Harper's Magazine: April 1983

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April 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Keith Bendis, Tony Antonios, and Daniel B. Payne SEE ALSO: Cows; Mothers; Rock groups; Uncle Sam (Nickname) PDF IMAGES
2-5	Letters/Department Letters On If Orwell were alive today, from January 1983: Letter By Aryeh H. Samuel On Minister without portfolio, from February 1983: Letter By Rudy Herz Letter By William M.H. Hammett Letter By Wilfred D. Burke On Dressing down, from February 1983: Letter By Ernest Van Den Haag Letter By Lois A. Servaas Letter By Madison Avenue magazine Letter By Don Bredes On Rich dog, poor dog, from February 1983: Note/correction On Opinions for sale, from February 1983: Letter By Melvin C. Fredlund Letter By Elsie E. Wells Note/correction On Susie Creamcheese makes love not war, from February 1983: Letter By John Bachers Letter By Alison Graves Letter By Zoran Minderovic Letter By David W. Owens Letter By Robert W. Straus On Brief reviews, from March 1983: Note/correction On Brief reviews, from March 1983: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-11	Capitalism observed/Article The littlest arms race: Hasbro welcomes the new interest in a strong defense as much as Boeing does By William Crawford Woods SEE ALSO: Children and violence PDF IMAGES
11-15	Washington/Article Post-post-Watergate morality: The Nixon era returns By Richard Cohen SEE ALSO: Conflict of interests; Political ethics PDF IMAGES
16	Harper's journal/Article Lost our census By Andrew Hacker SEE ALSO: Census, 20th, 1980; Costs; Direct marketing PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Down the hatch By Robert Eringer SEE ALSO: Military life; Sailors; Sea life; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
17-19	Harper's journal/Article Decline of a genre By Timothy Noah SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns; Mobil Oil Company PDF IMAGES
18	Harper's journal/Article The good life SEE ALSO: Detention of persons; Equipment and supplies; Iran; Physical fitness PDF IMAGES
19	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Dworkin, Andrea; Crimes against; Right-wing women (Book) PDF IMAGES
20-27	Article Jerry Burke is just the kind of creative entrepreneur America needs. By James J. Cramer SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Depreciation allowances; Income tax deductions for charitable contributions; Burke, Jerry; Key West; Knowledge—Tax shelters; Legal opinions; Tax deductions; Tax shelters; Treasure-trove PDF IMAGES Collection Tax shelter wizard PDF IMAGES
23	Article Beyond the law By James J. Cramer SEE ALSO: Macon; Tax shelters; Western films PDF IMAGES
24	Article Psst . . . wanna buy some depreciation? By James J. Cramer SEE ALSO: Depreciation allowances; Hotel chains; Tax shelters PDF IMAGES
25	Article Are you guys for real? By James J. Cramer SEE ALSO: Cattle; Feeding and feeds; Legal opinions; Tax deductions; Tax shelters PDF IMAGES
28-30	Article Commuter report By Randy Cohen SEE ALSO: Commuters PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article Barney Frank's mother and 500 postmen: Great moments from TV commercials of the 1982 political campaign By Nicholas Lemann SEE ALSO: Advertising, Political; Political consultants; Television in politics PDF IMAGES
38-46	Fiction Counting months: A story By David Leavitt SEE ALSO: Cancer; Divorced mothers; Patients PDF IMAGES
47	Designs for living/Cartoon Spring offensive SEE ALSO: Cupid (Roman deity); Life style PDF IMAGES
48-53	Article Americans in limbo: They're not the “new poor”—yet—but they're losing their grip on the middle class. Downward mobility—the most important sociological development of the 1980s. By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Charities; Iron and steel workers; Monongahela River Valley; Public welfare; Social mobility; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
54-57	Palpitations/Article Rockwell around the clock: Awaiting the great synthesis of rock and classical music By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: All American music: composition in the late twentieth century (Book); Rockwell, John; Music; Music critics PDF IMAGES
57-61	Review Dance: Apollo and Terpsichore By Marvin Mudrick SEE ALSO: D'Amboise, Christopher; Far from Denmark (Book); Balanchine, George; Influence; Last years; Leap year; a year in the life of a dancer (Book); New York City Ballet; Martins, Peter; Cornfield, Robert; Farrell, Suzanne; Bentley, Toni; Winter season: a dancer's journal (Book) PDF IMAGES
63-66	Books/Review The landscape of Alberto Moravia: He used the techniques of the nineteenth-century novel to expose the twentieth-century disease By Stanley Kauffmann SEE ALSO: Moravia, Alberto; Authors, Italian; 1934 (Book) PDF IMAGES
68-71	Article Appetites: Lunacy and the arrangement of books By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Lunacy and the arrangement of books (Book); Belanger, Terry PDF IMAGES
72-74	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Author from a savage people (Book); Pesetsky, Bette; Feminist fiction PDF IMAGES
74-75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Rozner, çEddi; Jazz; Journeys—Soviet Union; Red and hot: the fate of jazz in the Soviet Union, 1917-1980 (Book); Starr, S. Frederick PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Crusades; Pilgermann (Book); Hoban, Russell PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: Light a penny candle (Book); Binchy, Maeve PDF IMAGES
76	Notice Stories about bosses SEE ALSO: Industrial relations PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: A half of two lives (Book); Waley, Alison; Waley, Arthur; Biography; Sinologists PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 4 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Overlapplique By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES