Harper's Magazine: November 1977

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November 1977

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Jerry Sarapochiello (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Buildings; Yale University PDF IMAGES
4	Letters/Cartoon Cartoon On Small is dubious, from August 1977: Letter By Amory B. Lovins Letter By Samuel Florman On The cultural tithe, from August 1977: Letter By John MacFayden On Rumors of war, from September 1977: Letter By Michael Scully On Calcutta's bounty, from September 1977: Letter By M. Mazumdar On The traffic (legal and illegal) in guns, from September 1977: Letter By Joseph Carber Letter By Steven Brill Letter By Jay Milne SEE ALSO: Launching; Panama Canal (Panama); Ships; Treaties; White House (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
8-15	The easy chair/Article Veblen revisited By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Leisure class; 1971-; Theory of the leisure class (Book); Veblen, Thorstein; Waste (Economics) PDF IMAGES
16-20	Article Changing criminal sentences By James Q. Wilson SEE ALSO: Criminal justice, Administration of; Judicial discretion; Sentences (Criminal procedure) PDF IMAGES
22-23	Article The discus thrower By Richard Selzer SEE ALSO: Hospital patients; Paraplegics; Terminally ill PDF IMAGES
26-33	Article Mexican transfer By Peter Meyer SEE ALSO: Legal status, laws, etc.; 1970-1988; 1977-1981; Transfer of prisoners PDF IMAGES Collection Mexican transfer By Peter Meyer PDF IMAGES
32	Article Problems and precedents By Peter Meyer SEE ALSO: Transfer of prisoners PDF IMAGES
34-40	Washington/Article The need to act By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; Liberalism; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES Washington/Collection WashingtonWashington PDF IMAGES
36	Washington/Article Federal job ceilings recommended by the Office of Management and Budget SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Civil service PDF IMAGES
43-56	Article Giving Yale to Connecticut By William F. (William Frank) Buckley SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Curricula; Education, Higher; God and man at Yale (Book); Management; Buckley, William F. (William Frank); Yale University PDF IMAGES
57-66	Article America's innocence abroad By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Career in diplomacy; Kissinger, Henry; 1974-1977; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES
70-71	Article The hammer and the sickle By David Suter SEE ALSO: Communism; Hammers; Political cartoons; Sickles; Signs and symbols PDF IMAGES
73-76	Fiction Land of cotton By Gilbert Sorrentino PDF IMAGES
77-92	Article A conspiracy of silence By Joseph Epstein SEE ALSO: American literature; Conspiracies; Doctorow, E.L.; Literature and society; Robert Coover; The book of Daniel (Book); The public burning (Book) PDF IMAGES
93	In our time/Cartoon Love SEE ALSO: Unmarried couples PDF IMAGES
95-103	Books/Review The reinvented word By Charles Nicol SEE ALSO: Fantastic fiction; Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel); The Silmarillion (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-105	Books/Review The fall poetry By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: A blessing outside us (Book); Sexton, Anne; Anne Sexton: a self-portrait in letters (Book); Another kind of autumn (Book); Ritsos, Giannes; Morley, Hilda; Borges, Jorge Luis; Sexton, Linda Gray; Ames, Lois; Eiseley, Loren C.; Dalven, Rae; The fourth dimension: selected poems of Yannos Ritsos (Book); The gold of the tigers: selected later poems (Book) PDF IMAGES
106-108	Books/Review Sins of omission By Judith Rascoe SEE ALSO: Dunne, John Gregory; True confessions (Book) PDF IMAGES
108-110	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Cannibals and kings: the origins of cultures (Book); Raines, Howell; Berkow, Ira; Helprin, Mark; Harris, Marvin; Maxwell Street: survival in a bazaar (Book); Refiner's fire: the life and adventures of Marshall Pearl (Book); Samuel Johnson (Book); Bate, Walter Jackson; Whiskey man (Book) PDF IMAGES
114-117	Article The faded laurel crown By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Awards; Nobel Prizes PDF IMAGES
118-119	Article Meditations on the letter Z By William Saroyan PDF IMAGES
123	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES