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February 1978

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Rick Tulka SEE ALSO: Arabs; Costume PDF IMAGES
6-19	Letters/Department Letters On A conspiracy of silence, from November 1977: Letter By Michael Meeropol Letter By Joseph Epstein On Environmentalism and the leisure class, from December 1977: Letter By Mrs. Willis Reese Letter By Frederick Osborn Letter By Charles Komanoff and Ken Semmel Letter By Neill B. Goldstein Letter By Pete Seeger Letter By Edith B. Martin Letter By Calvin Wl Stillman Letter By Audrey D. Casier Letter By Paul A. Herbert Letter By Gordon S. Jones Letter By William Tucker PDF IMAGES
20-22	The easy chair/Article The barbarian within: On the presumption of modernity By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Mass media and culture; 1970- PDF IMAGES
22	Poem The whodunit shaggy By Reed Whittemore PDF IMAGES
23-29	Article Spain's year of wonders: Government by consensus and a chance for democracy By John Midgley SEE ALSO: Suárez, Adolfo; Career as Spain prime minister; Democracy; 1975- PDF IMAGES
30-31	Article A handful of dust: The estate of the late Howard Hughes By William Bates SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Decedents' estates; Hughes, Howard; Nevada; Rich people PDF IMAGES
32-35	Article The sorrows of travel: Women pass by By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Arizona; Abbey, Edward; Relations with women PDF IMAGES
37-56	Article The Arabian ethos By Peter A. Iseman SEE ALSO: Arabian Peninsula; Civilization, Arab; Petroleum industry and trade; Saudi Arabia PDF IMAGES
57-63	Article Engineering and the female mind: Why women will not become engineers By Samuel C. Florman SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Education, Higher; Feminism and education PDF IMAGES
64-69	Drama Helmslet By Jim Hougan PDF IMAGES
71-75	Fiction My father, cont. By Frederick Busch PDF IMAGES
76	In our time/Article Parents day By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Intergenerational relations PDF IMAGES
78-82	Article Justice in the stadium By Roger Rosenblatt SEE ALSO: Career as advisor for Fight to Advance the Nation's Sports; Gruenstein, Peter; Political activists; Nader, Ralph; Sports; Sports spectators PDF IMAGES
83-84	Books/Review Confessions of a talk show host By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Transatlantic blues (Book); Sheed, Wilfrid PDF IMAGES
84-90	Books/Review Where the wild things are By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Rensberger, Boyce; Shepard, Paul; The cult of the wild (Book); Thinking animals: animals and the development of human intelligence (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-92	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Jeffrey Burke and Rhoda Koenig SEE ALSO: Abortion in America: the origins and evolution of national policy (Book); Big bad wolves: masculinity in the American film (Book); Castaneda, Carlos; White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks); Essays of E.B. White (Book); Forever young (Book); Freaks: myths and images of the secret self (Book); Wolff, Geoffrey; Inklings (Book); Mohr, James C.; Mellen, Joan; Cott, Jonathan; Wambaugh, Joseph; Fiedler, Leslie A.; The black marble (Book); The second ring of power (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-94	Article The brief life of a poet: The author resists joining a club that would accept him as a member By Calvin Trillin SEE ALSO: American poetry; Publishing; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
95-96	American miscellany/Article The sound of doom By Peter McCabe SEE ALSO: Concorde (Jet transports); Conservation of natural resources; Environmentalists; Noise pollution PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Triangulation By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES