Harper's Magazine: November 1988

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November 1988

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By J.L. Atlan (Photog.) SEE ALSO: New Orleans; Political conventions; Republican National Convention (1988 : New Orleans, La.); Republicans PDF IMAGES
4-9	Letters/Department Letters On Uncle Miltie v. mass man, from July 1988: Letter By Adam Hanft On Just like us?, from August 1988: Letter By Robert Tiedmann Schreiber Letter By Ann Sliger Bird Letter By Dennis Dean Carpenter Letter By Marion W. Copeland Letter By John Baustian Letter By Wayne Allyn Thompson Letter By Gard Norberg On Sad tales of la libertad de prensa, from August 1988: Letter By Mario Antonio Sandoval Letter By Francisco Goldman PDF IMAGES
10-12	Notebook/Article Burnt offerings By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear weapons PDF IMAGES
14	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Learning to live without a Soviet threat By Nathan Gardels SEE ALSO: Cold War; Kennan, George Frost; Interviews; 1981-1989; 1985-1991; Views on U.S. foreign relations PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Freedom of speech; Teachers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article George hits town By Frank Gannon SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Psychology—Humor; Republican National Convention (1988 : New Orleans, La.) PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Small print apocalypse SEE ALSO: Insurance, Automobile PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Just say no—or else By P.H. Goldman SEE ALSO: Charitable contributions; Corporations; Drug abuse; Prevention; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Was Ron a surfer? By Philip J. Hellsten SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Reagan, Ronald; Surfers PDF IMAGES Readings/Article “Temptation” and anti-semitism By Pat Robertson and Abraham H. Foxman SEE ALSO: Abraham H. Foxman; Antisemitism; Correspondence; Motion pictures; Robertson, Pat PDF IMAGES
26-30	Readings/Article To run and win in L.A. SEE ALSO: Campaign for mayor of Los Angeles (Calif.); Career as mayor of Los Angeles (Calif.); Los Angeles; Mayors; Political candidates; Bradley, Tom; Yaroslavsky, Zev PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Monsters; Pencils; Self-defense PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Illustration Sit and talk now SEE ALSO: Chairs; Peace movements; Political posters; West Bank PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Mike McGuire passes the torch By Michael McGuire SEE ALSO: McGuire, Michael; Newspaper employees; Oregon; Retirement PDF IMAGES
31-32	Readings/Article 1945: Palestine's promise By I.F. (Isidor F.) Stone SEE ALSO: Stone, I.F. (Isidor F.); Jewish-Arab relations; Jews; Journeys—Palestine; 1917-1949; Palestine; Zionism PDF IMAGES
32-36	Readings/Article Sartre: On writing for one's age By Jean Paul Sartre and Bernard Frechtman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Literature and society PDF IMAGES
36-38	Readings/Fiction I was an infinitely hot and dense dot By Mark Leyner PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Jan Staller (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Industrial buildings; Storage tanks PDF IMAGES
38	Readings/Article 1988: The function of art By Eric Bogosian SEE ALSO: Arts; Arts and society PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Music lessons By Lynda Barry PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Photo The last time Emmett modeled nude By Sally Mann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Lakes PDF IMAGES
45-55	Article Lay pipe, add heat, get laughs! By Pamela Eells, Maxine Lapiduss, Sally Lapiduss, Karl Schaefer, and Donald D. Todd SEE ALSO: Television authorship; Television comedies PDF IMAGES Collection Lay pipe, add heat, get laughs! PDF IMAGES
49	Article A TV writer's glossary SEE ALSO: Television authorship; Terminology PDF IMAGES
50	Article . . . fresh air! . . . Times Square! SEE ALSO: Television comedies PDF IMAGES
55	Article . . . after these brief messages SEE ALSO: Credit titles (Motion pictures, television, etc.); Logos (Symbols); Television comedies PDF IMAGES
57-66	Article Keeping the future at bay: Of Republicans and their America By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Journeys—Louisiana—New Orleans; 1988-; New Orleans; New Orleans (La.); Political conventions; Republican National Convention (1988 : New Orleans, La.); Stone, Robert PDF IMAGES
68-70	Article Think about it: Ways we know, and don't By Frank Conroy SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Conroy, Frank; Knowledge, Theory of; Hand, Learned; Douglas, William O. (William Orville) PDF IMAGES
72-80	Article Budapest, in love and war By John Lukacs SEE ALSO: Anecdotes; Budapest; Hungary; Lukacs, John; Personal narratives PDF IMAGES
81	Double acrostic/Department No. 71 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
84	Puzzle/Department Triple headers By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES