Harper's Magazine: March 1986

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March 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Jan Staller (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Railroad bridges PDF IMAGES
4-77	Letters/Department Letters On Pro-life 'abortion clinics', from December 1985: Letter By Maya Weisman Letter By Michelle Kantor PDF IMAGES
8-9	Notebook/Article Pictures at an exhibition By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Communication; International cooperation; Military planning; Military policy; 1945-1989; World politics PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-14	Readings/Fiction In the name of the good By Vasilii Semenovich Grossman and Robert Chandler (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
14-17	Readings/Article Have you ever owed a bar bill? SEE ALSO: Lie detectors and detection; National security; Training of PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Cuba; Schultz, George; 1959-; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Illustration Star dances By A.K. Dewdney SEE ALSO: Clusters; Computer simulation; Stars PDF IMAGES
17-18	Readings/Article Why Star Wars software won't work By David Lorge Parnas SEE ALSO: Computer programs; Electronics in military engineering; Military planning; Strategic Defense Initiative PDF IMAGES Readings/Article An exercise in tact By Ted Koppel and Robert K. Dornan SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. secretary of defense; McNamara, Robert S. PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Play money By Gregg Leslie SEE ALSO: Basketball; Career in college basketball; Ewing, Patrick Aloysius PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article A field guide to the Yakuza SEE ALSO: Costume; Emigration and immigration; Gang members PDF IMAGES
22	Illustration Anbetung des Inhalts By Jorg Immendorff SEE ALSO: Artists' studios; Pictorial works; Mao, Tse-tung PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Red Music By Josef Skvorecky` SEE ALSO: Censorship; Childhood and youth; Czechoslovakia; Jazz; Skvorecky`, Josef PDF IMAGES
24-26	Readings/Article Intellectuals and power By György Konrád and Richard E. Allen (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Elite (Social sciences); Feudalism; Intellectuals PDF IMAGES
26-28	Readings/Article Signs in the supermarket By Milton Glaser SEE ALSO: Design; Packaging PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Photo The corporate portrait By Michael Clegg (Photog.) and Martin Guttmann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Executives; International business enterprises PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The aesthetic of the series By Umberto Eco SEE ALSO: Criticism; Greek drama (Tragedy); Originality (Aesthetics); Television serials; Themes, motives PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Painted backdrops By Edgardo Cozarinsky SEE ALSO: Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article The mind of the hunter By Barry Holstun Lopez SEE ALSO: Arctic regions; Eskimos; Human-animal relationships; Human ecology; Hunting PDF IMAGES
32-33	Readings/Fiction Children of the wind By Primo Levi, Simon Rees (Trans.), and Antonio Tanca (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Illustration Trunk lines By Siri PDF IMAGES
37-46	Article The face of the city: Reading consciousness in its tics and wrinkles By William H. Gass SEE ALSO: City and town life; Experience; Perception; Sensory stimulation PDF IMAGES
47-55	Fiction Massé By Leigh Allison Wilson PDF IMAGES
57-64	Collection Goodbye, Dr. Spock: vignettes from the brave new world of the better baby By James Traub PDF IMAGES Article I. Baby improvement By James Traub SEE ALSO: Career in education; Child development; Child rearing; Gifted children; Doman, Glenn J.; Political and social views PDF IMAGES Article II. The edge By James Traub SEE ALSO: Admission; Career as tutor; Child development; Child rearing; Competition (Psychology) in children; Kindergarten; Levy, Maxine; Preparatory schools PDF IMAGES Article III. How many computers have you got By James Traub SEE ALSO: Child development; Child rearing; Computer-assisted instruction; Computers and children; Data processing; Reading PDF IMAGES
63-64	Article IV. Keeping the faith By James Traub SEE ALSO: Spock, Benjamin; Child development; Child rearing; Competition (Psychology) in children; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article Births of a nation: Keeping tabs on newborn babes By Robert Karl Manoff SEE ALSO: Birth certificates; Childbirth; Midwives PDF IMAGES
68-72	Article Forbidden pleasures: A taste for porn in a city of women By Philip Weiss SEE ALSO: Feminists; Men; Minneapolis; Minnesota; Obscenity (Law); Pornography PDF IMAGES
76	Double acrostic/Department No. 39 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Puzzle Puzzle By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES