Harper's Magazine: January 1978

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January 1978

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Rick Tulka SEE ALSO: Portraits; Hayakawa, S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé) PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Veblen revisited, from November 1977: Letter By I.K. Shukla Letter By Paul Stephens On Giving Yale to Connecticut, from November 1977: Letter By Robert L. Calhoun Letter By Anthony Ralston On A conspiracy of silence, from November 1977: Letter By James Hugh Tomer On Sins of omission, from November 1977: Letter By Vivian Mercier PDF IMAGES
7-11	The easy chair/Article Deadly virtue: The willful innocence of Jimmy Carter By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES
12-24	Article The parable of the talents: Liberal anxiety over the Bakke case is based on utopian visions By Benjamin Martin SEE ALSO: Admission; Affirmative action programs; Bakke, Allan Paul; Discrimination in education; Medical colleges; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article Writing on the party's terms: Establishing the boundaries of Czech intellectual life By Charles Sawyer SEE ALSO: Authors, Czech; Communism and literature; Czechoslovakia; 1945-1992; Political and social views; Prague (Czech Republic) PDF IMAGES
33-37	Article Utopia in trouble: The problems of Sweden's superdevelopment By Björn Kumm SEE ALSO: Cooperation; Industrial policy; Sweden PDF IMAGES
39-43	Article Mr. Hayakawa goes to Washington: On learning the legislative dance By S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé) Hayakawa SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. senator; 1971-1981; 1977-1981; Portraits; Hayakawa, S.I. (Samuel Ichiyé); United States. Congress. Senate PDF IMAGES
44-45	Poem In another country By J. Laughlin PDF IMAGES
46-54	Article America's new strategy of containment: Détente does not preclude an activist role By James Chace SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES
55-58	Article Juxtapositions By Brent C. Brolin SEE ALSO: Architecture; Architecture, Modern; Decoration and ornament, Architectural PDF IMAGES
59-65	Fiction Rat song: A story By Lewis Nordan PDF IMAGES
66-75	Article Washington's world of style: Image has become an indispensable component of substance By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Maginnes, Agnes; Zahedi, Ardeshir; Clifford, Clark M.; Fashion writing; Guinness, Gloria; Peck, Gregory; Kissinger, Henry; Sulzberger, Karen; Douglas, Kirk; Kissinger, Nancy; Harriman, Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward; Pictorial works; Peck, Veronique; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell) PDF IMAGES
76	In our time/Article Boyhood dreams: When I grow up By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Imagination in children; Revolutionaries PDF IMAGES
77-80	Article Notes on fame: The machinery of celebrity provides the faith Americans seek By John Lahr SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Fame; 1971-; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
84-86	Books/Review The bad news girls By Helen Yglesias SEE ALSO: French, Marilyn; The women's room (Book) PDF IMAGES
86-87	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Adultery and other choices (Book); Afterimages (Book); Dubus, Andre; Croce, Arlene; Assault with a deadly weapon: the autobiography of a street criminal (Book); Kelly, Dianne Hall; Disappearances (Book); Konrad, György; Mosher, Howard Frank; Sanders, Ivan; Allen, John; Heymann, Philip B.; The city builder (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-96	The fourth estate/Article The treason of the clerisy: Most American intellectuals adhere to a repressive code By Chilton Williamson SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; Political correctness PDF IMAGES
97	Puzzle/Department New wine in old bottles By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES