Harper's Magazine: July 1983

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July 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David Suter, William Bramhall, Roman Leos, and Jean-Claude Suarès SEE ALSO: Gandhi, Mahatma; Pictorial works; Statesmen; Tanks (Military science); Tenement houses; Women gymnasts PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Commuter report, from April 1983: Letter By Steven L. Lubetkin On Appetites, from April 1983: Letter By Frances Power On Dunce of the month, from May 1983: Note/correction On 1983, from May 1983: Letter By Leigh Melton Letter By Ted Cornwell Letter By Joseph J. Baum Letter By Banesh Hoffmann Letter By Fiona Hamilton Note/correction On The tragedy of Leonard Bernstein, from May 1983: Letter By Ned Rorem Note/correction On Down the hatch, from April 1983: Letter By Jr. and Lando W. Zech Letter By Robert Eringer PDF IMAGES
8-14	Article Warfare: The specter of conventional war By John Keegan SEE ALSO: Chemical warfare; Low-intensity conflicts (Military science); Military weapons; Warfare, Conventional PDF IMAGES
15-21	Article Lotto baloney: You're seven times more likely to be killed by lightning than to win a million in the state lottery By Curt Suplee SEE ALSO: Lotteries PDF IMAGES Collection Numbers PDF IMAGES
18-19	Article The numbers speaks for itself By Mark Feinberg SEE ALSO: Gambling; Gambling systems; Lotteries; Organized crime PDF IMAGES
22-26	Capitalism observed/Article The making of Laura Branigan: Otherwise known as “The Tragedy of Sid Bernstein” By Sarah Crichton SEE ALSO: Career in rock music; Career in sound recording industry; Branigan, Laura; Bernstein, Sid; Sound recording executives and producers; Sound recording industry; Women rock musicians PDF IMAGES
27	Harper's journal/Article Lunch money By Jim Mintz SEE ALSO: Lobbying PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Unjust deserts By Nora Zamichow SEE ALSO: Sentences (Criminal procedure); Trials (Larceny) PDF IMAGES
28	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Hitler, Adolf; Career in acting; Diaries; Kinski, Nastassja; Newsweek (American periodical); Quotations; Corliss, Richard; Time (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
29	Harper's journal/Article Yanquis leave home By Christopher Ma SEE ALSO: Latin America; 1980-; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES
30-42	Article Dr. Armand Hammer's medicine show: How to parlay one hour with Lenin into a capitalist empire By Joseph Finder SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Hammer, Armand; Capitalists and financiers; Career in international business enterprises; Collectors and collecting; International business enterprises; Lenin, Vladimir Ily`ich PDF IMAGES
43-53	Article The neat stuff By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Career in coaching; Weiss, Greg; Women gymnasts PDF IMAGES
54-58	Fiction The secrets of creative love: A story By William Kennedy PDF IMAGES
59	Designs for living/Cartoon Manners SEE ALSO: Cocktail parties; Faux pas PDF IMAGES
60-64	Books/Review Lives of the saints: All celibate, vegetarian, utopian pacifists are not alike—cf., Tolstoy and Gandhi By Marvin Mudrick SEE ALSO: Authors, Russian; Criticism and interpretation; Gandhi, Mahatma; Green, Martin Burgess; Statesmen; Tolstoy and Gandhi, men of peace: a biography (Book); Tolstoy, Leo, graf PDF IMAGES
66-70	Art/Article Painting for dollars: A new generation of careerists has brought energy to the art world. But what have they done for art? By Carey Lovelace SEE ALSO: Art, Modern; Postmodernism PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article The worm's eye view: I was a slave to art By Adam Gopnik PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Smith, Lee; Oral history (Book); Oral tradition PDF IMAGES
75-76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. M. SEE ALSO: America's quest for the ideal self: dissent and fulfillment in the 60s and 70s (Book); Ego-ideal; Clecak, Peter PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By Annie Roston SEE ALSO: Brookner, Anita; Look at me (Book) PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Anti-fascist movements; Austria; Biography; Code name “Mary”: memoirs of an American woman in the Austrian underground (Book); Gardiner, Muriel; Vienna PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Andrew Field; Biography; Barnes, Djuna; Djuna, the life and times of Djuna Barnes (Book); Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 7 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Alter(n)ations By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES