Harper's Magazine: August 1991

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August 1991

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By John Mix Stanley SEE ALSO: Boats and boating; Columbia River; Landscape; Northwest, Pacific PDF IMAGES
2-5	Letters/Department Letters On Debate the canon in class, from April 1991: Letter By Neil D. Isaacs On Where have all the animals gone? The lamentable extinction of zoos, from May 1991: Letter By Bernard Ferster Letter By Dick Price Letter By David Berreby Letter By Charles Siebert PDF IMAGES
6-9	Notebook/Article Tyromancy By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Abortion; Freedom of speech; United States. Supreme Court PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-17	Readings/Article On seeing England for the first time By Jamaica Kincaid SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Colonies; Kincaid, Jamaica PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo Sorry game By Sally Mann (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Board games PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Couples; Traffic signs and signals PDF IMAGES
17-20	Readings/Article The Securitate (still) wants you By Radu Tudor (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as informer; Career as intelligence officer; Informers; Intelligence officers; Brinzei, Octavian; Baciu, Paul; Romania PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Barbie's other PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article Dear widow-to-be SEE ALSO: Assassination; Legislators' spouses; 1989-1994; South Africa; Threats PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article How green is your junk mail? SEE ALSO: Advertising, Direct-mail; Mailing lists; Membership PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Myanmar's curious SLORC SEE ALSO: Burma; Government questionnaires; 1988- PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Photo The simulated forest SEE ALSO: British Columbia; Deer; Forests and forestry; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Wash, rinse, spin SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Public Relations PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Article What the tide brought in SEE ALSO: Beaches; Marine pollution; Refuse and refuse disposal PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Cartoon Madonna's cat SEE ALSO: Brassieres; Cats; Humor; Madonna PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Wisconsin: Land of self-promotion SEE ALSO: Cities and towns; Slogans; Tourist trade PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Illustration Camouflaged history By Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler SEE ALSO: Charleston; Dwellings; Environment (Art); House painting; South Carolina PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Vewy, vewy viowent SEE ALSO: Animated films; Violence in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
29-30	Readings/Article Shakespeare's Freud SEE ALSO: College teachers; Criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Bloom, Harold; Interviews; Freud, Sigmund; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Article The anxiety of influence (cont'd) By Brian McCormick and Carole Seborovski SEE ALSO: Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literary prizes; Social problems in literature PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In the streets of New York night By Luc Sante SEE ALSO: City and town life; Crime; Night PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Poem Reruns By David Trinidad PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Photo [Untitled Photo] By Tom Van Sant (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Earth PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Meat in space By Terry Bisson PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Fiction Hard ones By Richard Powers PDF IMAGES
39-47	Collection Making plans for Blushing Monday PDF IMAGES Article Making plans for Blushing Monday By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Holidays PDF IMAGES
40-41	Article Blushing Monday: A day set aside to revel in shame By Frederick W. Turner SEE ALSO: Holidays; Shame PDF IMAGES
42	Article A Blushing Monday message from President Bush By Frank Gannon SEE ALSO: Bush, George; Holidays; Humor; Messages PDF IMAGES
43	Illustration The Blushing Monday New Yorker cover By Bill Sienkiewicz SEE ALSO: Magazine covers; Mandrill; Parodies, imitations, etc.; The New Yorker (American periodical) PDF IMAGES Article New York City plan for the first annual Blushing Monday parade By Ron Carlson SEE ALSO: Holidays; Parades PDF IMAGES
44	Poem The poet laureate's official Blushing Monday poem By August Kleinzahler PDF IMAGES
45	Illustration Blushing Monday store window displays By Al Harp and Robin Nedboy SEE ALSO: Mandrill; Show windows PDF IMAGES
46	Illustration The Blushing Monday greeting card By Bill Sienkiewicz and Richard Rhodes SEE ALSO: Greeting cards; Holidays; Mandrill PDF IMAGES Article Memo outlining the first “Bob Hope Blushing Monday Spectacular!” By Jonathan Roberts SEE ALSO: Hope, Bob; Career in television—Humor; Holidays; Television specials PDF IMAGES
47	Article Family Circle's recipe for Blushing Monday cookies By Frank Gannon SEE ALSO: Cookies; Family circle (American periodical); Holidays PDF IMAGES
48-55	Fiction A trip to the mountains By Annie Dillard PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article Plastic, fantastic profits: A troubled bank puts it all on the card and on cardholders By Glenn Von Nostitz and Michael Alcamo SEE ALSO: Citicorp; Interest rates PDF IMAGES
58-61	Article The named and the celestial: Summer, with cows, on the alpage By John Berger SEE ALSO: Dairy farmers; Dairy farming; Homes and haunts—France—Savoy Alps; Berger, John; Mountain life PDF IMAGES
69-76	Article A counter-reality grows in Harlem: Tuning in to The Gary Byrd Show By James Traub SEE ALSO: African Americans in radio broadcasting; Career in radio broadcasting; Byrd, Gary PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 104 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Parting words By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES

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