Table of Contents
Volume 16, Number 10 · June 3, 1971
Jose Yglesias, The Case of Heberto Padilla 
Heberto Padilla, Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)
Richard Wasserstrom, Criminal Behavior
Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy by Telford Taylor
V.S. Pritchett, Ironical Aviary
Birds of America by Mary McCarthy
Philip Roth, Imaginary Press Conference with Our Leader
Nigel Dennis, Alienating Brecht
Brecht: The Man and His Work by Martin Esslin
The Collected Works of Bertolt Brecht: Volume I, Plays edited by Ralph Manheim, edited by John Willett
Saint Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht
Francis Carney, The Berkeley Takeover
W.H. Auden, The Megrims
Migraine by Oliver Sacks
C.B.A. Behrens, Revolution à la Mode
La Révolution Française: Mythes et Interprétations 1789-1970 by Alice Gérard
The World of the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer
Elinor Langer, The Hospital Workers: "The Best Contract Anywhere"?
M.I. Finley, Ancient Technocrats
The Muses at Work edited by Carl Roebuck
Technology in the Ancient World by Henry Hodges
Moving the Obelisks by Bern Dibner
The Ancient Engineers by L. Sprague de Camp
Agricultural Implements of the Roman World by K. D. White
Roman Farming by K. D. White
W.S. Merwin, On Being Awarded the Pulitzer Prize
Letters
John Case, Robert Dahl, Worker Self-Management
Lewis A. Coser, C.B.A. Behrens, What Weber Said
W.H. Ferry, Worker Self-Management
Evelyn Feltner Moulton, Alfred Kazin, Women Writers Are People
Joseph H. Berke, Continuing Kingsley Hall
Leon Katz, Virgil Thomson, It Was Sweeney
Contributors
W. H. Auden (1907–1973) was born in North Yorkshire, England, the son of a doctor. He studied at Oxford and published his first book, Poems, in 1930, immediately establishing himself as one of the outstanding voices of his generation. Auden emigrated to New York in 1939, where he became a US citizen and converted to Anglicanism. He wrote essays, critical studies, plays, and opera librettos for such composers as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, and Hans Werner Henze, as well as the poems for which he is most famous.
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.
W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. He is the author of many books of poems, prose, and translations and has received both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes for poetry, among numerous other awards.
