Harper's Magazine: June 1978

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June 1978

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	Photo [Cover art] By Terry Stevenson (Photog.) PDF IMAGES
4-12	Letters/Department Letters On Wish you were here, from March 1978: Letter By Joan K. Davidson On Dubious hindsight, from March 1978: Letter By J.A. Rehyansky Letter By John P. Conlon Letter By John A.B. Riddiford Letter By Wilfred Burchett On Improvisations on a theme by Henry Kissinger, from April 1978: Letter By George G. Higgins Letter By Michael Ledeen On Government and the ruin of private education, from April 1978: Letter By Albert Shanker Letter By Edd Doerr Letter By Leo Pfeffer Letter By Daniel P. Moynihan On Panama's genial despot, from April 1978: Letter By “The Editors” PDF IMAGES
13-15	The easy chair/Article The American bedouin: On the seductions of barbarism By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Migration, Internal; 1970- PDF IMAGES
16-19	Article Technology's minor moments: The hidden benefits of not succeeding By Samuel C. Florman SEE ALSO: Business failures; Technological innovations PDF IMAGES
24-29	Article Rubber tomatoes: The unsavory partnership of research and agribusiness By Peter Schrag SEE ALSO: Agricultural industries; Agriculture; Breeding; Sociological aspects; Tomatoes PDF IMAGES
31-38	Article Russia in entropy: The revolution retires By Christopher S. (Christopher Sale) Wren SEE ALSO: Cold War; Communism; 1945-1991; 1953-1985 PDF IMAGES
39	Article Brief lives: Merlin the CPA By Robert Davée SEE ALSO: Accountants; Corporation reports PDF IMAGES
41-60	Article The wealth of Washington By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Civil service; Government consultants; Government contractors; Wealth PDF IMAGES
61	Poem That bright grey eye By Hilda Morley PDF IMAGES
63-74	Article Spanish Harlem: Dreams that money can't buy By Earl Shorris SEE ALSO: Figueroa, Anna; Orta, Awilda; Vázquez, José Antonio; Pictorial works; Public schools; Spanish Americans PDF IMAGES
78-79	Fiction The lascivious hedgehog: A short story By Jaroslav Hasek PDF IMAGES
80	In our time/Article Off to a better place By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Interior decoration PDF IMAGES
81-85	Books/Review The debate of the century (con't.) By John Chabot Smith SEE ALSO: Hiss, Alger; Weinstein, Allen; Perjury: the Hiss-Chambers case (Book); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
84	Books/Article Evidence in review By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Hiss, Alger; Appellate procedure; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
85	Poem Evening services every fourth Sunday By David Huddle PDF IMAGES
86-89	Books/Review The passionate few By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: American poetry; Cicada (Book); Collected poems (Book); Abse, Dannie; Frumkin, Gene; Stern, Gerald; In a dusty light (Book); Wright, James Arlington; Harrison, Jim; Haines, John Meade; Sherwin, Judith Johnson; Wilson, Keith; Lucky life (Book); Falk, Marcia; Returning to Earth (Book); Noyes, Stanley; Thantog (Book); The Indian Rio Grande (Book); The song of songs (Book); The town scold (Book); To a blossoming pear tree (Book) PDF IMAGES
89-90	Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Frances Taliaferro Thomas, Jeffrey Burke, and Paul Berman SEE ALSO: Airships (Book); Hannah, Barry; Schulz, Bruno; Wieniewska, Celina; Caute, David; Busch, Frederick; Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass (Book); The great fear: the anti-communist purge under Truman and Eisenhower (Book); The mutual friend (Book) PDF IMAGES
90	Poem Lost and found By Philip Levine PDF IMAGES
94-96	American miscellany/Article Goodbye to Congress—and all that: On stepping down from public office By Otis Pike SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; Pike, Otis; Resignation from office; Rules and practice; United States. Congress. House PDF IMAGES
100	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES