Harper's Magazine: July 1984

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July 1984

CONTENTS
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	Illustration Eagle By Brad Davis SEE ALSO: Bald eagle PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On If Pooh were president, from May 1984: Letter By Benjamin Hoff On Making medical mistakes, from May 1984: Letter By M.D. and David Hellerstein Letter By R.N. and Sylvia T. Joseph Letter By M.D. and Fitzhugh Mullan Note/correction PDF IMAGES
6-7	Notebook/Article Hotel America By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: 1984; Political oratory PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
11-12	Readings/Article Arthur Miller on McCarthy's legacy By Arthur Miller SEE ALSO: Rama, Angel; Anti-communist movements; Miller, Arthur; Emigration and immigration; Emigration and immigration law; Government policy; Influence; McCarthy, Joseph; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Article To General Kiszczak By Czeslaw Milosz and Adam Michnik SEE ALSO: Michnik, Adam; Kiszczak, Czeslaw; Imprisonment; Poland; Political and social views; Political persecution; Political prisoners PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; 1979-; 1981-1989; Nicaragua; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
14-15	Readings/Article Inside a death squad By Allan Nairn and Rene Hurtado SEE ALSO: El Salvador; Political persecution; Torture PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Argentina's ghosts By Luisa Valenzuela (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Argentina; Buenos Aires; Disappeared persons; Street art PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Article Crime and punishment By Francis T. Murphy SEE ALSO: Crime; Imprisonment PDF IMAGES
16	Readings/Article A hitchhiker's guide to Central America By Nick Blake SEE ALSO: Central America; Hitchhiking PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Modern manners By Fay M. Blake and H. Morton Newman SEE ALSO: Sexual division of labor; Typewriting PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Article The day before By Jerry Falwell PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Conventional wisdom By T.L. (Terry L.) Brink SEE ALSO: Middle class PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Photo Stuff of the stars By Ron West (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Boy George; Personal paraphernalia; Pictorial works PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Mistakes and the death penalty By Howard M. Metzenbaum SEE ALSO: Capital punishment; Death row inmates; Judicial error PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article De Beauvoir on the “new femininity” By Simone de Beauvoir and Alice Schwarzer SEE ALSO: Anti-feminism; Femininity; Interviews; Beauvoir, Simone de PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Poem I try to explain to my children a newspaper article . . . By Baron Wormser PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Illustration Africa's comic book heroes SEE ALSO: Comic books, strips, etc.; Mobutu Sese Seko; Zaire PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Barthes: Dare to be lazy By Roland Barthes and Linda Coverdale (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Interviews; Laziness; Leisure; Barthes, Roland PDF IMAGES
24-25	Readings/Article Phenomenology of the yawn By Linda Bell SEE ALSO: Boredom; Yawning PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Yuppie lottery ticket SEE ALSO: Social Security; Yuppies PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article The view from the dugout By Thomas Boswell SEE ALSO: Athletic ability; Baseball; Baseball players PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The sex appeal of names By Deborah Linville SEE ALSO: Employee selection; Feminine names; Sexual attraction PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Are altruism and cooperation natural? By Lewis Thomas SEE ALSO: Altruism; Computer programs; Cooperation; Helping behavior PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981; Carter, Jimmy; 1984; Mondale, Walter F. PDF IMAGES
28	Readings/Poem Hudney, Sutej: An index By Paul Violi PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Taxpayer revolt, English style SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Finance, Public; Nonprofit organizations PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Article Márquez on the fear of flying By Gabriel García Márquez and Lisa Wyant (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Air travel; Fear of flying; García Márquez, Gabriel; Views on air travel PDF IMAGES
31-44	Collection “My fellow Democrats . . .” PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1984; Platforms PDF IMAGES
32-33	Article [Untitled Article] By Karl Hess SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; Hess, Karl; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views PDF IMAGES Cartoon 1848: The one qualification for a Whig president SEE ALSO: 1848 PDF IMAGES
33-35	Article [Untitled Article] By Ronald V. Dellums SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views; Dellums, Ronald V. PDF IMAGES
35-36	Article [Untitled Article] By Ben J. Wattenberg SEE ALSO: Wattenberg, Ben J.; The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
37-38	Article [Untitled Article] By Tom Hayden SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views; Hayden, Tom PDF IMAGES Cartoon What a friend we have in Coolidge! SEE ALSO: Coolidge, Calvin; Caricatures and cartoons; Industrial policy PDF IMAGES
38	Cartoon 1916: White House or bust SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Roosevelt, Theodore PDF IMAGES
39	Article [Untitled Article] By Eugene J. McCarthy SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; McCarthy, Eugene J.; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
42-43	Article [Untitled Article] By Arthur I. Blaustein SEE ALSO: Blaustein, Arthur I.; The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views PDF IMAGES
43-44	Article [Untitled Article] By Studs Terkel SEE ALSO: The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; 1984; Platforms; Political and social views; Terkel, Studs PDF IMAGES
45-50	Article By Rolls to Russia: A Silver Spirit crosses the Iron Curtain By Simon Winchester SEE ALSO: Automobile travel; Communist countries; Journeys—Communist countries; Journeys—Europe; Winchester, Simon PDF IMAGES
51-60	Article Playing politics: Why the Democratic bosses conspired with Reagan, and do not care if they lose in November By Walter Karp SEE ALSO: Career in politics; The Democratic Party; 1981-1989; Political leadership; Power (Social sciences); Thurmond, Strom PDF IMAGES
62-65	Article The latest on early returns: An exegesis of the exit poll By Eric David Nadler SEE ALSO: Election forecasting; Voting; Voting research PDF IMAGES
67-68	Article Eminently Victorian: David Copperfield might have been written by the queen By Richard West SEE ALSO: Dickens, Charles; Criticism and interpretation; David Copperfield (Book) PDF IMAGES
69-71	Fiction The “New Yorker” story By Martha Bayles PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 19 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Square-rigged By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES