Harper's Magazine: March 1983

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March 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David W. FeBland, Keith Bendis, Hilary Knight, and Anders Wenngren SEE ALSO: Wilson, Edmund; Girl Scouts; Hellman, Lillian; Pictorial works; Spies; Women dramatists, American PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The yellow peril and the red-haired devils, from November 1982: Letter By G. Alan Robinson On Thought, from December 1982: Note/correction On If Orwell were alive today, from January 1983: Letter By David Kaiser Letter By Gene Lyons Letter By Daphne Patai Letter By Sheila Shiki y Michaels Letter By Thomas A. Steinke Letter By Eric R. Alterman Note/correction On Sex and the Democrats, from January 1983: Letter By Thomas William Skladony Letter By Mike Lee Letter By Gabriela Radulescu Letter By Pat A. Friend and Diane Forsome Letter By Robert F. Mackness Letter By Willi Barbour On On a seaside mountain, from January 1983: Letter By Barbara Nauer On Who's the fairest of them all? When Reagan looks in the mirror, from January 1983: Letter By Michael J. Horowitz Letter By Michael Kinsley On One that works, from January 1983: Letter By Maj. Robert P. Fairchild On Susie Creamcheese makes love not war, from February 1983: Letter By Roger W. Straus PDF IMAGES
9-13	The easy chair/Article None dare call it commercial: Public broadcasting faces life By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Public broadcasting PDF IMAGES
14-18	Article The law: The plaintiff's hour By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Freedom of speech; Hellman, Lillian; McCarthy, Mary; Trials (Libel); Trials, litigation, etc.; Women dramatists, American PDF IMAGES
18-21	Letter from abroad/Article Why Germans don't love us: Growing anti-Americanism is misguided by understandable By Timothy Garton Ash SEE ALSO: Anti-Americanism; Germany (West) PDF IMAGES
22-23	Harper's journal/Article Def. “deterrence” By Charles Krauthammer SEE ALSO: Deterrence (Strategy); MX (Weapons system); Military policy PDF IMAGES
23-24	Harper's journal/Article Gum control By David Owen SEE ALSO: Keyes, Paul H.; Treatment; Views on periodontal disease PDF IMAGES
24-25	Harper's journal/Article Naughty Grenada By Keith Moore SEE ALSO: Grenada; 1974-1983; 1981-1989 PDF IMAGES
25	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Bachelors; Caddell, Patrick; Views on courtship PDF IMAGES
26-38	Article “Are you still with us?” Anthony Blunt asked. It was a good question By Michael Whitney Straight SEE ALSO: Blunt, Anthony; Biography; Career in espionage; Death and burial; Espionage, Soviet; Burgess, Guy; Cornford, John; Straight, Michael; Spies; University of Cambridge PDF IMAGES
42	Designs for living/Cartoon A sense of loss SEE ALSO: Maturation (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
43-49	Article The truth about girl scouts: What girl scouts do when they're not selling cookies By Rachel Flick SEE ALSO: Girl Scouts PDF IMAGES
50-57	Article Ivan the terrible soldier: It's hard to fight well on a diet of dried fish and de-icing fluid By Andrew Cockburn SEE ALSO: Cold War; Military life; Soviet Union. Army PDF IMAGES
58-60	Article The nightmare of literary life By Frederic Prokosch SEE ALSO: Critics; Sitwell, Edith, Dame; Wilson, Edmund; Prokosch, Frederic; Humor; Litterateurs; Voices: a memoir (Book); Women novelists, English PDF IMAGES
61-63	Palpitations/Review Call me Bwana: The subject is Africa and William Boyd writes about it like Evelyn Waugh, only nicer By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: A good man in Africa (Book); An ice-cream war (Book); Waugh, Evelyn; Influence; Novelists, English; Boyd, William PDF IMAGES
64-66	Books/Review This review is about what: It's about three pages and 518 hairs By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Alice in puzzle-land: a Carrollian tale for children under eighty (Book); Logic puzzles; 5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies (Book); Smullyan, Raymond M.; The lady or the tiger?: and other logic puzzles, including a mathematical novel that features Gödel's great discovery? (Book) PDF IMAGES
67-70	Books/Review African queen: Isak Dinesen merged her life and art into a romantic melodrama By Judith Rascoe SEE ALSO: Authors, Danish; Biography; Dinesen, Isak; Isak Dinesen: the life of a storyteller (Book); Thurman, Judith PDF IMAGES
70	Article Negligible literary anecdote no. 10 By John Morressy SEE ALSO: Humor; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de; 16th century PDF IMAGES
71-73	Books/Review Post-feminist fantasies: Recent scholarship is creating new myths about men and women By Paul A. Robinson SEE ALSO: Anatomy of freedom. Selections (Book); Feminine sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne (Book); Feminist criticism; Gender (Book); Illich, Ivan; Lacan, Jacques; Auerbach, Nina; Morgan, Robin; Woman and the demon: the life of a Victorian myth (Book) PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Community development; Gold discoveries; Just relations (Book); Hall, Rodney PDF IMAGES
75	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Alabama; Hendrickson, Paul; Seminary, a search (Book) PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Bishop, Elizabeth; The complete poems, 1927-1979 (Book); Women poets, American PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: Ford, Elaine; Missed connections (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 3 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Reconstituted foods By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES