foreword by Ralph De Toledano

Richard J. Barnet, How Hanoi Sees Nixon

Wylie Sypher, Magical Mystery Tour

Theatre of the World by Frances A. Yates

Chester Kallman, From the African Ambassador (poem)

Peter Dale Scott, Tonkin Bay: Was There a Conspiracy?

Truth Is the First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair—Illusion and Reality by Joseph C. Goulden

Simon Watson Taylor, Liberation Then

Manifestoes of Surrealism by André Breton, translated by Richard Seaver, translated by Helen R. Lane

The Surrealist Revolution in France by Herbert S. Gershman

Surrealist Poetry in France by J.H. Matthews

An Anthology of French Surrealist Poetry by J.H. Matthews

The Philosophy of Surrealism by Ferdinand Alquié, translated by Bernard Waldrop

A Bibliography of the Surrealistic Revolution in France by Herbert S. Gershman

Selected Poems by André Breton, translated by Kenneth White

Robert M. Adams, Breakdowns

A Family Romance by Richard Wollheim

Camden's Eyes by Austin Wright

Sick Friends by Ivan Gold

T Zero by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

David Joravsky, Cracked Wheat

The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko by Zhores A. Medvedev, translated by I. Michael Lerner, with the editorial assistance of Lucy G. Lawrence

M.I. Finley, A Profitable Empire

Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic by E. Badian

The Roman Empire and Its Neighbours by Fergus Millar

The Climax of Rome by Michael Grant

The Decline of Rome by Joseph Vogt, translated by Janet Sondheimer

Letters

Paul Dolan, Yehudy Lindeman, et al. Police Brutality
Kai Nielsen, Philosophy and Public Policy
Edmund Wilson, Jesus's Signature
Norman A. Rheuban, Herbert L. Packer, Advocacy
The Shelter Half, Tacoma Coffeehouse

Contributors

M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.

Murray Kempton (1917-1997) was a columnist for Newsday, as well as a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. His books include Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events and The Briar Patch, as well as Part of Our Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)