Harper's Magazine: March 1977

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March 1977

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By John Ernest Miller SEE ALSO: Janus (Roman deity) PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Muridae, from December 1976: Letter By Ruth B. Park Letter By Barbara Mindel On The myth of an adversary press, from January 1977: Letter By Arnold J. Ismach Letter By John J. Fialka Letter By James M. Zelenski Letter By Otto Perkins Letter By W. William Leaphart Letter By Gardner Macartney Letter By Tom Bethell On The ridge-slope fox and the knife thrower, from January 1977: Letter By Seymour Tubis On Notes on the children's book trade, from January 1977: Letter By Claudia Johnson Letter By Mary Bingham Letter By John Goldthwaite PDF IMAGES
8-10	Article Last oasis By Edward Abbey SEE ALSO: Abbey, Edward; Journeys—Utah—Escalante River Valley; Outdoor recreation; Utah PDF IMAGES
12-14	Article The self as sybarite By Roger Rosenblatt SEE ALSO: Life skills guides; Single people PDF IMAGES
16-20	Article Skirmish over Guernica By Philip Nobile SEE ALSO: Acquisitions; Art and state; Art, Modern; Museum of Modern Art (New York, New York); Picasso, Pablo PDF IMAGES
21-24	Article The Edith project By Jack McClintock SEE ALSO: Stern, Aaron; Child rearing; Childhood and youth; Stern, Edith; Genius; Views on education PDF IMAGES
25-26	Washington/Article Bureaucrats redux By Brock Brower SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Career in government; Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts); Brown, Harold; Califano, Joseph A.; Officials and employees; McNamara, Robert S.; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
31-37	Article The capitalist paradox By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Capitalism PDF IMAGES
38-41	Fiction Roman ordinary By John L'Heureux PDF IMAGES Collection Two stories By John L'Heureux PDF IMAGES
42-44	Fiction Success By John L'Heureux PDF IMAGES
79	Poem Part of my life in late August 1975 in the literal river of words By Tom Lewis PDF IMAGES
80-87	Article Visions of futures past By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Collective settlements; Communal living; Philosophy; Thompson, William Irwin PDF IMAGES
88-93	Article Television's little dramas By Herbert Gold SEE ALSO: Motion pictures and television; Production and direction; Television PDF IMAGES
94-99	Books/Review The compleat New Yorker By Malcolm Muggeridge SEE ALSO: Guth, Dorothy Lobrano; White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks); Letters of E.B. White (Book); The New Yorker (Periodical) PDF IMAGES
99	Poem Forlorn hope By Dennis Silk PDF IMAGES Poem Beginning By Dennis Silk PDF IMAGES Poem Epilogue for Soldier Schweik By Dennis Silk PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By Dennis Silk PDF IMAGES
100-101	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Michael Malone SEE ALSO: Changing (Book); Abrahamsen, David; Gates of Eden: American culture in the sixties (Book); Ullmann, Liv; Dickstein, Morris; Nixon vs. Nixon: an emotional tragedy (Book) PDF IMAGES
102-104	Movies/Review Humiliation in Hollywood By Stephen Koch SEE ALSO: Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott) PDF IMAGES
107-112	Music/Review Adrift among images By F. Joseph Spieler SEE ALSO: Opera; Glass, Philip; Wilson, Robert PDF IMAGES
112	Music/Review Recommended recordings SEE ALSO: Bartók, Béla; Franck, César; Barenboim, Daniel; Busoni, Ferruccio; Foster: Songs by Stephen Foster, Volume II (Sound recording); Franck: Symphony in D minor (Sound recording); Stravinsky, Igor; Messiaen, Olivier; Jacobs, Paul; Performances; Piano etudes by Bartók, Busoni, Messiaen, Stravinsky (Sound recording); Wagner, Richard; Foster, Stephen Collins; Wagner: Lohengrin (Sound recording); Sawallisch, Wolfgang PDF IMAGES
113-117	The fourth estate/Collection The fourth estate PDF IMAGES The fourth estate/Article In which it is argued that the balcony has become the pit By Peter H. Schuck SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Periodical Correspondents' Association; Consumers Union; Freedom of the press; Government and the press; Periodical Correspondents' Association; Press coverage; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES The fourth estate/Article In which it is argued that the balcony has remained true to itself By Neil MacNeil SEE ALSO: Claims vs. Periodical Correspondents' Association; Consumers Union; Government and the press; Lobbying; Periodical Correspondents' Association; Press coverage; Trials, litigation, etc.; United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
121	Puzzle/Department Crazy quilt By Richard Maltby PDF IMAGES