Harper's Magazine: April 1981

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April 1981

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	Photo [Cover art] By Steve Dolce (Photog.) and Bill Dolce (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Petroleum; Storage PDF IMAGES
1-32	Advertising Supplement The Harper's international travel planner 1981 PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Inside Islam, from January 1981: Letter By Flora Lewis On The color of education, from February 1981: Letter By Lisle C. Carter and Jr. Letter By Fred Reed On Hotel California, from February 1981: Letter By Burton Slatkin Letter By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison PDF IMAGES
10-14	The easy chair/Article Feet of clay: Celebrities of defeat By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 PDF IMAGES
16-18	Washington/Article Trading Poland for the Gulf: Order, not justice By Robert W. Tucker SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1945-1989; 1975-1985; 1981-1989; Persian Gulf Region; Poland PDF IMAGES
20-27	Article The pursuit of wholiness: Letter from San Francisco By Shiva Naipaul SEE ALSO: New Age movement; San Francisco PDF IMAGES
31-39	Article The rush for second place: Missed victories in America By William Gaddis SEE ALSO: 1970- PDF IMAGES
39	Poem American complicated with integrity: Homage to Muriel By John Tagliabue SEE ALSO: Rukeyser, Muriel; Poem; Women poets, American PDF IMAGES
40	The public record/Article The public record SEE ALSO: Jacobs, Andrew; Bills, Legislative; Career in House of Representatives; Ex-presidents; Subsistence economy PDF IMAGES
73-86	Article An American fortune: The Hunts of Dallas By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis, Steve Dolce (Photog.), and Bill Dolce (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Biography; Hunt, Bunker; Career in oil well drilling; Career in ownership of professional sports teams; Hunt, H.L.; Hunt, Lamar; Oil well drilling; Rich people; Trusts and trustees PDF IMAGES
87-91	Fiction Runway: A story By Jim Shepard SEE ALSO: Suicidal behavior PDF IMAGES
92	The mind's eye/Cartoon The White House redecorates SEE ALSO: Wall hangings; White House (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
93-95	Books/Review Writing by numbers: Hemingway's letters By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Books and reading; Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway's reading, 1910-1940: an inventory (Book); Reynolds, Michael S.; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
96-99	Books/Review Behind the bathroom door: Twelve March novels By Whit Stillman SEE ALSO: Drury, Allen; Brookner, Anita; Thomas, D.M.; Grumbach, Doris; Her side of it (Book); Intrusions (Book); Leave of absence (Book); Brickner, Richard P.; Byrne, Robert; MacDougall, Ruth Doan; Maitland, Sara; The dam (Book); The debut (Book); The flowers of the forest (Book); The hill of summer: a novel of the Soviet conquest (Book); The languages of love (Book); The missing person (Book); The officers' wives (Book); The white hotel (Book); Morrison, Theodore; Fleming, Thomas J.; Savage, Thomas; Tickets (Book); Hegi, Ursula PDF IMAGES
100-102	In print/Review Rescue from oblivion: Literary revivals By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: White, Antonia; Macaulay, Rose, Dame; Frost in May (Book); Reprints (Publications); The towers of Trebizond (Book) PDF IMAGES
103-105	The fourth estate/Article Wanted: An irresponsible press By Alexander Cockburn SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics PDF IMAGES
106-109	American miscellany/Article Room service: The gall of some people By John Clancy SEE ALSO: Career in publishing; Hinckle, Warren PDF IMAGES
112	Puzzle/Department April fool II By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES