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Archive: 1981

The animals in winter

by George Dennison,

Bartlett’s hall of fame

by Diane McWhorter,

A little too familiar

Untested innovations

by John P. Sisk,

One step forward, two steps back

Deformation of character

by Martha Bayles,

Broadway's avant-garde old hat

Xenophobia

by Joseph Lurie,

The public record

by Harper’s Staff,

The nuclear club

Art by Michael Kidron, Ronald Segal,

Geography 105

by Harper’s Staff,

Robotics

Drawn by David Suter,

The mind’s eye

by Harper’s Staff,

Waking up

by Joel Agee,

The day they took down Stalin's picture

Modern martyrs

by Tom Wolfe,

No. 1

In our time

by Harper’s Staff,

Silver Thursday

by L. J. Davis,

The Hunts break the market

Marketing Pollution

by William Tucker,

Buying and selling clean air

The capital of underdevelopment

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

A good word for Mexico City

Letter from abroad

by Harper’s Staff,

The budget can’t be cut

by Tom Bethell,

Congress likes to spend money

Washington

by Harper’s Staff,

To break a union

by Steven Lagerfeld,

Goons give way to consultants

The glass bead game

by Harper’s Staff,

A shrinking future

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Timothy Eagan,

April fool II

by E.R. Galli,

Room service

by John Clancy,

The gall of some people

American miscellany

by Harper’s Staff,

Wanted

by Alexander Cockburn,

An irresponsible press

In print

by Harper’s Staff,

Rescue from oblivion

by Frances Taliaferro,

Literary revivals

Behind the bathroom door

by Whit Stillman,

Twelve March novels

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