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Archive: 1979

Hiding from the bomb–again

by Ed Zuckerman,

Civil defense is back

The health of science

by Daniel J. Kevles,

Has American research lost its vigor?

Canning directions

by David W. Ewing,

How the government rids itself of troublemakers

Rooms without windows

by Richard Selzer,

The death of a mailman

The shattered mirror

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Bits and pieces of experience

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Elliott Erwitt,

Crazy quilt

by E.R. Galli,

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Good vibrations

by John S. Peterson,

Diverted on a trip through time

Glossolalia

by Paul L. Berman,

Pronunciation for diplomats

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

The mischief of fiction

by Jeffrey Burke,

A search for meaning

Collective dread

by Paul Zweig,

The literature of doom

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

World-weary

by Tom Wolfe,

Border crossings

by Paul Fussell,

At the frontiers of modern life

Sell

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Hedge

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Dollar diplomacy

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Buy

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Options for foreign investors

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

In the abyss

by Gilbert Rogin,

A short story

Other things being equal

by Harper’s Staff,

Leverage

by David Suter,

Living to be old

by Ronald Blythe,

The first generation of full-timers

Republican virtues

by Walter Karp,

At odds with the cult of the nation

Life on the card

by Jack Richardson,

Whim fulfillment in the land of plastic credit

Jerry Brown

by T.D. Allman,

Nothing to everyone

Guests of the management

by Lewis H. Lapham,

The literary imagination in exile

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