Harper's Magazine: July 1978

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July 1978

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	Photo [Cover art] By Bob Adelman (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Street signs PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On Scissors in the head, from May 1978: Letter By Glenn T. Wilson Letter By David Zane Mairowitz On Cutting the ties that bind, from May 1978: Letter By L. Craig Schoonmaker Letter By Eileen Higham Letter By Leonora H. Smith Letter By Roger Starr PDF IMAGES
11-13	The easy chair/Article The melancholy herd: Further thoughts on the American bedouin By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Migration, Internal; 1970- PDF IMAGES
14-23	Article In pursuit of scapegoats: The veteran as pariah By Jeffrey A. Jay SEE ALSO: Military psychiatry; Veterans; War and society PDF IMAGES Collection After Vietnam PDF IMAGES
23-25	Article The myth of public innocence: Reviewing the record of American consent By Harrison Rainie SEE ALSO: Military policy; Public opinion, American PDF IMAGES
27-38	Article Politics in the woods: The wilderness as refuge for ideologies and lobbyists By Gene Lyons SEE ALSO: Control; Deer hunting; Marin County; Morris County; Wildlife conservation PDF IMAGES
39-54	Article Into Eritrea: Africa's Red Sea war By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Guerrilla warfare; Journeys—Eritrea PDF IMAGES
55-57	Fiction The Canological Institute: A short story By Jaroslav Hasek PDF IMAGES
58-69	Article More Catholic than the pope: Archbishop Lefebvre and a romance of the one true church By Mary Gordon SEE ALSO: Career in Catholic traditionalist movement; Catholic Church; Doctrines; Long Island; Lefebvre, Marcel PDF IMAGES
70-71	Article Q & A: Making bricks without straw By Jean Rhys SEE ALSO: Devon; Interviewing in journalism; Rhys, Jean; Portraits; Women authors, English PDF IMAGES
73	In our time/Article Great ideas of western man: The famous writer on the college lecture circuit By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Relations with women; Sexual behavior; Women college students PDF IMAGES
74-81	Article Langlois's bathtub: The Genesis myth of the Cinémathèque Française By Diana Johnstone SEE ALSO: Career as motion picture collector; Collectors and collecting; Langlois, Henri; Motion pictures; Portraits PDF IMAGES
82-84	Books/Review Muck, memory, and imagination By Margaret Drabble SEE ALSO: Irving, John; The world according to Garp (Book) PDF IMAGES
84-88	Books/Review The critic as a cultural confidence man By John Lahr SEE ALSO: Kazin, Alfred; New York Jew (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-89	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas, Jeffrey Burke, and Paul Berman SEE ALSO: Godwin, Gail; Gilder, George F.; Feifer, George; Set in motion (Book); To dance: the autobiography of Valery Panov (Book); Martin, Valerie; Violet Clay (Book); Visible man: a true story of post-racist America (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-91	American miscellany/Article Barbed wire: . . . and the art of stringing it By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Barbed wire; Glidden, Joseph F.; Knowledge—Barbed wire; Oklahoma; Wire fencing PDF IMAGES
94	Puzzle/Department Triskaidekacode By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES