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June 1982

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Daniel Maffia SEE ALSO: Cardinals PDF IMAGES
4-5	Letters/Department Letters On Is nature too good for us? It's not much of an environment if you can't get in, from March 1982: Note/correction On The secret lives of dentists, from March 1982: Note/correction On Confessions of a blue-chip black, from April 1982: Letter By Christopher M. Clifton On Repealing the Enlightenment, from April 1982: Letter By Arlene N. Heath On Make war not it, from March 1982: Letter By Michael Novak On China stinks, from April 1982: Letter By Charles D. Scott Letter By Ian H. Munro On Contempt causes insanity, from April 1982: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-8	The easy chair/Article Reagan's industrial tonic: Does anyone around here believe in capitalism? By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Budget deficits; Capitalism; 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
9-11	Letter from abroad/Article The nice people's party: Britain's Social Democrats stand forthrightly against nastiness. It's not much of a governing principle, but it's working at the polls By Alexander Chancellor SEE ALSO: Career in British politics; 1979-; Jenkins, Roy Harris PDF IMAGES
12-20	Capitalism observed/Article Lawn order: Call in the high-tech horticulturists, or it's all over for your grass By Timothy F. Bannon PDF IMAGES
20-26	The fourth estate/Article Diary of a freeloader: Feeding the hand that bites you By Rhoda Koenig SEE ALSO: Business entertaining; Journalists PDF IMAGES
27-31	Article You can get it if you really want: If racism is such a crushing burden on blacks, why have the West Indians done so well? By James Traub SEE ALSO: Brooklyn (New York, New York); Civil Rights; Racism PDF IMAGES
32-43	Article The legend of Hank Greenspun By Joseph Dalton SEE ALSO: Adversaries; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; Career in newspaper publishing; Friends and associates; Greenspun, Hank; Hughes, Howard; Illegal arms transfers; Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; McCarthy, Joseph; Las Vegas; Las Vegas (Nev.); Nevada; McCarran, Pat; Publishers and publishing PDF IMAGES
44-50	Fiction Sugar among the freaks: A story By Lewis Nordan SEE ALSO: Arkansas; Handicapped PDF IMAGES
51-53	Drama Phil shares the experience: Should transvestites be allowed to adopt Siamese twins? By Avery Chenoweth SEE ALSO: Farces; 1980-; Talk shows PDF IMAGES
54-62	Article All this and heaven too: When it come to Cardinals, we know all about the pomp and little about their circumstances By Steve Salerno SEE ALSO: Cardinals; Catholic Church; Charities PDF IMAGES
63	Designs for living/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Motion picture audiences; Realism in motion pictures PDF IMAGES
64-68	Article Hard to digest: Is there more truth about communism in the Reader's Digest or the Nation? By Walter Goodman SEE ALSO: Communism and mass media; Reader's digest (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
68-71	Books/Review The word police: Slugging it out with the language pundits By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: American tongue and cheek: a populist guide to our language (Book); Laird, Charlton Grant; Miller, Don Ethan; Have a word on me: a celebration of language (Book); I always look up the word “egregious” (Book); Bernstein, Jeremy; Quinn, Jim; Lexicography; Nurnberg, Maxwell W.; Say it my way: how to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken English, together with a decidedly informal history of how our language rose (or fell) (Book); Science observed: essays out of my mind (Book); The word: a look at the vocabulary of English (Book); What's the good word? (Book); Espy, Willard R.; Safire, William PDF IMAGES
71-74	Books/Review America's lost liberal: The souring of Teddy White, 1956-1982 By Alan Brinkley SEE ALSO: America in search of itself: the making of the President, 1956-1980 (Book); Journalists; Press and politics; White, Theodore Harold PDF IMAGES
74-76	Books/Review Was my face red: The novel of embarrassment By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: A good man in Africa (Book); Africa; Diplomatic and consular service, British; Boyd, William PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Code 13 By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES