Harper's Magazine: March 1978

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March 1978

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Earth PDF IMAGES
1-30	Advertising Supplement Harper's international travel planner 1978 PDF IMAGES
5-8	Letters/Department Letters On The official avant-garde, from December 1977: Letter By Alinda Friedman On Mr. Hayakawa goes to Washington, from January 1978: Letter By James R. Sauer Letter By Herman F. Reissig Letter By Vaughn Kendrick On America's new strategy of containment, from January 1978: Letter By Leonard F. Villa Letter By James Chace On Juxtapositions, from January 1978: Letter By Gary Skotnicki Letter By Brent Brolin PDF IMAGES
9-15	The easy chair/Article “La Comédie humaine” By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Banks and banking; Feminists; Medical ethics; 1960; 1971-; Popular culture; Sexual ethics PDF IMAGES
18-23	Article The Palestinian dilemma: Can Israel be liberated from its conquests? By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Arab-Israeli conflict; Jewish-Arab relations; 1949- PDF IMAGES
24-30	Article The college admissions game: University applicants compete against others of like interest By Richard (Richard W.) Moll SEE ALSO: Admission; College athletes; Entrance requirements; Recruiting PDF IMAGES
27	Poem Gone By Alex B. Marton PDF IMAGES
32-38	Article Disguising the tax burden: Little-known facts beneath the rhetoric of reform By Paul Craig Roberts SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Income tax; 1977-1981; Tax shelters; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
43-50	Article Political technology: Reflections on the continuing American experiment By Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph) Boorstin SEE ALSO: Federal government; Technology and civilization PDF IMAGES
85-105	Article The subterranean world of the bomb By Ron Rosenbaum SEE ALSO: First strike (Nuclear strategy); Guided missile silos; Military policy; Nuclear crisis control; Nuclear warfare PDF IMAGES
106-109	Article Wish you were here By Suzanne Mantell SEE ALSO: Exhibitions; Postcards PDF IMAGES
110-116	Fiction The Village: A story By Stephen Dixon PDF IMAGES
117	In our time/Article New frontiers in education: High school civics By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Classroom management; High school students; Teacher-student relationships PDF IMAGES
118-124	Books/Review Dubious hindsight By Wilfred G. Burchett SEE ALSO: Decent interval (Book); Snepp, Frank; Secret service PDF IMAGES
125-127	Books/Review O Kipling, my Kipling By Timothy Foote SEE ALSO: Wilson, Angus; Biography; Kipling, Rudyard; The strange ride of Rudyard Kipling: his life and works (Book) PDF IMAGES
127-128	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Michael Malone SEE ALSO: Going after Cacciato (Book); Hills, L. Rust; Dickinson, Peter; Kirk, Ruth; Snow (Book); The romance of American communism (Book); O'Brien, Tim; Gornick, Vivian; Walking dead (Book); Writing (in general) and the short story (in particular) (Book) PDF IMAGES
129-131	American miscellany/Article Ecstasy and poetry in Chicago: A middle-aged lawyer goes to his first poetry reading By Lowell B. Komie SEE ALSO: Arts audiences; Oral interpretation of poetry; Oratory—Humor; Poets, American; Bly, Robert PDF IMAGES
134	Puzzle/Department Headhunting By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES