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January 1981

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Robert Azzi (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Iran PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On An American parliament, from November 1980: Note/correction On The wreck of the auto industry, from November 1980: Letter By J. Rutledge Letter By Jay E. Hendon Letter By Clifford D. Merriott Letter By Roy E. Treband Letter By Robert H. Paschall Letter By William Tucker On The man in the movies, from October 1980: Letter By Larry Tritten Letter By David Asman Letter By M.D. and David K. Berler Letter By Mabel M. Jasut Letter By Sally Helgesen PDF IMAGES
8-14	The easy chair/Article Reagan's Academy Award: All the king's horses and all the king's men By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1980-; 1981-1989; Philosophy; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
16-19	Letter from abroad/Article Enlightened despotism: South Africa against the world By Adam Hochschild SEE ALSO: Apartheid; Schoeman, Karel; Promised land: a novel (Book); South Africa PDF IMAGES
20-23	Washington/Article Resource wars: On the Navy's case for unlimited expansion By Michael T. Klare SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Commerce; Developing countries; Foreign service; Mines and mineral resources; United States. Navy PDF IMAGES
25-32	Article Inside Islam: How the press missed the story in Iran By Edward W. Said SEE ALSO: Foreign public opinion, American; Iran; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Islam; Press coverage PDF IMAGES
33	The counsel of the dead/Fiction Of Mahdis, Mullahs, and Imams By John Buchan SEE ALSO: Jihad PDF IMAGES
34-36	The public record/Article The public record SEE ALSO: Administrative agencies; Control; Vogt, George; Government correspondence; Mice; Publication of proceedings; Records and correspondence; Bruns, Roger; United States. Congress; Your government inaction (Book) PDF IMAGES
37	The mind's eye/Article Midnight oil By David Suter SEE ALSO: Perel'man, IA. I. (IAkov Isidorovich); Marine accidents; Physics for entertainment (Book) PDF IMAGES
38-42	Fiction Arbor day: A short story By T.N.R. Rogers SEE ALSO: Divorce; Northeastern States PDF IMAGES
43	In our time/Fiction The ringleader By Tom Wolfe SEE ALSO: Ex-convicts; Ghostwriting; Prison riots PDF IMAGES
44-45	Poem The disconnections By John Engels SEE ALSO: Fishers PDF IMAGES
46-52	Article The Moonies invade Gloucester: A sea of discontent By Geoffrey Moorhouse SEE ALSO: Fishers; Gloucester; Gloucester (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
53	Ars politica/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Ex-presidents; Carter, Jimmy; 1977-1981; Retirement—Caricatures and cartoons PDF IMAGES
54-62	Article In search of the miraculous: Science joins the occult By Theodore Roszak SEE ALSO: Parapsychology and science; Religion and science PDF IMAGES
64-65	Photo Natural likeness By John Mitchell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Anthropomorphism; Formations (Geology) PDF IMAGES
66-71	Revisions/Article Plato's ideal bedlam: Another look at those philosopher kings By I.F. (Isidor F.) Stone SEE ALSO: Influence; Plato; Utopias PDF IMAGES
72-76	Books/Review Dreamers of the day: Talking to Studs Terkel By John Lahr SEE ALSO: American dreams, lost and found (Book); 1971-; Terkel, Studs; Success PDF IMAGES
77-80	Books/Review The Russians have arrived: How the West was lost By Jim Hougan SEE ALSO: De Borchgrave, Arnaud; Espionage, Soviet; Moss, Robert; The spike (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-82	Books/Review Instant tradition: Erica Jong's free-form history By Sally Helgesen SEE ALSO: Erica Jong; Fanny: being the true history of the adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (Book); Sexual behavior; Single women PDF IMAGES
83-85	American miscellany/Poem Celebrity fare: The namedroppers' ball By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Authors and patrons; Dance parties; Roseland (New York, New York : Ballroom) PDF IMAGES
88	Puzzle/Department Abecedarian jigsaw By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES