Harper's Magazine: February 1977

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February 1977

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Rostislav Eismont PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On The burden of generosity, from December 1976: Letter By Winifred Scott Letter By Charles R. Merin Letter By Les Aspin On A volley of words, from December 1976: Letter By Arthur Halliburton Letter By Lewis Burke Frumkes On The reluctant pornographer, from December 1976: Letter By Stephen Stouder PDF IMAGES
12-14	The easy chair/Article The language of Mammon By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Money PDF IMAGES
16-25	Article The newspeak generation By Reed Whittemore SEE ALSO: Functional literacy; Mass media and language PDF IMAGES
26-28	Article Old comrades meet By Michael Harrington SEE ALSO: Congresses; Socialism PDF IMAGES
29-30	Article Thoughts from the dais By Samuel C. Florman SEE ALSO: Awards; Engineering; Florman, Samuel C. PDF IMAGES
31-33	Article Mao's funeral By Ben J. Wattenberg SEE ALSO: Communism; Death and burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Heads of state; 1949-; Mao, Zedong PDF IMAGES
35-40	Article The specter of full employment By Robert Lekachman SEE ALSO: 1971-1981 PDF IMAGES
41-59	Article Revising the facts of life By P.B. (Peter Brian) Medawar and J.S. Medawar SEE ALSO: Aging; Biology; Cancer; Genetics; Immunology PDF IMAGES Collection Revising the facts of life By P.B. (Peter Brian) Medawar and J.S. Medawar PDF IMAGES
60	Article Glossary of technical terms By P.B. (Peter Brian) Medawar and J.S. Medawar SEE ALSO: Biology; Terminology PDF IMAGES
62-76	Article A talk with Trotsky By Peter Berlinrut SEE ALSO: Communists; Exile—Mexico; Trotsky, Leon; Meetings with Leon Trotsky, 1937; Berlinrut, Peter PDF IMAGES
77-86	Fiction The house of angels By Ella Leffland PDF IMAGES
87-91	Books/Article A shrivel of critics By Anthony Burgess SEE ALSO: Book reviewing; Critics PDF IMAGES
92-93	Books/Review Overtaken by events By Evan S. Connell SEE ALSO: A fringe of leaves (Book); White, Patrick PDF IMAGES
94-95	Books/Review Memories of an Indian childhood By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Kiowa Indians; Momaday, N. Scott; The names: a memoir (Book) PDF IMAGES
98	Puzzle/Department Hex signs By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES