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November 1984

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration The house of the two mysterious blondes in their early 20's By Richard Merkin SEE ALSO: Nudity PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On Travels in North America, from August 1984: Letter By Robert E. Knoll On Letters, from September 1984: Letter By Frederic L. Fuller On The revolt within, from September 1984: Letter By Ernesto C. Pineda On Surrounded islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83, from October 1984: Note/correction On Escape from modernism: Technology and the future of the imagination , from November 1984: Letter By Lewis H. Lapham PDF IMAGES
6-7	Notebook/Article The endorphin high By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appreciation; Turner, Frederick W. PDF IMAGES
7	Notice [Untitled Notice] By Lewis H. Lapham PDF IMAGES
9	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
11-12	Readings/Article The radical romance of Latin America By Mario Vargas Llosa and Lisa Wyant (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Authors; Authors, Danish; Authors, Latin American; Congresses; Congresses and conventions; Denmark; Racism PDF IMAGES
13	Readings/Article Congress by lot By Ernest Callenbach and Michael Phillips SEE ALSO: Nominations for office PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Foster guerrillas SEE ALSO: Equipment and supplies; Khmer People's National Liberation Front PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
14	Readings/Song Why are we in Kabul? By Yuri Kirsanov SEE ALSO: Afghanistan; Songs and music; Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The making of modern times By William H. McNeil SEE ALSO: Political participation; Rural conditions; Social change; World politics PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Map The whole-earth baby boom SEE ALSO: Childbirth; Maps; -Statistics PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article What does it mean to trust the Russians? By Richard J. Barnet SEE ALSO: Cold War; 1945-1989; 1945-1991; Trust (Psychology) PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article From a SAC pilot's wallet SEE ALSO: Environmental aspects; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear weapons; Safety measures; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.; United States. Air Force. Strategic Air Command PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Article National security and shoes By George Langstaff SEE ALSO: Correspondence; Footwear industry; Langstaff, George; Tower, John G.(John Goodwin); Military aspects; Supplies and stores PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article From Colombia's drug dealers SEE ALSO: Assassination; Colombia; Drug traffic; Narcotics dealers; Lara Bonilla, Rodrigo PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Medical insults By Stephen L. Taller SEE ALSO: Hospital patients; Pejoration PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Illustration Political art underground By Michael Lebron SEE ALSO: Censorship; 1981-1989; Pictorial works; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Poem Shooting By August Kleinzahler PDF IMAGES Readings/Article A neo-Luddite plea By David F. Noble SEE ALSO: Progress PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Businessmen; Rich people PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Capitalist realism By Michael Schudson SEE ALSO: Capitalism PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In the West By Charles Hamilton Newman SEE ALSO: Novelists PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Fiction What Racter wrote By Racter PDF IMAGES Readings/Article In the East By Milan Kundera SEE ALSO: Novelists PDF IMAGES
28-29	Readings/Fiction The story of C By Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
29	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Nuclear nonproliferation; Thought and thinking PDF IMAGES
31-45	Article [Untitled Article] By Erica Jong, Midge Decter, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Aryeh Neier, Al Goldstein, and Susan Brownmiller SEE ALSO: Crimes against; Obscenity (Law); Pornography PDF IMAGES Collection The place of pornography PDF IMAGES
35	Article Is this the real message of pornography? By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Crimes against; Hustler (American periodical); Pornography PDF IMAGES
42	Article Obscenity and the law: A question of definition By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Obscenity (Law) PDF IMAGES
47-55	Article Escape from modernism: Technology and the future of the imagination By Frederick W. Turner SEE ALSO: Materialism; 1970-; Science and civilization; Social evolution; Technology and civilization PDF IMAGES
56-57	Article How long before you blank out?: Staring down photography theory By Veronica Geng SEE ALSO: Hockney, David; House furnishings; Interior decoration; Views on photographs PDF IMAGES
58-64	Article A spreadsheet way of knowledge By Steven Levy SEE ALSO: Decision-making; Psychology, Industrial PDF IMAGES
65-70	Article The politics of nostalgia By Christopher Lasch SEE ALSO: Intellectuals; Nostalgia PDF IMAGES
71-73	Article McLuhan redux: Further thoughts on the medium as message By Hugh Kenner SEE ALSO: Communication; Criticism and interpretation; Influence; McLuhan, Marshall; Mass media PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 23 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Plain puzzle By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES