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Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 3, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." The issue of March 1, 1989 has a front cover by Peggy Pasternak, back cover by Alexander Stadler, and the comics "Mustafa and His Friends" by Joe Fullerton, "abe's shadow" by Jeff Nelson, "Pancakes/Coins" by Alexander Stadler, "The Truth (Under Emily's Bed" by Peggy Pasternak, "Untitled" by Nicole DePolo, "Untitled" by Jake Austen, "Untitled" by Adam Gould, "Spud Love" by Jason Lutes, "Mondo Man in T.V. Land" by Jenn-Jenn, "Untitled" by Mike Foran, "Terror …

Risd Voice February 10, 1989, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 10, 1989, includes articles on art world news including the death of Salvador Dali, a female RISD student who faced sexism when applying to drive the RISD shuttle, a proposed boycott of Nestle and American Home products, spring registration, a lecture on rape, a sexual harassment support group, the resignation of a RISD Voice editor, burns when creating art, a new RISD/Brown exhibition "Art Against Racism," and selecting new speakers for the Arts and Humanities Lecture Series, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 2, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." Issue No. 2 is dated February 1, 1989 and features a front cover by Martin Brown, a back cover by James Tost, a color insert by Erik Johnson, and the comics "Words and Pictures" by Jason Lutes, "Gallopin' Goosefeathers" by Mark Borok, "Average Joe" by Mike Foran, "Joe Bob and the Babe" and "Shoeless Joe and Earl Look at Art" by Jake [Austen], "Mr. Livedog" by Joe Fullerton, "Crosstown Traffic" by Adam Gould, "8-Ball" …

Risd Voice January 18, 1989, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 18, 1989, includes articles on Martin Luther King Jr., art world updates, changes in spring registration, a new co-op art gallery founded by RISD students and alumni called Moxie Logic, a new Act in Rhode Island mandating AIDS testing of certain segments of the population, the dangers of working with certain materials in non-ventilated spaces, using gouache, RISD meal plans, and life outside of RISD, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Penny Dreadful Commission Comics No. 1, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Penny Dreadful Commission was a student organization at RISD that wanted to "demonstrate the range and expressive power of comic art by presenting a varied collection of work." All comics were student-submitted, and the publication was entirely student-run. Issue No. 1 is dated January 1, 1989 and features a front cover by Jason Fruchter and the comics "Words and Pictures" by Jason Lutes and Alexander Stadler, "Primemovers" by Craig Spearing and Noah Hensen, "Hammond Cheese" by Dave Kopperman, "Gone" by Douglas Bowker, "'I'm a Super Hero'" by Ed Shems, "Paranoia Will Destroya" by Adam Gould, "The Pedestrian" by Reid S. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 2, Robert Wexelblatt, Kenneth L. Golden, Christopher S. Durer, William Casement, Wheeler Winston Dixon, James I. Weingartner, Mark Christhilf, Tom Saya, Kathleen Johnson, Richard Tucker, Duncan Moran, Phil Stephens, Michael J. O'Brien, Elmer Suderman, Marion Schoeberlein, Sidney R. Thompson, Hugh C. Abernethy Jr., Al Ortolani, Jo Mcdougall, James D. Miley, Pamela Yenser, Twyla Hansen, Amil Quayle, Christopher Cokinos, Michael A. Carey, Angela Cooper, V. J. Emmett Jr., Charles Cagle, Gene Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Out of nothing, something. ROBERT WEXELBLATT examines the meaning of the creative act and scrutinizes the first sentences of major works to illustrate the writer's power to fashion time and place and character in the choice, juxtaposition, and concatenation of words. Now Chairperson of the Division of Humanities at Boston University, Wexelblatt writes scholarly articles on literary subjects (recently on Fitzgerald, Lawrence, Camus, and Nietzsche), stories, and poetry, as well as essays, several of which have graced The Midwest Quarterly.

Literary critics too frequently mistake the leaves for the forest, and by failing to explore …

Risd Voice December 1, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated December 1, 1988, includes articles on storage at the RISD Museum, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a student-run shuttle service, a blood drive, the art world, the RISD shuttle servie, Latvian Independence Day, Museums in Washington D.C., and the death of the political left, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice November 16, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, approximately dated November 16, 1988, includes articles on the art world, a new mandatory recycling program at RISD, the Faculty Symposium "And/Or," a RISD Theater Group production of "Fool for Love," education in America, pro-choice abortion support at RISD, the New York Marathon, and first aid, along with book reviews, editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice November 2, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 2, 1988, includes articles on campus security, the Women's Center in Providence, radon in homes, the mission of the newspaper, safety concerns in Providence, the US presidential election, RISD Community Outreach, visiting lecturers associated with the Painting Club, the Ottawa International Film Festival, the President's Ball, and renovations to the RISD Library, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 12, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 12, 1988, includes articles on a dispute with campus security, efforts by the Brown Animal Rights Coalition, the President of the Student Board, the opening of the Catanzaro Student Center, the US presidential election of 1988, the freshman event "Playfair," the Faulty Biennial, "The Dogs" and "The Cats" RISD baseball teams, History Professor Scott Cook, Student Board treasurer Tom Albrecht, issues with word processors, a blood drive, the President's Ball, and the European Honors Program, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 1, John Z. Guzlowski, David A. Godfrey, Phyllis Cole Braunlich, Walter Shear, Thomas D. Isern, Theodore R. Hovet, Amy Clampitt, Paul Jenkins, Jo Mcdougall, Christopher Howell, Jeff Worley, Linda Taylor, Denise Low, Elaine Mott, Ellen Watson, Ellen Wittlinger, Cynthia Chapman, Michael Van Walleghen, Al Ortolani, Thomas R. Walther, George G. Suggs Jr., V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

The fiction of William Burroughs focuses on control and the illusion of personal freedom, a situation JOHN Z. GUZLOWSKI finds reinforced in the author's treatment of the family. A teacher in the English Department of Eastern Illinois University and Editor of Karamu, a poetry and fiction magazine, Guzlowski’s work on recent American fiction has appeared in a variety of journals.

Ways of understanding can at times become ways of avoiding reality and real comprehension. Such was the case in Edith Wharton’s Old New York, as discussed by DAVID A. GODFREY. Currently a lecturer at the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 4, Judith Weissman, Elizabeth Dodd, K. Narayana Chandran, Malcom O. Magaw, Jane M. Devyver, Charlotte Rotkin, Grace Butcher, William Virgil Davis, Connie May Fowler, Sandra Fowler, Ben Howard, Richard Smyth, Steve Wilson, Howard Winn, Pamela Yenser, Walter Shear, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

JUDITH WEISSMAN revisions the later work of Emily Dickinson as that of a lucid, sane, generous, less volcanic woman more at ease with herself and her beliefs. A specialist in nineteenth-century poetry and fiction and Professor of English at Syracuse University, Weissman published Half Savage and Hardy and Free: Woman and Rural Radicalism in the Nineteenth-Century Novel last year. She is presently working on a book dealing with poetry and the theory of the bicameral mind.

Mindful of Ezra Pound's boast he was "in such a beautiful position to save the public's soul by punching …

Risd Voice May 5, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 5, 1988, includes articles on proposed tuition increases, a freshman's experience at RISD, the RISD Yearbook, a foiled theft on campus, parking problems in Providence, a visit from Greenpeace, Store 24, and an encounter with a homeless woman on a bus, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 14, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 14, 1988, includes articles on a performance at Brown by Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys, RISD's acquisition of the Providence Washington Insurance Company Building (ProvWash), issues in the Architecture Department, and allowing photographs in the RISD Yearbook, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 29 No. 3, John W. Murphy, James F. Lea, Robert M. Randolph, Sanford Pinkser, David Lloyd Jones, Susan Materese, Paul Salmon, Bert Almon, Stephen C. Behrendt, Mark Christhilf, Myron Ernst, Robert Funge, Christopher D. Guerin, Sally Herrin, Dionisio D. Martínez, Rich Murphy, Anne Ohman-Youngs, Kenneth Pobo, Gregory A. Ryan, Diane Moon Sautter, Kenneth Shaffer, William Winfield, Jo Mcdougall, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

JOHN W. MURPHY describes the discontents and contentions of postmodernism in assessing the world of today, be it science, religion, or other institutions in society, and suggests modernism's emphasis on order may exact a higher price than the imprecision of postmodernism. Currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University, Murphy has, in addition to numerous articles, published The Social Philosophy of Martin Buber, The Underside of High-tech, and Technology and Human Productivity.

Americans should celebrate their Constitution's two-hundredth anniversary by considering changes in the fundamental law, not simply by congratulating themselves on its longevity …

Risd Voice March 23, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 23, 1988, includes articles on an assault on a student in Providence, the death of Romare Bearden, another assault on a student in Providence, rebellious RISD students, Take-A-Break Weekend planning, the Stop War Toys campaign, the suicide of a columnist's friend, and a known homeless man in Providence, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice March 10, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 10, includes articles on mismanagement of the Tap Room, the power of the media to influence US presidential elections, ventilation and HVAC issues in the Printmaking department, overcrowding at a Maurice Sendak lecture, summer projects in Africa and the Caribbean, and a RISD Athletic Club, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice February 26, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated February 26, 1988, includes articles on graffiti as art, date rape, the Tap Room requiring IDs to get in, a housing fair, a Sting concert, a visit by filmmaker/artist Suzan Pitt, judgmental RISD students, a Right to Life anti-abortion march in Washington, issues with GI Joe and other military toys, racial prejudice, and the film "Good Morning Vietnam," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice January 27, 1988, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated January 27, 1988, includes articles on an upcoming lecture by AIDS reporter Randy Shilts, issues with Wintersession registration, Architecture students allegedly cheating on a midterm exam, surplus funds from the student activity fee, and a program on rape, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice November 30, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated November 30, 1987, includes articles on an arts and humanities lecture, a drunk driving accident, the RISD Nads, a columnist's friend who has AIDS, and a self-help program called "Lifespring," along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 28, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 28, 1987, includes articles on the walk up to the quad, safe sex and AIDS, a new RISD/Brown croquet club, a screening of a film by RISD student Zachary Straits, Monday Night Football, and a Halloween costume contest, along with editorials, comics, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice October 7, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated October 7, 1987, includes articles on student organization RISD Solidarity, a weekend to raise awareness about drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS, California, and an architecture forum on "context, continuity, and change," along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.

Time Theory In The Short Fiction Of Jorge Luis Borges: The Language Of "Reality", Lyn Lamkin

Graduate Theses

Time boundaries delimit mankind's concerns while subtly affecting the perspective men have on all ontological questions. However, Jorge Luis Borges' short fiction develops an a-temporal perspective that denies the distinctions of a past, present, and future, obscuring traditional human conceptions of time and reality. He repetitively uses cycles and labyrinths as spatial metaphors for time to emphasize man's Inability to escape the maze of existence and to define a final reality that he can order. Borges' fiction suggests that only by trying to understand what exists beyond our universe in an unknowable. Infinite time continuum can human reality be ordered …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 4, Edward M. Wheat, A. Carl Bredahl, Liz Porter Hankins, Earl G. Ingersoll, Carol A. Martin, H. Wendell Howard, Denise Low, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Walt Whitman, according to EDWARD M. WHEAT, conceived of Leaves of Grass as a means of expressing and reinvigorating America’s democratic ideals, an epic intending revolutionary change. Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of American Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi, Wheat has published several articles related to his research interests in politics and literature, political culture and socialization, and public administration.

A. CARL BREDAHL intends to rescue from undeserved insignificance Ernest Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa, an effort he hopes to expand into a book-length manuscript. Bredahl is Professor of English …

Risd Voice May 20, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated May 20, 1987, includes articles on a symposium at Brown on the postmodern novel, the locked book collection at the RISD Library, the RISD Annual Senior Film Show, issues in the Painting Department, safe sex guidelines, and the Student Board, apathy at RISD, along with editorials, notices, and advertisements.

Risd Voice April 22, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated April 22, 1987, includes articles on a new student community engagement group called "RISD Solidarity," the end of the Mellon Lectures series, an exhibition featuring RISD women's art, scholarly opportunities at Brown, ways for RISD to engage with the community, the termination of Graphic Design instructor Don Adleta, a proposed bill to divest Rhode Island state funds from South Africa, a project to discover why American towns were named after European cities, and a RISD student who's also a Grateful Dead roadie, along with editorials, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 3, David R. Pichaske, Paul Mccarthy, Chris Anderson, Tom Hibbard, Beth Kraig, Roy Lechtreck, Kelly Averill, Jack Folsom, Edward Locke, Ramón E. Martinéz, Janet Mccann, Marilee Richards, David Williams, Kathleen L. Nichols, G. W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Observing the recent renascence of the Midwest, DAVID R. PICHASKE takes his readers on a tour with stops in Alliance and Springfield, Illinois, Madison, Minnesota, and the Platte River Valley in Nebraska. He finds decay and an understanding of what has been lost, tempered with hope for the future. Associate Professor and Chairman of the English Department at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota, Pichaske has written three books (Chaucer's Literary Pilgrimage and A Generation in Motion being the most recent) along with articles and poems in a wide variety of venues.

Thoreau's eye, so …

Risd Voice March 20, 1987, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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RISD Voice was a long-running student newspaper that ran through the 1980s. This issue, dated March 20, 1987, includes articles on a course that gets students talking to political refugees and homeless people around Providence, the opening of the new RISD Store, a conference on postmodernism at Yale, and the lack of extracurricular activities at RISD, along with editorials, illustrations, notices, and advertisements.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 2, Ronald Larson, Betty R. Mcgraw, Rodney O. Fox, Struan Jacobs, Katherine H. Burkman, J. Reid Meloy, Michael J. Strada, Albert E. Wilhelm, Jimmy Aubert, Marguerite Bouvard, Neal Bowers, Sandra Berris, Mike Catherwood, Ann Conner, Carl Djerassi, George Gott, Fleda Brown Jackson, Ernest Kroll, Walter Mcdonald, Barbara Moore, Joseph Raffa, Alison T. Reed, Gregory A. Ryan, Rebecca Thompson, Richard J. Weekley, Gary W. Clift, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

Egalitarianism begets totalitarianism and antisemitism. That is the provocative thesis of RONALD LARSON. Professor of Social Science at Wytheville Community College in Virginia and playwright, Larson has studied and written about modem narcissism in a number of different forums.

BETTY R. McGRAW and RODNEY O. FOX link literature and science to explore the modem view of life's basic components as lacking the certainty and unity so apparent to earlier generations of philosophers, scientists, and writers, and they end with a mention of new topics for consideration. McGraw is Associate Professor of French and Fox is …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 28 No. 1, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Donald Wayne Viney, James Doyle, David Dooley, Robert A. Frost, Fran Avnet Goldstein, Robert Hays, Tony Park, Cynthia Pederson, Martha M. Vertreace, Marlis Manley Broadhead, Robert Harlow, Fleda Brown Jackson, George Looney, Denise Low, William Page, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven R. Centola, Oscar Salinas, Eileen T. Bender, Eric Pankey, Clark Brown, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

MAXINE SHEETS-JOHNSTONE uses a study of hunting activities to inform a new view of humans as more than sensory receptors dangling from the intelligent brain. With a doctorate in dance and study toward a second doctorate in zoology, Sheets-Johnstone has written two books on dance and has published numerous articles on philosophical anthropology in journals devoted to science, philosophy, the humanities, and the arts. She is presently gathering material for a book on the paleonanthropological hermeneutics of the body. She has taught at U.C.L.A., in the S.U.N.Y. system, at the University of Waterloo in Canada, …