Harper's Magazine: October 1982

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October 1982

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Melinda Bordelon SEE ALSO: Gay men PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On Art versus collectibles, from August 1982: Letter By Albert Elsen and John Merryman Letter By Barbara Kerstetter Letter By C.N. Somers Letter By Dr. N. Graham Thatcher On The word police, from June 1982: Note/correction On The tedium twins, from August 1982: Letter By Mark Green Letter By Michael E. Hobbs Letter By Marion Moses Letter By Harold Swanson On Where critics go wrong, from August 1982: Letter By Curt Johnson PDF IMAGES
8-10	The easy chair/Article The grandfather clause society: As opportunities narrow, the spirit of “I got here first” is sweeping the country By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: 1981-1989; Real property tax; Social Security PDF IMAGES
11-16	Article Agenda: Jobs for everyone By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: 1980-; Public works; Trade-unions; Unemployed; United States. Work Projects Administration PDF IMAGES
18-21	Article Hogwash: The farmer on the dole By Stephen Chapman SEE ALSO: Agricultural laws and legislation; Agricultural subsidies; Rural conditions PDF IMAGES
22-25	Capitalism observed/Article King of the chews: Present at the creation of a forty-cent status symbol By Elaine F. Weiss SEE ALSO: Advertising campaigns PDF IMAGES
26-31	Article Revenge By Alexander Theroux SEE ALSO: Revenge PDF IMAGES
34-50	Article Closets of power: As a high government official and a homosexual, Dan Bradley led a double life that is common among congressmen, White House aides, and others in the political world. Here is his story, and theirs. By Taylor Branch SEE ALSO: Closeted gays; Bradley, Dan; Gay men PDF IMAGES
51	Designs for living/Cartoon On being an old pet PDF IMAGES
52-54	Fiction Frank Vermilyea By Thomas Berger SEE ALSO: Ugliness; Wishes PDF IMAGES Collection Granted wishes: three stories By Thomas Berger PDF IMAGES
55-56	Fiction Janice Banning By Thomas Berger SEE ALSO: Social acceptance; Wishes PDF IMAGES
56-59	Fiction Charlie Bolger By Thomas Berger SEE ALSO: Misanthropy; Wishes PDF IMAGES
60-63	Palpitations/Review Naughty old men: Two veteran novelists who can still bounce the bedsprings By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Erotic literature; Novelists, American; De Vries, Peter; Spackman, W.M. (William Mode) PDF IMAGES
64-68	Books/Review The politics of charm: There's no private life in The Noel Coward Diaries. By John Lahr SEE ALSO: Dramatists, English; Coward, Noel; The Noel Coward diaries (Book) PDF IMAGES
68-71	Books/Review Thinking like an economist: Why economists don't beat their wives—or understand the economy By Mark Lilla SEE ALSO: Economists; Olson, Mancur; The rise and decline of nations: economic growth, stagflation, and social rigidities (Book) PDF IMAGES
71-74	Fiction/Review The unimportance of being earnest: When it comes to novels, vitality has it over virtue By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Hailey, Elizabeth Forsythe; Guest, Judith; Lace: a novel (Book); Life sentences: a novel (Book); Popular literature; Second heaven (Book); Conran, Shirley PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Marchand, Leslie A.; ILord Byron: selected letters and journals (Book); Poets, English PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By T. G. SEE ALSO: Saperstein, Alan; Camp (Book); Child abuse PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: A boy's own story (Book); White, Edmund; Gays PDF IMAGES
76	Article Negligible literary anecdotes no. 7 By John Morressy SEE ALSO: Humor; Kipling, Rudyard PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Burton and Speke (Book); Explorers; Fiction; Speke, John Hanning; Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; Harrison, William PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Hex By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES