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The article presents an introductory note of his poem titled "A Few Ways of Pulling Apart a Poem" along with his own criticism of the poem. The poem does lack "energy" somehow, and this lack is evident even in the poem's origins, says the author. The author believes that in some sense his poem is cold. It is this part that mumbles that he has been led in the poem to make his own wit at the expense of his heart or diaphragm. Towards the end he gives a description about the usage of the word "bourgeois" by novelist Arnold Kettle in a literary.

The article highlights various roles of charity foundations. The mission of Carnegie Corp. is the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding. Guggenheim Foundation works for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge and understanding and the appreciation of beauty. Russell Sage Foundation works for the improvement of social and living conditions in the U.S. However, on the one hand the foundation pictures as a very large stack of silver dollars in neatly wrapped gift-packages piled in the basement of a Fifth Avenue skyscraper. On the other hand the executors of the money, whose function is to make the foundation businesslike knows that it is not businesslike.

Presents the poem "The Mother's Breast and the Father's House," by Reed Whittemore.

Focuses on Book-of-the-Month Club Inc., a bookstore in the U.S. Art club run by the company; Description of paintings displayed in the art club; Management principle of book company doing art business.

Presents information on the role played by television (TV) in the U.S. society and the significant changes caused by it in the U.S. culture. Claim that TV was a conservative medium from the very beginning, experimenting rarely on the grounds that the audience did not want experiments; Inspiration for TV programming drawn from the radio and motion pictures; Description of the primary TV audience; Conservatism of TV as its sole virtue; Use of the parody and the farce as a genre of programming by TV; Judgment of TV largely by the conservative and conventional shows on it.

Examines the performance of Eric Sevareid on CBS television. Analysis of his first two interviews with John J. McCloy; View of Sevareid on communism; Interviews of Sevareid on the Civilization theme with guest Leo Rosten; Impression of Eric as an aristocrat among journalists who was full of a deep anger that his profession had gone barbaric; Rosten's views on the wonders of freedom; Conversations with Robert Maynard Hutchins.

Reviews the television program "The Adams Chronicles."

This article discusses the business climate of the U.S. Most businessmen pride themselves on being able to face the hard facts of economic life; and to demonstrate this ability they are constantly to be found looking ironic and speaking ironically at the expense of ideals and idealists. Similarly most of the Democratic other ranks across the chasm, although they may think of themselves as hard-facts personages too, like to be ironic at the expense of those who think that all facts are ultimately money facts. Money thus is a central factor in the ironies of both sides.

Presents the author's comments on issues related to books and literary materials in the U.S. Information on review copies of books received by the periodical; Assessment of book reading in the country; Types of poets in popular literature; Opinion of publishers in the country on taxes imposed on them; Assessment of books as commodities; Description about P. G.Wodehouse's novels "Leave It to Psmith."

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discusses in previous issues. Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann's review of the play "Conduct Unbecoming"; Role of English departments as discussed in Reed Whittemore's article "English Department Ills" published in the November 7 issue; Commentary on Hugh Kenner's review of "The Life of Ezra Pound" published in the October 17 issue.

Recommends the use of television for education in the U.S. Issues related to the length of an educational television series; Influence of the television program "Sesame Street" on the public; Suggestions given by the author to select persons in English for preparing the scripts of the programs.

Presents information on advertising cheating. Use of applied psychology to problems as selling Ex-Lax; Reference to the essay "Mass Civilization and Minority Culture," by Oswald Spengler; Discussion of the market research on cheating; Efforts made by various advertisers to sell their products; Description of television's mass-culture entrepreneurs.

The article focuses on television news presenter Sally Quinn, who left the CBS Television Network's morning news show to join the newspaper "Washington Post." She left the CBS on a bitter note and even tried to demolish it by writing the book "We're Going to Make You a Star." Quinn has been compared with author Upton Sinclair, who did have the same trouble with a malicious press that Quinn had, and did take on the enemy as she has, but then came out clean as she has not.

Reviews the television program "The American Documents," starring Paul Robeson.

The article focuses on the book "Henderson the Rain King," by Saul Bellow. Bellow's story was characterized as fantastic, melodramatic, unrealistic, ironic, anarchic, frenzied (this was good), and "not essentially parodic." It was concrete for some, abstract for others. The whole performance was approved by four, disapproved by five. Well, now, Bellow himself stepped into this phrase factory a week before it opened. It is not often that a writer has a chance to tell his reviewers what they should argue about.

This article presents information on power of faculty members. There are some persons of course--mostly faculty members--who, lusting for power themselves, think that at present the faculties of our colleges have too little say on campus. These gentlemen would deprive the trustees, presidents and administrations of their traditional and proper hold on the colleges' purse strings, and would set up some Platonic state where teachers and thinkers rule and administrators merely administer. For one thing, the students don't work hard enough. For another, they haven't sufficient respect for the wonders of the mind. For a third they are too narrowly oriented; all they look forward to is a comfortable job without responsibility in a large corporation.

Presents the poem "Ode to New York," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "Money," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "Foxy Loxy's Christmas Happiness," by Reed Whittemore. First Line: Just before chicken licken, henny penny, turkey lurkey, ducky wucky and goosey; Last Line: to be able to play in this instance the role of the sky and the sea.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Gun-Peddling," which discussed the position of the government of Chile on the armaments race; Misinformation in the report by David Dempsey in the July 8, 1967 issue, regarding little magazines and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines.

Presents the poem "Six Shaggy," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents information on the impact of political violence on literature. Opinion that Richard Condon is one of the best violence writers; Comments on the book titled "The Manchurian Candidate," authored by Condon; View that the book is a lesson against brainwashing; Views on stories of violence in mass media; Information on the fact that one cannot escape from stories of violence as it is all over the place in mass media.

Comments on the efforts of the newsprint to control the radio broadcasting of news in the U.S. Defection of WOR radio station from the newspaper-radio-chain agreement and its present broadcast of news gathered by Transradio Press; Consciousness of the listeners about the inadequacy of radio's news service; Resolution offered by Southern Newspaper Publishers' Association head J. C. Stahlman prohibiting any Associated Press (AP) subscriber from furnishing radio chains with news or, if the newspaper was a broadcaster itself, from using more than a limited number of words while giving AP full credit; Opposition of publisher Adolph Ochs to the resolution.

Presents the poem "By My Window," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "A Campus in Summer," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "A Floridian Museum of Art," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "Mr. and Mrs.," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "Sputnik," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents two poems "The Man Who Could Do It Himself," and "And His Girl," by Reed Whittemore.

Presents the poem "The Popular Magazines," by Reed Whittemore.