Harper's Magazine: October 1985

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October 1985

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	Illustration Rainbow at Mitakegura By Hokusai Katsushika SEE ALSO: Pedestrians; Rainstorms; Umbrellas and parasols PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On Lo, hear the gentle pit bull!, from June 1985: Letter By Jamison Lewis Letter By J. Karl Bell Letter By Nathaniel S. Borenstein Letter By John Downs Letter By Glenn Meagher Letter By Vicki Hearne On Is arms control obsolete?, from July 1985: Letter By Caspar Weinberger Letter By Gary Hart PDF IMAGES
10-12	Notebook/Article Music for crows By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Debts, Public; Finance, Public; 1981-1993 PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
17-19	Readings/Article Evil in a rational age By Vaclav Havel and Paul Wilson (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Civilization, Modern; Good and evil; Myth PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Map The geopolitical perspective SEE ALSO: Cold War; Maps; Military relations; 1945-1991; 1981-1989; World politics PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Article Many thanks for a job well done By Peter Jennings SEE ALSO: Bombardment, 1945; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); 1945-1989; Nagasaki-shi (Japan) PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Romancing the Japanese market SEE ALSO: Business etiquette; Japanese PDF IMAGES
22-25	Readings/Article 'My truth': Bokassa on Giscard By Amy Wilentz (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Bokassa I, Emperor of the Central African Empire; Ethics; Friends and associates; Ma vérité (Book); Trials, litigation, etc.; Giscard d'Estaing, Valéry PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Cartoon Computer-nerd heaven SEE ALSO: Computers PDF IMAGES
25-26	Readings/Article Cookie mix, dry SEE ALSO: Appropriations and expenditures; Cookies; United States. Dept. of Defense PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Disinvestment nightmare By Alan Paton SEE ALSO: Disinvestment; 1961-; 1961-1991; Nightmares; South Africa PDF IMAGES
27-30	Readings/Article With the “Contras” By Dieter Eich, Carlos Rincón, Jose Aquiliano Sarmiento Martinez, and Mauricio Sanchez Garcia SEE ALSO: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional; Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense; Guerrillas; Insurgency; Interviews; Sarmiento Martinez, Jose Aquiliano; Sanchez Garcia, Mauricio; Nicaragua PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration Save the Contras SEE ALSO: Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense; 1979-1990; Nicaragua; Posters PDF IMAGES
30	Readings/Poem The Caribbean basin stomp By George Starbuck PDF IMAGES Readings/Drama JFK, Soviet hero By Fedor Mikhaæilovich Burlaëtìskiæi and Arlo Schultz (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
31	Readings/Illustration Capitalist realism By Komar and Aleksandr Melamid SEE ALSO: Capitalism PDF IMAGES
32-34	Readings/Article The seance By Sergei Dovlatov and Anne Frydman (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Career as prison guard; Correspondence; Prisoners; Psychology; Dovlatov, Sergei PDF IMAGES
34-36	Readings/Article The dead as a living By F. Crussi-Gonzalez SEE ALSO: Career as pathologist; Dead; Gonzalez-Crussi, F.; Pathologists PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Graphs and Charts Lives of the artists SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; Prices PDF IMAGES
36-37	Readings/Collection Readings By Jorge Luis Borges PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Hotel Esja, Reykjavik By Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Kerrigan (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Hotels; Iceland; Borges, Jorge Luis; Psychology PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Ars magna By Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Kerrigan (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Contributions in science; Majorca (Spain); Llull, Ramon PDF IMAGES
37	Readings/Collection Readings PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Reaching for the Red Star Sky By Denise Dixon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Child photographers; Dixon, Denise; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo I am Dolly Parton By Denise Dixon (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Child photographers; Dixon, Denise L.; Parton, Dolly; Parodies, imitations, etc.—Pictorial works; Portraits PDF IMAGES Readings/Article On salvation by deeds By Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Kerrigan (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
39-52	Collection AIDS: what is to be done? PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Jonathan Lieberson, Mervyn F. Silverman, Mathilde Krim, Ronald Bayer, Gerald H. Friedland, Gary B. MacDonald, Ann Giudici Fettner, Stephen J. Schultz, Allan M. Brandt, and Mathew J. Shebar SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Gay men; Health aspects; Intravenous drug abuse; Public health administration PDF IMAGES
45	Graphs and Charts The spreading contagion SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Charts, diagrams, etc.; Patients PDF IMAGES
48	Quotation Freedom and pestilence By Albert Camus SEE ALSO: Epidemics PDF IMAGES
55-63	Article Lost samurai: The withered soul of postwar Japan By Henry Scott-Stokes SEE ALSO: Death; Military policy; Psychology; Mishima, Yukio PDF IMAGES
64-65	Article Before the hammer falls: Prelude to an auction bid By Samuel Pennington SEE ALSO: Antique auctions; Decoration and ornament; Tables PDF IMAGES
66-71	Article The temple of boredom: Science fiction, no future By Luc Sante SEE ALSO: McCaffrey, Anne; Whitmore, Charles; Code of the lifemaker (Book); Demon (Book); Empire of the sun (Book); Future in literature; His master's voice (Book); Ballard, J.G.; Hogan, James P.; Varley, John; Microworlds (Book); Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern (Book); Riddley Walker (Book); Hoban, Russell; Delany, Samuel R.; Science fiction; Lem, Stanislaw; Stars in my pocket like grains of sand (Book); Winter's daughter (Book) PDF IMAGES
73-74	Article TV puritans: Who killed J.R.'s sex life? By George V. Higgins SEE ALSO: Sex in television PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 34 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department No 1 across By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES