Harper's Magazine: August 1979

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August 1979

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Elliott Erwitt (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Sun-baths PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Inflation's winners, from June 1979: Letter By Martin Gelenter On The gas price fixers, from June 1979: Letter By Gordon S. Jones Letter By Victor A. Karlson Letter By Tom Bethell On Border crossings, from July 1979: Letter By “The Editors” On Literary vogues, from June 1979: Letter By Hubert B. Herring Letter By Bryan F. Griffin PDF IMAGES
6-12	The easy chair/Article The shattered mirror: Bits and pieces of experience By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Authors and readers; Literature and society; 1970-; Objectivity PDF IMAGES
14-15	Article Rooms without windows: The death of a mailman By Richard Selzer SEE ALSO: Career as surgeon; Environmental engineering; Letter carriers; Postal service; Selzer, Richard; Surgeons; Surgery PDF IMAGES
16-22	Article Canning directions: How the government rids itself of troublemakers By David W. Ewing SEE ALSO: Civil service; Dismissal of; Officials and employees; Personnel management PDF IMAGES
26-31	Article The health of science: Has American research lost its vigor? By Daniel J. Kevles SEE ALSO: International cooperation; Rating of; Scientists PDF IMAGES
33-90	Article Hiding from the bomb—again: Civil defense is back By Ed Zuckerman SEE ALSO: Civil defense; Environmental aspects; Nuclear bomb shelters; Nuclear crisis stability; Nuclear warfare; Radiation; Safety measures PDF IMAGES
41-60	Article Neon India: A song celestial for rock band and sitar By Gita Mehta SEE ALSO: American influences; Civilization, Western; Gurus; Hinduism and culture; Music; Visitors, Foreign PDF IMAGES
61-69	Fiction Weekend: A short story By Fay Weldon PDF IMAGES
70	In our time/Article Great moments in contemporary architecture: The clients' first night in the house By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern PDF IMAGES
71-76	Article From alpha to X ray: A glossary of scientific terms By Wayne Biddle SEE ALSO: Terminology PDF IMAGES
77-84	Article Down with public television: The Carnegie Broadcasting System By Stephen Chapman SEE ALSO: Public television; Television broadcasting policy PDF IMAGES
85-87	Books/Review Extreme unction: The President and the bishop By A. Lawrence Chickering SEE ALSO: Carter, Jimmy; Moore, Paul; Take a bishop like me (Book); The spiritual journey of Jimmy Carter: in his own words (Book); Pippert, Wesley G. PDF IMAGES
88-89	In print/Review Woolf & Co.: Nine Bloomsberries By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Bloomsbury: a house of lions (Book); Bloomsbury group; Banks, Joanne Trautmann; Edel, Leon; Nicolson, Nigel; Woolf, Virginia PDF IMAGES
93	Other things being equal/Article A tale of spin By David Suter SEE ALSO: Billiards; Cricket; Rhetoric PDF IMAGES
94-97	American miscellany/Article Matters of taste: The candy man By Alexander Theroux SEE ALSO: Candy; Candy stores PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department The uncrossword puzzle By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES