Harper's Magazine: October 1977

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October 1977

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Dickran Palulian SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Deserts PDF IMAGES
4	Letters/Cartoon Cartoon On Keepers of the flame, from July 1977: Letter By John Woodcock Letter By Joseph Dunner Letter By L.M. Woods Letter By Rep. John W. Wydler Letter By A. Lawrence Chickering Letter By Daniel Krimm Letter By Jr. and Monte Canfield Letter By Walter J. Mead Letter By Lewis H. Lapham On Busting the media trusts, from July 1977: Letter By Mark Green Letter By Kevin Phillips SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Carter, Jimmy; Whaling PDF IMAGES
16-19	The easy chair/Article Beggar's opera By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Arts; Management PDF IMAGES
20-24	Article Disco By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Discotheques; 1971-; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article The culture of appeasement By Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: Defenses; 1977-1981; Pacifism PDF IMAGES
33-35	Article Memo to the White House By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Budget; Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; 1971-1981 PDF IMAGES
37-45	Article Jimmy Carter's ruling class By Roger Morris SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Career as U.S. president; Elite (Social sciences); Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES
49-68	Article The desert empire By George Sibley SEE ALSO: Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Droughts; Regulation; Water-supply PDF IMAGES Collection The desert empire By George Sibley PDF IMAGES
68	Article The effects of drought By George Sibley SEE ALSO: Droughts; Water-supply PDF IMAGES
69-71	Article Mr. and Mrs. Eakins SEE ALSO: Art, American; Artists; Biography; Marriage; Eakins, Susan Macdowell; Eakins, Thomas PDF IMAGES
73-78	Fiction Love is blind By Julie Hecht PDF IMAGES
79	In our time/Cartoon Etiquette SEE ALSO: Entertaining; Etiquette; Gay men PDF IMAGES
80-84	Article The Aztec treasure house By Evan S. Connell SEE ALSO: Antiquities; Career as collector of antiquities; Collectors and collecting; Connell, Evan S. PDF IMAGES
87-92	Books/Review Once more unto the breach By Richard Holmes SEE ALSO: Daniel Martin (Book); Fowles, John; Drabble, Margaret; The ice age (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-94	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Rudofsky, Bernard; Children with emerald eyes: histories of extraordinary boys and girls (Book); Lucie-Smith, Edward; Joan of Arc (Book); Rothenberg, Mira; Tauber, Peter; Song of Solomon (Book); The last best hope (Book); The prodigious builders (Book); Morrison, Toni PDF IMAGES
95-100	Movies/Article A kind word for critics By François Truffaut SEE ALSO: Film criticism; Film critics; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
102-110	The fourth estate/Article Cutting velvet at the New York Times By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: New York times PDF IMAGES
115	Puzzle/Department From forth the fatal loins By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES