Harper's Magazine: November 1974

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November 1974

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	Photo [Cover art] By René Burri (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
3-123	Wraparound/Collection Wraparound PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Adventure: Into outlaw territory By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Popular culture; Twelve against the gods (Book); Bolitho, William PDF IMAGES
4	Wraparound/Article Out where a man is a man By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Cattle; Childhood and youth; Lapham, Lewis H.; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Photo [Untitled Photo] PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Franz Kafka PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Wraparound By Gustave Flaubert PDF IMAGES
5	Wraparound/Article Facing the Kamikaze rhino, and other stories By Melvin Shestack SEE ALSO: Adventure stories PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The flight from women By Paul Zweig SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Man-woman relationships in literature PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Mae West PDF IMAGES
6	Wraparound/Article Tilting at buses By Robin MacDonald SEE ALSO: Cyclists; Traffic violations PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Rolling over By T. de (Tom) Vries SEE ALSO: Taylor, Annie Edson; Career as first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel; Niagara Falls (New York and Ont.) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction War is hell By James Thurber PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Readers By Fred Edward Schwartz SEE ALSO: Peace of mind PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Only make believe By Anthony E. Neville SEE ALSO: Adventure stories; Children's writings, American PDF IMAGES
7	Wraparound/Fiction Before the battle . . . and after By Leo, graf Tolstoy PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Nikos Kazantzakis PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Mark the moments By Jean Paul Sartre PDF IMAGES
8	Wraparound/Article Expect nothing, be ready for everything By Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki SEE ALSO: Preparedness PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction No place for a lady By Matthew Lewis PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Ten, nine, eight . . . By Lewis Grossberger SEE ALSO: Job stress; Police PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Edmond Rostand PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction The discovery of the East Pole By Bruce McCall PDF IMAGES
9	Wraparound/Article Readers By Estelle Heskin and Zelma Graham Patterson SEE ALSO: Courage; Heroes; Human-animal relationships PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Donald Barthelme PDF IMAGES
10	Wraparound/Article On the river By Richard Erlanger and Susan Witty SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Philippines; Rafting (Sports); Rapids; Recreational use; Rivers PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article In the deserts By Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche SEE ALSO: Deserts PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Paul Reps PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Fiction Wraparound By Kenneth Grahame PDF IMAGES
12-22	Article Boredom: The most prevalent American disease By Estelle R. Ramey SEE ALSO: Adolescent psychology; Boredom; Housewives; Mental fatigue; Mental health; 1960-1980; Physician and patient; White collar workers PDF IMAGES
27-31	The easy chair/Article The American hero is a pearl of great price By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Heroes; Leadership; 1974-1977; Publicity PDF IMAGES
32-45	Article Tearing down Boise By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Boise; City and town life; City planning; Historic preservation; Idaho; Real estate development; Shopping malls PDF IMAGES
46-52	Article Language and reality By George Burr Leonard SEE ALSO: Consciousness; East and West; Experience; Experience (Religion); Language and culture; Literature; Mysticism; Reality; Words, New PDF IMAGES
55-82	Article Giving the Shah everything he wants By Frances FitzGerald SEE ALSO: Iran; 1925-1979; 1941-1979; 1945-1979; 1969-1974; Petroleum industry and trade; Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran PDF IMAGES
85-87	Commentary/Article The Wadhwa proposal By Edward Sorel and Kirkpatrick Sale SEE ALSO: Bribery; 1969-1974 PDF IMAGES
88-96	Article Portrait of a mugger By James Willwerth SEE ALSO: City and town life; Crime; Criminals; Lower East Side (New York, New York); Mugging; Thieves PDF IMAGES
97-101	Books/Review A conspiracy of good taste By Thomas Powers SEE ALSO: Kostelanetz, Richard; The end of intelligent writing (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-107	Books/Review A genius at decorum By Nelson W. Polsby SEE ALSO: O'Brien, Lawrence F.; No final victories: a life in politics from John F. Kennedy to Watergate (Book) PDF IMAGES
107-110	Books/Review Where chutzpah ruled By Louis Berg SEE ALSO: Kanin, Garson; Hollywood (Book) PDF IMAGES
110-112	Books/Review Humble pies By Michael Levenson SEE ALSO: Alinsky's diamond (Book); Gold, Herbert; Swiftie the magician (Book); McHale, Tom PDF IMAGES
113-117	Networks/Article A special section on bicentennial celebrations SEE ALSO: American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976; Centennial celebrations, etc. PDF IMAGES
118	Poem Charles Creek, Maryland, 1953 By Lance Morrow PDF IMAGES Poem They made you an offer By Carol McCormmach PDF IMAGES
119	Wraparound/Article On the road By Michael Shnayerson and Robert Matson SEE ALSO: Hitchhiking PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Arthur Charles Clarke PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Poem Wraparound By Walt Whitman PDF IMAGES
120	Wraparound/Fiction The hunt By William Faulkner PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Three strikes and you're out By Arnold Henry Savage Landor SEE ALSO: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage; Executions and executioners; Journeys—Tibet; Tibet PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Knowing when to stop By Suzanne Mantell SEE ALSO: Elephants; Kenya; Safaris PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Sidney Howard PDF IMAGES
121	Wraparound/Article Fathoms down By Patrick Young SEE ALSO: Career in marine biology; Deep diving; Mead, Sylvia Earle PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Secret of the caves By Peter Tompkins SEE ALSO: Caves; Ecuador PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Readers By Elaine Magarrell SEE ALSO: Bears; Camping; Hiking; Wyoming PDF IMAGES
122	Wraparound/Review Sources SEE ALSO: The princess bride: S. Morgenstern's classic tale of true love and high adventure. The “good parts” version (Book); Goldman, William PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tales of grandeur, tales of risk By Annie Dillard SEE ALSO: Adventure and adventurers; Adventures in the Arctic: my life in the frozen north (Book); Lansing, Alfred; Alive: the story of the Andes survivors (Book); Alone (Book); Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de; Autumn across America (Book); Book of the Eskimos (Book); Fletcher, Colin; Turnbull, Colin M.; Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness (Book); Abbey, Edward; Teale, Edwin Way; Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall; Endurance (Book); Mowat, Farley; Maxwell, Gavin; Durrell, Gerald Malcolm; Beston, Henry; Here to stay (Book); Dinesen, Isak; Ishi in two worlds (Book); Hersey, John; Muir, John; Journey into summer (Book); Scherman, Katharine; My family and other animals (Book); My first summer in the Sierra (Book); North with the spring (Book); Open horizons (Book); Out of Africa (Book); People of the deer (Book); Freuchen, Peter; Read, Piers Paul; Byrd, Richard Evelyn; Dana, Richard Henry; Ring of bright water (Book); Runes of the North (Book); Olson, Sigurd F.; Spring on an Arctic island (Book); The complete walker (Book); The forest people (Book); The lonely land (Book); The man who walked through time (Book); The mountain people (Book); The outermost house (Book); Kroeber, Theodora; Travels in Alaska (Book); Two years before the mast (Book); Wandering through winter (Book); Wind, sand, and stars (Book) PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Sources SEE ALSO: And to think that I saw it on Mulberry Street (Book); Seuss, Dr. PDF IMAGES
123	Wraparound/Review Tools for living By George Daniels SEE ALSO: Tools PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Pocketknives; Survival and emergency equipment PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Coats; Dressmaking; Patterns PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Tools for living SEE ALSO: Hotlines (Counseling); Runaway teenagers PDF IMAGES
127	Letters/Department Letters On The limited hang-out, from September 1974: Letter By Mrs. Irving Berler On Harvesting the dead, from September 1974: Letter By M.D. and Mary E. Costanza Letter By Amitai Etzioni On Lost and found, from September 1974: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
128	Game/Department What's in a name? By Lillian Koslover PDF IMAGES