Harper's Magazine: October 1979

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October 1979

CONTENTS
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	Illustration [Cover art] By Kiyoshi Kanai and Charles White SEE ALSO: Balloons; Dollar sign PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Collective dread, from July 1979: Letter By Sol Kort On Hiding from the bomb—again, from August 1979: Letter By Dorothy Merriam On Down with public television, from August 1979: Letter By James Zigerell On Extreme unction, from August 1979: Letter By Cyril B. Upham On Matters of taste, from August 1979: Letter By Dale Nelson PDF IMAGES
6-12	The easy chair/Article The death of kings: Prose translations from the poetry of despair By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Elite (Social sciences); Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; 1980-; Political oratory PDF IMAGES
16-23	Article The meltdown that didn't happen: Optimism and inertia at Three Mile Island By Howard Morland SEE ALSO: Accidents; Evacuation of civilians; Nuclear crisis control; Nuclear engineering; Nuclear power plants; Risk assessment; Safety measures; Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant (Pa.) PDF IMAGES
26-32	Article Oil in abundance: Without taxes or synthetic fuel By Jude Wanniski SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Energy policy; Excess profits tax; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; Petroleum; Prospecting; Renewable energy sources; Synthetic fuels PDF IMAGES
34-39	Article In the logging woods: Proud fatalism and preventable death By Stan Hager SEE ALSO: Lumber trade; Lumbering; Lumbering accidents; Safety measures; Sierra Nevada PDF IMAGES
41-117	Article Fooling with the budget: How Congress causes inflation By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Consumption (Economics); Deficit financing; Inflation (Finance); United States. Congress PDF IMAGES
53-68	Collection A report from the Edison Electric Institute symposium PDF IMAGES
54-55	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By Chauncey Starr PDF IMAGES
56-58	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By George Basalla PDF IMAGES
59-61	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By Alasdair MacIntyre PDF IMAGES
63-64	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By Eric Hoffer SEE ALSO: Hoffer, Eric; Portraits PDF IMAGES
65-67	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By Simon Ramo PDF IMAGES
68	Advertising Supplement Science, technology and the human prospect By Philip Handler PDF IMAGES
69	In our time/Article The secret heart of the New York culturatus By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Snobs and snobbishness; Social movements PDF IMAGES
70-76	Article The civil-service Giants: A story of baseball and bureaucracy By Allan B. Jacobs SEE ALSO: Baseball players; Civil service positions; San Francisco; San Francisco (Calif.); San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) PDF IMAGES
77-79	Poem Raymond and Ann By David Budbill PDF IMAGES
80-82	Article Reflections By Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev and Helen Gredd (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Exile; Heads of state; 1953-1985; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich; Pictorial works; Retirement PDF IMAGES Collection Khrushchev in retirement PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Helen Gredd SEE ALSO: Exile; Heads of state; 1953-1985; Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich PDF IMAGES
84-86	Article The Survivors Club: Rules and regulations By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Haig, Alexander Meigs; Ambassadors; Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts); Rusk, Dean; Diplomats; Miller, G. William (George William); Romney, George W.; Kissinger, Henry; Schlesinger, James R.; 1945-1989; Officials and employees; Performances; Portraits; McNamara, Robert S.; Societies, etc.; Statesmen; Watson, Thomas J.; United States. Dept. of State; Brzezinski, Zbigniew PDF IMAGES
88-92	Fiction Rags & bones: A short story By Nadine Gordimer PDF IMAGES
93-99	Books/Review Degenerate criticism: The dismal state of English studies By Peter Shaw SEE ALSO: Critical understanding: the powers and limits of pluralism (Book); Criticism; Graff, Gerald; Literature against itself: literary ideas in modern society (Book); New readings vs. old plays (Book); Levin, Richard; Booth, Wayne C. PDF IMAGES
100-104	In print/Review Domestic arrangements: The premise of partnership By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Biography; Clementine Churchill: the biography of a marriage (Book); Clover (Book); Churchill, Clementine, Lady; Adams, Marian; Soames, Mary; Friedrich, Otto; Pictorial works; Portraits PDF IMAGES
105	Other things being equal/Article The diversions of the court of Lilliput described By David Suter SEE ALSO: Gulliver's travels (Book); Carter, Jimmy; Swift, Jonathan; Pictorial works—Humor PDF IMAGES
106-110	The fourth estate/Article Fast folk: Keeping up with the gerbils By Louis T. Grant SEE ALSO: Career as working mother; Soulé, Charlotte; Pictorial works; Time management; Woman's day (American periodical); Women in the press; Working mothers PDF IMAGES
113-115	American miscellany/Article The next place: We are all here By Jamie Wolf SEE ALSO: Cliques (Sociology); Santa Monica PDF IMAGES
115	Poem Moonlight By Geof Hewitt PDF IMAGES Poem Some of my dearest friends By Geof Hewitt PDF IMAGES Collection [untitled] By Geof Hewitt PDF IMAGES
120	Puzzle/Department Self-explanatory By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES