Harper's Magazine: September 1989

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September 1989

CONTENTS
THUMBNAILS

	Illustration [Cover art] By Fanny Brennan PDF IMAGES
4-10	Letters/Department Letters On Elevate or escalate?, from May 1989: Letter By Jay Barber On The performance artist's training manual, from July 1989: Letter By Joe A. Templeton On Weathering heights, from July 1989: Letter By Robert L. Hamm On All the congressmen's men, from July 1989: Letter By Michael Parenti Letter By Richard Phenix Letter By Edward Claflin Letter By Michael S. Freeman Letter By John Burton Letter By Martin Hayes On What sort of car-rt-sort am I? Junk mail and the search for self, from July 1989: Letter By Mark Drake On On the road to nowhere, from July 1989: Letter By Ben Bochner Letter By John Lane Letter By Julie Perlman PDF IMAGES
11-13	Notebook/Article Old glory By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Abortion; Civil Rights; Desecration; Flags; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990 PDF IMAGES
15	Harper's index/Department Harper's index PDF IMAGES
16-22	Readings/Article The futility of global thinking By Wendell Berry SEE ALSO: Baccalaureate addresses; Environmentalism; Human ecology PDF IMAGES
17	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Constitutional amendments; Desecration; Flags; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) PDF IMAGES
18	Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Businessmen PDF IMAGES
19	Readings/Photo The Post-Bulletins practicing at Graham Park, Rochester, Minnesota By David Graham (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Football teams; Minnesota; Rochester; Water towers PDF IMAGES
22-26	Readings/Article Free the hacker two By Eric Corley SEE ALSO: Computer crimes; Computer hackers; Zinn, Herbert, Jr.; Mitnick, Kevin David; Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
24	Readings/Article The dangers of flag waving By Roland Blais SEE ALSO: Desecration; Fall River; Family; Flags; Grandfathers; Hernia; Blais, Roland PDF IMAGES
26	Readings/Article Berlitz from hell By Michel Furter SEE ALSO: Form letters; French language; Mailing list services industry PDF IMAGES Readings/Article Nixon sycophantes By Theodore Harold White SEE ALSO: Career as U.S. president; Correspondence; Journalists; Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous); White, Theodore Harold PDF IMAGES
27-30	Readings/Article Kissing in the boardroom By Peggy J. Schmidt and Elizabeth L. Post SEE ALSO: Business etiquette; Kissing PDF IMAGES Readings/Article The brief death of Romeo Bousquet By Richard C. Morrissey SEE ALSO: Errors; Form letters; Insurance agents PDF IMAGES
30-31	Readings/Article One (forgetful) Europe By Timothy Garton Ash SEE ALSO: National characteristics, European PDF IMAGES
31-32	Readings/Article Night of the broken clubs By Yossi Sarid SEE ALSO: Intifada, 1987-; Israel; Military ethics; Political violence; West Bank PDF IMAGES Readings/Cartoon Cartoon SEE ALSO: Beggars; Inventors; Patents PDF IMAGES
34	Readings/Illustration Path By Susan Hendrix SEE ALSO: Collage, American; Trails; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Illustration View with light By Susan Hendrix SEE ALSO: Collage, American; Trees PDF IMAGES Readings/Poem Pigeons By Baron Wormser PDF IMAGES Readings/Collection Readings By Susan Hendrix PDF IMAGES
35	Readings/Article But will it fit over the couch? By Lucio Pozzi SEE ALSO: Commissioning; Forms (Law) PDF IMAGES
36	Readings/Fiction Everything is green By David Foster Wallace PDF IMAGES Readings/Fiction The dinner party By Margaret Drabble PDF IMAGES
40-41	Readings/Fiction In transit By Bharati Mukherjee PDF IMAGES
41	Readings/Photo Toga II By Muriel Ehrman-Mandel (Photog.) SEE ALSO: Water PDF IMAGES
43-52	Article Who needs the great works? By Roger Shattuck, E.D. (Eric Donald) Hirsch, John Kaliski, Jon Pareles, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak SEE ALSO: Canon (Literature); Curricula; Philosophy PDF IMAGES
54-65	Article The quiet coup: U.S. v. Morison By Philip Weiss SEE ALSO: Defense information, Classified; Disclosure of information; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Morison, Samuel Loring; Trials (Espionage); Trials, litigation, etc. PDF IMAGES
66-67	Article The sum of their possessions: Taking the measure of Bush's ambassadors By Murray Waas SEE ALSO: Ambassadors; Political corruption PDF IMAGES
68-71	Fiction Ship in a bottle By Annie Dillard PDF IMAGES
72-76	Article Death to the death of poetry: A response to the elegists By Donald Hall SEE ALSO: American poetry; Appreciation PDF IMAGES
77	Double acrostic/Department No. 81 By Thomas Hazlehurst Middleton PDF IMAGES
80	Puzzle/Department Neologia By Richard Maltby and E.R. Galli PDF IMAGES