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September 1977

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	Photo [Cover art] By Evelyn Hofer (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Landscape PDF IMAGES
4	Letters/Cartoon Cartoon On A legal house of cards, from July 1977: Letter By Ned J. Levine Letter By Edwin B. Barker On Busting the media trusts, from July 1977: Letter By Norman L. Shelton Letter By Peter A. Cassels SEE ALSO: Fear; Hunting trophies; Living rooms; 1977-1981; Rats; Rhinoceroses; United States. Congress; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974 PDF IMAGES
8-11	The easy chair/Article Rumors of war By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: War PDF IMAGES
12-16	Article Calcutta's bounty By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Calcutta (India) PDF IMAGES
19-26	Article The absent Left By Jeff Greenfield SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; New Left; Radicalism PDF IMAGES
30-33	Article An Alaskan tragedy By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Barrow; Eskimos; Petroleum industry and trade PDF IMAGES
34-35	Article A status quo economy By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: 1971-1981 PDF IMAGES
37-44	Article The traffic (legal and illegal) in guns By Steven Brill SEE ALSO: Firearms industry and trade PDF IMAGES
49-64	Collection The passing of Camelot PDF IMAGES Article The passing of Camelot SEE ALSO: Arthurian romances; White, T.H. (Terence Hanbury); The book of Merlyn (Book) PDF IMAGES
50-64	Fiction The book of Merlyn By T.H. (Terence Hanbury) White PDF IMAGES
65	Poem Converse By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem The wind too By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem Anniverse By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem The hidden singer By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem The watchers By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem Now By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem A meeting By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Poem The first By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By Wendell Berry PDF IMAGES
66-67	Photo Wall flowers By Deidi von Schaewen (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Mural painting and decoration; Walls PDF IMAGES
69-73	Article Is Dinu Lipatti beyond reproach? By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Coincidence; Lipatti, Dinu; Expression; Agee, Joel; Harris, Julie; Performances; Performing arts PDF IMAGES
76-78	Fiction We are Norsemen By T. Coraghessan Boyle PDF IMAGES
80-88	Article That's entertainment! By Richard Condon SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Criticism PDF IMAGES
88-90	Books/Review End game By Stephen Koch SEE ALSO: DeLillo, Don; Players (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Michael Malone SEE ALSO: Durrell, Lawrence; Auchincloss, Louis; Johnson, Paul; Theroux, Paul; Sicilian carousel (Book); The consul's file (Book); The dark lady (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-98	Article Tom Seaver's farewell By A. Bartlett Giamatti SEE ALSO: Baseball; Baseball players; Career as baseball player; Seaver, Tom PDF IMAGES
99-100	The fourth estate/Article Cultural terrorism By Michael Arthur Ledeen SEE ALSO: Communist parties; Government and the press; Press and politics; Terrorism PDF IMAGES
102-108	Music/Review Lost souls By F. Joseph Spieler SEE ALSO: Crumb, George; Music; New York Philharmonic; Star-child (Music) PDF IMAGES
108	Music/Review Recommended recordings SEE ALSO: Beethoven: Piano sonatas no. 2 in A; Piano sonata no. 3 in C (Sound recording); Saint-Saëns, Camille; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Mahler, Gustav; Vieuxtemps, Henri; Morris, Joan; Chung, Kyung-Wha; Beethoven, Ludwig van; Mahler: Symphony no. 9 (Sound recording); Performances; Saint-Saëns: violin concerto no. 3; Vieuxtemps: Violin concerto no. 5 (Sound recording); Ashkenazy, Vladimir PDF IMAGES
113	Puzzle/Department Many moons ago By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES