Harper's Magazine: July 1980

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July 1980

CONTENTS
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	Photo [Cover art] By Robert Azzi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Cameleers; Decoration; Libyan Desert; Trucks PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The overset, from May 1980: Letter By James Wood Letter By Deborah McGill On The force of diagnosis, from May 1980: Letter By James Brown Letter By Walter Reich On Clumsy oafs, unlettered louts, from May 1980: Letter By C. Ronald Chester On The cult of Mormonism, from May 1980: Letter By Thomas Gardner Letter By Wendy J. Higginbotham Letter By Michael Nordstrom Letter By Wheeler Oliphant Letter By Kevin G. Barnhurst Letter By Kenneth Danforth PDF IMAGES
10-16	The easy chair/Article The somnambulists: The armies of the earth asleep By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts); Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Resignation from office PDF IMAGES
16	Poem Woman mask By Terrance Kistler PDF IMAGES
18-22	Article Interests and alliances: The teachings of Vietnam By George A. Carver SEE ALSO: 1977-1981; Public opinion, American PDF IMAGES
24-29	Article The American teacher: A gift for giving By A. Bartlett Giamatti SEE ALSO: Aims and objectives; Education, Higher; Faculty PDF IMAGES
30-32	Article Sweating out Begin: Depressed Israelis, cynical Egyptians By Lesley Hazleton SEE ALSO: Egypt; Israel; Begin, Menachem PDF IMAGES
31	Poem Water By Judith McPheron PDF IMAGES
34-37	Washington/Article Flowering politics: And literary wilt By Tom Bethell SEE ALSO: Politics and literature PDF IMAGES
37	Poem Letter to Frances By Terrance Kistler PDF IMAGES
39-48	Article Consorting with Arabs: The friends oil buys By L.J. (Lawrence J.) Davis SEE ALSO: Frank Church; Idaho; International business enterprises; Fluor, J. Robert; Libya; 1969-; 1977-1981; Relations with Libyans; Relations with Saudis; Saudi Arabia PDF IMAGES
50-56	Article The enemies of intimacy: What is lost to pseudoculture By George P. Elliott SEE ALSO: Intimacy (Psychology); 1971-; Surrealism PDF IMAGES
58-59	Article The overset: Beard's bestiary SEE ALSO: Career in United States House of Representatives; Catalogs; Endangered species; Beard, Robin PDF IMAGES
60-64	Article Costing out Iran: Six cents for lost prestige By George Plimpton SEE ALSO: Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; 1977-1981 PDF IMAGES
65-71	The fourth estate/Article Fascism without swastikas By Fergus M. Bordewich SEE ALSO: Fascism; Foreign correspondents; Influence; Iran; 1979-; Khomeini, Ruhollah PDF IMAGES
72	Lines of sight/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Cowboys; Rising and setting; Sun PDF IMAGES
73-75	Article Important horses: Serving human purposes By John P. Sisk SEE ALSO: Horses; Mythology PDF IMAGES
76	In our time/Article The Lord's work By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Church finance; Television in religion PDF IMAGES
77-79	Books/Review On busing in Boston: Glimmers of understanding By Martha Bayles SEE ALSO: Burke, Alan Dennis; Lupo, Alan; Busing (Book); Busing for school integration; Fire watch: a novel (Book); Stoia, Judith; Liberty's chosen home: the politics of violence in Boston (Book); Bullard, Pamela; The hardest lesson: personal accounts of a school desegregation crisis (Book); Cottle, Thomas J. PDF IMAGES
80-81	In print/Review Country wisdom: Ruminating on farmers, kingpins, and squash By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Agriculture; Hartley, Dorothy; Lost country life (Book); Kramer, Mark; Three farms: making milk, meat and money from the American soil (Book) PDF IMAGES
82-84	American miscellany/Article Growing with the times: The grim yield of modern farming By William Mueller SEE ALSO: Agriculture PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Double occupancy By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES