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November 1979

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	Photo [Cover art] By Frank Horvat (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Nature; Trees PDF IMAGES
4-13	Letters/Department Letters On Down with public television, from August 1979: Letter By John Humma Letter By H.J. Huth Letter By Jr. and Leland G. Alkire Letter By Spencer C. Warren Letter By Sibyl Krausz Letter By Kenneth Nelson Letter By Paul M Craig Letter By Stephen Chapman On Of two minds about abortion, from September 1979: Letter By D. Thomas King Letter By Harold Klein Letter By Astor L. Simpson Letter By Elisabeth Votteler Letter By David Haward Bain Letter By Andrew Hacker On Styron's heavy freight, from September 1979: Letter By Daniel DeNicola PDF IMAGES
14-21	The easy chair/Article The rage against the future: Further reflections on the national consensus of anger By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Conflict of generations; Future in popular culture; 1970- PDF IMAGES
24-29	Article The arms overstock: Canceled orders, repossessed items, will sacrifice By Michael T. Klare SEE ALSO: Arms transfers; Defense industries; Iran; The Middle East; Military assistance, American; Revolution, 1979; Saudi Arabia; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
30-35	Article Shades of Greenland By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: British; Denmark; Foreign economic relations; Greenland; Journeys—Greenland; Winchester, Simon PDF IMAGES
39-48	Article The make-work economy: Escaping the toils of welfare dependency By George F. Gilder SEE ALSO: 1971-1981; Poverty; Social policy PDF IMAGES
49-68	Article Seeing nature whole By John Fowles SEE ALSO: Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in literature; Trees PDF IMAGES
69	Lines of sight/Cartoon Self-expression SEE ALSO: Disco dancing; Marionettes PDF IMAGES
70-73	Article The snows of Studiofiftyfour By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Capote, Truman; Writer's block PDF IMAGES
76-80	Fiction Storyteller: A short story By Lewis Nordan PDF IMAGES
82-89	Books/Review Robbins's commercial art: The rewards of vulgarity By Gene Lyons SEE ALSO: A stone for Danny Fisher (Book); Criticism and interpretation; Robbins, Harold; Never love a stranger (Book); Popular literature; Portraits; The carpetbaggers (Book); The dream merchants (Book) PDF IMAGES
90-96	Books/Review The constructs of a conservative: At odds with the republic By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Confessions of a conservative (Book); Conservatism; Wills, Garry; 1945-1989; Portraits PDF IMAGES
98-99	In print/Review An ostentation of books: Tomes on gnomes, and the like By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Dragons (Book); Gift books; Hogarth, Peter J.; Clery, Val PDF IMAGES
100-104	Article Pomp and civil engineering: Image advertising By Samuel C. Florman SEE ALSO: Civil engineering; Engineers PDF IMAGES
106-111	Article Blame it on the tube: Why intellectuals hate television By Robert Asahina SEE ALSO: Class consciousness; Intellectuals; Television viewers PDF IMAGES
113	American miscellany/Article One damn thing after another SEE ALSO: Letters to the editor; Martha's Vineyard; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
116	Puzzle/Department Circuitous reasoning By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES