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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 1, Donald E. Secrest, S. H. Nulle, Clifford E. Landers, Arthur E. Nudelman, Richard Gambino, Lee A. Dew, Peter A. Soderbergh, Richard Gustafson, S. J. Marks, Bernice Ames, Tom O'Leary, Raymond Carver, Gerald Costanzo, Ray Amorosi, James Hearst, Ben Howard, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

ANTICIPATING a presidential election, with its quadrennial testing of national purpose, shortly after the appearance of this October 1972 issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY, we call attention to the timeliness of articles dealing with the American dilemma in Southeast Asia, the cultural strain of an expanding technology, the brain glut of unemployed scientists as a special instance of that strain, and the evidence, slight as yet but worrisome, of a new barbarism bred by what the McLuhanites call the "cool" medium TV. This timeliness is part luck and part planning. Out of the ever increasing …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 13 No. 4, Preston M. Browning Jr., Donald G. Baker, Alberta T. Turner, Margaret S. Mccroskery, Ann B. Dobie, Carl Wooton, Neil Schmitz, Franklin Brainard, Edith Shiffert, Roger Camp, G. Polakow, Norman H. Russell, William D. Elliott, Robert Lax, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

THIS TENTH Summer Literary Number of ours has been a goodly while in the making. On a tour of our files we discover that some eighteen months ago we were discussing the present issue with Professor PRESTON M. BROWNING, JR., of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle (but at that time, inconveniently for us, and somewhat to our envy, migrating between a base in France and another in the neighborhood of Oxford). The point was that we very much liked his study of "Hester Prynne as Secular Saint'' but could not promise publication earlier …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 13 No. 3, John L. Horn, Henry Winthrop, Ron Christenson, James G. Frierson, Andrea Goudie, Robert L. Coard, Stuart Friebert, Norman H. Russell, David Jeddie Smith, Bill Meissner, Joe Paddock, Charles Edward Eaton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

THERE ARE LUXURIES no editor can afford, like closing up shop on a balmy spring day with the rationalization that there is nothing new under the sun and of making quarterly magazines there is no end and much writing is a weariness and a vexation of the flesh. To these limited and self-serving truths we are quarterly constrained to oppose the recollection that however little our efforts accomplish we would accomplish nothing if we made no efforts. The fact that our problems are perennial does not let us off the perennial struggle to ameliorate them. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 13 No. 2, James Cicarelli, Albert A. Blum, Irwin Yellowitz, Scott Edwards, Don W. Harrell, Arthur M. Sampley, Robert Abel, James Ragan, Philip Dacey, Norman H. Russell, Lucien Stryk, William Virgil Davis, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

IN A GALLANT EFFORT to stay on top of the news-no easy matter for a quarterly journal in swiftly changing times, and with a presidential surprise-of-the-month to distract us-we have updated copy, made changes in galleys, and on one occasion inserted fresh copy into our almost sacrosanct page proofs. This currency we owe to the vigilance of our authors, one of whom submitted new copy with the desperate comment that he believed he had now allowed for every possibility except a presidential defection to Russia!

IN THIS ISSUE our first article is a timely discussion …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 13 No. 1, Robert R. Sullivan, Edmond P. Odescalchi, Mary Fish, Vergil L. Williams, Frank D. Mcconnell, Max S. Marshall, Franklin S. Adams, Don Milliken, Ted Kooser, Erik Muller, Herbert Woodward Martin, John Taylor, Richard Gustafson, Jack Flavin, Louis Ginsberg, William Kloefkorn, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WE BEGIN this thirteenth year of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY with an October number devoted to the most current of topics, among them such challenging and perhaps determining issues as the outcome of the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks between the U.S. S. R. and the United States and the related struggle of Western Europe to achieve strength by unification. Turning our attention to more specifically national interests, we discuss changing attitudes toward the economics of the Welfare State, the mindless sloganeering of Right and Left, and the problems of decision-making with respect to our environment. On a lighter note, but depressing …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 12 No. 4, R. N. Mookerjee, Kathleen Gallagher, Harold T. Mccarthy, John M. Reilly, Sanford Sternlicht, Walter Shear, George Barr, Victor Contoski, Edward Gold, Robert Flanagan, Charles Edward Eaton, Edith Shiffert, Ed Ochester, W. D. Valgardson, Larry Rubin, Joe Sheffler, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

FOR ITS NINTH Summer Literary Issue THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY explores the hitherto unexplored humanistic side of literary naturalist Theodore Dreiser, discovers an interesting relationship between the "Black Art" of LeRoi Jones and the "Ars Poetica" of Archibald MacLeish, examines the fourmillante city at the heart of Herman Melville's Redburn, considers the experimental techniques of John Dos Passos and his followers, analyzes the major early novels of Graham Greene as prologue to the sad comedies of the later period, and makes a new and searching scrutiny of the characterization in Nathaniel Hawthorne's troubled masterpiece The Scarlet …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 12 No. 3, Phillip D. Thomas, Edward R. Beauchamp, Theodore M. Sperry, Robert Oliphant, Margaret B. Mcdowell, David R. Sanderson, Emmett Jarrett, Franklin Brainard, Kenneth Gibbs, Philip Dacey, John Leax, Norman H. Russell, Joe Sheffler, Jack Flavin, Peter Cooley, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

FOR this April issue THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY offers considerable variety-an article dealing with an early attempt to solve the problems of poverty, a report on presentday unrest among Japanese students, a nostalgic re-creation of the all-but-forgotten beauty of the Kansas prairie, an. inquiry into a curious linguistic split that may confront us with undreamt-of-problems, more news from the Women's Lib Front, and last of all an analysis of Robert Southey's style that is as graciously styled as its subject. Scattered among these several articles· are a dozen poems no less worthy of serious and grateful …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 12 No. 2, Orville D. Menard, Lee A. Dew, Neil Thorburn, Roy Dean Wright, Susan W. Wright, Margaret B. Mcdowell, David L. Kubal, Robert Bly, Brian Richards, Benjamin K. Bennett, Joe Sheffler, John Driscoll, T. Alan Broughton, Jack Flavin, Edith Shiffert, William Kloefkorn, Louis Ginsberg, Gibbons Ruark, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY regretfully announces the resignation from its editorial board of Professor ROBERT BLUNK, whose increasing responsibilities as a teacher in the Art Department of Kansas State College, a consultant on numerous art projects, a member of the Kansas Cultural Arts Commission, and a practicing artist have left him, as he feels, with too little time for editorial duties which are growing increasingly heavy themselves. His successor has not yet been discovered.

THIS is our Minorities Issue, as anticipated in the "looking forward" pages of our October 1970 number, and very properly half our …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 12 No. 1, Robert R. Sullivan, David S. Lindsay, Lynne B. Iglitzin, Billy G. Gunter, Forest K. Davis, James Binney, Howard Mckinley Corning, Robert Lax, Leonard Gilley, Donald Junkins, Carl Cary, Tom O'Leary, William Virgil Davis, Stuart Friebert, William Sayres, Jeddie Smith, Richard Amorosi, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY begins this twelfth year with its longest, weightiest, and, we believe, strongest issue. In range we move from detente in Europe to violence on the home front, from the financing of political campaigns to the manipulations of door-to-door selling, from the waning of "existentialism" to the relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In order of appearance our authors are ROBERT R. SULLIVAN, Queens College, New York; DAVID LINDSAY, Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg; LYNNE B. IGLITZIN, University of Washington, Seattle; BILLY G. GUNTER, University of South Florida, Tampa; FOREST K. DAVIS, Wilberforce University, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 11 No. 4, Donald E. Houghton, Carey Wall, Victor J. Emmett Jr., Henry J. Yeager, Duane Edwards, Barry Bort, Gibbons Ruark, David Bruce Goldin, Wlliam Hathaway, Menke Katz, Sam Bradley, Bruce Cutler, Norman H. Russell, T. Alan Broughton, Nancy G. Westerfield, Yuki Sawa, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

COMES JULY and the editors take their yearly vacation from worrying about the fate of the world, which looks both unpleasant and imminent, and concern themselves instead with literature, which concerns itself with the individual. In short, our Summer Literary Number has come round again, and as usual the emphasis is upon American authors. Not that we have a conscious bias, even though the editor-in-chief teaches American literature to college students who so far have been generously willing to find it relevant-and the more contemporary the more relevant. But it has occurred to us, and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 11 No. 3, John W. Keller, John F. Povey, Charles Vandersee, Raymond S. Nelson, D. J. Smith, James E. Mulqueen, Bernice Ames, Branley Branson, Tess Gallagher, D. M. Rosenberg, Alan Seaburg, Gibbons Ruark, Arnold Johnston, Leonard Uberman, Thomas Lynch, Courtland Matthews, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

DURING the past ten years we have had several opportunities to welcome a new member to our editorial board but always under the regretful necessity of bidding goodby to a valued old friend who was moving away or had taken on a heavy load of work or for some other reason felt he could no longer serve the journal as faithfully as he would like. With this April 1970 issue we have the pleasure of welcoming a new associate editor who is an addition and not a replacement and is therefore pure gain. Our new …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 11 No. 2, Allan Larson, Duncan H. Cameron, Stanley Feingold, Peter A. Soderbergh, Betty Kinnett, Alan Casty, Donal Mahoney, Alastair Macdonald, Muriel B. Ingham, Carl Mitcham, Nikki Patrick, Stephen Shu-Ning Liu, Virginia Elson, Emilie Glen, Edith Shiffert, Leonard Uberman, Michael Paul Novak, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

THIS JANUARY 1970 we begin not simply a new year but a new decade--one that we are bound to hope will grow less violent and more certain of purpose as it moves along. Perhaps the editor has seen too many decades, or perhaps it is the world that has seen too many, but we cannot remember a sense of exacerbation or self-distrust or sheer frustration more intense and bitter than the one now prevailing. Birth-pangs of a better world, shall we hope? Why in times like these men of good will can be brought to …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 11 No. 1, Donald R. Mccoy, Richard T. Ruetten, William W. Macdonald, Tom C. Coleman Iii, Henry Winthrop, Barry N. Schwartz, Barclay W. Bates, Christopher Fahy, Sam Bradley, Dale Mindell, Raymond Carver, Alastair Macdonald, Lois Sadowski, Glenn R. Swetman, James Hearst, Kinley E. Roby, Mike Niemczyk, Susan Schuchat, Courtland Matthews, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

After a spring sabbatical leave of blessed memory, the editor thanks retiring editor DUDLEY CORNISH for his able caretaking, uneasily resumes the editorial chair, decides that by the time the October issue appears it may prove a fit once more, reaches for the basket of manuscripts selected by Professor Comish with the advice and consent of the full editorial board . . . and discovers a richly varied collection, so varied that she is not immediately sure how to pull them together, except under our helpful rubric of "A Journal of Contemporary Thought."

CONTEMPORARY we …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 10 No. 4, William J. Kimball, Robert L. Coard, V. J. Emmett Jr., John S. Hill, Carl Wooton, Sanford Pinkser, William Virgil Davis, Nancy Ann Dribble, Ivan Doig, Charles Edward Eaton, Robert Flanagan, F. Eugene Warren, Rose Rosberg, Margaret E. Haughawout, Nancy Price, John A. Lynch, Burton L. Carlson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

WRAPPING UP a decade of academic publication is no difficult chore, especially since generous, gracious, and for the most part patient contributors have been prodigal in showering us with material-articles, poems, and reviews-for the past six or seven years. And our esteemed colleague, absent on sabbatical leave this past semester, had thoughtfully selected practically the whole of this Summer Literary Number prior to her departure for far-flung and deep-delving research on her Emily Dickinson. The result is a solid collection of entertaining, incisive, and insightful reading. The subjects of our six articles range from Herman …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 10 No. 3, Barry N. Schwartz, Phillip D. Thomas, Alvin H. Proctor, Edna Coy, Robert Smetherman, Henry Hahn, Leonard Gilley, Tom Galt, William Harold, M. N. Siddiqui, Paul Smyth, Michael Heffernan, Peter Wild, Stuart Friebert, James Hearst, Wayne Dodd, Branley A. Branson, Louise B. Delaurentis, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

FLEXIBILITY and informality of administration, operation, and organization have been among the hallmarks of this journal since its inception ten years ago; to them, add interchangeability of parts. When the Editor in Chief had a semester's leave in 1964, REBECCA PATTERSON moved easily into his chair to keep contributors happy= printers contented, and subscribers satisfied. Now the shoe is on the other foot: She is on sabbatical after a gruelling fall's work, and he is spread thinner than ever, from the Department of History in Russ Hall to the editorial suite in Porter Library. Fortunately …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 10 No. 2, Kenneth J. Grieb, Karel Hulicka, James L. Mcdonald, Robert L. Perry, Evelyn Schroth, William Mclaughlin, D. L. W. Smith, Stanley Plumly, Edith Shiffert, John Wheatcroft, James Binney, Emilie Glen, Barbara Drake, Thomas Kretz, Robert Joe Stout, Michael Wilkes, Imogene L. Bolls, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

TAKING UP our pen on the afternoon of election day, we are more than commonly aware of the suspense, the troubled uncertainty, on the threshold of what we feel in our marrow will prove to be a new age. Of course we could wait until tomorrow and put one minor suspense behind us, that is, the identity of our new president; but, partisan as we were in casting our ballot, and stoutly as we cheered one man in preference to another, we are nevertheless of the opinion that the new president will have little more …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 10 No. 1, Orville D. Menard, Henry Winthrop, S. H. Nulle, Catherine S. Frazer, Major L. Wilson, Irving A. Yevish, Frances Colvin, Edsel Ford, Kinley E. Roby, Leonard Gilley, Nancy G. Westerfield, Bernice Ames, Victor Contoski, Sharon Ann Jaeger, Hargis Westerfield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

REGRETFULLY the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY announce the resignation of our colleague and longtime adviser in the fine arts, REED W. SCHMICKLE, whose duties as chairman of the Art Department of Kansas State College have increased until he can no longer spare the time so generously given to us these past six years and more. Professor Schmickle contributed an article "Art and the Modern Mind" to the Spring 1960 issue and joined our Board of Editors with the October 1962 issue. A native of Missouri, he holds the B. S. degree from Southwest State …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 9 No. 4, Thomas W. Lombardi, G. S. P. Misra, Nora Satin, Michael R. French, Sanford Sternlicht, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Robert H. Abel, Irene Dayton, Margaret B. Purcell, Ivan Doig, Sonya Dorman, Menke Katz, O. Howard Winn, Colette Inez, Alastair Macdonald, Nancy Price, E. Wesley Walton

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

DURING TIMES of incessant change any practice or custom that maintains itself for as long as six years may fairly claim to be a hallowed tradition. Just such a tradition THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY is building for itself with this sixth Summer Literary Number. Not that we ever wholly close our pages to a good study of literature at other seasons of the year, and not that our literary number involves any really basic difference from the other three quarterly issues. The emphasis, the approach, may vary somewhat, but all four issues are alike concerned with …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 9 No. 3, Robert W. Sellen, Nicholas Joost, Donald R. Key, Elmo Howell, Hugh B. Fox, Michael Tobin, Sam Bradley, Charles Eaton, H. M. Corning, Leon V. Driskell, Sonya Dorman, James C. Baloian, Tom Galt, Helen Roberts, Charles Weber, Peter Wild, Kinley E. Roby

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in this issue. . .

WHEN ASKED by the director of one of our growing university presses how the "mystique" of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY was created, the present editor pointed at once to the names listed on the title page, singling out for particular notice that of our former editor-in-chief, Dudley T. Comish, whose eight years of editing have put their indelible stamp on the journal. But since that time I have been mulling over the word "mystique," perhaps a little self-consciously, for it seemed to me then, and seems to me now, rather a large word for this combination …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 9 No. 2, Henry Winthrop, Alan Casty, John Manning, Stuart L. Hills, E. Terrence Jones, Michael R. Johnson, R. D. Lakin, Gary Sange, James C. Baloian, Branley Branson, Hollis Summers, Alberta Turner, Don Welch, William Sallar, Rose Menendian, Kinley E. Roby

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in this issue. . .

A RECENT SUBSCRIBER, forgetting or perhaps overlooking our regional main title, made his check payable to "A Journal of Contemporary Thought." Now we take serious pride in belonging to the Midwest; we celebrate its artists and writers, seek out articles of particular relevance to our broad region, and think of ourselves as speaking in a midwestern accent. But our subscriber reminds us, though inadvertently, that we strive with equal seriousness to live up to the claim embodied in our second title. We are acutely concerned with our own troubled times, nor can we always repress …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 9 No. 1, Sam Bradley, William H. Pease, Jane H. Pease, Strother B. Purdy, S. Carter Mcmorris, Michael F. Mayer, Sister Lucy Schneider, Samuel A. Weiss, Burton L. Carlson, Menke Katz, Harland Ristau, Edsel Ford, Gene Degruson, Nancy Ann Dibble, Robert W. Leonard, Clinton Keeler, Tracy Thompson, E. F. Weisslitz, Sylvia Wheeler

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in this issue. . .

THIS FIRST NUMBER of the ninth volume of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY begins a new year with-somewhat to her surprise- a somewhat new editor. During a summer leave or a sabbatical absence of Professor Cornish, it is true, she has sometimes stepped in, has chewed pencils, checked copy, struggled with an engulfing correspondence, written forewords and afterwords, read proof, worried with subscriptions and copyright and the multifarious details involved in any publication, and all the while has rejoiced rather too audibly in the prospect of a speedy release. She still tends to think of herself as …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 8 No. 4, Marion Montgomery, Leonard Gilley, Rebecca Patterson, Malcolm O. Magaw, Fred L. Standley, Patrick Morrow, Bernice Ames, Patrick Gray, Franklin Brainard, Maureen Cannon, Reginald Saner, R. D. Lakin, Mary Oliver, Richard Sale, Rose Menendian, Tracy Thompson, Menke Katz, Emilie Glen

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

INDULGING natural preference and at the same time bowing to a tradition still green, the editors present their fifth Summer Literary Number. Their six major selections draw from at least three diverse literary streams: Nineteenth-century English (early and late), nineteenth-century American, and the contemporary American novel. More specifically, two articles deal with important figures in English letters: William Wordsworth, the Romantic poet who grew to estrangement from and disillusion with his native country, and Joseph Conrad, English by adoption and recognized as a superior craftsman in his second tongue by virtue of a distinguished list …

The Midwest Quartlery; Vol. 8 No. 3, R. D. Lakin, David Sonstroem, C. B. Ives, Lee A. Dew, W. D. Norwood Jr., Paul Anderson, Kay Davis, Hollis Summers, Harland Ristau, Albert Drake, Rose Menendian, Nancy Price, Robert Morgan, James Scheurich, Emilie Glen

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in this issue. . .

PHILOSOPHY, cinematic literature, literature and history, history and politics, and final cosmography – these compose the menu we spread before you on this spring table. We consider it attractive and nutritious; we hope our readers enjoy the various courses as much as we enjoyed their selection and preparation. One can argue the precision of the categories. Certainly philosophy is or ought to be concerned with the nature of good. Almost as certainly, literary critics can be concerned with the form, fabric, and intent of movies and television productions which, one supposes, begin somewhere with written …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 8 No. 2, Lawrence R. Velvel, Haig A. Bosmajian, Dwight W. Hoover, David Scruton, Warren O. Ault, Larry R. Dennis, Jack Bobbitt, Imogene L. Bolls, Kenneth C. Gaertner, James Tate, Victor Contoski, Ted Kooser, Mary Oliver, John Stevens Wade, Peter Wild, Alberta T. Turner

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in this issue. . .

CROWDING the top of anybody's list of vital questions now facing the United States are automation, civil rights, the draft, the Great Society, taxes, and the war in Vietnam. It is beyond the charter of this journal to offer discussions of every major issue in every issue. Since most manuscripts reaching us are unsolicited, choices are limited somewhat by chance. And there are still contributors who have the mistaken notion that this is primarily a literary magazine, a historical journal, or a scholarly review requiring elaborate footnotes. Fortunately, the very number of manuscripts arriving here …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 8 No. 1, Charles A. Glatt, John T. Hubbell, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Dewey W. Grantham, Burton J. Williams, George J. Groman, A. J. Allen, Jesse Forbeck, Edsel Ford, Philip E. Burnham Jr., Leonard Gilley, Emilie Glen, Rose Menendian, Michael Paul Novak, Tracy Thompson, Barbara Fowler, Imogene L. Bolls, Kenneth C. Gaertner

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

ANNUALLY, as summer ends and fall arrives, another academic year begins, and, for seven years now, THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY issues the first number of a new volume. Here is Number 1 of Volume VIII containing our usual variety and somewhat more. Occasionally recollecting our pedagogical mission, we turn to the field of education; more frequently we find space for an essay or two on history or historians, although subjects from American literature easily lead in any tabulation of our titles. We cannot say, with the late Somerset Maugham, "The mixture as before," nor can we …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 4, Paul Mccarthy, John Fraser, James W. Tuttleton, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Walter Shear, L. W. Michaelson, Tracy Thompson, Charles L. Squier, E. F. Weisslitz, Emilie Glen, Sam Bradley, James Binney, Margaret B. Purcell, Nils Peterson, Jesse Forbeck, Stuart Friebert, John Taylor

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

PRECEDENTS for a summer literary number are easy to find; our last three July issues come instantly to mind, but the tradition is far older than 1963. Summer used to be a leisurely season, replete with long lazy afternoons, lawns sloping gently down to water, frosted pitchers of lemonade, and books-from Hervey Allen to Stefan Zweig, Dreiser, Faulkner, Fielding, Fitzgerald, Hardy, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Howells, Sterne, Trollope, Turgenev, Zola, and a hundred others. Summer reading was an institution; there was time for it and its deepest enjoyment. The institution was a good one, memorable and permanently …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 3, Roy Lechtreck, Timothy Mcdonald, John Q. Reed, William Hanchett, Leonard Gilley, Stanley Trachtenberg, James Binney, Thomas Brumbaugh, Jesse Forbeck, Stuart Friebert, Leonard Gilley, Arthur Kistner, Ann Jonas, Charles L. Squier, Patricia R. King, Paul B. Newman, Mary Oliver, Tracy Thompson

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

CHARACTERISTICALLY earthbound, the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY have kept their feet on the ground in the selection of material for publication this spring. Let Armstrong and Scott take their rides in the sky and their walks in space (better luck next time!). Born into this world too early, we leave other worlds, their discovery and exploration, to younger spirits. Here there is enough, were there time. Enough? Too much this spring. For us it is enough to range from enlightened British imperialism on the Gold Coast to the origins of ebullient American imperialism at …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 7. No. 2, Archie J. Bahm, Frederick H. Schapsmeier, Edward Schapsmeier, Ernest F. Dibble, Edmond P. Odescalchi, Richard Gustafson, Sy Kahn, Peter Wild, T. A. Browne, Burton L. Carlson, Charles Edward Eaton, A. D. Freeman, Edward Locke, Leonard Gilley, Stanwood Bolton Jr., John Judson, Michael Paul Novak, Menke Katz, Leonard S. Bernstein

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in this issue. . .

ACKNOWLEDGING the fact of last month's outer-space rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7 is one thing; realization of its meaning and ultimate significance is quite another. To groundlings in Southeast Kansas, the whole magnificent but virtually incredible achievement is too far out rationally as well as spatially. Moreover, there seems to us to be a more than ample supply of earthbound (even earthy) problems which cry for attention, questions which require fuller discussion, matters more immediate than moon-shots. The contents of this winter issue demonstrate our prior involvement in matters more humane and, to us …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 7 No. 1, John G. Clark, Sterling Fishman, D. B. Griffiths, Elizabeth B. Drewry, Jack W. Vanderhoof, Mary Graham Lund, Patricia Lamb, Paul B. Newman, Walter W. Stevens, Arnold Falleder, Florence J. Goodman, Sanford Sternlicht, Tracy Thompson, Emilie Glen, Edsel Ford, Victor Contoski, William W. Debolt

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in this issue. . .

CURRENT EVENTS often have a disturbing way of making contemporary thought seem irrelevant, and yet the history of the past summer rather underscores the relevance of our selections for this first number of Volume VII of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY. None of the articles here published bears directly on the death of Adlai E. Stevenson, the build-up of U.S. forces in Vietnam, blind violence in Los Angeles, passage of far-reaching legislation by Congress, or the outbreak of war between India and Pakistan. Nevertheless, on page after page of this issue our six discussions touch sensitive and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 6 No. 4, Paul B. Newman, Abigail Ann Hamblen, Leonard Gilley, Robert N. Hertz, Robert L. Perry, William H. Nolte, Bernice Ames, Branley A. Branson, E. H. Bales, Sam Bradley, Beverly Brunson, E. Wesley Walton, E. F. Weisslitz

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in this issue. . .

TURNABOUT is not only fair play but very nearly a modus operandi in the annals of this journal. Last January when she brought out the winter issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY as its acting editor-in-chief, Rebecca Patterson modestly and cleverly announced that that issue belonged to the then absent editor. Rather wistfully she wrote then of time off, rest, re-creation, and of the human need for "that holiday of the spirit that comes with putting the old routine behind . . . and sallying into fresh fields, . . ." Now in June she has …