Harper's Magazine: October 1981

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October 1981

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	Photo [Cover art] By Joan Reeves (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On From Bauhaus to our house, from July 1981: Letter By Roger L. Conover On Farewell, Monroe doctrine, from August 1981: Letter By Daniel Rodriguez Letter By Richard G. Augenblick Letter By Eileen J. Driscoll On Panic among the Philistines, from August 1981: Letter By Richard M. Flynn Letter By Mark Hall Letter By Sylvia Day Letter By Dan O'Neill Letter By Reg Potterton Letter By Jim Lilliefors Letter By Bryan F. Griffin PDF IMAGES
10-14	The easy chair/Article Van Gogh's ear: Further notes on the official culture By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Art patrons; Arts audiences; Popular culture PDF IMAGES
14	Poem Phylogeny II: Survival traits By Edwin Muir PDF IMAGES
16-21	Washington/Article Supreme irony: The court of last resort By Peter Brimelow and Stephen J. Markman SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; Political questions and judicial power; Selection and appointment PDF IMAGES
22-28	Article The shame of professional schools: How not to educate an elite By Andrew Hacker SEE ALSO: Curricula; Entrance examinations; Entrance requirements; Faculty; Law schools; Medical colleges PDF IMAGES
30-36	Article Coolidge redux: Making the world safe for plutocracy By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: 1981-1993; Reagan, Ronald; Special prosecutors; Views on economic policy PDF IMAGES
39-58	Article What do women want? Feminism and its future By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison SEE ALSO: Feminism; Lesbianism; Northampton; Smith College; Women's rights; Women's studies PDF IMAGES
59	Ars politica/Cartoon Fidel's photo album SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Cuba; Castro, Fidel; Revolutionaries PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article The niceness factor: Good guyism in America By Florence King SEE ALSO: Masculinity; 1971-; Political correctness PDF IMAGES
66-67	Geography 105/Illustration Government income By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Economic geography; Maps; Kidron, Michael; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
68-78	Article Beastly debates: The dialectic of science By Robert Silverberg SEE ALSO: Body temperature; Dinosaurs; Regulation PDF IMAGES
79	The mind's eye/Cartoon Vacation reading safety tips SEE ALSO: Vacations PDF IMAGES
80-83	Article The art of moving pictures: Man, Superman, and myth By Bruno Bettelheim SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Motion pictures; 1970- PDF IMAGES
84-86	Books/Review Plato in Vermont: The ideal tree, and how to count it By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Pólya, George; How to solve it; a new aspect of mathematical method (Book); Mathematician's delight (Book); Mathematics; Davis, Philip J.; Prelude to mathematics (Book); Hersh, Reuben; The mathematical experience (Book); Vision in elementary mathematics (Book); Sawyer, W.W. (Walter Warwick) PDF IMAGES
87-88	Books/Review The train to Kompong Sam: Seeing the world with Thomas Cook By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: Guidebooks; Timetables; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
89-92	In print/Review Blackboard art: The novel goes to school By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: White, Antonia; Dames (Book); Apffel, Edmund; North, Elizabeth; Frost in May (Book); The last days at St. Saturn's (Book) PDF IMAGES
93-97	American miscellany/Article Random harvest: Reaping where thou hast not sown By Don Sharp SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Harvesting; Middle West; Wheat PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department Diametricode By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES