Harper's Magazine: August 1981

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August 1981

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Kenneth Kneitel SEE ALSO: Book covers PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On From Bauhaus to our house, from June 1981: Letter By Joel D. Hencken Letter By Henry Hope Reed Letter By A. Daniel Feldman Letter By William C. Rogers Letter By Peg Moore Letter By Barbara Thornton Letter By Brian James Neilson Letter By Philip Morton On Ersatz BBC, from March 1981: Letter By Frank Mankiewicz On Xenophobia, from May 1981: Letter By Christopher B. Timmers On The forgotten war, from July 1981: Letter By Allan Y. Song PDF IMAGES
8-11	The easy chair/Article Sculptures in snow: Notes on the uses of the press By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Influence; News audiences; Philosophy; Press PDF IMAGES
12-15	Letter from abroad/Article Ending the dacoity menace: India's most frightful crime By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: Crime PDF IMAGES
16-24	Article Oiling the machine: The education of Alfonse D'Amato By Jonathan Kwitny SEE ALSO: D'Amato, Alfonse; Career in politics; 1951-; Political corruption; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
29-35	Article Farewell, Monroe doctrine: Three dates of change in Latin America By Carlos Fuentes SEE ALSO: Cuba; El Salvador; Guatemala; Imperialism; Invasion, 1961; Monroe doctrine; 1979-1992; Revolution, 1954 PDF IMAGES
37-52	Article Panic among the Philistines: The collapse of the literary establishment By Bryan F. Griffin SEE ALSO: American literature; Literary movements; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
53	Ars politica/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Libya; Qaddafi, Muammar; 1969-; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
54-60	Fiction God's marvelous plan: A story By Larry Heinemann SEE ALSO: War stories PDF IMAGES
62-63	Geography 105/Illustration Refugees By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Maps; Kidron, Michael; Refugees; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
64-65	The public record/Article The public record By Randy Cohen SEE ALSO: Animal welfare; Koch, Ed; Evolution; Humor; Modest proposals (Book); Cohen, Randy; Reagan, Ronald; Subways PDF IMAGES
66-68	Books/Review A geographer of the imagination: The astute eye of Guy Davenport By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Art historians; Criticism; Criticism, Textual; Deconstruction; Davenport, Guy; The geography of the imagination: forty essays (Book) PDF IMAGES
69	In our time/Cartoon The evolution of the species: No. 4 SEE ALSO: Narcotic addicts PDF IMAGES
70	Poem Warning the deer By Gerry Stork SEE ALSO: Deer hunting PDF IMAGES
71-74	Books/Review The new irrelevance: Specialists in the noncontroversial By Mark Lilla SEE ALSO: Gutmann, Amy; Equality; Equality (Book); Liberal equality (Book); Reich, Michael; Green, Philip; Racial inequality: a political-economic analysis (Book); The pursuit of inequality (Book); Ryan, William PDF IMAGES
75	The mind's eye/Cartoon A North/South dialogue SEE ALSO: International relations PDF IMAGES
76-79	In print/Review Saki's world: Killer elks and tyrannical aunts By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Langguth, A.J.; Saki, a life of Hector Hugh Munro: with short stories never before collected (Book) PDF IMAGES
80-82	Revisions/Article Mr. Common Sense: The American Trotsky By Michael Foot SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Revolutionaries; Paine, Thomas PDF IMAGES
84-85	American miscellany/Article Vestment strategies: Wearing your fortune on your back By Louis T. Grant SEE ALSO: Effect of inflation on; Investments; Protective clothing PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Pressing matters By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES