August 1981 Issue [In Our Time] The evolution of the species Download PDF Adjust Share No. 4 Drawn by Tom Wolfe, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Caricatures and cartoons Narcotic addicts United States More from Tom Wolfe Visual Tedium From “The Painted Word,” which appeared in the April 1975 issue of Harper’s Magazine. The complete article—along with the magazine’s entire 174-year archive—is available online at harpers.org/archive. People don’t read… The Origins of Speech In the beginning was Chomsky In the land of the rococo Marxists Why no one is celebrating the second American century Adjust Share