Harper's Magazine: December 1975

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December 1975

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] SEE ALSO: Brain; Earth PDF IMAGES
3-124	Wraparound/Collection Wraparound PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The world of the brain By Michael Aron SEE ALSO: Brain PDF IMAGES
4	Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By C. Judson (Charles Judson) Herrick PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Aging; Brain; Degeneration PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Brain; Evolution; Size PDF IMAGES
5	Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Alfred North Whitehead PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The nature of consciousness By Oliver Sacks SEE ALSO: Consciousness PDF IMAGES
6	Wraparound/Article The mind-brain question By Wilder Penfield SEE ALSO: Brain; Consciousness; Mind-brain identity theory PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The fairest brain of all By C.U.M.(Christopher Upham Murray) Smith SEE ALSO: Brain; Self-experimentation in medicine PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Alfred Korzybski PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Anatomy of a brain By Lawrence Burns SEE ALSO: Anatomy; Brain PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Brain damage; Left- and right-handedness PDF IMAGES
8-9	Wraparound/Article Conversation with a brain surgeon By Michael Aron SEE ALSO: Brain; Interviews; Cooper, Irving S. (Irving Steiger); Neurosurgeons; Surgery PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound PDF IMAGES
9	Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Brain, W. Russell Brain (Walter Russell Brain), Baron; Career as neurologist; Neurologists; Head, Henry, Sir PDF IMAGES
10	Wraparound/Article Brain size and language By John Cunningham Lilly SEE ALSO: Brain; Language and languages; Physiological aspects; Size PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Beyond Darwin By Phillip V. Tobias SEE ALSO: Brain; Evolution; Size PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wishful thinking By Aldous Huxley SEE ALSO: Consciousness; Human evolution; Mind and body PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron; Brain; Brain size; Intellect; Cromwell, Oliver; Size; Whitman, Walt PDF IMAGES
12-18	Letters/Department Letters On The art of surgery, from October 1975: Letter By Donna G. Potts On The new narcissism, from October 1975: Letter By Roberta B. Josepho Letter By Robert A. Maynard Letter By W.W. Bartley III Letter By Frank Miller Letter By Peter Marin On Recipe for a cookbook, from October 1975: Letter By Craig Claiborne Letter By Karen Hess On Bicentennial burger, from October 1975: Note/correction On A conversation with Dayan, from November 1975: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
20-25	The easy chair/Article The first and second cities By Lewis H. Lapham PDF IMAGES
25-28	Article How to run a railroad By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Management; Railroads and state PDF IMAGES
28	Poem How to see deer By Philip E. Booth PDF IMAGES
30-34	Article Owing to circumstances beyond our control 1984 has been unavoidably detained By Alan Coren SEE ALSO: Bureaucracy; Orwell, George; Totalitarianism PDF IMAGES
34-38	The fourth estate/Article Six o'clock prayers By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Rites and ceremonies; Television broadcasting of news PDF IMAGES
38-40	Article Life in the imaginary city By Stephanie Harrington SEE ALSO: Television programs PDF IMAGES Collection The new season PDF IMAGES
46-48	Article Test-driving the new shows By David C. (David Clarence) McClelland SEE ALSO: Automobile industry and trade; Television programs PDF IMAGES
51-58	Article America needs an establishment By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Elite (Social sciences); 1960-1980; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
60	Poem On the imminent departure of an ailurophobe By William Jay Smith PDF IMAGES Poem Beautiful are the feet By George Starbuck PDF IMAGES Poem Two “there was a lady” poems By J.A. Lindon PDF IMAGES Collection Lighter-than-air craft PDF IMAGES Article Lighter-than-air craft By William Cole SEE ALSO: Humorous poetry, American PDF IMAGES
64	Poem A tricky tongue By Paul Curry Steele PDF IMAGES Poem Authors' residences By John Updike PDF IMAGES Poem A Bellocian beast By H.A.C. Evans PDF IMAGES Poem Sonja Henie sonnet By Edward Field PDF IMAGES Poem Fog By William Jay Smith PDF IMAGES Poem Non-subjective art By Michael Braude PDF IMAGES
67-78	Fiction The double agent By Ward S. Just PDF IMAGES
78-88	Article A primer for sycophants By Victor Gold SEE ALSO: 1969-1974; 1974-1977; Toadyism PDF IMAGES
89-93	Article A ticket to Lisbon By Robert Moss SEE ALSO: Communism; 1974-; Portugal PDF IMAGES
94	Poem A choosy wolf By X.J. Kennedy PDF IMAGES Poem The personnel department interviews the Muse By Pyke Johnson PDF IMAGES Poem Paradox found By Mary Ann Hoberman PDF IMAGES Poem Proust at the Ritz By Howard Moss PDF IMAGES
96-101	Books/Review Four British lives By John Leonard Clive SEE ALSO: Cardigan: a life of Lord Cardigan of Balaclava (Book); Hibbert, Christopher; Thomas, Donald Serrell; George IV, regent and king: 1811-1830 (Book); Battiscombe, Georgina; Pope-Hennessy, James; Robert Louis Stevenson (Book); Shaftesbury, the great reformer: 1801-1885 (Book) PDF IMAGES
101-108	Article An afternoon at the Garden By Anthony Tuttle SEE ALSO: Madison Square Garden (New York, New York); Self-defense PDF IMAGES
108-110	Article Celebrity market By Barry Farrell SEE ALSO: Deceptive advertising; Endorsements in advertising PDF IMAGES
110	Game/Department Game Game PDF IMAGES
117	Wraparound/Article The psychiatrist as druggist By Samuel E. Bleecker SEE ALSO: Mental illness; Treatment PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By William James PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The dread and blessed leucotome By Steven Shea PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Headache PDF IMAGES
118-119	Wraparound/Article A delicate operation By Roy C. Selby SEE ALSO: Brain; Surgery; Tumors PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Joshua Rosett PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: France, Anatole; Brain; Brain size; Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich; Size PDF IMAGES
119	Wraparound/Quotation Wraparound By Ramón y Cajal PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Ant brains By Lewis Thomas SEE ALSO: Ants; Consciousness PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Language problem By Howard Gardner SEE ALSO: Aphasia; Aphasic persons PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Alcohol and brain damage By Maya Pines and Ralph E. Tarter SEE ALSO: Alcohol; Alcoholism; Brain damage; Physiological effect PDF IMAGES
120	Wraparound/Article Left brain, right brain By Warren S. Brown SEE ALSO: Brain; Cerebral hemispheres; Localization of functions PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] SEE ALSO: Brain; Localization of functions PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Epileptic SEE ALSO: Epilepsy; Epileptics; Health; Interviews; Young, Neil; Rock musicians PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Brain; Growth PDF IMAGES
121-124	Wraparound/Article Welcome to craniology By Loren C. Eiseley SEE ALSO: Brain; Craniology; Evolution PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The optics of memory By Paul Pietsch SEE ALSO: Holographic theory of memory; Memory PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article The amazing Delgado By L. B. SEE ALSO: Brain; Career as neurologist; Delgado, José; Neurologists PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Quotation An educated guess By the African Constantine SEE ALSO: Brain; Mind and body; 11th century PDF IMAGES
122	Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Nature sounds PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Encyclopedias and dictionaries PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Board games PDF IMAGES
123	Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Mural painting and decoration, American PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Review Tools for living SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Models; Phrenology; Skull PDF IMAGES
124	Wraparound/Article For more on the brain . . . By Michael Aron SEE ALSO: Bibliography; Brain PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Illustration [Untitled Illustration] SEE ALSO: Brain PDF IMAGES Wraparound/Article Wraparound SEE ALSO: Brain; Forecasting; Transplantation PDF IMAGES
125	Commentary/Article On natural aristocracy By Thomas Jefferson SEE ALSO: Aristocracy (Social class); Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES