Harper's Magazine Archive (1980)

1980

JANUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Divining rods: Notes for a new decade by Lewis H. Lapham Winning at dominoes: Asia is selling itself on capitalism by T.D. Allman Coddled criminals: Corporate convictions by Robert Stuart Nathan The McCord file by Jim Hougan Poetry Call the hour by Cynthia Hoyt “Illness as metaphor”—for Susan Sontag by Patricia Goedicke
FEBRUARY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Treating poverty: Wherein the cure gives rise to the disease by Tom Bethell Israeli expansionism: Greed and the Gush Emunim by Arthur H. Samuelson Faculty survival: Coping with managers by Reed Whittemore Bankers' casino: Gambling in the $900 billion Euromarket by L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis Fiction Words are deeds: A short story by Paul Theroux Poetry Lumiere by H.L. Van Brunt In tornado country by David Ray
MARCH	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Groundwork: Rocks of stone by Ronald Jager King Frederick's mules: In the weightless realm of images by Lewis H. Lapham Negotiable instruments: Redeeming America's promises by Richard J. Whalen The no-account census: Attempting the impossible by Andrew Hacker “Right conduct” for a “free press”: The containment of secrets by Michael Macdonald Mooney Poetry Rear view mirror by Louis Daniel Brodsky Death comes to the salesman by Louis Daniel Brodsky
APRIL	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Voices prophesying war: The deadly game of nations by Lewis H. Lapham Piano bar notes by Don Asher The fortunes of war: The academies forsake history for technique by Jeffrey Record Reporting from Africa: Modern impulses and the attractions of the bush by Michael Kaufman Purely American: Innocent nation, wicked world by Conor Cruise O'Brien Fiction Sunday under par: A short story by Walker Percy The hostage: A short story by Tova Reich Poetry The ebony casket by Joyce Carol Oates
MAY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Moral disarmament by Lewis H. Lapham The force of diagnosis: Opportune uses of psychiatry by Walter Reich His former majesty, Bokassa: And the flourishing French empire in Africa by Jeff B. Harmon Knowledge without wisdom: The clatter of experts by Erwin Chargaff Fiction The assembly: A short story by Mavis Gallant Poetry Mourning Pablo Neruda by Robert Bly My inheritance by Mary Jane Dickerson Who is it accuses us? by Linda Pastan
JUNE	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Defeatist France: The heritage of Vichy by Walter Laqueur A taste for Calcutta: This terrible, beautiful city by Simon Winchester Constitutional complaints: What ails America by Henry Fairlie Entangled freedoms: Eighty years of red tape by Peter Meyer Correspondences: Making connections on the Grand Tour by John P. Sisk Fiction Good morning to you, lieutenant: A short story by Larry Heinemann Poetry A winter daybreak above Vence by James Arlington Wright Chilblain by James Arlington Wright
JULY	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The somnambulists: The armies of the earth asleep by Lewis H. Lapham Interests and alliances: The teachings of Vietnam by George A. Carver The American teacher: A gift for giving by A. Bartlett Giamatti Sweating out Begin: Depressed Israelis, cynical Egyptians by Lesley Hazleton Flowering politics: And literary wilt by Tom Bethell Poetry Woman mask by Terrance Kistler Water by Judith McPheron Letter to Frances by Terrance Kistler
AUGUST	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Well-meaning government: Size and possibility by Michael A. Scully Real money: Buttressed by gold by Lewis E. Lehrman The ministry of culture: Buying the just and beautiful society by Michael Macdonald Mooney God's own network: The TV kingdom of Pat Robertson by Dick Dabney Fiction The Dublin coat: A short story by George V. Higgins
SEPTEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles E.R.A.-R.I.P. Women, not men, defeated the amendment for equal rights by Andrew Hacker Once a Marine: Jogging has replaced the rigors of boot camp by Josiah Bunting The trouble with slogans: Myths of the Middle East by Theodore C. Sorensen The Hollywood right: Outtakes from the Republican National Convention by Earl Shorris The war in the Sahara: A month's journey to an implausible battlefield by Frederick Iseman Poetry Not bored, not ill at ease or cold by Ann Lauterbach Flowers: 19 february—1 march/1976 by Joel Oppenheimer Portoncini dei morti by Daniel Halpern
OCTOBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Ordeal by fire: Casting the candidates into bronze by Lewis H. Lapham Terms of endearment: Legislating love by Walter Berns Conservatism in America: A small circle of friends by L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis Respectable terrorism: When its victims become violent by Lesley Hazleton Unprofitable war: Debasing the currency with arms by George S. (George Stanley) McGovern Fiction The copper balloons: A short story by Lewis Nordan Poetry In the beginning was the word by Richard Shelton To you by Richard Shelton Song of the hogan by Richard Shelton Promises by Richard Shelton
NOVEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles The lost American empire: Explaining it to Sally by Lewis H. Lapham Core curriculum: Barber colleges go back to the basics by Joseph Epstein An American parliament: Overcoming the separation of powers by Kevin P. Phillips Nation of lobbyists: The conventioners' convention by Michael Macdonald Mooney Through history with Henry A. Kissinger: A campaign biography by William Shawcross Fiction The piano recital by John Podhoretz Poetry Visiting Emily Dickinson's grave by Leo Connellan Lack of seed power by James Hearst This night by William Heyen In a dark time, on his grandfather (—Zalman Heller, writer and teacher, d. 1956) by Michael Heller The resting place by David Wagoner
DECEMBER	CONTENTS \| THUMBNAILS
	Selected Articles Eskimo economics: Variations on a conservative theme by Lewis H. Lapham Cures that kill: Medicine's deadly experiments by David Hellerstein Wheelbarrow currency: When money loses its meaning by Walter Laqueur State vs. academe: Nationalizing the universities by Daniel P. Moynihan Coming to terms with Vietnam: Settling our moral debts by Peter Marin Fiction Papa takes a bride: A short story by Noriko Sawada Poetry Fad by Harold Witt