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December 1981

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Robert Foster (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Flags; Neon signs PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Coolidge redux, from October 1981: Letter By Robert E. Boyar Letter By Edward Abbey Letter By Neal Mize Letter By Robert E. Megill Letter By Walter Karp On What do women want? Feminism and its future, from October 1981: Letter By Barry Newcomb Letter By Phyllis Baldwin Letter By Gerald McHugh Letter By Ann Downer Letter By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison On Pony or Pegasus, from September 1981: Letter By Jonathan P. Murray Letter By Alice M. Otis Note/correction PDF IMAGES
10-12	The easy chair/Article Envoi: Answering the mail By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Letters to the editor; 1970- PDF IMAGES
14-20	Letter from abroad/Article The four horsemen: Heading for the apocalypse By Conor Cruise O'Brien SEE ALSO: British; Daniel P. Moynihan; Kennedy, Edward Moore; Cary, Hugh; Influence; O'Neill, Tip PDF IMAGES
22-27	Washington/Article Return to sender: Reclaiming the post office from big business By William Rodgers SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Evaluation; Postal rates; Postal service; United States Postal Service PDF IMAGES
29-85	Article The Americans: Why we baffle the Europeans By Luigi Giorgio Barzini SEE ALSO: American influences; Foreign public opinion, European PDF IMAGES
37-52	Article Invisible wars: The Pentagon plays with poison By Gene Lyons SEE ALSO: Hoeber, Amoretta M.; Biological warfare; Biological weapons; Cold War; Knowledge—Biological weapons PDF IMAGES
54-56	Books/Review Breaking the line: The bard of Newark's department stores By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Biography; Mariani, Paul L.; Poets, American; Williams, William Carlos; William Carlos Williams: a new world naked (Book) PDF IMAGES
58-61	Books/Review More facts! One sort of scholarship By Kenneth Schuyler Lynn SEE ALSO: Biography; Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph; Novelists, American; Some sort of epic grandeur: the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Book) PDF IMAGES
62-63	Geography 105/Illustration Trade power By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: International trade; Maps; Kidron, Michael; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book) PDF IMAGES
64-66	In print/Review Buried honor: A world without dragons By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Chivalry; Girouard, Mark; The return to Camelot: chivalry and the English gentleman (Book) PDF IMAGES
67	The mind's eye/Cartoon The microscopists: Two views on abortion SEE ALSO: Abortion PDF IMAGES
68-74	Article French amnesia: The holy left By Frederick Brown SEE ALSO: Mitterrand, François; 1981-; Political and social views; Socialism; Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry PDF IMAGES
75	Ars politica/Cartoon Caspar W. Weinberger's window of vulnerability SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Caspar W. Weinberger; Dickens, Charles; Cold War; Brezhnev, Leonid Ily`ich; Parodies, imitations, etc. PDF IMAGES
76-78	Revisions/Review Music without calculus: Donald Tovey's sound advice By Edmund Morris SEE ALSO: Tovey, Donald Francis, Sir PDF IMAGES
78	Poem Castle rock By Frederick Morgan PDF IMAGES
80-82	American miscellany/Article The bloody angle: Reagan and the Civil War By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Politics and war; Quotations, maxims, etc.; Reagan, Ronald; Views on war; War; Wilderness, Battle of the, Va., 1864 PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Battleships By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES