Harper's Magazine: November 1982

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November 1982

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Nancy Stahl PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Art versus collectibles, from August 1982: Note/correction On Gertrude Stein, from August 1982: Note/correction On Warfare, from September 1982: Letter By Matthew V. Fenton Letter By J.W. Maupin On Too much justice, from September 1982: Letter By Louise Gordon On Rich doctors, poor nurses, from September 1982: Letter By R.N. and Eunice Cole Letter By M.D. and Sanford A. Marcus Letter By Martha West Letter By M.D. and John Moser Johnstone On Stop me before I write again, from September 1982: Letter By Marianne Karydes On Who was that mass man, anyway? What émigré intellectuals like Hannah Arendt don't understand about America, from September 1982: Letter By Leon Botstein Letter By M.D. and Byron H. Waksman Letter By M.D. and T.W. Moir PDF IMAGES
8-17	Capitalism observed/Article Those who can't, consult: Why do experienced executives pay millions for the advice of young punks who've never run anything? By David Owen SEE ALSO: Business consultants; Cambridge; Strategic planning PDF IMAGES
18-22	Washington/Article Bureaucrats 2, Presidents 0: Now that Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan have reformed it, the government is more of a mess that ever By Leonard Reed SEE ALSO: Civil service reform; Civil service reform, 1978; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
23-35	Article The yellow peril and the red-haired devils By Murray Sayle SEE ALSO: 1945-1989 PDF IMAGES
36-38	Fiction Ed Buzz's new music writers' club magazine By Alex Heard SEE ALSO: English literature; Music; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
39-49	Fiction My own earth: A story By Jane Hamilton SEE ALSO: Divorce PDF IMAGES
50-55	Review Other people's mail: The letters of famous people are most interesting if you read between the lines By Joseph Epstein SEE ALSO: An abyss deep enough (Book); Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron; Darlington, Beth; Lang, Cecil Y.; Celebrities; Charles Neider; Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield; Shannon, Edgar Finley; Wilson, Edmund; Wilson, Elena; Engels, Friedrich; Raddatz, Fritz Joachim; Truman, Harry S.; Kleist, Heinrich von; Stravinsky, Igor; Marx, Karl; Karl Marx—Friedrich Engels, selected letters (Book); Letters; Letters on literature and politics, 1912-1972 (Book); Twain, Mark; Wordsworth, Mary; Poen, Monte M.; Miller, Philip B.; Craft, Robert; Stravinsky, selected correspondence (Book); Strictly personal and confidential: the letters Harry Truman never mailed (Book); The letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson (Book); The love letters of William and Mary Wordsworth (Book); The selected letters of Mark Twain (Book); Wordsworth, William PDF IMAGES
56	Designs for living/Cartoon Just rewards SEE ALSO: Discipline of children PDF IMAGES
57-65	Fiction Fellow travelers: Up the Volga with the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship By P.J. O'Rourke PDF IMAGES
66-69	Palpitations/Review My Harvard, your mama: Misty memoirs by ivy-covered nostalgiacs who should have known better By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Dubois, Diana; Harvard University; My Harvard, my Yale (Book); Sons of Harvard: gay men from the class of 1967 (Book); Marotta, Toby PDF IMAGES
69-73	Books/Review Who was Leslie Fiedler? The battle continues between literature and the man who wants it dead By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Critics; Fiedler, Leslie A.; Prejudices: a philosophical dictionary (Book); Nisbet, Robert A.; What was literature?: class culture and mass society (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Lyricist of the lunch pail: Stanley Elkin's thousand-year epic of the working man By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: George Mills: a novel (Book); Elkin, Stanley; Working class in literature PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By T. G. SEE ALSO: A history of women's bodies (Book); Shorter, Edward PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Goodbye, Mickey Mouse (Book); Deighton, Len PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Novel on yellow paper; or, Work it out for yourself (Book); Novelists, English; Over the frontier (Book); Smith, Stevie; The holiday (Book) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By D.S. B. SEE ALSO: Machismo; Royko, Mike; Sez who? Sez me (Book) PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES