Harper's Magazine: December 1983

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December 1983

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	Illustration [Cover art] By David Suter, Janusz Kapusta, and S. Coetzer (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Guerrillas; Railroad construction workers; South Africa PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On Counting months, from April 1983: Note/correction On Quandaries, from August 1983: Letter By Elizabeth M. Whelan On Politics, from August 1983: Letter By S. Ted Isaacs Letter By Williams A. Hynes On Numbers, from September 1983: Letter By V.E. Griffin On Reagan's manifest destiny, from September 1983: Note/correction On Dreams, from October 1983: Letter By David Balcom On The shadow of the mole, from October 1983: Letter By Nathan B. Winter Letter By Miles K. Rind Letter By Richard R. Heath Letter By David R. Miller On Second thoughts about the third world, from November 1983: Letter By Michael Manley On Meet me in St. Louis, from September 1983: Letter By Leslie Todd Pitre On John Naisbitt's clip joint, from September 1983: Letter By Leslie Todd Pitre Letter By Gifford Pinchot III On Take my mentor—please, from October 1983: Letter By Joline Godfrey On The soul of a new dessert, from October 1983: Note/correction PDF IMAGES
8-16	Article Agenda: Railroading the cities By Michael Berryhill SEE ALSO: Houston; Local transit; Urban transportation policy PDF IMAGES
16-22	Washington/Article Popcorn politics: At the American Film Institute, Hollywood and Washington meet for a mutual massage By Emily Yoffe SEE ALSO: Art and state; Arts fund raising PDF IMAGES
24-28	Article “We are told . . . we must have more of the disease” By Michael Manley SEE ALSO: Developing countries; Economic assistance; Imperialism; International business enterprises; Self-determination, National PDF IMAGES
30-41	Article Revolt on the veldt: The first inside look at the day-to-day struggle of South Africa's guerrilla resistance By Carole A. Douglis and Stephen M. Davis SEE ALSO: Anti-apartheid movements; Government, Resistance to; South Africa PDF IMAGES
42-47	Article Ecstasy in Liverpool: Shrine-hopping in the Holy Land of rock-and-roll By David Owen SEE ALSO: Beatles; Liverpool; Liverpool (England); Package tours; Rock music fans PDF IMAGES
48-55	Article Mad about the bomb: The inventors of nuclear weapons gather for the fortieth reunion of guilt and pride By Gregg Herken SEE ALSO: Anniversaries, etc.; Bombardment, 1945; Career in nuclear reseach; Career in nuclear research; Teller, Edward; Lawrence, Ernest Orlando; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Rabi, I.I. (Isidor Isaac); Los Alamos National Laboratory; Alvarez, Luis; Military research; Nuclear weapons; Oppenheimer, Robert PDF IMAGES
56-63	Fiction Aunt Marji's happy ending: A story By Jane Hamilton SEE ALSO: Alzheimer's disease; Patients PDF IMAGES
64-70	Books/Review Tumult of the limbs: Is it true the bourgeoisie had more fun? By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Diaries; Flaubert, Gustave; Todd, Mabel Loomis; Middle class; Gay, Peter; Sexual behavior; The bourgeois experience: Victoria to Freud (Book); Views on middle class PDF IMAGES
70-73	Books/Review Witness at El Playón: Photography from El Salvador's heart of darkness By Robert Stone SEE ALSO: Forché, Carolyn; El Salvador; El Salvador: work of thirty photographers (Book); Didion, Joan; Nicaragua; Nicaragua, June 1978-July 1979 (Book); Salvador (Book); Meiselas, Susan PDF IMAGES
74-75	Fiction/Review Fiction Fiction By Frances Taliaferro Thomas SEE ALSO: Mind and body; Princeton; Goldstein, Rebecca; The mind-body problem: a novel (Book) PDF IMAGES
75-76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By J. S. SEE ALSO: Architects; Wright, Frank Lloyd; Muschamp, Herbert; Man about town: Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City (Book) PDF IMAGES
76	Brief reviews/Review Brief reviews By Benjamin D. Singer SEE ALSO: Frames of mind: the theory of multiple intelligences (Book); Howard Gardner; Mind-brain identity theory PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 12 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department New directions By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES