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August 1978

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	Photo [Cover art] By Jerry Sarapochiello (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Leaves PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Scissors in the head, from May 1978: Letter By Carl Heinz Neukirchen Letter By David Zane Mairowitz On The wealth of Washington, from June 1978: Letter By Curtis L. Gladen Letter By Kenneth T. Blaylock Letter By Tom Bethell PDF IMAGES
8-15	The easy chair/Article Perspectives of flight: Notes for a journal By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Elite (Social sciences); 1970- PDF IMAGES
18-20	Washington/Article The liberal Carter: Wooing the recipient class By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; Liberalism; 1977-1981; Social policy PDF IMAGES
21-29	Article Bioethical questions: Who lives, who dies, and who decides? By Leonard C. Lewin SEE ALSO: Bioethics; Birth control; Diagnosis; Human experimentation in medicine; Medical policy; Right to die; Violent deaths PDF IMAGES
28	Poem Bed side By Jean Howard PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article Diagnosing Soviet dissidents: Courage becomes madness, and deviance disease By Walter Reich SEE ALSO: Cross-cultural studies; Dissenters; Forensic psychiatry; 1970-1991; Psychiatric ethics; Psychology, Pathological PDF IMAGES
38-40	Fiction From the history of the party of moderate progress within the limits of the law By Jaroslav Hasek and Peter Kussi (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
43-58	Article Of mites and men: In which scientists and environmentalists argue about the right way to kill insects By William Tucker SEE ALSO: Agriculture and state; Biological control; Biological pest control agents; Environmental aspects; Environmental Protection Agency; Environmentalism; Pests; Carson, Rachel; Silent spring (Book) PDF IMAGES
61-72	Article Walking on the Wall By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Berlin; Berlin (Germany); Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Civil rights and socialism; German Americans; Agee, Joel; Journeys—Germany—Berlin PDF IMAGES
73	In our time/Article The modern minister By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Appointment, call, and election PDF IMAGES
75-80	Books/Review Egypt's grand illusion By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Sadat, Anwar; Egypt; 1970-1981; Search of identity: an autobiography (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-83	Books/Review Baraka and bloodshed By Timothy Foote SEE ALSO: Algeria; Horne, Alistair; Revolution, 1954-1962; Savage war of peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (Book) PDF IMAGES
84-86	Books/Review In praise of sheer nonsense By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Arendt, Hannah; The life of the mind (Book); Thought and thinking PDF IMAGES
86-88	Books/Review News from the sisterhood By Helen Yglesias SEE ALSO: Shulman, Alix Kates; Bad connections (Book); Burning questions (Book); Robinson, Jill; Johnson, Joyce; Perdido (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-90	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Jeffrey Burke, Ella Leffland, Suzanne Mantell, Charles Nicol, and Paul Berman SEE ALSO: Berg, A. Scott (Andrew Scott); Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe: tales and sketches (Book); Poe, Edgar Allan; Nichols, John Treadwell; Spence, Jonathan D.; Ruttle, Lee; Mara (Book); Max Perkins: editor of genius (Book); The death of woman Wang (Book); The magic journey (Book); The private war of Dr. Yamada (Book); Mabbott, Thomas Ollive; Reich, Tova PDF IMAGES
94-97	American miscellany/Article Lost: Tales from the north country By John Meade Haines SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Missing persons PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department Superfluities By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES