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May 1980

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Perico Pastor SEE ALSO: Scholars PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The famous Bread Loaf writers' school, from February 1980: Letter By Stella Dong Letter By John Gardner Letter By Jonathan Z. Larsen Letter By Alexander Ehrlich Letter By Mally Cox-Chapman Letter By Linsey Abrams Letter By Mary Ellen Donovan Letter By Gene Lyons PDF IMAGES
13-17	The easy chair/Article Moral disarmament By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Contributions in political science; Hypocrisy; Machiavelli, Niccolò; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
18	Article The overset: Slush By D. M. SEE ALSO: Book proposals; Editing; Queries (Authorship) PDF IMAGES
20-32	Article The force of diagnosis: Opportune uses of psychiatry By Walter Reich SEE ALSO: Psychiatric ethics; Psychotherapy PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article His former majesty, Bokassa: And the flourishing French empire in Africa By Jeff B. Harmon SEE ALSO: Coronation; Despotism; Bokassa I, Emperor of the Central African Empire; Political corruption; Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry PDF IMAGES
41-48	Article Knowledge without wisdom: The clatter of experts By Erwin Chargaff SEE ALSO: Expertise; Intellectuals; Knowledge, Theory of PDF IMAGES
49-58	Article The dark side of Solzhenitsyn: In the manner of his enemies By George Feifer SEE ALSO: Tvardovskiæi, A. (Aleksandr); Solzheniëtìsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich; Authors, Russian; —Career as editor of Novy mir (Book); Editors; 1917-1970; Political persecution; Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky and Novy Mir (Book); The oak and the calf: sketches of literary life in the Soviet Union (Book); Lakshin, V. (Vladimir) PDF IMAGES
60-63	Article Clumsy oafs, unlettered louts: Equal in the eyes of the schools By George V. Higgins SEE ALSO: Educational equalization PDF IMAGES
66-72	Article The cult of Mormonism: The religion that runs Utah By Kenneth C. Danforth SEE ALSO: Mormon Church PDF IMAGES
73	Poem Mourning Pablo Neruda By Robert Bly SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Neruda, Pablo PDF IMAGES Poem My inheritance By Mary Jane Dickerson PDF IMAGES
74	In our time/Cartoon The evolution of the species: No. 2 SEE ALSO: Bachelors PDF IMAGES
75-78	Fiction The assembly: A short story By Mavis Gallant SEE ALSO: Rape victims PDF IMAGES
79	Lines of sight/Cartoon Jousting for the spring book awards SEE ALSO: Literary prizes PDF IMAGES
80-88	Books/Review Textbook America: The teaching of history By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: America revised: history schoolbooks in the twentieth century (Book); FitzGerald, Frances PDF IMAGES
90-92	In print/Review Fielder's choice By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Beattie, Ann; Bullies: stories (Book); Creator (Book); Days and nights of a French horn player (Book); Falling in place: a novel (Book); Trow, George W.S.; Rogin, Gilbert; Hit me with a rainbow: a novel (Book); Kirkwood, James; Leven, Jeremy; Muckaluck: a curious episode in the Cavalry's winning of the west (Book); Schisgal, Murray; My Uncle Oswald (Book); Delattre, Pierre; Preparations for the ascent (Book); Andersen, Richard; Dahl, Roald; Walking on air (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-98	The fourth estate/Article Speaking for blacks: Race problems at the New York review of books By Randall Kennedy SEE ALSO: Objectivity PDF IMAGES
94	Poem Who is it accuses us? By Linda Pastan PDF IMAGES
99-100	American miscellany/Article Cinematypes: Going to the movies By Susan Allen Toth SEE ALSO: Motion picture audiences PDF IMAGES
104	Puzzle/Department Quotation marks By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES