The New York Times Magazine cover from June 12, 1977 featuring an illustration of a woman interacting with a gorilla, titled 'The Pursuit of Reason'. The cover explores an experiment in primate communication and highlights the complexities of nonhuman primate intelligence.
Table of contents from The New York Times Magazine June 12, 1977, featuring articles including the cover story on Koko the gorilla and topics like 'Frisbee Golf' and 'Inside Russia’s Psychiatric Prisons'.
Vintage advertisement for Benson & Hedges 100s from The New York Times Magazine June 12, 1977, showcasing a young woman with a cigarette, highlighting the tagline 'oh well, nobody's perfect'.
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The New York Times Magazine cover from June 12, 1977 featuring an illustration of a woman interacting with a gorilla, titled 'The Pursuit of Reason'. The cover explores an experiment in primate communication and highlights the complexities of nonhuman primate intelligence.Table of contents from The New York Times Magazine June 12, 1977, featuring articles including the cover story on Koko the gorilla and topics like 'Frisbee Golf' and 'Inside Russia’s Psychiatric Prisons'.Vintage advertisement for Benson & Hedges 100s from The New York Times Magazine June 12, 1977, showcasing a young woman with a cigarette, highlighting the tagline 'oh well, nobody's perfect'.

The New York Times Magazine June 12, 1977 Koko Gorilla Primate Language VG

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The magazine is in very good condition, showing only light edge wear. The photos show the exact item you will receive. Please review all pictures for full condition details. Combined shipping is available. Each issue ships in a protective plastic sleeve.

Note: The content list below is digitally transcribed for searchability. Please refer to the photos for the exact Table of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Cover
    New research into nonhuman primate intelligence is creating a host of scientific, moral, even legal problems for human beings. One of the most interesting experiments is taking place at Stanford, where Francine Patterson, a graduate student in psychology, has taught a gorilla named Koko to use sign language. Page 21.
    Photograph by Ron Mesaros. Courtesy National Geographic Society.

  • 4 Letters

  • 17 Sunday Observer
    Russell Baker
    O Tempora! O Mores!

  • 21 The Pursuit of Reason
    Harold T. P. Hayes
    Koko, Lana and a few other apes use signs and symbols to express their desires, their fears, their moods—and raise uncomfortable questions about the difference between man and beast.

  • 24 Frisbee Golf: Play It Where It Lays
    P. J. O’Rourke

  • 26 Inside Russia’s Psychiatric Prisons
    Ludmilla Thorne

  • 32 The Yiddish Idol
    Lulla Rosenfeld

  • 54 Duck Boy
    Maxine Hong Kingston

  • 80 Fashion and Design
    Summer Splash:
    Second Skin Swim Suits
    Not for Swimming Only
    Straight From the Streets of Paris
    Erica Brown

  • 86 It’s That Jazz Time Again
    Robert Palmer

  • 88 The Healy Sisters—Clues to Diabetes
    William Stockton

  • 92 Food
    The Crepe Cult
    Craig Claiborne
    with Pierre Franey

  • 96 Puzzles
    Last week’s answers, Page 95

  • 111 In America
    King Coal
    Joseph Lelyveld

  • Picture Credits, Page 103

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