Harper's Magazine: May 1983

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May 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David Suter, William Bramhall, John Brainard, and Martin Kozlowski SEE ALSO: Cameroon; Composers; Jungles; Bernstein, Leonard; Multiple-choice examinations; Pencils; Pictorial works; Reference books; Running shoes PDF IMAGES
1-16	Advertising Supplement As you like it: Harper's 1983 international travel planner By Carol Walsh and Rod Fensom PDF IMAGES
4-8	Letters/Department Letters On The yellow peril and the red-haired devils, from November 1982: Letter By Terry Monks Note/correction On The law, from March 1983: Letter By George Plimpton Letter By Blair Clark Note/correction On The truth about girl scouts, from March 1983: Letter By Mary Stuart Gordon Platt Letter By Eileen Shields Fisher On Ivan the terrible soldier, from March 1983: Letter By Bruno Gruenwald Letter By Alan Warfield Letter By David Jenneson On None dare call it commercial, from March 1983: Letter By Lawrence K. Grossman Letter By John Jay Iselin Note/correction On This review is about what, from March 1983: Letter By Andrew J. Grygus PDF IMAGES
12-17	Article Schooling: Principals in action By James Traub SEE ALSO: Career in education; Cohn, Murray; Public schools PDF IMAGES
18	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Career in politics; 1984; Askew, Reubin O'D. PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Get me rewrite By R.M. K. SEE ALSO: Constitutional conventions PDF IMAGES
20	Harper's journal/Article Hard labor By Eric Schine SEE ALSO: Military law PDF IMAGES
21-37	Article 1983: The last days of ETS By David Owen SEE ALSO: Ability; Multiple-choice examinations; Scholastic Aptitude Test; Testing PDF IMAGES
38-62	Article The tragedy of Leonard Bernstein By Leon Botstein SEE ALSO: Conductors (Music); Criticism and interpretation; Mahler, Gustav; Influence; Bernstein, Leonard PDF IMAGES
63	Designs for living/Cartoon Art of commerce SEE ALSO: Secretaries PDF IMAGES
64-72	Fiction The airport hotel: A story By William Boyd SEE ALSO: Cameroon; 1982-; Political fiction PDF IMAGES
73-80	Article Who killed Winter Kills?: The case of the vanishing movie involving a murder, a forty-year drug sentence, Liz Taylor's repossessed fur coat, and possible skulduggery at the highest levels. The author of a satirical fantasy reflects on life imitating art By Richard Condon SEE ALSO: Fiction; Kennedy, John F.; Production and direction; Condon, Richard; Winter kills (Book) PDF IMAGES
81-83	Palpitations/Review Enter the mummy: Norman Mailer finally gets his Egyptian novel out of his system By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Ancient evenings (Book); Mailer, Norman; Novelists, American PDF IMAGES
84-86	Books/Review Wisdom of the tribe: Why proverbs are better than aphorisms By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: A concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs (Book); Aphorisms and apothegms; Cookery, English; Ayrton, Elisabeth; English provincial cooking (Book); Folk literature; Simpson, J.A.; Gross, John J.; Proverbs PDF IMAGES
87-90	Article Appetites: The birth of pronation By Timothy F. Bannon SEE ALSO: Costs; Running shoes PDF IMAGES
90-91	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: McClanahan, Ed; The natural man (Book) PDF IMAGES
91-92	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By H. R. SEE ALSO: Morgan, Christopher; Home before morning: the story of an army nurse in Vietnam (Book); Van Devanter, Lynda PDF IMAGES
92	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Fiction—Book reviews; Rooke, Leon; 16th century; Shakespeare's dog: a novel (Book); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. B. SEE ALSO: Fundamentalism; God, guts, and guns (Book); Finch, Phillip; Radicalism PDF IMAGES
93	Double acrostic/Department No. 5 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
96	Puzzle/Department May flowers By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES