Harper's Magazine: June 1981

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June 1981

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4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Two cheers for government regulation, from March 1981: Note/correction On Water and power, from March 1981: Letter By Steve Hinderer Letter By W.H. Hutchinson Letter By Page Stegner On Behind the bathroom door, from April 1981: Letter By Ken McCormick On Ersatz BBC, from March 1981: Letter By Steve Feldberg Letter By Nicholas Lubar Letter By Georgia Griggs Letter By Christopher Guerin Letter By Richard A. Bensen Letter By Simon Winchester PDF IMAGES
12-18	The easy chair/Article Shooting stars: The sacred grove of celebrity By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Assassination attempt, 1981; Assassination attempts; Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, 1981; Celebrities; Individualism; Hinckley, John W.; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
20-25	Article A breach in the wall: The lesson of Poland's resistance By Leszek Kolakowski SEE ALSO: Communism; 1945-1980; Poland PDF IMAGES
26-31	Washington/Article The Haig doctrine: Making the world safe for solipsism By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Haig, Alexander Meigs; Career in diplomacy; El Salvador; 1979-1992; 1981-1989; United States. Dept. of State PDF IMAGES
33-54	Article From Bauhaus to our house By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Architects; Architecture, Modern; Bauhaus; Career in architecture; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Influence; Le Corbusier; Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig; Gropius, Walter PDF IMAGES
55	Poem Tall tale of the tall cowboy By Lawrence Ferlinghetti SEE ALSO: Poem; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
56	The public record/Article By prospectus only SEE ALSO: Dwellings; Remodeling; White House (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
58-59	Geography 105/Illustration The state by population By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Maps; Kidron, Michael; Population geography; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
60-68	Fiction Shoot the piano player: Tales of an ivory tickler By Don Asher SEE ALSO: Pianists PDF IMAGES
69-71	Books/Review Going to hell: Dante's English muse By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Mandelbaum, Allen; Sisson, C.H. (Charles Hubert); Singleton, Charles; Dante Alighieri; Dante Alighieri, the Divine Comedy (Book); Dante's Purgatory (Book); Divine Comedy (Book); Inferno (Book); Italian poetry; Musa, Mark; To 1400; Translations into English PDF IMAGES
72-76	Books/Review Orpheus in academe: Music's new lexicon By Leon Botstein SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Music; Sadie, Stanley; The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians (Book) PDF IMAGES
77-79	In print/Review A sense of scale: Charting the world by degrees By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Cartographers; Wilford, John Noble; The mapmakers (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-81	The fourth estate/Article Stating the obvious: The cliché crisis By Alexander Cockburn SEE ALSO: Assassination attempt, 1981; Assassination attempts; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
82-83	American miscellany/Article Behind the hindsight saga: S.J. Perelman remembered By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Death and burial; Humorists, American; Perelman, S.J. (Sidney Joseph) PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Head-hunting By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES