Harper's Magazine: June 1983

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June 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By Andrea Albahae, John Brainard, Jan Drews, Hilary Knight, and Anders Wenngren SEE ALSO: Skeleton; Telephone; Tennis players PDF IMAGES
4-6	Letters/Department Letters On “Are you still with us?” Anthony Blunt asked. It was a good question, from March 1983: Note/correction On The truth about girl scouts, from March 1983: Note/correction On Ivan the terrible soldier, from March 1983: Letter By Albert L. Weeks Letter By David Group On Jerry Burke is just the kind of creative entrepreneur America needs., from April 1983: Letter By Robert F. Fox Letter By Donald Jay Korn On Barney Frank's mother and 500 postmen, from April 1983: Note/correction On Americans in limbo, from April 1983: Letter By David R. Miller On The littlest arms race, from April 1983: Letter By Robert P. Fairchild Letter By Robert E. Moon III Letter By W.M. Buescher On Lost our census, from April 1983: Letter By Bruce Chapman Letter By Andrew Hacker On Down the hatch, from April 1983: Letter By David Group On Spring offensive, from April 1983: Letter By Robert W. Gordon PDF IMAGES
8-10	The easy chair/Article Equal lack of opportunity: Affirmative action for the 1980's By Michael E. Kinsley SEE ALSO: Affirmative action programs PDF IMAGES
14-18	Capitalism observed/Article How to read a movie ad: There's more drama in that tiny type than in most movies By Arthur Lubow SEE ALSO: Credit titles (Motion pictures, television, etc.); Credits; Motion picture actors and actresses; Motion picture producers and directors; Motion pictures PDF IMAGES
18	Harper's journal/Article The good life PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Selling city hall By Timothy F. Bannon SEE ALSO: Hartford; Historic preservation; Municipal buildings; Tax shelters PDF IMAGES
20	Harper's journal/Article Dunce of the month SEE ALSO: Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos; The gods of Greece (Book) PDF IMAGES Harper's journal/Article Vetoed visas By Timothy F. Bannon SEE ALSO: Bussi de Allende, Hortensia; Journeys—United States; Travel restrictions PDF IMAGES
23-35	Article The trouble with unions: Confronting the Democrats' biggest dilemma By Robert M. Kaus SEE ALSO: Collective bargaining; Employee ownership; Employee rules; Trade-unions PDF IMAGES
36-50	Article Say it ain't so, Bjorn: The rotten world of professional tennis By Michael Mewshaw SEE ALSO: Corrupt practices; Professional ethics; Tennis; Tennis players; Tennis promoters; Tournaments PDF IMAGES
51-56	Fiction The sensational Madeline Lee: A story By Jonathan Penner SEE ALSO: Sea stories; Voyages and travels PDF IMAGES
57-59	Palpitations/Review Blowing smoke into the zeitgeist: The well-deserved resurrection of Jean Stafford By James Wolcott SEE ALSO: Stafford, Jean; The Catherine wheel: a novel (Book); The mountain lion (Book); Women authors, American PDF IMAGES
60-64	Books/Review The policy peddlers: The Kennedy School of Government versus the Harvard Business School on how to save the economy By Robert J. Samuelson SEE ALSO: Kantrow, Alan M.; Industrial policy; Industrial renaissance: producing a competitive future for America (Book); Clark, Kim B.; Reich, Robert B.; The next American frontier (Book); Abernathy, William J. PDF IMAGES
65-70	Books/Review Advanced sociobiology: The latest fashions in thinking about your genes By James L. Gould and Carol Grant Gould SEE ALSO: Ability; Lumsden, Charles J.; Wilson, Edward Osborne; Genetic aspects; Promethean fire: reflections on the origin of mind (Book); Sociobiology PDF IMAGES
70-75	Article Rest in pieces: Life was a feast. Now, how to dispose of the leftovers? By David Owen SEE ALSO: Dead; Donation of organs, tissues, etc. PDF IMAGES Collection Appetites PDF IMAGES
72	Article Do not read this! By David Owen SEE ALSO: Morgues PDF IMAGES
76	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Gilchrist, Ellen; Single women in literature; The annunciation (Book) PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 6 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Constituent parts By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES