Harper's Magazine: April 1982

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April 1982

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Patrick Nagel PDF IMAGES
1-32	Advertising Supplement Summer pleasures: Harper's international travel planner PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The feckless thrifts, from February 1982: Letter By Thad Woodard Letter By Robert J. Ellis Letter By William B. O'Connell Letter By William B. Brady Letter By E.O. Knowles Letter By Dick Humphrey On Russian winter, from February 1982: Letter By Ralph Slovenko PDF IMAGES
8-13	Capitalism observed/Article Pinstripes & lunchpails: Most Wall Street investment advisers now work for workers' pension funds—and they aren't earning their keep By Stan Luxenberg SEE ALSO: Investment advisors; Management; Pensions PDF IMAGES
13-19	Letter from abroad/Article China stinks: It may be a nice place to visit, but a billion people have to live there By James Kenneson SEE ALSO: Communism PDF IMAGES
21-35	Article Confessions of a blue-chip black By Roger Wilkins SEE ALSO: A man's life: an autobiography (Book); Civil Rights; Wilkins, Roger W. PDF IMAGES Collection Confessions of a blue-chip black PDF IMAGES
28-29	Article They all look alike By Roger Wilkins SEE ALSO: Errors, inventions, etc.; Mistaken identity PDF IMAGES
32-33	Article “. . . A well-known neurosis . . .” By Isaiah, Sir Berlin SEE ALSO: Against the current: essays in the history of ideas (Book); Assimilation (Sociology); Cultural assimilation; Jews; Berlin, Isaiah, Sir PDF IMAGES
36-37	Article Lit talk: Go ahead, you're on the air By Alex Heard SEE ALSO: Talk shows PDF IMAGES
38-78	Article Repealing the Enlightenment: The biggest thing in Arkansas since Creation—and when was that, by the way? By Gene Lyons SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Creationism; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
80-91	Article How can you defend those people? The clients Louis Nizer never gets By James S. Kunen SEE ALSO: Legal ethics; Public defenders PDF IMAGES
92-95	Fiction The miracle of the birds: A story By Jorge Amado and Barbara Merello (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Miracles PDF IMAGES
96-100	Books/Review Contempt causes insanity: The guru of aesthetic realism By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Biography; Buildings; Applewhite, E.J.; Siegel, Eli; Farms, Small; Kafka, Franz; Guidebooks; K, a biography of Kafka (Book); Hayman, Ronald; Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism (Book); The gift of good land: further essays, cultural and agricultural (Book); Washington itself: an informal guide to the capital of the United States (Book); Berry, Wendell PDF IMAGES
101-103	Books/Review Friends for now: Try deepened conversation, Mr. Carnegie By Ann Hulbert SEE ALSO: Leefeldt, Christine; Carnegie, Dale; Callenbach, Ernest; Friends as family (Book); Friendship; Friendship (Book); How to win friends and influence people (Book); LaPatra, Jack W.; Block, Joel D.; Malone, John Williams; Lindsey, Karen; Gould, Shirley; Straight women/gay men: a special relationship (Book); The age factor: love, sex, and friendship in age-different relationships (Book); The art of friendship (Book); The challenge of friendship: helping your child become a friend (Book) PDF IMAGES
104-106	Books/Review Washed up: Followers of Robinson Crusoe By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Honduras; Theroux, Paul; The Mosquito Coast: a novel (Book); Travel writing PDF IMAGES
106	Article Negligible literary anecdote no. 2 By John Morressy PDF IMAGES
107-108	Review Chastity returns: Brief reviews By Erich Eichman SEE ALSO: A private life: a novel (Book); Seton, Cynthia Propper; Lodge, David; Group portrait: Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, and H.G. Wells (Book); Goldman, Laurel; Delbanco, Nicholas; Souls and bodies (Book); Sounding the territory (Book) PDF IMAGES
112	Puzzle/Department Crazy quilt By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES