Harper's Magazine: October 1980

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October 1980

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The dark side of Solzhenitsyn, from May 1980: Letter By Winthrop Knowlton Letter By George Feifer On The ministry of culture, from August 1980: Letter By William J. Bennett Letter By Jacob Neusner Letter By Michael Macdonald Mooney PDF IMAGES
5-8	Article The heavenly city By Edward N. Costikyan and Maxwell Lehman SEE ALSO: City planning PDF IMAGES
10-13	The easy chair/Article Ordeal by fire: Casting the candidates into bronze By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Carter, Jimmy; 1980-; Political and social views; Press and politics; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
14-20	Article Terms of endearment: Legislating love By Walter Berns SEE ALSO: Affirmative action programs; Sexual harassment PDF IMAGES
21-26	Article Conservatism in America: A small circle of friends By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Phillips, Howard; 1977-1981; Weyrich, Paul M.; Viguerie, Richard; Views on conservatism PDF IMAGES
28-31	Article Respectable terrorism: When its victims become violent By Lesley Hazleton SEE ALSO: Guerrilla warfare; Jewish-Arab relations; The Middle East; Terrorism PDF IMAGES
38-40	Article Unprofitable war: Debasing the currency with arms By George S. (George Stanley) McGovern SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Arms race; Inflation (Finance); United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
41-56	Article The virtues of ambition: Some kind words for money, fame, and power By Joseph Epstein SEE ALSO: Ambition; Individualism PDF IMAGES
57-61	Fiction The copper balloons: A short story By Lewis Nordan SEE ALSO: Ballooning; Hot air balloons PDF IMAGES
62	Poem In the beginning was the word By Richard Shelton PDF IMAGES Poem To you By Richard Shelton PDF IMAGES Collection Four poems By Richard Shelton PDF IMAGES
63	Poem Song of the hogan By Richard Shelton PDF IMAGES Poem Promises By Richard Shelton PDF IMAGES
64-74	Article Moscow games: Notebook from a forbidden Olympics By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Moscow (Russia) PDF IMAGES
75	In our time/Article Style note By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Women college students PDF IMAGES
76	The counsel of the dead/Article The counsel of the dead By H.G. (Herbert George) Wells SEE ALSO: Effect of inflation on; Wages PDF IMAGES
78-85	Movies/Article The man in the movies By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Heroes in motion pictures; Men actors; Method (Acting); Training of PDF IMAGES
86-89	Books/Review Rescuing the ark: Conservation and paternalism in Madagascar By Patrick Marnham SEE ALSO: A world like our own: man and nature in Madagascar (Book); Jolly, Alison; Environmental conditions; Madagascar PDF IMAGES
90-91	In print/Review Literary gluttony: Sating the binge-reader By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Bellefleur (Book); Oates, Joyce Carol; Drabble, Margaret; The middle ground: a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
92-93	American miscellany/Article Fantastic voyage: In the realm of pure thought By Larry Tritten SEE ALSO: Thought and thinking PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department New directions By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES