Harper's Magazine: August 1980

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August 1980

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Marty Levick (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Churches; Quotations, maxims, etc. PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Good morning to you, lieutenant, from June 1980: Letter By Mr. and Mrs. Nels B. Sorensen Letter By Dorothy Eaton Letter By Michael O'Malley Letter By Shannon Ravenel Letter By Larry Heinemann On Textbook America, from May 1980: Letter By Frances FitzGerald Letter By Walter Karp PDF IMAGES Notice Announcement By Otto A. Silha and John Cowles SEE ALSO: Periodicals, Publishing of PDF IMAGES
6	Notice [Untitled Notice] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Awards; Bethell, Tom PDF IMAGES
8-9	The easy chair/Article Political discourse: On the despotisms of everyday life By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Political oratory PDF IMAGES
10	Article The overset: One man, one moat By M. S. SEE ALSO: Humor; Iran; Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran PDF IMAGES
11-15	Washington/Article Well-meaning government: Size and possibility By Michael A. Scully SEE ALSO: Powers and duties; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
16-20	Article Real money: Buttressed by gold By Lewis E. Lehrman SEE ALSO: Banks and banking, Central; Federal Reserve banks; Gold standard PDF IMAGES
23-32	Article The ministry of culture: Buying the just and beautiful society By Michael Macdonald Mooney SEE ALSO: Art and state; Art patronage; Duffey, Joseph D. PDF IMAGES
33-52	Article God's own network: The TV kingdom of Pat Robertson By Dick Dabney SEE ALSO: Christianity; Christianity and politics; Conservatism; Fundamentalism; 1960; Robertson, Pat; Religious broadcasting—United States; Television in religion PDF IMAGES
53	In our time/Article In our time By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Feminism; Truck drivers PDF IMAGES
54-59	Fiction The Dublin coat: A short story By George V. Higgins SEE ALSO: Perjury PDF IMAGES
60	The counsel of the dead/Article The counsel of the dead By Betty Radice (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Death and burial; Pliny the Elder; Vesuvius (Italy); Pliny, the Younger PDF IMAGES
61-66	Article Is art all there is? Creators of the world By Annie Dillard SEE ALSO: Art and science; Modernism (Literature) PDF IMAGES
68-71	Article Decoding Roland Barthes: The obit of a structuralist By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Linguistics; Barthes, Roland; Structuralism (Literary analysis) PDF IMAGES
72-75	The fourth estate/Review The wizard of Newsweek: Friends By David Sanford SEE ALSO: Newsweek (American periodical); Elliott, Osborn; Periodical editors; The world of Oz (Book) PDF IMAGES
76-77	In print/Review Spirited relatives: The imagined past By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: China men (Book); Chinese American families; Kingston, Maxine Hong; Mythology, Chinese PDF IMAGES
78	Article Fourth and goal for America: The gipper goes to Washington By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Humor; Kemp, Jack; 1977-1981; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
79-80	American miscellany/Article The heirs of Captain Slocum: Alone at sea By Sloan Wilson SEE ALSO: Hawaii; Slocum, Joshua; Sailing alone around the world (Book); Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Parting words By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES