Harper's Magazine: February 1989

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February 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Art/illustration [Cover art] By Jacob Lawrence SEE ALSO: African American college students; Libraries PDF IMAGES
4-7	Letters/Department Letters On The view of me from Mars, from June 1988: Letter By John Harmon On Contempt in court, from October 1988: Letter By Carolyn Adolph On Quabbin, from October 1988: Letter By Pamella Hays On In my backyard, from October 1988: Letter By Charles S. Hendricksen PDF IMAGES
8-10	Notebook/Article Quetzal By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Guatemala; Journeys—Guatemala; Lapham, Lewis H. PDF IMAGES
13	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
16-19	Readings/Article Why I won't go to Germany By Cynthia Ozick SEE ALSO: Jews; Jews, American PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Art/illustration Collecting Ollie & Co. By Paul Brancato and Salim Ibn Ya°qub SEE ALSO: Channell, Carl; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Poindexter, John M.; Ghorbanifar, Manucher; North, Oliver; Portraits; Trading cards PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Cartoon D.C.'s “Scream” SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. vice president—Humor; Quayle, Dan; Munch, Edvard; Horror; Succession; Vice-Presidents PDF IMAGES
19-20	Readings/Article A gag on nuclear workers SEE ALSO: Defense information, Classified; Internal security; Legal status, laws, etc.; Nuclear industry; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Bush's lips: A historical note By Stan Lee SEE ALSO: Flatulence; Bush, George; Quotations—Humor; Terms and phrases PDF IMAGES
20-22	Readings/Article A valentine for Ron By John S. Herrington SEE ALSO: Cabinet officers; Career as cabinet officer; Career as U.S. president; Herrington, John S.; Reagan, Ronald; Transition periods PDF IMAGES
22	Readings/Article Putting a lid on the PLO SEE ALSO: Censorship; Intifada, 1987-; Israel; 1948-; Palestine; Press coverage PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Notes on your Central Europe—and mine By György Konrád and James A. Tucker (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Europe, Central PDF IMAGES
23	Readings/Photography Distant neighbors By Dan Higgins (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Burlington; Courts; Nicaragua; Officials and employees PDF IMAGES
24-27	Readings/Article Lump it, lady By Y. and Michiko Fukazawa SEE ALSO: Advice columns; Housewives; Sex role PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Experiments; Human behavior; Maze tests; Rats PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Love bytes SEE ALSO: Form letters; Love-letters; Valentine's Day PDF IMAGES
27-28	Readings/Article Beetlemania By Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal (Trans.) SEE ALSO: Anatomy; Beetles PDF IMAGES
30-32	Readings/Article A writer's journal By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: American diaries; Diaries; Hoagland, Edward PDF IMAGES
32-35	Readings/Fiction To die for one's country is glorious By Danilo Kis and Michael Henry Heim (Trans.) PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Art/illustration Bucolic By Rhonda Zwillinger SEE ALSO: Landscape painting, American; Picture frames and framing PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Article The sex life By David Cale SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Cale, David; Sexual behavior PDF IMAGES
37-46	Collection Talk of the times PDF IMAGES
38-42	Drama The secret rapture By David Hare PDF IMAGES
43-44	Drama Dodge By David Mamet PDF IMAGES
44-46	Drama Mountain language By Harold Pinter PDF IMAGES
47-55	Article The recoloring of campus life: Student racism, academic pluralism, and the end of a dream By Shelby Steele SEE ALSO: African American college students; Racism PDF IMAGES
56-61	Fiction Peace By Max Apple PDF IMAGES
66-76	Article Skeletons in our museums' closets: Native Americans want their ancestors' bones back By Douglas J. Preston SEE ALSO: Collection and preservation; Funeral customs and rites; Human remains (Archaeology); Natural history museums PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 74 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Hearts & embraces By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES