Harper's Magazine: February 1983

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February 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By William Bramhall, Hilary Knight, Gahan Wilson, and Arthur Lavine SEE ALSO: Diplomats; McCloy, John Jay; Pictorial works; Sontag, Susan; Turtles; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On Tidings of comfort & joy, from December 1982: Letter By Irene Rinehart Note/correction On Have conscience, will travel, from January 1983: Note/correction On Tubecrit, from December 1982: Letter By James Houghton On Destination, from December 1982: Letter By K. Eric Drexler Letter By Mary W. Matthews Letter By Paul M. Lloyd Letter By Geoffrey von Slagle Letter By Herman Rosen Note/correction On Mailer's teleplay, from December 1982: Letter By Jonathan Norstrum On Who's the fairest of them all? When Reagan looks in the mirror, from January 1983: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
10-11	The easy chair/Article Dressing down: Why my friends don't wear alligators on their shirts By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Snobs and snobbishness PDF IMAGES
12-17	Washington/Article Rich dog, poor dog: The canine class struggle By Emily Yoffe SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Euthanasia of animals; Veterinarians; Veterinary medicine PDF IMAGES
17-22	Article Agenda: Can creeping socialism cure creaking capitalism? One man's MITI is another man's poison By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: Rohatyn, Felix G.; Industrial policy; Intervention (Federal government); 1981-1993; Views on industrial policy PDF IMAGES
23-26	Letter from abroad/Article The making of Andropov, 1982: Dirty campaign tricks, Soviet-style By Andrew Nagorski SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Heads of state; Andropov, ëIìU. V. (ëIìUriæi Vladimirovich); 1953-1985; Political corruption; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
26-27	Harper's journal/Article Opinions for sale By Timothy Noah SEE ALSO: Evidence, Expert; Hinckley, John W.; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
27	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Critics; Berger, John; Views on ontology PDF IMAGES
30-46	Article Minister without portfolio: The most influential private citizen in America By Alan Brinkley SEE ALSO: Career in diplomacy; Diplomats; German reunification question (1949-1990); Germany (West); McCloy, John Jay; 1945-1989 PDF IMAGES
47-53	Fiction Last respects: A story By Lamar Herrin SEE ALSO: Oklahoma PDF IMAGES
54-55	Fiction The hotel By Randy Cohen SEE ALSO: Developing countries; Political fiction PDF IMAGES
56-58	Article An exchange on Orwell By Christopher Hitchens and Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: Cold War; Conservatism; Orwell, George; Political and social views; Politics and literature; Socialism PDF IMAGES
59-61	Palpitations/Review Troubadour of sweat: Muscle-bound and Manhattan-bound By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Novelists, American; Price, Richard; The breaks (Book) PDF IMAGES
62-65	Books/Review Susie Creamcheese makes love not war: What Susan Sontag is full of By Marvin Mudrick SEE ALSO: A Susan Sontag reader (Book); Critics; Sontag, Susan; Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
65-70	Books/Review Nuclear bookshelf: A spring bouquet of books about the unthinkable By Michael Eliot Howard SEE ALSO: Beyond the Cold War: a new approach to the arms race and nuclear annihilation (Book); Thompson, E.P. (Edward Palmer); Kennan, George Frost; Indefensible weapons: the political and psychological case against nuclearism (Book); Freedman, Lawrence; Riordan, Michael; Nuclear warfare; Falk, Richard A.; Lifton, Robert Jay; The day after midnight: the effects of nuclear war (Book); The evolution of nuclear strategy (Book); The nuclear delusion: Soviet-American relations in the atomic age (Book); Thinking about the next war (Book); Powers, Thomas PDF IMAGES
71-73	Books/Review Working-class savior: The man who believed socialism was “merely Christianity in action” By Jack Beatty SEE ALSO: Biography; Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor); Eugene V. Debs: citizen and socialist (Book); Salvatore, Nick; Socialists PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Sagan, Françoise; French fiction; The painted lady (Book); Women authors, French PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. W. SEE ALSO: A visit from the footbinder, and other stories (Book); Prager, Emily; Footbinding; 13th century PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By M. F. SEE ALSO: Haynal, André; Fanaticism; Fanaticism: a historical and psychoanalytical study (Book); Puymège, Gérard de; Koseoglu, Linda Butler; Molnár, Miklós PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Household, Geoffrey; Rogue justice (Book) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. R. SEE ALSO: Hawkes, Ellen; Espionage, British; Fiction; Manso, Peter; The shadow of the moth: a novel of espionage with Virginia Woolf (Book); Woolf, Virginia PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 2 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Hearts & embraces By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES