Harper's Magazine: January 1980

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January 1980

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The meltdown that didn't happen, from October 1979: Letter By Paul Turner Letter By Howard Morland On Pomp and civil engineering, from November 1979: Letter By Paul Lippman Letter By Samuel C. Florman PDF IMAGES
8	Notice Awards SEE ALSO: Brothers, I loved you all (Book); Competitions; Carruth, Hayden PDF IMAGES
12-14	The easy chair/Article Divining rods: Notes for a new decade By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Political culture; Transcendence (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
16-27	Article Winning at dominoes: Asia is selling itself on capitalism By T.D. Allman SEE ALSO: Asia, Southeastern; Capitalism; 1945-1989; 1949- PDF IMAGES
27	Poem Call the hour By Cynthia Hoyt PDF IMAGES
30-35	Article Coddled criminals: Corporate convictions By Robert Stuart Nathan SEE ALSO: Corporations; Corrupt practices; Nathan, Edward; Rowan, Robert Dale; White collar crimes PDF IMAGES
37-56	Article The McCord file By Jim Hougan SEE ALSO: Baldwin, Alfred; Hunt, E. Howard (Everette Howard); Wills, Frank; Liddy, G. Gordon; McCord, James W. (James Walter); Russell, Lou; Private investigators; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Watergate break-in PDF IMAGES
57	In our time/Article The invisible wife By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Effect of husband's employment on PDF IMAGES
58-67	Article Ahmed and the gamekeepers: Violating Africa By Patrick Marnham SEE ALSO: Africa, East; Elephants; Gamekeepers PDF IMAGES
68	Poem From Ecclesiastes By David Rosenberg (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
69-72	Books/Review Naipaul's losers By Paul Zweig SEE ALSO: A bend in the river (Book); Africa; East Indians; Naipaul, V.S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) PDF IMAGES
76	Lines of sight/Cartoon Modern architecture SEE ALSO: Architecture; Skyscrapers PDF IMAGES
77-81	Books/Review Poets on the fringe: The breadth of sensibility By Hayden Carruth SEE ALSO: Grossman, Allen; American poetry; Walcott, Derek; Brock, Edwin; Honig, Edwin; Morgan, Frederick; Hill, Geoffrey; Shapiro, Harvey; Kenyon, Jane; Valentine, Jean; Lauds & nightsounds (Book); Levine, Philip; Poetry, Modern; Mills, Ralph J.; Bly, Robert PDF IMAGES
79	Poem “Illness as metaphor”—for Susan Sontag By Patricia Goedicke SEE ALSO: Poem; Sontag, Susan PDF IMAGES
82-87	In print/Review Discovery rewarded: Finding Elias Canetti By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Authors, German; Criticism and interpretation; Canetti, Elias PDF IMAGES
88	American miscellany/Article All our children: Will Ted find happiness? By Matthew Mills Stevenson SEE ALSO: Kennedy, Edward Moore; Humor PDF IMAGES
92	Puzzle/Department Clubs for clues By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES