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Archive: 1979

One Damn Thing After Another

by Harper’s Staff,

Blame it on the tube

by Robert Asahina,

Why intellectuals hate television

Pomp and civil engineering

by Samuel C. Florman,

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In print

by Harper’s Staff,

An ostentation of books

by Jeffrey Burke,

Tomes on gnomes, and the like

The constructs of a conservative

by Walter Karp,

At odds with the republic

Robbins’s commercial art

by Gene Lyons,

The rewards of vulgarity

Storyteller

by Lewis Nordan,

A short story

The snows of Studiofiftyfour

by George Plimpton,

Lines of sight

by Harper’s Staff,

Self-expression

Drawn by Hans-Georg Rauch,

Seeing nature whole

by John Fowles,

The make-work economy

by George F. Gilder,

Escaping the toils of welfare dependency

Shades of Greenland

by Simon Winchester,

The arms overstock

by Michael T. Klare,

Canceled orders, repossessed items, will sacrifice

The rage against the future

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Further reflections on the national consensus of anger

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Frank Horvat,

Self-explanatory

by E.R. Galli,

[untitled]

by Geof Hewitt,

Some of my dearest friends

by Geof Hewitt,

Moonlight

by Geof Hewitt,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

The next place

by Jamie Wolf,

We are all here

Fast Folk

by Louis T. Grant,

Keeping up with the gerbils

Other things being equal

by Harper’s Staff,

The diversions of the court of Lilliput described

by David Suter,

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Domestic arrangements

by Frances Taliaferro,

The premise of partnership

Degenerate criticism

by Peter Shaw,

The dismal state of English studies

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