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September 1981

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Richard Merkin SEE ALSO: Art patronage PDF IMAGES
6-7	Letters/Article Trial by newsprint By Saul David On Gilding the news, from July 1981: Letter By Barbara Nauer Letter By Martha Heimberg Letter By Molly M. Fowler Letter By Robert W. Topping Letter By Paul A. Kellogg Letter By Albert J. Eckstein On From Bauhaus to our house, from July 1981: Letter By Carll Tucker Letter By Robert Lawton Jones Note/correction SEE ALSO: Burnett, Carol; Press law; Trials (Libel); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
8-12	The easy chair/Article The counterfeit muse: Notes on the official culture By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Art patronage; Federal aid to the arts PDF IMAGES
13-18	Article Island of instability: Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's latest protector By Frank Henry Gervasi SEE ALSO: Military assistance, American; 1981-1989; Persian Gulf Region; Saudi Arabia; Strategic aspects PDF IMAGES
19-21	Washington/Article The case for bankruptcy: Inflation's only enemy By Richard J. Whalen SEE ALSO: Banks and banking, Central; Business failures; Effect of inflation on; Government securities PDF IMAGES
22-28	Letter from abroad/Article The newest class: Yugoslavia's impulse for division By Richard West SEE ALSO: Adversaries; Stepinac, Aloysius; Death and burial; Tito, Josip Broz; Djilas, Milovan; 1945-1980; Social policy; Views on Tito; Yugoslavia PDF IMAGES
31-40	Article Money and art: The paradox of patronage By Paul Theroux SEE ALSO: Art and state; Art patronage; Literary patrons; National Endowment for the Arts PDF IMAGES
41-56	Article Panic among the Philistines: The literary vulgarians By Bryan F. Griffin SEE ALSO: American literature; Literature; Novelists, American; Pornography PDF IMAGES
57-60	Cartoon The bomb shelter of your dreams: Catalogue for survival PDF IMAGES
61-67	Fiction The year 1912: A story By Máirtín Ó Cadhain and Eoghan Ó Tuairisc (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Irish; Women immigrants PDF IMAGES
68-69	Geography 105/Illustration Women workers By Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal SEE ALSO: Maps; Kidron, Michael; Segal, Ronald; The state of the world atlas (Book); Women employees PDF IMAGES
70-76	Books/Review Pony or Pegasus: The problem of mistranslation By Joel Agee SEE ALSO: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich; Bible (Book); Bible. English; FitzGerald, Edward; Eugene Onegin (Book); Fox, Everett; Petrarca, Francesco; Liu, James J.Y.; Kilmer, Nicholas; Omar Khayyam; Rilke, Rainer Maria; Bly, Robert; Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam (Book); Selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Book); Songs and sonnets from Laura's lifetime (Book); Burnshaw, Stanley; The art of Chinese poetry (Book); The poem itself (Book); Translations; Versions; Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich PDF IMAGES
77	Ars politica/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Helms, Jesse; 1981-1989; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
78-80	In print/Review Lots of mots: Eighty-five hours with Mr. Proust By Jeffrey Burke SEE ALSO: Mayor, Andreas; Scott-Moncrieff, C.K. (Charles Kenneth); French literature; Proust, Marcel; Remembrance of things past (Book); Kilmartin, Terence; Translations into English PDF IMAGES
80	Poem Ukiyo - e By Siv Cedering SEE ALSO: Fireflies PDF IMAGES
82	In our time/Cartoon The evolution of the species: No. 5 PDF IMAGES
83-86	Revisions/Review Mind reading: The forgotten Freud By Peter Gay (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Austria; Psychoanalysis; Freud, Sigmund; The interpretation of dreams (Book) PDF IMAGES
87	The mind's eye/Cartoon The force SEE ALSO: Renewable energy sources PDF IMAGES
88-93	American miscellany/Article Ah, nihilism! The prince of jabberwocky By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison SEE ALSO: Verdiglione, Armando; Congresses; Nihilism (Philosophy); Psychoanalysis; Semiotics; Views on nihilism PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department Sixes and sevens By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES