Harper's Magazine: December 1982

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December 1982

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	Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Division of labor PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Art versus collectibles, from August 1982: Letter By Israel Segal On Waiting for interferon, from September 1982: Letter By Mathilde Krim On Hogwash, from October 1982: Letter By James S. Hand Letter By Jane Adams Letter By Harry Fawcett Letter By Clancy Strock Letter By Stephen Chapman Note/correction On Closets of power, from October 1982: Letter By Perry Brass Letter By Don Hoffman Letter By Norman Dorsen Letter By Roger Wilkins Note/correction PDF IMAGES
10-13	Capitalism observed/Article The board game: Why celebrity has-beens love serving as corporate directors, and why management loves having them By Timothy F. Bannon SEE ALSO: Directors of corporations PDF IMAGES
14-17	Washington/Article How to be a one-term president: What the Reagan administration can learn from the Carter people's memoirs By Charles Peters SEE ALSO: Crisis: the last year of the Carter presidency (Book); Jordan, Hamilton; Carter, Jimmy; Keeping faith: memoirs of a president (Book); 1977-1981; Staff PDF IMAGES
16	Illustration Press release of the month SEE ALSO: Military policy; Press releases PDF IMAGES
18	Harper's journal/Article Boycott cocaine By David Owen SEE ALSO: Cocaine; Cocaine industry; Colombia PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Hot airbags By R.M. K. SEE ALSO: 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Collection Harper's journal PDF IMAGES
20-21	Harper's journal/Article Headaches By M.E. K. SEE ALSO: Drugs PDF IMAGES
22-31	Article In a society of equals, garbage is everyone's business By Michael Walzer SEE ALSO: Division of labor; Sanitation workers; Service, Compulsory non-military PDF IMAGES Collection Dirty work should be shared By Michael Walzer PDF IMAGES
26	Article Time off By Michael Walzer SEE ALSO: Holidays; Vacations PDF IMAGES
32-36	Article Guests and hosts: Obeying the rules of hospitality can be excruciating if you are scrupulous about it By Lewis Nordan SEE ALSO: Hospitality; 1971- PDF IMAGES
37-45	Article Tidings of comfort & joy: Anarchist poet, eminent gerontologist, novelist, political thinker, sex guru By P.J. Corkery SEE ALSO: Comfort, Alex; The joy of sex: a Cordon Bleu guide to lovemaking (Book) PDF IMAGES
46-50	Fiction Investments: A story By Jonathan Penner SEE ALSO: Psychotherapy PDF IMAGES
51	Designs for living/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Adultery PDF IMAGES
52-55	Palpitations/Review The limits of poetic license: The more you learn about Robert Lowell's life, the less you want to read his poems By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Biography; Hamilton, Ian; Poets, American; Lowell, Robert; Robert Lowell: a biography (Book) PDF IMAGES
54	Article Negligible literary anecdote no. 8 By John Morressy SEE ALSO: Humor; Poets, English; Blake, William PDF IMAGES
56-60	Article Thought: Please welcome my next idea By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Moyers, Bill D.; Career in television broadcasting; Criticism and interpretation; Adler, Mortimer Jerome; Philosophers; Public television PDF IMAGES
61-63	The fourth estate/Review Tubecrit: Television criticism is still a primitive art By John James Powers SEE ALSO: Diamond, Edwin; On the air! (Book); Powers, Ron; Sign off: the last days of television (Book); Television criticism; The newscasters (Book); Shales, Tom PDF IMAGES
64-67	Books/Review Destination: Void By Arnold Klein SEE ALSO: Bester, Alfred; All my sins remembered (Book); Clarke, Arthur Charles; Smith, Cordwainer; Lessing, Doris May; Dune (Book); Herbert, Frank; Haldeman, Joe W.; Niven, Larry; Norstrilia (Book); Sargent, Pamela; Rendezvous with Rama (Book); Ringworld engineers (Book); Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson); Science fiction; Stranger in a strange land (Book); The demolished man (Book); The golden space (Book); The left hand of darkness (Book); The Sirian experiments: the report by Ambien II, of the five (Book); Le Guin, Ursula K. PDF IMAGES
68-69	Television/Review Mailer's teleplay: The Executioner's Song has been poorly adapted, but the author has no one to blame but himself By Michael Sragow SEE ALSO: Film adaptations; Film and video adaptations; Mailer, Norman; The executioner's song (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-71	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: DeLillo, Don; Names in literature; The names (Book) PDF IMAGES
71-72	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Three novels: The mystic masseur; The suffrage of Elvira; Miguel Street (Book); Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) PDF IMAGES
72	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Bounty Mutiny, 1789; Christian, Fletcher; Fragile paradise: the discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty mutineer (Book); Christian, Glynn PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: White, Antonia; Beyond the glass (Book); Frost in May (Book); Novelists, English; The lost traveller (Book); The sugar house (Book) PDF IMAGES
76	Puzzle/Department By the numbers By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES