Harper's Magazine: September 1986

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September 1986

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Photo [Cover art] By Jan Staller (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Steel-works PDF IMAGES
4-76	Letters/Department Letters On Letters, from June 1986: Letter By Peter Dykstra On Type's cast, from June 1986: Letter By Scott Klein Letter By David A. Shanen Letter By Richard Greene On Engineers of a sham, from June 1986: Letter By James D. Pendleton Letter By Elizabeth McMahan Letter By Bob Voorhees Letter By Richard Weisberg Letter By Clarke Owens PDF IMAGES
8-9	Notebook/Article Going south By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Intelligence service; 1945-1989; 1979-; Nicaragua; United States. Central Intelligence Agency PDF IMAGES
11	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
13-16	Readings/Article “Traditional values”: Left, right, and wrong By Christopher Lasch SEE ALSO: Conservatism; Liberalism; 1981-1989; Social change PDF IMAGES
15	Readings/Photo A guide to the fashions of Beirut By Oliver Maxwell (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Beirut; Costume; Druzes; Lebanon; Military uniforms; Palestine Liberation Organization; Palestinian Arabs PDF IMAGES
16-18	Readings/Article Kill the censor! By Crad Kilodney SEE ALSO: Assassination attempts; Beatty, Perrin PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Article A mother's plea By Margaret Dolan SEE ALSO: Administration; Career as national chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC); Fund raising; Dolan, Terry PDF IMAGES
20	Readings/Cartoon “The Tudors are nibbling” SEE ALSO: Fools and jesters; Talent scouts PDF IMAGES Readings/Article My short career as an adman By Clive James SEE ALSO: James, Clive; Humor PDF IMAGES
21	Readings/Article Ten American shrines By Ken Smith, Mike Wilkins, Jack Barth, and Doug Kirby SEE ALSO: Museum exhibits PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Tell me what fish do SEE ALSO: Fishes; Nursing home patients PDF IMAGES Readings/Article AIDS stories By John Weir SEE ALSO: AIDS (Disease); Creative writing; Friends and associates; Gay men; Weir, John; Patients PDF IMAGES
26-27	Readings/Article Sketchbook voices SEE ALSO: Artists; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) PDF IMAGES
27	Readings/Fiction Bacon's man By Mario Vargas Llosa and Elena Brunet (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
28-32	Readings/Drama A visit from Dr. Bazelon By Don DeLillo PDF IMAGES
32	Readings/Poem The ballad of English literature By Terry Eagleton PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction Story By Lydia Davis PDF IMAGES
33	Readings/Collection Readings By Neal Slavin (Photog.) PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Senior nurses, Norland Nursery Training College, Hungerford, Berkshire By Neal Slavin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Nannies PDF IMAGES Readings/Photo Custodial staff, Stonehenge Ancient Monument, Amesbury, Wiltshire By Neal Slavin (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Janitors; Stonehenge (England) PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Article First love By T.R. Pearson SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; First loves; Pearson, T.R. PDF IMAGES
37-45	Collection The fast lane, in a rearview mirror PDF IMAGES Article [Untitled Article] By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Celebrities; Middle age; Beerbohm, Max, Sir PDF IMAGES
38	Cartoon G.K. Chesterton SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Chesterton, G.K. (Gilbert Keith) PDF IMAGES Article Max Beerbohm By S.N. Behrman SEE ALSO: Criticism and interpretation; Beerbohm, Max, Sir PDF IMAGES
39	Cartoon Andy Warhol SEE ALSO: Warhol, Andy; Caricatures and cartoons PDF IMAGES
40	Cartoon Norman Podhoretz SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Podhoretz, Norman PDF IMAGES
41	Cartoon Richard Nixon SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) PDF IMAGES
42	Cartoon Ronald Reagan SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
43	Cartoon David Letterman SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Letterman, David PDF IMAGES Quotation The prenatal abyss By Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov SEE ALSO: Birth (Philosophy) PDF IMAGES
44	Cartoon Madonna SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Madonna PDF IMAGES Quotation The touch of the chisel By Marcel Proust SEE ALSO: Aging; Teenage girls PDF IMAGES
45	Cartoon Laurie Anderson SEE ALSO: Caricatures and cartoons; Anderson, Laurie PDF IMAGES
47-53	Article Design for a new academy. An end to division by department By Frederick W. Turner SEE ALSO: Curricula; Educational change PDF IMAGES
54-55	Article All the president's nods. The perquisites of the press conference By Eleanor Clift SEE ALSO: Government and the press; Press conferences; Relations with reporters; Reporters and reporting; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES
56-64	Article Dreams gone to rust. The Monongahela Valley mourns for steel By David Corn SEE ALSO: Iron and steel workers; Monongahela River Valley; Occupational retraining; Steel industry and trade; Unemployment PDF IMAGES
66-70	Article Wanton acts of usage. Terrorism: A cliché in search of a meaning By Christopher Hitchens SEE ALSO: Arab countries; Netanyahu, Binyamin; Cordes, Bonnie; Fighting back: winning the war against terrorism (Book); Hydra of carnage: international linkages of terrorism—the witnesses speak (Book); 1975-1985; Livingstone, Neil C.; Political violence; Cline, Ray S.; Arnold, Terrell E.; Terrorism; Terrorism as state-sponsored covert warfare (Book); Terrorism: how the West can win (Book); Ra'anan, Uri; World politics; Alexander, Yonah PDF IMAGES
72-75	Fiction The autumn of the participle. Latin writers take a meeting By Peter Nelson PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 45 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department See 10 across By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES