Harper's Magazine: August 1983

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August 1983

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Jeff MacNelly and David Suter SEE ALSO: Wexler, Anne; Chickens; Coffins; Lobbyists; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On The tragedy of Leonard Bernstein, from May 1983: Note/correction On The trouble with unions, from June 1983: Letter By John Glasel Letter By Danford F. Knowlton Letter By Philip E. Sicks Letter By Corey Rosen On Rest in pieces, from June 1983: Letter By Alison M. Conner On Equal lack of opportunity, from June 1983: Letter By Jr. and Oscar M. Ostlund Letter By Carl Kern On Unjust deserts, from July 1983: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-11	Article Quandaries: State of anxiety By Anthony F. De Palma SEE ALSO: Cancer; Environmental aspects; Environmental conditions PDF IMAGES
14-23	Article Politics: First, forget the issues By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); 1981-1989; Voting PDF IMAGES
23-24	Harper's journal/Article Noble endeavor By Eric Schine SEE ALSO: Career in politics; Noble, Edward; Synthetic fuels PDF IMAGES
24	Harper's journal/Article Dunces of the month SEE ALSO: Antinuclear movement; MX (Weapons system); United States. Congress. House; Voting PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Inn and out By Colin T. Eisler SEE ALSO: Hotels; Neon signs PDF IMAGES
26-34	Article Good intentions: The relentless rise of Anne Wexler By David Owen SEE ALSO: Wexler, Anne; Career in lobbying; Lobbyists PDF IMAGES
35	Designs for living/Cartoon Food for thought SEE ALSO: Dating (Social customs); Table etiquette PDF IMAGES
36-45	Article Welcome to Tokyo Disneyland, where we sell the Japanese their fantasy of America. Have a nice day! By Murray Sayle SEE ALSO: International business enterprises; 1945-1989; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES Collection Of mice and yen PDF IMAGES
42-43	Article Inside Epcot Center By P.J. O'Rourke SEE ALSO: EPCOT Center (Fla.) PDF IMAGES
46-52	Fiction Sugar among the chickens: A story By Lewis Nordan SEE ALSO: Farm life PDF IMAGES
54-61	Article Bosses: Cautionary tales for the modern employee By James Raimes SEE ALSO: Communication in personnel management; Industrial relations PDF IMAGES
62-65	Palpitations/Review Mooing in the meadows of love: Confessional novels that give real life a bad name By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Alexandra Freed: a novel (Book); Beautiful women; ugly scenes (Book); Bryan, C.D.B.(Courtland Dixon Barnes); Schwamm, Ellen; Heartburn (Book); How he saved her (Book); Zeidner, Lisa; Ephron, Nora PDF IMAGES
66-69	Art/Review Eye of the beholder: Photographers and seventeenth-century Dutch painters demonstrate the fine art of just looking By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Stieglitz, Alfred; Alfred Stieglitz, photographs and writings (Book); Art criticism; Exhibitions; O'Keeffe, Georgia; Painting, Dutch; Photographers; Pictorial works; Alpers, Svetlana; The art of describing: Dutch art in the seventeenth century (Book) PDF IMAGES
69-74	Theater/Review The great white elephant: The failure of Harold Prince's A Doll's Life, and what it says about Broadway By Marilyn Stasio SEE ALSO: A doll's house (Play); Prince, Harold; Theater audiences; Theatrical producers and directors PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review FictionFiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Pym, Barbara; Novelists, English; Single women; Some tame gazelle (Book) PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By D. O. SEE ALSO: Enright, D.J. (Dennis Joseph) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Detectives; Middle Ages, 600-1500; Semiotics; The name of the rose (Book); Eco, Umberto; Weaver, William PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. M. SEE ALSO: Antunes, António Lobo; Lowe, Elizabeth; Portugal; South of nowhere: a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 8 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Beehive By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES