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February 1979

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	Photo [Cover art] By Humphrey Sutton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Loudspeakers PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On The living, from November 1978: Letter By Catherine Goetz On Treasure houses, from December 1978: Letter By James Biddle Letter By Robert Nessen On Burning Darwin to save Marx, from December 1978: Letter By Steven Schafersman Letter By John D. Fulton Letter By Tom Bethell On The urban crisis leaves town, from December 1978: Letter By Fred J. Silverman Letter By T.D. Allman Letter By “The Editors” On All you need to know, from December 1978: Letter By Joel A. Smith Letter By Jeffrey Burke PDF IMAGES
10-17	The easy chair/Article Lost horizon: Intimations of immortality in California By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: San Francisco (Calif.) PDF IMAGES
20-29	Article Behind closed borders: Paraguay's use of torture and repression By Penny Lernoux SEE ALSO: Stroessner, Alfredo; Career as Paraguay dictator; Human Rights; Paraguay; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
30-33	Washington/Article Against bilingual education: Why Johnny can't speak English By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Americanization PDF IMAGES
35-40	Article The unlettered university: Degrading the liberal arts on campus By John C. Sawhill SEE ALSO: College teachers; Counseling in higher education; Curricula; Education, Humanistic; Job satisfaction; Specialism (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
40	Poem Going West By David R. Slavitt PDF IMAGES
42	Poem Going home By Linda Mizejewski PDF IMAGES Poem Parked in the country By Linda Mizejewski PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By Linda Mizejewski PDF IMAGES
43-58	Article Spiritual obedience: The transcendental game of follow the leader By Peter Marin SEE ALSO: Boulder; Trungpa, Chogyam; Colorado; Disciples; Social values PDF IMAGES
59	Other things being equal/Article The strategist dreams . . . By David Suter SEE ALSO: Deterrence (Strategy); Nuclear crisis stability PDF IMAGES
60-64	Fiction Minutes of a village meeting By Beñat LeCagot and Trevanian (Trans.) PDF IMAGES Collection Minutes of a village meeting PDF IMAGES Article About the author By Trevanian SEE ALSO: Etcheberria, Arnaud; Biography; French literature; Translations into English PDF IMAGES
64-67	Article The public debate: Face the Nation By Ike Pappas, Haynes Bonner Johnson, and George Herman SEE ALSO: Admirals; Rickover, Hyman George; Interviews—Humor; Military art and science PDF IMAGES
68-73	Fiction To the Campanile: A short story By Ella Leffland PDF IMAGES
74-78	Books/Review The hunter and the hunted By James Atlas SEE ALSO: Biographers; Biography as a literary form; Bloomsbury group; Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); E.M. Forster: a life (Book); Furbank, Philip Nicholas; Portraits PDF IMAGES
82	In our time/Illustration National health By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Automobile drivers; Hitchhiking; Overweight men PDF IMAGES
83-86	Books/Review Aesthetic suicide By Katha Pollitt SEE ALSO: Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts (Book); Portraits; Plath, Sylvia; Women poets, American PDF IMAGES
86-88	Books/Review The limbo of literacy By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Simpson, Eileen B.; Reversals: a personal account of victory over dyslexia (Book) PDF IMAGES
88-91	Books/Review Ordinary miracles By Christopher Porterfield SEE ALSO: Blindness (Book); Green, Henry; Loving, living, party going: three novels (Book); Portraits PDF IMAGES
92-95	The fourth estate/Article Loosely speaking: The First Amendment makes strange bedfellows By Joseph Sobran SEE ALSO: Freedom of speech; Freedom of the press; Obscenity (Law); United States. Constitution. 1st-10th Amendments PDF IMAGES
95	Poem A changed season By Michael Ryan PDF IMAGES
96-97	American miscellany/Article Trying the land: . . . with a friend and two dogs By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Natural history literature; Nature study; Northwest, Pacific PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department Our funny valentine By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES