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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 4, Ron Mcfarland, Jay Paul, Jeff Crouch, Andrew P. Williams, Nicholas D. Rombes Jr., Gary P. Hendrickson, Kim Bridgeford, Charles Bukowski, Jared Carter, Carol Hamilton, Peter Krok, Ernest Kroll, Lyn Lifshin, Mathew Murrey, Silvia Scheibli, Margo A. Schmidt, Ioanna-Veronika Warwick, Ernest A. Wight Jr., David Sloan, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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"Where is this guy coming from?" What do we bring to reading a poet such as James Wright, wonders RON McFARLAND, and how and why do individuals respond to the music and phrase and sense of what they encounter? Author of The Villanelle: The Evolution of a Poetic Form (1987), editor of two critical anthologies on James Welch and Norman Maclean (1986, 1988), and a full-length collection of his own poems, Composting at Forty (1984), McFarland teaches 17th-century and modern poetry at the University of Idaho.

In Dave Etter's poems familiar words and settings achieve their humor and insight through …

Book Review Forum On Nicholas Thomas's Out Of Time: History And Evolution In Anthropological Discourse, Richard J. Parmentier, Jonathan Friedman, David Hanlon, Bradd Shore

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 3, Walter Cummins, Sonia Kovitz, Walter Poznar, Susanne Carter, Anne Shifrer, Eugene L. Huddleston, Marcia Arrieta, Baloian Baloian, Alan Britt, Michael Cadnum, Karen Connelly, James Griffin, Fritz Hamilton, Jo Mariner, Sally Allen Mcnall, Larissa Szporluk, Harold Witt, Eve E. M. Wood, Anne Ohman Youngs, Donald F. Kerle, Calvin H. Merrifield, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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How closely do science and art approach truth, or approach each other? More nearly than one might think concludes WALTER CUMMINS. Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Cummins has published many short stories and articles dealing with writing and communication.

SONIA KOVITZ looks into the ordeal of Simone Weil to find value in herself, a struggle in which she would never admit success, in order to consider the meaning of this universal passion. Formerly a teacher of Russian language and literature at Lawrence University and author of articles on Chekhov's fiction and drama, Kovitz is now Program Review Administrator …

Book Review Forum On Marilyn Strathern's The Gender Of The Gift: Problems With Women And Problems With Society In Melanesia, Marilyn Strathern, Paula Brown, Roger M. Keesing, Margaret Jolly

Pacific Studies

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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 2, Malcolm O. Magaw, Helen F. Maxson, Timothy J. Williams, Richard Badenhausen, Marilyn Lancaster, James C. Work, Don Boes, Christopher Cokinos, Anne Colwell, Philip Dacey, Kevin Griffith, William Jollif, Kathleen M. Mccann, Jane Mcclellan, Andrea Moorhead, Gianfranco Pagnucci, Stephen Perry, Bertha Rogers, Maryfrances Wagner, Gail White, Fred B. Misse, Dudley T. Cornish, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Nicely blending his training in the visual arts with his verbal skills, as MALCOLM O. MAGAW shows, John Updike in Marry Me produces a fuller understanding of his characters and a richer tapestry for his readers. Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, Magaw has published essays on Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Yeats, Keats, Warren, Bellow, Walker Percy, Hemingway, and Cheever. He has had two previous publications in The Midwest Quarterly and is working currently on Malamud.

Seeing in the worldview of women a new way of grasping reality and of reshaping the world for the better, HELEN F. …

Love And Power: The Rule Of Religion And Morality In American Politics, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

Perry, Michael J. Love and Power: The Rule of Religion and Morality in American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. viii + 218 pp. $29.95

The author's introduces this sequel to his Morality, Politics, and Law as an extended gloss on John Noonan's statement that the "central problem of the legal enterprise is the relation of love to power." The renown of its author ensures that Love and Power will become a focal point in legal academic discussion of its central concern: the proper relation between morality, particularly religious morality, political choice, and public deliberation "in a morally …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 33 No. 1, H. Wendell Howard, Patrick J. O'Connor, Clare R. Goldfarb, Tommy R. Thompson, Muriel Brown, David E. Gamble, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Mark Cunningham, Charles Edward Eaton, Faye George, Fritz Hamilton, Margaret Holley, Sandra Marshburn, Dionisio D. Martínez, Susan Peterson, Ronald F. Smits, Charles Cagle, Roger O'Connor, Dudley T. Cornish, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Polish composer Krzystof Penderecki, as H. WENDELL HOWARD explains, focuses his works on understanding the life that death ends, a preoccupation informed by his Catholicism, Polish birth, and the events in Eastern Europe. Professor of English and Juilliard-trained musician, author of articles on literature and music, Howard has many publications to his credit, including a 1987 essay in these pages.

The roots of blues music, PATRICK J. O'CONNOR shows, were in the rural South, born of the disillusionment with the poverty of post-Civil War freedom and carried into the depths of urban America. Blues music was a direct response to …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 4, Robert Grudin, Paul J. Schumacher, Kenneth L. Golden, Ruth B. Shult, Harbour Winn, John G. Peters, William Winfield, Duane Locke, Walter Shear, Donald W. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Offering a stimulating and much-needed comment on the current fashions in literary criticism, ROBERT GRUDIN also provides an alternative which, he urges, puts the text and the author in context, and literary theorists in their proper place vis-à-vis the work under scrutiny. Grudin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon.

PAUL J. SCHUMACHER explores Franz Kafka's discourse on transcendence in his unfinished novel, The Castle, and traces his meaning to Kierkegaard's investigation of the same topic. Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, Schumacher has recently completed a book-length manuscript on "Existentialism …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 3, James A. Stevenson, Robert Wexelblatt, Steven L. Schweizer, Roger Horne, Ralph Brauer, Allen Ramsey, Daniel Williams, Timothy P. Bellows, Nancy Botkin, Patrick W. Gray, Mark Henke, Kip Knott, Joyce K. Luzzi, Sheryl L. Nelms, Philip Terman, Deborah Woodard, Anne O. Youngs, Sharon E. Neet, Stephen Meats, Donalds W. Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Chiding modern historians for a hidebound rigidity that blinds them to the truths that lie in historical fiction and poetry, JAMES A. STEVENSON argues that Edmund Spenser's history of Elizabethan times revealed less than his magnificent, but outwardly fictional Faerie Queen. Holder of a doctorate in history and a recently completed master's degree in English literature, Stevenson has published articles on history, film, and literature in a variety of academic journals, including an essay on Lincoln's affinity for Macbeth in The Midwest Quarterly. He is currently Assistant Professor of History at East Georgia College.

What did cavepersons do without letters? …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 2, Martin Tropp, Richard L. Chapple, Maren Partenheimer, David Partenheimer, John W. Roberts, James F. Maxfield, Stephanie Demetrakopoulos, Linda Andrews, Kelly Cherry, Andrew Dillon, Lola Haskins, Fleda B. Jackson, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, Duane Locke, Hillary Lyon, G. D. Richards, Richard Tremmel, Charles Wyatt, Robert L. Sheverbush, Charles Cagle, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MARTIN TROPP considers the message of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with reference to contemporary views of mind, body, and will. Tropp is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of scholarly articles on such writers as Nathaniel West, and two books, one on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and the other on horror stories in modern culture, 1818- 1918.

Among the writers newly found in the more open society of Gorbachev's era, RICHARD L. CHAPPLE observes, the talent of Tatyana Tolstaya is notable for creating portraits of ordinary people of the middle class. They …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 32 No. 1, John Churchill, Paul Griffin, Thomas Strawman, William Casement, James Corpora, James C. Mckelly, Mary Crow, Mark Cunningham, Philip Dacey, Fleda B. Jackson, William Kloefkorn, Ernest Kroll, Greg Kuzma, Hilary Lyon, Ace G. Pilkington, Jacie Ragan, Joe Salerno, Mike Smetzer, Laura A. Stortoni, Lowell Bergstedt, T. H. S. Wallace, Harold Witt, Roger O'Connor, Thomas R. Walther, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

MARTIN TROPP considers the message of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with reference to contemporary views of mind, body, and will. Tropp is Professor of English at Babson College. He is the author of scholarly articles on such writers as Nathaniel West, and two books, one on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster and the other on horror stories in modern culture, 1818- 1918.

Among the writers newly found in the more open society of Gorbachev's era, RICHARD L. CHAPPLE observes, the talent of Tatyana Tolstaya is notable for creating portraits of ordinary people of the middle class. They …

A Comparative Analysis Of Indiana Legislator And Lobbyist Concepts Of Persuasion Strategies, Rebecca A. Carrier

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This study uses Q-methodology to describe lobbyists' and legislators' perceptions of persuasion strategies used in lobbying. Twenty lobbyists and legislators in the Indiana General Assembly participated in the study by sorting statements about lobbying strategies under three conditions of instruction. Lobbyists were asked to sort statements according to what they use to pass legislation, block legislation, and to describe their ideal strategies. Legislators were asked to sort statements according to which statements they encounter most when lobbyists were attempting to pass legislation, block legislation, and which strategies legislators would have lobbyists use ideally. The study found one factor accounted for …

John Rawls, The Conception Of A Liberal Self, And The Communitarian Critique, Johnathan Edward Mansfield

Dissertations and Theses

John Rawls' A Theory of Justice stands as the single most important work in the Anglo-American liberal tradition after World War II. In A Theory of Justice, Rawls revives the social contract doctrine in order to determine principles of justice that would be chosen by persons who are free and equal moral individuals. Since Rawls believes that no single conception of the good can establish justice in a pluralistic society, he posits a set of principles of right which are prior to any particular good. Thus his theory, which he calls "justice as fairness," is deontological. Since its publication …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 4, Yoshinobu Hakutani, Christopher S. Durer, Anne L. Bower, Laurie Buchanan, Alfred Cismaru, Ayman Hussein, Andrew Dillon, Gary Short, Mark Schaub, Elisabeth Grant-Gibson, Diane Wahto, Tom Maloney, Anne A. Colwell, Cindy Mcghee, Al Ortolani, Daniel J. Sundahl, Jeanie (Olson) Haggerton, William Kloefkorn, Ann Lundberg-Grunke, Michael L. Johnston, John Dufresne, Jared Carter

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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YOSHINOBU HAKUTANI reveals the similarities and differences between Zen Buddhism and American Transcendentalism, particularly in the writings of Emerson and Whitman, a view which illuminates much in their philosophy and also helps us understand where the two American authors diverged. Professor of English at Kent State University, Hakutani has published books on Theodore Japanese fiction, Thedore Dreiser, Richard Wright, Yone Noguchi, and many articles on similar topics.

Moby-Dick, though securely rooted in its own time, prefigures twentieth-century totalitarianism’s epitome, Nazi Germany, in the opinion of CHRISTOPHER S. DURER. Professor of English at the University of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 3, Michael C. C. Adams, Robert W. Sellen, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, William L. Burton, Lawrence O. Christensen, Erving E. Beauregard, Diane Averill, Polly Brody, Tom Chandler, Elizabeth Charlton, Bruce Cutler, W. K. Dolphin, Myron Ernst, J. B. Goodenough, Carol Granato, Kevin Griffith, Jay Griswold, Fritz Hamilton, Robert Harlow, Michael L. Johnson, Joe Salerno, Daniel J. Sundahl, Jim Thomas, Steve Wilson, Charles Cagle, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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MICHAEL C. C. ADAMS examines anti-war literature and finds much of it glorifies the experience, despite its realism and criticism of those far from the theater of combat. Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University, Adams's book, Our Masters the Rebels: A Speculation on Union Military Failure in the East, 1861-1865, will this year be joined by The Great Adventure: Male Desire and the Coming of World War One.

Finding the 1988 presidential campaign short on substance and the electorate insufficiently familiar with the concept, ROBERT W. SELLEN explores national interest historically and suggests the …

Professor Brudner's Crisis, Ernest J. Weinrib

Cardozo Law Review

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The "L-Word": A Short History Of Liberalism, Terence Ball, Richard Dagger

Political Science Faculty Publications

Hence the question: Are these good or bad times for liberalism? To answer, we shall need a broader perspective than a survey of contemporary developments can provide. We shall need to look back, that is, to see what liberalism was in order to understand what it has become. Only then can we assess its current condition and prospects-and appreciate how politics in the United States is largely an intramural debate between different wings of liberalism.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 2, Paul H. Schmidt, Shelley Saposnik-Noire, Robert Dunne, Edward M. Wheat, Carl E. Krog, James A. Stevenson, Kelly Averill, Giuseppe Conte, Marguerite Bouvard, Chief Canassatego, Carol Hamilton, Robert Wexelblatt, Peter Ludwin, Chief Speckled Snake, George Young, Len Messineo Jr., William Miller, Jared Carter, Al Ortolani, Gary Short, Biff Russ, Michael L. Johnson, James Brock, Jo Mcdougall, Michael E. Adams, John Elrod, Chief Seattle, Carol Tufts, Willard B. Gatewood Jr., William E. Parrish, Walter Shear, Robert K. Ratzlaff, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PAUL H. SCHMIDT uses today’s understanding of addictive behavior to understand Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and her self-destructive actions. Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, Schmidt has published articles on 19th-century literature and autobiography. He is working on a book dealing with Victorian autobiography and editing the Fall 1990 special issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination on autobiography.

Willa Cather’s landscapes in My Ántonia, observes SHELLEY SAPOSNIK-NOIRE, illuminates both plot and character and propels the action toward its conclusion. A student in the writing department of Columbia University, Saposnik-Noire has had a one-act …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 31 No. 1, Nancy D. Hargrove, Phil Mullins, Steven L. Schweizer, James T. Moore, Mark N. Wexler, Sanford Pinsker, Diane Averill, Jared Carter, Kip Knott, Greg Kuzma, Tim H. Law, Verlena Orr, Jacie Ragan, Paul Ruffin, Lawrence Rungren, Biff Russ, Janet Sadler, Marilyn Shea, Judith Skillman, Julie Suk, David Roediger, Virginia J. Laas, V. J. Emmett Jr., Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Unable to accept Christianity, as NANCY D. HARGROVE points out, Sylvia Plath twisted its imagery to fashion a negative more comfortable to her troubled condition. Author of Landscape as Symbol in the Poetry of T. S. Eliot and articles on writers such as Yeats and

Welty, Hargrove is the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence at Mississippi State University where she is one of seven University Distinguished Professors.

What is interpretation? This and other concepts derived from the work of Michael Polanyi form the topic of PHIL MULLINS. Professor of Humanities at Missouri Western …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 4, Jack D'Amico, Margaret J. Downes, Earl Ingersoll, Thomas Matchie, Annette Sisson, Walter Poznar, Bruce Bond, Marguerite Bouvard, Barbara Siegel Carlson, Chip Dameron, Martha Elizabeth, George Gott, Leonard Lang, Rachel Loden, Rachelle Marmor, Edward Mycue, Kenneth Pobo, Mark Sanders, Paul N. Silas, Laura Anna Stortoni, Martha M. Vertreace, Steve Wilson, Lisa Yount, Walter Shear, Charles Cagle, Alvin H. Proctor, Barbara Pryor, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JACK D'AMICO explores the politics of madness and the madness of politics through the character of Junius Brutus and his incarnations in Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Presently Associate Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, D'Amico has written extensively on English and Italian Renaissance literature, particularly on theater and Machiavelli.

The Greek and Roman epics and tragedies, MARGARET J. DOWNES observes, present us with the purposes and consequences of death in order to focus on the implications and responsibilities of life. Author of scholarly works on William Blake, classical literature and culture, film, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 30 No. 3, Matthew Melko, Jon Roper, Arthur A. Molitierno, Michael Ponsford, Robert E. Fleming, Alan Nadel, Phyllis Janik, Jennings M. Blackmon, Jo Mcdougall, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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These are normal times, not crisis times, in the other-end-of-the-telescope view of MATTHEW MELKO, and we should value this age as such and use this insight to improve the lives of others and ourselves. A professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a pioneer in worldview studies, Melko's essay here summarizes thoughts which will shortly be given book-length treatment by Paragon. This is Melko's second article in The Midwest Quarterly.

JON ROPER discusses the ethical dimension of democracy as it passed from the Greeks to Americans …

Hegel's Ambiguous Legacy For Modern Liberalism, Charles Taylor

Cardozo Law Review

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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

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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 …

Welfare, Contract, And The Language Of Charity, Chandran Kukathas

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Discourse And Perspective In Daoism: A Linguistic Interpretation Of Ziran, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In Chinese philosophical literature, the term zirana is generally rendered as "spontaneity," "natural," or "self-so" by both Chinese and Western trans- lators. I think that these translations not only miss the point being made in the texts, but actually serve to obscure it

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

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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

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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 …

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

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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 …

The Doctrine Of Eternal Return, Tracy Burr Strong

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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

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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 …