Harper's Magazine: May 1978

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May 1978

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Elaine Miles SEE ALSO: Maps PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The barbarian within, from February 1978: Letter By Stephen C. Ausband On Justice in the stadium, from February 1978: Letter By Peter Gruenstein Letter By Roger Rosenblatt On Disguising the tax burden, from March 1978: Letter By Jr. and Clark T. Irwin On The subterranean world of the bomb, from March 1978: Letter By J.M. Talbert Letter By Ann Morrissett Davidon Letter By Richard Pipes Letter By Jeff Herbst Letter By Ron Rosenbaum PDF IMAGES
10-18	The easy chair/Article The Arabian oil bubble: Exploiting the belief in perfidious Araby By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Energy conservation; Energy policy; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); Petroleum industry and trade PDF IMAGES
18	Poem The women of New Guinea By Hilda Morley PDF IMAGES
19-22	Article Eagles, doves, and hawks: Arming the world in order to arm ourselves By Tom Gervasi SEE ALSO: Arms transfers; The Middle East; Military relations; Saudi Arabia; Strategic aspects; Weapons industry PDF IMAGES
21	Poem The link By Arthur Gregor PDF IMAGES
23-27	Article Virtue rewarded: Government in the role of Mr. Right By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Feminism; Living alone; Single women PDF IMAGES
27	Poem Sound of rapids of Laramie River in late August By W.S. (William Stanley) Merwin PDF IMAGES
28-31	Article Scissors in the head: West Germany's extreme reaction to extremism By David Zane Mairowitz SEE ALSO: Authors, German; Censorship; Civil Rights; Germany (West); Böll, Heinrich; Human Rights; Political and social views; Terrorism PDF IMAGES
32-35	Washington/Article A long row to hoe: At war with history By Anne Nelson SEE ALSO: Agricultural laws and legislation; Agricultural prices PDF IMAGES
37-47	Article The Balkanization of America: As loyalties narrow, society itself dissolves By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Ethnic relations; 1960-1980; Regionalism; Social movements PDF IMAGES
48-56	Article Cutting the ties that bind: The matter of sex reassignment By Roger Starr SEE ALSO: Career as transsexual tennis player; Richards, Renée; Sex change; Transsexuals PDF IMAGES
59-67	Fiction I want you I need you I love you By Julie Hecht PDF IMAGES
68-70	Books/Review Catholicism berserk in the Holy Land By Jim Hougan SEE ALSO: Whittemore, Edward; Jerusalem poker (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-74	Books/Review Two passions By Ella Leffland SEE ALSO: O'Brien, Edna; McNeill, Elizabeth; I hardly knew you (Book); Nine and a half weeks: a memoir of a love affair (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-75	Books/Review Spaces for the weary and glad By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Body, memory, and architecture (Book); Moore, Charles Willard; Bloomer, Kent C. PDF IMAGES
75-77	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: After midnight (Book); Farewell companions (Book); Lebowitz, Fran; Vidal, Gore; Plunkett, James; Kalki (Book); Cohen, Marvin; Metropolitan Life (Book); Grumley, Michael; Curtiss, Mina; Other people's letters: a memoir (Book); The inconvenience of living (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Poem At home By Mitchell Goodman PDF IMAGES
78	In our time/Article And that's the way it is By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Television news anchors PDF IMAGES
79-87	Theater/Review The great gray way: The period pieces of the future By Martin B. Duberman SEE ALSO: A life in the theater (Play); A prayer for my daughter (Play); Innaurato, Albert; American buffalo (Play); Curse of the starving class (Play); Mamet, David; Fefu and her friends (Play); Gemini (Play); Guare, John; Landscape of the body (Play); Fornés, Maria Irene; Shepard, Sam; The water engine (Play); Babe, Thomas PDF IMAGES
84	Poem Elm By Geof Hewitt PDF IMAGES
88-89	Movies/Review Polyester dreams: Youth gropes for an answer By Philip Terzian SEE ALSO: Travolta, John; Motion pictures; Performances PDF IMAGES
90-92	American miscellany/Article Portrait of an intellectual: Beginnings; always beginnings By Paul Zweig SEE ALSO: Blind authors; Intellectuals PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Diametricode By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES