Harper's Magazine: January 1977

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January 1977

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	Photo [Cover art] By Humphrey Sutton (Photog.) SEE ALSO: American newspapers PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Chimera in the Middle East, from November 1976: Letter By Rael Jean Isaac Letter By Clara P. Trefethen Letter By Carole R. Bohn Letter By Djelloul Marbrook Letter By R. Emmett Tyrell On Requiem for the women's movement, from November 1976: Letter By Janet Hart Letter By Sharron Belson Letter By Robert Finley Letter By Veronica Geng On Corrida, from November 1976: Letter By J. Allston James Letter By Elizabeth Howland PDF IMAGES
16-17	The easy chair/Article Auld lang syne By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; 1974-1977; 1976- PDF IMAGES
18-25	Article The coming crisis in Europe By Richard J. Whalen SEE ALSO: Economic forecasting; Financial crises PDF IMAGES
26-27	Article Afternoon in purgatory: Sentence deferred in Alabama By Joseph P. Kahn SEE ALSO: Alabama; Capital punishment; Clausell, Johnny Lee; Sentences (Criminal procedure); Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Murder) PDF IMAGES
28-31	Article Blood money By Steven Ashley SEE ALSO: Career as sheep rancher; Mortality; Thompson, Oden; Prevention; Sheep; Sheep ranches; Slaughtering and slaughter-houses; West Virginia PDF IMAGES
29	Poem Godiva in the nursery By Dorothy Schuchman McCoy PDF IMAGES
33-40	Article The myth of an adversary press By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Government and the press; Mass media; Press and politics PDF IMAGES
41-60	Article The ridge-slope fox and the knife thrower By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Hoagland, Edward; Homes and haunts—New England PDF IMAGES
61-67	Article The final season By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Curry, Bill; Career as football player; Football players; Nitschke, Ray; Retirement PDF IMAGES
68-75	Article Looking for the lost Mafia By Rufus King SEE ALSO: Mafia; Organized crime; Undercover operations PDF IMAGES
76-86	Books/Article Notes on the children's book trade By John Goldthwaite SEE ALSO: A little Schubert (Book); All the way home (Book); Lobel, Arnold; Book industries and trade; Sandburg, Carl; Children's literature, American; Watson, Clyde; Barthelme, Donald; Everything about Easter rabbits (Book); Father Fox's pennyrhymes (Book); Heide, Florence Parry; Frog and toad are friends (Book); How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen (Book); Stevenson, James; Segal, Lore Groszmann; Lumberjack (Book); Goffstein, M.B.; Babbitt, Natalie; Jarrell, Randall; Hoban, Russell; Snow White (Book); Sylvester and the magic pebble (Book); The animal family (Book); The bear who had no place to go (Book); The shrinking of Treehorn (Book); The slightly irregular fire engine (Book); The wedding procession of the rag doll and the broom handle, and who was in it (Book); Tuck everlasting (Book); Kurelek, William; Steig, William; Roser, Wiltrud PDF IMAGES
87	Books/Review Confusing the entrails By Jack Richardson SEE ALSO: Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.; Empire without end (Book); Storoni Mazzolani, Lidia; Rome PDF IMAGES
88-90	The movies/Review War crimes By Terrence Des Pres SEE ALSO: Documentary films; In motion pictures; Ophuls, Marcel PDF IMAGES
90	Poem Our poem By Laura Fortenbaugh PDF IMAGES Poem After Su Shih By Frederick Morgan PDF IMAGES Poem After Wen Cheng-ming By Frederick Morgan PDF IMAGES Poem After Shen Chou By Frederick Morgan PDF IMAGES Collection Three poems By Frederick Morgan PDF IMAGES
91-92	Article The First Avenue school By Nathan Silver SEE ALSO: Architecture, Modern PDF IMAGES
95-97	The fourth estate/Article A matter of privilege By Kevin P. Phillips SEE ALSO: Mass media; Power (Social sciences) PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department New directions By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES