Harper's Magazine: September 1983

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September 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By William Bramhall, Kimberly Bulcken, and Susan Meiselas (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Birds; Latin America; Pictorial works; Poets, American; Stevens, Wallace PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Schooling, from May 1983: Note/correction On The sensational Madeline Lee, from June 1983: Letter By Boman Desai On Advanced sociobiology, from June 1983: Letter By Louise M. Anthony On Warfare, from July 1983: Letter By Caspar W. Weinberger Letter By Carl M. Levin On The neat stuff, from July 1983: Letter By Mark L. Cohen Letter By Marian Kester On The worm's eye view, from July 1983: Letter By Helen Sanger On Lives of the saints, from July 1983: Letter By F.M. Goskowski PDF IMAGES
8-16	Capitalism observed/Article Meet me in St. Louis: The people people have a convention convention By David Owen SEE ALSO: Attendance; Congresses and conventions; Saint Louis PDF IMAGES
16-22	Capitalism observed/Article John Naisbitt's clip joint: There's a Megatrends reader born every minute By Emily Yoffe SEE ALSO: Career in information services; Naisbitt, John PDF IMAGES
22-26	Article Numbers: Adventures in the loan trade By S.C. (Samuel C.) Gwynne SEE ALSO: Banks and banking, International; Cleveland; Manila; Philippines PDF IMAGES
27	Harper's journal/Article Poppy tours By Robert P. Kearney SEE ALSO: Opium poppy growers; Thailand; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Stag party By Mary Battiata SEE ALSO: Democratic Party (U.S.); Women in politics; Women political consultants PDF IMAGES
28	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Thatcher, Margaret; Mailer, Norman; Relations with women PDF IMAGES
29	Harper's journal/Article The paranoids were right By Andrew Houlding SEE ALSO: Class actions (Civil procedure); New Haven; Wiretapping PDF IMAGES
30-39	Article Reagan's manifest destiny: The president is playing dominoes in Latin America and losing By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Latin America; Messianism, Political; 1980-; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald; Views on Latin America PDF IMAGES
40-56	Fiction The war and Michael K By J.M. Coetzee SEE ALSO: Gardeners; South Africa; War stories PDF IMAGES
57	Designs for living/Cartoon Pictures through the ages SEE ALSO: Identity PDF IMAGES
58-62	Article The poet as insurance man: Wallace Stevens as seen by his colleagues and friends By Peter Brazeau SEE ALSO: Friends and associates; Insurance, Surety and fidelity; Poets, American; Stevens, Wallace PDF IMAGES
63-66	Palpitations/Review The prince of finesse: Nine hundred pages of criticism prove that John Updike is no air-dancing dandy By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Criticism; English literature; Hugging the shore: essays and criticism (Book); Updike, John PDF IMAGES
67-70	Books/Review Poetize or bust: Poetry isn't what it used to be, but then it never was By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: A guide to The Maximus poems of Charles Olson (Book); American poetry; Olson, Charles; Criticism; Butterick, George F.; Rosenthal, M.L. (Macha Louis); Poems. Selections (Book); Poets, American; Creeley, Robert; Gall, Sally M.; The Maximus poems (Book); The modern poetic sequence: the genius of modern poetry (Book) PDF IMAGES
70-74	Books/Review Stalking Dr. Kissinger: Seymour Hersh collected a mountain of damning evidence, but he let his man escape By Garry Wills SEE ALSO: Career in diplomacy; Diplomats; Kissinger, Henry; 1981-1989; Hersh, Seymour M.; The price of power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review FictionFiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Barthelme, Frederick; Moon deluxe: stories (Book); Short stories, American PDF IMAGES
75-76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: August (Book); Rossner, Judith; Psychoanalysis PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 9 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Dots and dashes By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES