Harper's Magazine: November 1981

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November 1981

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The new irrelevance, from August 1981: Letter By Edward S. Greenberg On Panic among the Philistines, from September 1981: Letter By Andrei Navrozov Letter By Bill Hinchliff Letter By Robert B. Stuart Letter By Michael Ventura Letter By Virginia Kennan On What do women want? Feminism and its future, from October 1981: Letter By Haven Bradford Gow Letter By Cookie McGee On A geographer of the imagination, from August 1981: Letter By Brendan Gill Letter By Hugh Kenner PDF IMAGES
10-12	The easy chair/Article The compleat American By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career changes PDF IMAGES
14-18	Letter from abroad/Article Pomp and desperation: England's retreat from civility By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Marriages of royalty and nobility; Punk culture PDF IMAGES
20-23	Article The silence of the Jews: Israel's own anti-Semitism By Jacobo Timerman SEE ALSO: Antisemitism; Argentina; Arms transfers; Israel; Jews; 1955-1983; Persecutions PDF IMAGES
25-36	Article The energy crisis is over! How we beat OPEC By William Tucker SEE ALSO: Energy policy; Government policy; Natural gas; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum products; Price regulation; Prices PDF IMAGES
38-40	Article Journey's end: Nirvana on five dollars a day By Paul Fussell SEE ALSO: Convalescence; Health aspects PDF IMAGES
42-65	Article Shreds of evidence: Science confronts the miraculous—the shroud of Turin By Cullen Murphy SEE ALSO: Analysis; Janney, Don; Jumper, Eric; Jackson, John; Knowledge—Holy Shroud; Los Alamos (N.M.); Rogers, Ray; Bucklin, Robert; McCrone, Walter C. PDF IMAGES
66-67	Geography 105/Illustration The islands of the blessed By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Maps; Kidron, Michael; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
68	Ars politica/Cartoon A James Watt national park SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Environmental policy; Watt, James G. PDF IMAGES
69-74	Fiction Interior, the studio, morning light: A story By Jeremy Larner SEE ALSO: ; Los Angeles; Screenwriters PDF IMAGES
75-80	Movies/Article One summer night: I am a camera By Michelangelo Antonioni and Lawrence Venuti (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Motion pictures; Plots, themes, etc. PDF IMAGES
81	The mind's eye/Cartoon International types SEE ALSO: Freedom of speech; Iran; Poland PDF IMAGES
82-84	In print/Review First time out: The perils of the fictional debut By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Mars-Jones, Adam; Easy travel to other planets (Book); Fabrications (Book); In a high place: a novel (Book); Meschery, Joanne; Mooney, Ted PDF IMAGES
85-88	Revisions/Article Spoils of defeat: Rationalizing Vietnam By Robert W. Tucker SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Rationalization (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
89-92	The fourth estate/Article An inflation libretto: The refrain of paper money in Argentina By Nikolai Stevenson SEE ALSO: Argentina; Imprisonment; Inflation (Finance); Timerman, Jacobo; 1955-1983; Objectivity PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Masterpiece By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES