December 1776 from The crisis / Thomas Paine -- America / Claude McKay -- Scenes 1-4 from Indians / Arthur Kopit -- The surrender speech of chief Joseph - 1877 / Chief Joseph -- It is time / Ted Joans -- A mote all around the eyeball, cartoon / Walt Kelly -- The greatest city / Walt Whitman -- U.S.A. / John Dos Passos -- New York / James Weldon Johnson -- Preludes / T.S. Eliot [et al.].