New Yorker November 30 1968 Don Barthelme Ezra Pound Beatles Yellow Submarine VF

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The New Yorker Magazine November 30, 1968, the complete issue in beautiful shape. The cover, by Abe Birnbaum, is a wonderfully spare post-Thanksgiving image: a group of black turkeys gathered against a white field beneath the red New Yorker masthead. Here are a few of the reasons this issue is interesting. Donald Barthelme contributes the brilliant “Philadelphia,” an escalating piece of comic surrealism. Geoffrey T. Hellman contributes an extensive Profile of the American Museum of Natural History, extending from the museum’s precarious early years through the transformative presidency of Morris K. Jesup and the extraordinary growth of its collections and scientific work. Pauline Kael reviews Yellow Submarine; John Bainbridge reports from London on the enormous Vietnam peace demonstration that wasn’t quite as enormous as advertised, with Tariq Ali among its central figures; and Ezra Pound contributes “From Canto CXIII.” There is also an unusually wonderful seasonal bonus: the lengthy “Christmas Gifts for the House” installment of On and Off the Avenue, a store-by-store expedition through New York shops, galleries, department stores, importers, antique dealers, and specialty shops that is effectively a 1968 New York Christmas-shopping time capsule, complete with the objects and their contemporary prices, and much more, as described below. Inside This Issue Comment Donald Malcolm considers the wonderfully paradoxical labor tactic of Long Island parkway policemen seeking higher

• Publisher: New Yorker
• Year: 1968
• Condition: Fine

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