Harper's Magazine: April 1978

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April 1978

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Atticus Lish SEE ALSO: Creative ability in children PDF IMAGES
6-8	Letters/Department Letters On Engineering and the female mind, from February 1978: Letter By John E. Gibson Letter By Doris Higgins Letter By Nels P. Nelson Letter By Samuel C. Florman On The sound of doom, from February 1978: Letter By Peter O. Rompler Letter By Peter McCabe PDF IMAGES
8	Correction Erratum By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Rosenbaum, Ron PDF IMAGES
12-14	The easy chair/Article Hostages to fortune: On the American grudge against children By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Child welfare; Conflict of generations; Legal status, laws, etc. PDF IMAGES
15-17	Washington/Article Improvisations on a theme by Henry Kissinger: Foreign policy under Carter bears the mark of the impromptu By Michael Arthur Ledeen SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; Portraits PDF IMAGES
18-27	Article Moses in Egypt: An Israeli strategist lectures the Egyptian army By Amos Perlmutter SEE ALSO: Perlmutter, Amos; Egypt; Jewish-Arab relations; Jews, American; Journeys—Egypt; 1970-1981; 1973- PDF IMAGES
23	Poem Birthmark By ibn Kenyatta PDF IMAGES Poem Fur nature's baby By ibn Kenyatta PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By ibn Kenyatta PDF IMAGES
28-38	Article Government and the ruin of private education: An argument for tuition tax credits as a way to sustain nongovernmental schools By Daniel P. Moynihan SEE ALSO: Church and state; Constitutional law; Private schools PDF IMAGES
43-58	Collection The child's mind PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Margot Witty SEE ALSO: Child psychology PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Jerome Kagan SEE ALSO: Child psychology; Early childhood education PDF IMAGES
44-45	Article A historical view By William Kessen SEE ALSO: Child development; Child rearing PDF IMAGES Article A historical view By Philippe Ariès SEE ALSO: Middle Ages PDF IMAGES
46-47	Article The origins of mind By Mortimer G. Rosen SEE ALSO: Brain; Fetus; Growth PDF IMAGES Article The origins of mind By Margot Witty SEE ALSO: Development; Infants (Newborn) PDF IMAGES
47-48	Article The origins of mind By T. Berry Brazelton SEE ALSO: Child development; Infants (Newborn) PDF IMAGES
48	Article The origins of mind By Rudolph Schaffer SEE ALSO: Child development; Parenting PDF IMAGES
49-50	Article Nature & nurture in the early years By Jerome Kagan SEE ALSO: Early childhood education; Nature and nurture PDF IMAGES Article Nature & nurture in the early years By Margot Witty SEE ALSO: Child psychology; Nature and nurture PDF IMAGES Fiction Nature & nurture in the early years By Marcel Proust PDF IMAGES
50-51	Article Nature & nurture in the early years By Maya Pines SEE ALSO: Early childhood education; Intelligence testing; Nature and nurture PDF IMAGES Fiction Nature & nurture in the early years By Jean-Jacques Rousseau PDF IMAGES
51-53	Article Young minds at play By Laura Carper SEE ALSO: Child development; Role playing in children; Sex role in children PDF IMAGES Fiction Nature & nurture in the early years By Eugène Ionesco PDF IMAGES
52	Article Young minds at play By Maurice Sendak SEE ALSO: Imagination in children PDF IMAGES
53-55	Article Young minds at play By Brian Sutton-Smith SEE ALSO: Child development; Storytelling ability in children PDF IMAGES
56-58	Article Learning to read By Bruno Bettelheim SEE ALSO: Early childhood education; Reading (Early childhood) PDF IMAGES
57	Article Learning to read By Michel de Montaigne PDF IMAGES
58	Article Learning to read By Quintilian SEE ALSO: Nature and nurture PDF IMAGES
61-70	Article Panama's genial despot: Learning to do homage to Brigadier General Torrijos By Joan Peters SEE ALSO: Interviews; 1977-1981; Torrijos Herrera, Omar; Panama; Portraits PDF IMAGES
71-73	Photo Mothers & daughters By Patricia Evans (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
74	In our time/Article The buck stops here By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Adult children living with parents PDF IMAGES
75-77	Books/Review Where every prospect pleases By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: A pattern language: towns, buildings, construction (Book); Alexander, Christopher; Abrams, Denny; Fiksdahl-King, Ingrid; Jacobson, Max; Silverstein, Murray; Organic architecture; Ishikawa, Sara; Angel, Shlomo; The Oregon experiment (Book) PDF IMAGES
78-83	Books/Review Gin and nostalgia By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Greene, Graham; The human factor (Book) PDF IMAGES
83-85	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: An armful of warm girl (Book); Final payments (Book); Infanticide (Book); Piers, Maria W.; Gordon, Mary; Mind control (Book); Schrag, Peter; Berkhofer, Robert F.; The white man's Indian: images of the American Indian from Columbus to the present (Book); Spackman, W.M. (William Mode) PDF IMAGES
86-90	The fourth estate/Article The common man and the electric church: Religion and its role in class division By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: 1960; Religion and politics; Religious broadcasting PDF IMAGES
94-95	American miscellany/Article Alaskan spring: The sudden loosening of the spirit By John Meade Haines SEE ALSO: Alaska ; Spring PDF IMAGES
99	Puzzle/Department Not for romantics By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES