Harper's Magazine: January 1983

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January 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Paul Davis SEE ALSO: Orwell, George; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
2-5	Letters/Department Letters On The yellow peril and the red-haired devils, from November 1982: Letter By Mark K. Benenson Note/correction On My own earth, from November 1982: Letter By Stephen C. Turner Note/correction On Fellow travelers, from November 1982: Letter By Carl A. Bristel Letter By Annabelle H. Cook Letter By Edna Ruth Johnson Letter By Mary Axe Letter By Isabel C. Hoag Letter By Lloyd Billingsley Letter By Patty Roy Patrick Letter By James Gardner Erickson On Tidings of comfort & joy, from December 1982: Letter By M.D., Alex Comfort, and D. Sc. Letter By P.J. Corkery On Stop me before I write again, from September 1982: Letter By Joyce Carol Oates On Those who can't, consult, from November 1982: Letter By Warren L. Ganong and CMC Letter By CMC and Robert W. Perkins Note/correction Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-15	The easy chair/Article Who's the fairest of them all? When Reagan looks in the mirror By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Housing subsidies; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES
11	The easy chair/Article The easy chair By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Advertising executives; Death and burial; Bernbach, William PDF IMAGES
16-19	Article Numbers: Inflation in hindsight By David (David E.) Osborne SEE ALSO: Cost and standard of living; Effect of inflation on; 1971-1981; Wages PDF IMAGES
19-24	The fourth estate/Article Link founding father to sleaze king: Why Alexander Hamilton would have liked Rupert Murdoch's New York Post By Ron Rosenbaum SEE ALSO: Hamilton, Alexander; Career in newspaper publishing; Contributions in political science; Headlines; New York post (American newspaper); Murdoch, Rupert; Sensationalism in journalism PDF IMAGES
25	Harper's journal/Article One that works By Eric Schine SEE ALSO: Occupational training; Occupational training, Military PDF IMAGES
26	Harper's journal/Article Strictly from hunger By Janet Marinelli SEE ALSO: Hunger strikes PDF IMAGES
27-28	Harper's journal/Article Comeuppance By George E. Hopkins SEE ALSO: Air pilots; Airlines; Deregulation; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
28	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Interviews; Cunningham, Mary Mullen; Women art critics PDF IMAGES
29	Designs for living/Cartoon All the world's a stage SEE ALSO: Absenteeism (Labor) PDF IMAGES
30-37	Article If Orwell were alive today: He would be eighty-two years old. What would his politics be? By Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: Crick, Bernard R.; Cold War; Conservatism; Orwell, George; George Orwell, a life (Book); Political and social views; Politics and literature; Socialism PDF IMAGES
38-44	Article Sex and the Democrats: Liberalism's new frontier By Arthur S. Levine SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); Liberalism; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
44	Poem Whatever is here is native By John Meade Haines SEE ALSO: Immigrants; Nationalism PDF IMAGES Poem Iris By Rachel Hadas PDF IMAGES
45-52	Article The day drugs came to Steinhatchee, Fla.: When a stray bale washed ashore, this small conservative town discovered a new industry By John Rothchild SEE ALSO: Drug couriers; Marijuana PDF IMAGES
53	Poem On a seaside mountain: Oki Islands, Japan Sea By Brad Leithauser PDF IMAGES
54-56	Palpitations/Review The sensitive Plante: Telling without kissing By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Plante, David; Difficult women: a memoir of three (Book); Greer, Germaine; Rhys, Jean; Novelists, American; Orwell, Sonia PDF IMAGES
57-63	Books/Review The gracehoper and the aunts: The legacy of Cyril Connolly, literature's greatest enthusiast By Marvin Mudrick SEE ALSO: Critics; Connolly, Cyril; English literature; Written works PDF IMAGES
64-68	Books/Review Have conscience, will travel: For a social critic of Israel, Jacobo Timerman knows a lot about Argentina By Leon Wieseltier SEE ALSO: Argentina; Israel; Israel-Arab Border Conflicts, 1949-; Israeli intervention, 1982-1984; Timerman, Jacobo; Journalists; Lebanon; The longest war: Israel in Lebanon (Book) PDF IMAGES
67	Article Negligible literary anecdote no. 9 By John Morressy SEE ALSO: Novelists, English PDF IMAGES
68-70	Review Dance: Dancing in the middle of the road By Marcia B. Siegel SEE ALSO: Ballet programs; Tetley, Glen; Stories, plots, etc. PDF IMAGES
71-73	Theater/Article Two acts: Englishmen and Americans don't speak the same language on stage By Carol Tavris SEE ALSO: Acting; Musicals PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Chatwin, Bruce; On the black hill (Book) PDF IMAGES
75-76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. D. SEE ALSO: Ratcliff, Carter; John Singer Sargent (Book) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Genocide; Rubenstein, Richard L.; The age of triage: fear and hope in an overcrowded world (Book) PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Hunter, Evan; Far from the sea (Book); Fathers; Miami PDF IMAGES
79	Double acrostic/Department No. 1 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Presidential succession By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES