RARE Saturday Review August 10 1974 50th HENRY STEELE COMMAGER ALISTAIR COOKE

Description: SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature [Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ] ISSUE DATE: August 10 1974; Vol. 1 No. 24; WORLD CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8½" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: GOLDEN Anniversary Issue -- Part 1: The First 50 years. Anniversary Issue Editor: Roland Gelatt. FEATURES: Musings on a Golden Anniversary by Norman Cousins. -- A reaffirmation of a 50-year SR policy: to resist cynicism and to bridge the gap between artist and audience. The Birth of the Phoenix by George Stevens -- A former SR editor writes of the founding of the magazine and tells of the ups and downs of the early years. Through History With J. Wesley Smith -- Cartoons by Burr Shafer. Top of My Head by Goodman Ace. Manner of Speaking by John Ciardi. Diversions by Leo Rosten. Curmudgeon-at-Large by Cleveland Amory. Light Refractions by Thomas H. Middleton. ARTICLES: America in the Age of No Confidence by Henry Steele Commager -- The bubble of American self-confidence burst in the turbulent Sixties, leaving a legacy of despair. Nineteen Twenty-Four by Alistair Cooke -- A jaunty Cooke's tour of the world in the year of SR's birth, highlighting that year's rousing festivals, disasters, scandals, newsmakers, and novelties. Literature of the Latecomers: A View of the Twenties by Irving Howe -- A communion of youth, a sense of experience shared, united the spiritual grandsons of Emerson, Whitman, Twain, and Melville. A Canfield-Knopf Dialogue -- Two eminent book publishers discuss authors they've known and worked with and the changing face of publishing over the years. Giants of the Half-Century -- Outstanding figures in politics, science, education, and the arts: an informal SR/W poll. SR SCRAPBOOK: Browsing Through SR's First 50 Years, Compiled and edited by Roland Gelatt and Dr. Helen Vaughn -- Selected reviews marking the emergence of our most prominent authors, and some memorable editorials, cartoons, and poetry. PHOTOGRAPHY: The Presence of the Past by Margaret R. Weiss. THEATER: Re-Seeing Things by Henry Hewes. MUSIC: It's Been Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin. FILM: The Bright Kingdom by Hollis Alpert. TRAVEL: What a Way to Go! by Horace Sutton. FINE ARTS: Dreams as Reality by Katharine Kuh. GAMESMANSHIP: Wit Twister No. 27. Double-Crostic No. 1 by Elizabeth S. Kingsley Reprinted from SRL, March 31, 1934. Cover design by Judith Adel. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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