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Archive: 1985

Powdered roses

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

Untitled

by Wilma Ervin,

Boot camp

by E.R. Galli,

No. 35

by Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton,

What has been learned so far

A cheap ticket to a fine college

Remembrances of things played

by Edward W. Said,

Presence and memory in the pianist's art

Liberty under siege

by Walter Karp,

The Reagan Administration's taste for autocracy

The Pentagon vs. the press

by Charles R. Nesson, Alexander Meigs Haig, Jack Nelson, Van Gordon Sauter, Daniel Schorr, Charles Madigan,

It soon became apparent that this was young Lambton’s first tournament

Drawn by Glen Baxter,

Two actors

by Anthony Haden-Guest,

In praise of tuxedos

by Stanley Elkin,

A professional exercise

by Howard Brenton, David Hare,

Men at sea

by Margaret Eleanor Atwood,

Readings

by Richard Avedon,

Revisionist cowboy

by Gretel Ehrlich,

To Marie Osmond

by Jack Skelley,

Readings

Drawn by Gary Larson,

Grant swinging

by Harper’s Staff,

Smile–or else

by David O., Jr. Belew,

Paris, three moments

Art by Gary Wright,

Abusing human rights abuse

by Harper’s Staff,

Bulletin

by Ed Diener, Jeff Horwitz, Robert A. Emmons,

The rich are happier

Secular-Humanist Busters

by Gerald B. Leib, Christopher C. Sundseth,

Armageddon by the numbers

by Bruce G. Blair,

Readings

by Harper’s Staff,

How to get the poor off our conscience

by John Kenneth Galbraith,

Harper’s index

by Harper’s Staff,

The American dialectic

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Letters

by Harper’s Staff,

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