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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 2, William M. Clements, Thomas L. Hartshorne, Richard Moore, Judith Weissman, Wilson O. Clough, James C. Wilson, James Cooper, Jonathan Holden, Thomas P. Lynch, Anthony Sobin, Thom Tammaro, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WILLIAM M. CLEMENTS explores psychological maturation in Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima. Professor of English at Arkansas State University, Clements has published articles on folklore and popular culture.

THOMAS L. HARTSHORNE reveals the traditionalist lurking behind the with-it façade constructed by Tom Wolfe in his writings on the 1960's. Hartshorne' s interest in recent cultural history has found expression in articles and in the book, The Distorted Image: Changing Interpretations of the American Character since Turner. Hartshorne teaches history at Cleveland State University.

RICHARD MOORE conjures the poetic nature of mathematics through the delightful Tristram, a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 1, Anthony S. Brennan, James Cicarelli, John L. Dusseau, Christine Mchugh, Donald E. Shepardson, Joseph J. Wydeven, Peter Cooley, William Virgil Davis, Greg Kuzma, Kathy Wagner, Harold Witt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ANTHONY S. BRENNAN received his Ph.D. from McMaster University, where he teaches English. He has published two novels, and his short stories and critical essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines and scholarly journals.

JAMES CICARELLI received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He is visiting associate professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has published numerous articles.

JOHN L. DUSSEAU was educated at Haverford and Duke. Since his retirement from W. B. Saunders Company, where he was Editor-in-Chief, he has published widely on a number of subjects.

CHRISTINE McHUGH received her Ph.D. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 22 No. 4, David Madden, Judith A. Spector, Frtiz H. Oehlschlaeger, Bertha Keveson Hertz, Lewis E. Shelton, Richard J. Buhr, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Karen Laskey, Al Ortolani, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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DAVID MADDEN, who examines Wright Morris's use of cliches, is writer-in-residence at Louisiana State University. In addition to his eight novels, he has also published fourteen books of criticism.

JUDITH A. SPECTOR, who finds more magic than science in Miller's science fiction, received her Ph.D. from Indiana University and teaches English at the Indiana-Purdue Columbus Campus.

FRITZ OEHLSCHLAEGER, who exposes the hostility to civilization in the fiction of Zane Grey and Harold Bell Wright, received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 22 No. 3, John Cody, Robert Schultz, Jeanne F. Bedell, Eugene L. Huddleston, Robert Wexelblatt, Leroy V. Eid, Richard Behm, Jeannine Dobbs, Charles Edward Eaton, Jack Flavin, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Mccloskey, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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STEPHEN E. MEATS, who joins the editorial board, received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and chairs the Department of English at Pittsburg State University. He has published widely on American literature.

MICHAEL CONNAUGHTON, who will assume responsibility for our book reviews, received his Ph.D. from Indiana University and teaches English at Pittsburg State University. He has published articles on English and American fiction.

JOHN CODY, who demonstrates the hazards and rewards of close reading, received his M.D. from the University of Arkansas and served his residency in psychiatry at the Menninger School …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 22 No. 2, Tom Bailey, Charles E. Wynes, William E. Powell, Michael E. Connaughton, David Morgan Zehr, Jeff Rackham, Kelly Cherry, Joseph Di Prisco, Jack Flavin, Thomas Mcafee, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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TOM BAILEY, who finds politics behind the self-help in Franklin's Autobiography, received his Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis and teaches English at Western Michigan University.

CHARLES E. WYNES, who introduces Thorny Lafon, received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and teaches history at the University of Georgia. He has published books and numerous articles on American history.

WILLIAM E. POWELL, who studies the Cherokee-Crawford coal field, received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and teaches geography at Pittsburg State. His articles have appeared in a number of journals.

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 22 No. 1, Kathryn Tidrick, Scott Edwards, Timothy J. Lukes, Charles Cagle, Kent Blaser, Ronald G. Marquardt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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KATHRYN TIDRICK, who investigates the psychology of the guided tour, is an English psychologist with a Ph.D. from London University who now lives in the United States. She has published articles and a book on the psychology of intercultural contact.

SCOTT EDWARDS, who examines attitudes toward science and progress, received his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School and teaches political science at California State University, Hayward. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including MQ.

TIMOTHY J. LUKES, who finds inwardness an inadequate defense against oppression, teaches political science at the University of Santa Clara. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 4, Anthony Brennan, Katherine H. Burkman, James R. Fultz, Robert J. Goar, David K. Jeffrey, John Rothfork, Jack Flavin, Ray Fleming, Steven Hind, William Meissner, Gibbons Ruark, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ANTHONY BRENNAN, who examines All's Well That Ends Well, received his Ph.D. from McMaster University in Ontario where he teaches English. His stories and articles have appeared in a number of periodicals, including MQ, and he has published two novels.

KATHERINE H. BURKMAN, who takes us into the odd world of Ionesco's children's stories, received her Ph.D. from Iowa and teaches English at Ohio State. She has published books and articles on Pinter, Shakespeare, and the teaching of drama.

JAMES R. FULTZ, who compares Agee's scenario of "The Blue Hotel," with Crane's story, is an …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 3, Larry Tyler, Wesley T. Wooley, Fred B. Misse, Terence Ball, Howard N. Meyer, Sanford Pinkser, Dave Etter, Tess Gallagher, Albert Goldbarth, Ted Kooser, Greg Kuzma, Tomas O'Leary, Mary Oliver, Gibbons Ruark, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Dave Smith, William Stafford, Maura Stanton, James Tate, Alberta T. Turner, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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LARRY TYLER, who finds myth and astronomy mingled in the rationale for prehistoric archeological sites, did his undergraduate work at Pittsburg State University and received his Ph. D. from the University of Missouri. He teaches sociology at Western Michigan University. He became interested in prehistoric sites while doing research in the Hebrides.

WESLEY T. WOOLEY, who examines the attitudes revealed by the Gallup Pole, received his Ph. D. from the University of Chicago and teaches history at the University of Victoria. His articles on American history have appeared in a number of journals, including MQ. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 2, F. N. Boney, Major L. Wilson, David R. Roediger, Donald E. Shepardson, Lee Ellis, Philip Bordinat, Linda M. Hasselstrom, David Clewell, Ronald Wallace, Dave Etter, Charles Edward Eaton, Robert Siegel, Jack Flavin, Jessie Bier, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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F. N. BONEY, who suggests that legend has exaggerated the military prowess of the South, received his Ph.D. from The University of Virginia and teaches history at The University of Georgia. He has published widely in French and English on aspects of Southern history. A French version of "The Military Tradition in the South" appeared as a chapter in Le systeme militaire des Etats-Unis: bilan et perspectives, ed. Lucien Mandeville (Toulouse, 1976).

MAJOR L. WILSON, who explains a nineteenth-century religious controversy between organicists and their fundamentalist opponents, received his Ph.D. from The University of Kansas …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 21 No. 1, Martin E. Spencer, Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Donald E. Shepardson, Haig A. Bosmajian, David L. Paletz, Richard Gambino, Katherine F. Nutt, Gorman Beauchamp, L. W. Michaelson, Brian Murphy, Barry D. Bort, F. N. Boney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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TWENTY YEARS AGO, Dudley T. Cornish launched The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought. Since that time, we have published nearly five hundred articles on art, biology, drama, economics, fiction, government, history, law, pedagogy, philosophy, poetry, politics, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and even thermodynamics. Since 1960, MQ also has published poetry, at which a later issue will glance back. To the editors, "contemporary thought" never has meant primarily "thought on contemporary events," and our contributors have been concerned not only with the contemporary world but also with classicial antiquity and the Middle Ages; nevertheless, it …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 4, Lamar York, Thomas L. Jeffers, Henry Alley, Walter Shear, William T. Liston, W. P. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Cullum, Linda M. Hasselstrom, Lyn Lifshin, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Theodora Todd, Gene Degruson, Sue J. Livingston, Michael E. Connaughton, Carol Walter Mackay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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LAMAR YORK, who looks into the milieu of "Widsith," teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University. This is his second appearance in MQ.

THOMAS L. JEFFERS, who finds an Eden on the banks of George Eliot's Floss, received his Ph. D. from Yale and teaches English at Cornell. He has published articles on nineteenth-century fiction.

HENRY ALLEY, who investigates the intellectual underground of Eliot's Middlemarch, received his Ph. D. from Cornell and teaches English at The University of Idaho. He has published a number of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 3, Roland N. Stromberg, Haig Bosmajian, James O. Robertson, Michael Vaughan Woodward, Martin E. Spencer, Clarence N. Stone, Robert K. Whelan, Albert Goldbarth, Bruce Culter, Michael E. Connaughton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ROLAND N. STROMBERG, who finds in 1914 a brand of irrationalism not unlike Hitler's and that of some recent American activists, received his Ph. D. from The University of Maryland and teaches history at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has published several books and numerous articles.

HAIG BOSMAJIAN, who examines recent court decisions on freedom of speech, received his Ph. D. from Stanford and teaches speech at The University of Washington. Among his many publications are three books on freedom of speech.

JAMES O. ROBERTSON, who traces the rise of the employee to the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 2, Donald R. Mccoy, Ronald Christenson, George E. Munro, William F. Pray, Donald E. Secrest, Sr. Madeleine Kisner, J. W. Cullum, Jonathan Holden, William Kloefkorn, Ron Slate, Mark Vinz, Robert Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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DONALD R. McCOY, who looks at recent trends in presidential biography, received his Ph. D. from American University and teaches history at The University of Kansas. He has published six books and manifold articles.

RONALD CHRISTENSON, who explains the premises of apartheid, received his Ph. D. from The University of Minnesota and teaches political science at Gustavus Adolphus College. He has published a number of articles.

GEORGE E. MUNRO, who examines the Sakharov case, teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

WILLIAM F. PRAY, who investigates the reasons for Soviet toleration of dissent, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 20 No. 1, Richard W. Noland, Conrad Joyner, John J. Havic, Florence Heffron, Peter J. Kellog, Sondra Van Meeter, Elaine H. Kim, Jack Flavin, Gary Margolis, Ralph J. Mills Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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RICHARD W. NOLAND, who examines the relatively new genre and discipline called psychobiography, received his M.D. from Emory and his Ph. D. from Columbia. He is chairman of the English Department at The University of Massachusetts and has published a number of articles on literature and psychology.

CONRAD JOYNER, who suggests the elimination of the civil service system as a means of making our public servants more responsive to the will of the voters, received his Ph. D. from The University of Florida and teaches political science at the University of Arizona. He is …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 4, Anthony S. Brennan, Velma Bourgeois Richmond, Stephen J. Teller, V. J. Emmett Jr., Judith Weissman, James F. Knapp, Craig Churry, Dave Etter, Michael Finley, Ralph J. Mills Jr., Alicia Ostriker, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Paul W. Zagerski, Donald F. Kerle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ANTHONY S. BRENNAN, who shows how Antony and Cleopatra play their roles as lovers and rulers, received his Ph. D. from McMaster University in Ontario where he teaches English. His articles and stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and he has published two novels.

VELMA BOURGEOIS RICHMOND, who examines Shakespeare's attitudes toward women, received her Ph. D. from North Carolina and teaches English at Holy Names College in Oakland. She has published two books and numerous articles on English literature.

STEPHEN J. TELLER, who investigates Shakespeare's use of his source for Titus …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 3, Christopher Clausen, Robert S. Mcelvaine, Melvin G. Holli, Judith Shaw, Loring Allen, David Kanervo, Thomas Heffernan, Thomas Mcafee, William Meissner, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN, who takes the schoolmarms' side against the linguists, teaches English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He has published essays and poetry in numerous journals.

ROBERT S. McELVAINE, who looks at the "New South," teaches history at Milsaps College. He has published essays on American politics.

MELVIN G. HOLLI, who examines Detroit's problems, teaches history at The University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. He is the author of two books on Detroit. His The Ethnic Frontier, coedited with Peter d' A Jones, will be reviewed in another issue of MQ. …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 2, Stephen L. Tanner, Steven T. Ryan, Sam B. Girgus, Emilio De Grazia, Homer H. Morris, Carrol L. Fry, Jared Stein, Charles Edward Eaton, Jonathan Gillespie, Steven Hind, Robert Holland, Philip Legler, Tomas O'Leary, Ronald Wallace, A. G. Sobin, Nance Van Winckel, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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STEPHEN L. TANNER, who discusses the challenge to the humanities presented by the current emphasis on quantitative measure, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and teaches English at the University of Idaho. His articles, mostly on American literature, have appeared in numerous journals.

STEVEN T. RYAN, who assesses the importance of Kuhn's theory of scientific paradigms to our understanding of literary history and of contemporary literature, received his Ph. D. from the University of Utah and teaches English at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee.

SAM B. GIRGUS, who examines a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 19 No. 1, Robert J. Chaffin, Eric J. Cardinal, Margaret B. Mcdowell, Mark S. Simpson, Sanford Pinkser, James B. Schick, Peter Cooley, Albert Goldbarth, Philip Legler, Bill Tremblay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ROBERT K. RATZLAFF, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Kansas State University and received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and is associate professor of history at Pittsburg State University. Most of his publications are in American history.

ROBERT J. CHAFFIN, who asks whether the American Revolution was really revolutionary, received his Ph. D. from Indiana University and teaches history at The University of Wisconsin—Oshkosh. He has published numerous articles and is working on his second book.

ERIC J. CARDINAL, who investigates …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 4, Carol Helmstetter Cantrell, Brian Murphy, Sophia B. Blaydes, Judith Weissman, Randolph Perazzini, Mary W. Schneider, Thomas O. Calhoun, David Clewell, Gerald Costanzo, Albert Goldbarth, Ron Slate, Jack Carpenter, Ernest Gallo, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ERNEST GALLO, whose story "Pain and Suffering" appears in the Looking Forward section of this issue, teaches medieval literature at The University of Massachusetts.

CAROL H. CANTRELL, who reexamines the relationships among "confessional" poets and who also reviews Albert Goldbarth's Comings Back, received her Ph. D. from Northwestern University and teaches at Colorado State University.

BRIAN MURPHY, who explains what one of the angry young men was angry about, did his graduate work at Harvard and The University of London and teaches at Oakland University in Michigan. He has published articles on the film …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 3, Robert I. Burns S. J., Gerald G. Eggert, Roland N. Stromberg, David H. Katz, Lawrence E. Gray, Oliver B. Pollak, Jack Flavin, Philip K. Jason, Ed Ochester, Katharine Privett, Randy Russell, Elaine Smokewood, Walter Shear, Randolph Perazzini, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ROBERT I. BURNS, S. J., who writes about Aragon and the growing emphasis placed on the Mediterranean area by contemporary medieval historians, holds earned doctorates from both Fribourg and Johns Hopkins. He has recently moved to U. C. L. A. from the University of San Francisco, where his paper was delivered as an address before the faculty. He has published four major books and numerous articles.

GERALD G. EGGERT, who gives us another perspective on diplomatic contact between the U.S. and China, received his Ph. D. from the University of Michigan and teaches American …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 2, Jane Nardin, Marvin Mandell, Mark J. Sachner, Duane Edwards, Harry J. Ausmus, Francis E. Devine, Charles G. Masinton, Dave Etter, Louis Ginsberg, Edward Hirsch, Ben Howard, Christopher Howell, Jennings Blackmon, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JANE NARDIN, who writes about attitudes toward the past and the present in Waugh's A Handful of Dust, received her Ph. D. from SUNY at Buffalo and teaches English at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. She has published a book on Jane Austen and a number of articles and reviews.

MARVIN MANDELL, who disputes Rollo May's view of "Billy Budd" and of events at Kent State, received his Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and teaches at Curry College. His short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, and one of them was …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 18 No. 1, Duncan R. Jamieson, Clarence D. Long, D. E. Shepardson, William L. Burton, Ronald W. Johnson, Walter L. Arnstein, David L. Paletz, Gibbons Ruark, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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DUNCAN R. JAMIESON, who looks into Atlanta's biracial politics, received his Ph. D. from Michigan State University and teaches history at the University of Alabama. He has published on a number of topics related to urban reforms.

CLARENCE D. LONG, who suggests that we redirect our foreign aid, received his Ph. D. from Princeton and was Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins before his election to the U.S. Congress, where he represents Maryland's second district. He is the author of seven books. His major articles began to appear in 1936, and he has continued …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 4, Eugene Current-Garcia, Robert L. Coard, Robert Roulston, John R. Milton, Marilyn Mitchell, Dave Smith, Raymond Flory, Roberta F. S. Borkat, Philip Dacey, Dave Etter, Stuart Friebert, Ben Howard, Christopher Howell, Ted Kooser, Gibbons Ruark, Thom Tammaro, Warren Woessner, John Woods, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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IN THIS JULY, 1976 ISSUE of The Midwest Quarterly, we celebrate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution by devoting our space entirely to American literature.

EUGENE CURRENT-GARCIA, who traces the beginnings of American short fiction in our early magazines, teaches at Auburn University, where he edits the Southern Humanities Review. He is the author of the volume on O. Henry for the Twayne series and has co-edited four anthologies of short fiction. Many of his published articles deal with American fiction.

ROBERT L. COARD, who shows us Tom Sawyer in new perspectives, teaches at Saint Cloud State University. He has …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 3, Lamar York, T. Mildred Wherritt, Eugénie Lambert Hammer, Barbara Meldrum, David E. Zehr, Arthur A. Ekirch Jr., Tomas O'Leary, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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GENE E. VOLLEN, who is the most recent addition to our Board of Editors, did his undergraduate work at Michigan State University and received his Ph. D. in musicology from North Texas State University. He is associate professor of music at KSCP.

LAMAR YORK, who investigates the authorship of the earliest English secular lyrics, teaches English at DeKalb College in Atlanta and is working on his doctorate at Emory University.

T. MILDRED WHERRITT, who writes about marriage proposals in Austen's novels, is a graduate student at Wichita State University. She has published a number of poems.

EUGÉNIE LAMBERT HAMNER, who …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 2, John T. Hubbell, T. Michael Ruddy, Arthur Cyr, Walter Shear, Evelyn Helmick, Edward Marcotte, Dave Smith, James Cleghorn, Charles Edward Eaton, Philip Pierson, Ron Slate, Michael Waters, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN T. HUBBELL, who writes about the Schaper case, received his Ph. D. from the University of Illinois. He is associate professor of history at Kent State University, where he edits Civil War History. An article of his on Francis Parkman appeared in the QUARTERLY in 1966.

T. MICHAEL RUDDY, who writes about Bohlen, Kennan, and the post-war international situation, received his Ph. D. from Kent State University and teaches at Kent State's Tuscarawas Campus.

ARTHUR CYR, who brings us up to date on changes in the international situation as they involve the Atlantic countries, received his Ph. D. from …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 17 No. 1, Michael J. Cunningham, Scott Edwards, Michael A. Weinstein, Margaret C. Szasz, Ferenc M. Szasz, Sylvia Angus, Sam B. Girgus, Bernice Ames, Peter Cooley, Elaine V. Emans, Ruth Feldman, Nellie Hill, S. J. Marks, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Kim Stafford, Nancy G. Westerfield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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TO INAUGURATE our seventeenth year, this October issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY ranges somewhat broadly over the "revisionism" of World War II history, the presentday youth cult, the current crisis in public responsibility, the emergence of the American Indian as a significant cultural influence, the vagaries of modem art, and finally the need for a new moral humanism.

MICHAEL J. CUNNINGHAM, with whose study of the controversial work of A. J. P. Taylor this issue begins, is a young man working on a master's degree in history at the University of Oregon, where he is employed as a teaching assistant …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 16 No. 4, Patrick Henry, Charles Clerc, John J. L. Mood, Richard R. Bolton, Liana Debona Nixen, Robert F. Sarfatt Borkat, Robert Holland, Jonathan Katz, Dave Etter, Bruce Cutler, David Allen Evans, Dave Smith, Tomas O'Leary, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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A COMMON THEME unites the six articles of this summer literary issue, and that is, in the words of one of our six authors, the "social relevance of literature." Surely nothing could be more relevant, more agonizingly immediate, than the question of capital punishment now moving into fresh confrontation with the Supreme Court. Possibly few or none of the several hundred prisoners waiting on the Death Rows of their respective state penitentiaries have ever heard of the Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus who wrote so often, so trenchantly, of this final barbarism. And that is by no means an idle …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 16 No. 3, Janice H. Harris, Nancy Poland, Gladys Milliner, Zohreh Tawakuli Sullivan, Richard Gustafson, Julian Gitzen, Gerald Costanzo, Dave Etter, Jack Flavin, Robert Holland, Greg Kuzma, Tomas O'Leary, Rick Smyth, Harold Witt, Peter D. Zivkovic, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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THIS APRIL 1975 issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY is the second we have been able to devote largely to work by or about women, the first having appeared in October 1973. Both issues involved us in some perplexities, but the lead article of this April number goes far toward answering an unspoken question of ours: why do so few women, proportionately speaking, send us good poems and articles? The conditions described in "Our Mute, Inglorious Mothers" may already be changing. Certainly there is a hint of spring in the air after a long, long winter's silence, noticeably in the fact …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 16 No. 2, Frank Kessler, William M. Bueler, Kim Ezra Shienbaum, Gorman Beauchamp, Mary S. Weinkauf, Roy Campbell, Albert Goldbarth, Michael Heffernan, Dave Smith, Jonathan Katz, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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IN THIS FIRST ISSUE of the New Year we have a selection of articles ranging from Kissinger's Latin American policy to the ever-increasing population problem to the popularity of Utopian and Dystopian literature to government rhetoric versus ideology to a final article on a religious fundamentalist of special interest to Kansas but not without a lesson for presentday West Virginia. We are also presenting a special selection from the work of one of this country's most productive poets.

THE AUTHOR of our article on Kissinger's attitude toward Latin America, FRANK KESSLER, is an assistant professor of political science at Missouri …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 16 No. 1, Lionel Basny, C. R. Metzger, Louie Crew, Philip Bordinat, Peter A. Soderbergh, Dudley T. Cornish, Peter D. Zivkovic, Bert Almon, Jim Heynen, Tim Kooser, Greg Kuzma, Joan Labombard, Jay Meek, James Ragan, Rick Smyth, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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SHORTHANDED for many months, this journal heartily welcomes a new member to its Editorial Board, CALVIN H. MERRIFIELD. A member of the Kansas State College faculty since 1961, he is a professor in the department of psychology and counselor education, has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Missouri, a Ph. D. from the University of Wyoming, and has published articles in a number of professional journals. We were amused to learn, however, that he began teaching, somewhat informally, in a very different field. During a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps his obvious …