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November 1978

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	Photo [Cover art] By Slim Aarons (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Croquet PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Of mites and men, from August 1978: Letter By Anthony Wolff Letter By William A. Butler Letter By William Tucker On Against civil disarmament, from September 1978: Letter By Gene Mitchell Letter By Jr. and Don B. Kates On Prometheus bound, from September 1978: Letter By J.S. Duarte Letter By George Gilder On RFK enshrined, from September 1978: Letter By Jr. and Edward B. Furey Letter By Walter Karp PDF IMAGES
14-16	The easy chair/Article In memory of John Fischer By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Editors; Fischer, John PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article Fischer, John SEE ALSO: Biography; Editors; Fischer, John PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Collection The easy chair PDF IMAGES
15	The easy chair/Article From "Survival U: Prospectus for a really relevant university," September 1969 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Human ecology PDF IMAGES
16	The easy chair/Article From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Liberalism; Radicalism PDF IMAGES The easy chair/Article From "Letter from Leete's Island: Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 By John Fischer SEE ALSO: Leetes Island (Conn.) PDF IMAGES
18-22	Article Proposition 13 = Catch 22: California's rush for fool's gold By Arthur I. Blaustein SEE ALSO: 1951-; Real property tax; Tax and expenditure limitations PDF IMAGES
27-30	Article After Ellis Island: In praise of ethnic chauvinism By Andrew M. Greeley SEE ALSO: Ethnic relations; Ethnology; 1970- PDF IMAGES
33-98	Article Too rich for heroes: Toward the recovery of myth and legend By Henry Fairlie SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Lindbergh, Charles Augustus; Hero worship; Heroes; Heroes in literature; Leadership; Mythology PDF IMAGES
45-64	Fiction The living: A story By Annie Dillard PDF IMAGES
69-75	Article Diplomatic spoils: The Washington bureaucracy abroad By Roger Morris SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Diplomatic and consular service, American; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; Officials and employees; Patronage, Political; Selection and appointment; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
76-77	Article The echo of Narcissus By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Narcissus (Greek mythology); Representative government and representation PDF IMAGES Illustration The pond revisited By Aaron Shikler and Graham Vivian Sutherland SEE ALSO: Shikler, Aaron; Cox, Gardner; Sutherland, Graham Vivian; Kissinger, Henry; Kennedy, John F.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines); Portraits; Kennedy, Robert F.; Churchill, Winston, Sir; Statesmen PDF IMAGES Collection The echo of Narcissus PDF IMAGES
79	In our time/Article The new cookie By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Adultery; Disco dancing; Middle aged men PDF IMAGES
81-88	Books/Review Excellence in poetry By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: Rich, Adrienne Cecile; Bunting, Basil; Collected poems (Book); Hall, Donald; Kicking the leaves (Book); Piercy, Marge; Poetry, Modern; The dream of a common language (Book); The twelve-spoked wheel flashing (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-90	Books/Review The weight of light verse By Francis J. Flaherty SEE ALSO: Humorous poetry, American; Humorous poetry, English; Amis, Kingsley; The new Oxford book of English light verse (Book) PDF IMAGES Books/Collection Books Books PDF IMAGES
90	Poem Occasional poem By A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman PDF IMAGES Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas, William Harrison, Paul Berman, Byron Farwell, and Ralph Winfred Tyler SEE ALSO: Kraft, Barbara S.; Congo diary and other uncollected pieces (Book); Eye of the needle (Book); Facts of life (Book); I was a stranger (Book); Conrad, Joseph; Follett, Ken; Brower, Kenneth; Howard, Maureen; Hackett, John Winthrop, Sir; The peace ship: Henry Ford's pacifist adventure in the First World War (Book); The starship and the canoe (Book); Najder, Zdzislaw PDF IMAGES
93-98	The fourth estate/Article Market democracy: The world according to Gallup By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Marketing research; Political consultants; Public opinion polls; Public relations and politics PDF IMAGES
101-104	American miscellany/Article The fat poet: A bent for ambrosia By Jeffrey M. Green SEE ALSO: Diaries; Diet therapy; Overweight men; Poets, American PDF IMAGES
104	Poem If I lay my dreams on the ground By Kristina McGrath PDF IMAGES
107	Puzzle/Department Dressed to the nines By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES