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Blockprint January 9, 1967, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 9, 1967 issue features articles on a MOMA exhibit on the Paul J. Sachs Collection, Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, a review of Truma Capote's "Grass Harp," the death of Walt Disney, the RISD Placement Office, an upcoming meeting to discuss improvements for the environment at RISD, a RISD Apparel student's designs winning an Olympics contest, and a Noel Coward visit to RISD, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Blockprint December 12, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Decmber 12, 1966 issue features articles on a talk by Rev. Canon John Crocker, Diter Rot, visiting guest policies at the dorms, freshman class elections, the opening of the RISD Museum exhibition "Art for Your Collection IV," W.C. Fields films, development around Westminster St. in Providence, a panel discussion held at RISD with Timothy Leary, and an Illustrators' Society exhibit, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint December 5, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 5, 1966 issue features articles on George Lincoln Rockwell, fine art, a RISD Museum exhibition on kinetic and programmed art featuring Nam June Paik in person, the Student Faculty Committee, women being allowed in the men's dorms, and an upcoming lecture by Kurt Vonnegut, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint November 7, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 7, 1966 issue features articles on how to be cool at RISD, the formation of student group the Illustration Society, a lecture on ending the Vietnam War, a reprint of a Timothy Leary piece on acid, a RISD student concert of "Indian-like" music, a RISD football game, and a performance by Ecuadorean cellist Carlos Bonilla, along with other opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 10, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 10, 1966 issue features editorials and letters to the editor on the passing of former RISD President John Frazier, Timothy Leary, students wanting music played at dinner, and fears about Brown, along with a review of Trinity Square Rep's production of "Saint Joan," a theater review of "The Seagull," and articles on new faculty appointments and student club activities.

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 …

Blockprint May 25, 1966, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 25, 1966 issue is a satirical spoof of Playboy called "Blockboy" that features humorous articles on the Blockboy philosophy, RISD President Albert Bush-Brown, Mike Fink, fahsion at RISD, "Blockboy Mansion," along with photo features and other creative writing.

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Ua35/11 Perspectives On Contemporary Man, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Lectures delivered by WKU professors to the Freshman Colloquium in the fall of 1964. The Freshman Honors Colloquium is a special course open only to freshmen students whose test scores, on the battery of tests administered to all entering freshmen, fall in the upper 15% and who graduated in the top quarter of their high school graduating class. The book lists the participants in the colloquium.

Lectures:

• Bailey, Donald. What is a Man, According to a Biologist?
• Nash, Ronald. A Philosopher Looks at Man
• Tachau, Charles. A Theologian Looks at Man
• Watson, John. A Sociologist Looks at Man
• Shedd, Charles. …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Blockprint May 1965 Literary Supplement, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Blockprint Literary Supplement is a special edition that features creative writing, illustrations, graphic design and photographs by RISD students.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 6 No. 3, William Welch, C. F. Burgess, Baljit Singh, Burton J. Williams, R. D. Lakin, F. G. Goodman, Stuart Friebert, James Ruoff, B. L. Carlson, John Clarke, A. D. Freeman, James Hearst, Tracy Thompson, Don Welch, Joseph Joel Keith

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

GENERALLY SPEAKING, spring is a non-political season. Certainly, with the snow and ice melting away, the winds of March rattling the windows, and the elm buds burgeoning against the blue sky, political practice and theory seem to belong somewhere else in time and space. But, the news constantly, forceably, shockingly thrusts politics into eye, heart, mind, and viscera every day, whether that news comes from Saigon, Selma, Topeka, or Washington. Your American is first and foremost a political animal. If he isn't he needs to be. John Adams and Tom Jefferson understood this; Henry Thoreau …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 6. No. 2, C. N. Stavrou, Carleton Mabee, Warren O. Ault, Merrill J. Mattes, William D. Aeschbacher, James T. King, James Worley, Robert Clayton Casto, Lucian Stryk, John Judson, Leonard Gilley, William Sallar, Charles Eaton, Tracy Thompson, Mary Graham Lund, Margaret B. Purcell, David Pearson Etter

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

EVERY laborer, and particularly the editor of such a journal as THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY, is deserving of a little time off. Not only does he need to rest and recruit himself, but more importantly he needs that holiday of the spirit that comes with putting the old routine behind him and sallying into fresh fields, from which, hopefully, he will bring back a rich harvest. There is also, we are bound to add, a very human need of recognition and appreciation, and he will never be more appreciated than when he is missed. Not a …

Blockprint December 9, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Dec. 9th issue features a RISD dance with the Ian Dunlap band, a concert by Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band, "Art for Your Collection III" opens at the RISD Museum, film review of "The Outrage", Anti-Narcotics speech given to students by Providence PD, film review of "First Men In The Moon"; "Seduced and Abandoned"; and "Beckett", Harry Callahan named Camera Club faculty advisor, alonhg with opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint November 25, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Nov. 25th issue features a headline on the Architectural Society visit to Boston, "A Third Century of Graphic Work" Exhibition opens, Critic Mario Cravo visits, Tiffany Scholarships awarded to faculty and one alum, film reviews on "Lilith" and "Fantasia", "The Days and Nights of Bee Bee Fenstermaker" play presented by Drama Club, Robert Venturi speaks, Rolling Stones perform, Raimund J. Abraham places second in design competition, opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint November 18, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Nov. 18th issue celebrates opening of Harry Callahan exhibition at RISD Museum, European Honors Students attend Italy field trip, Student Council awards grants, Bush-Brown speaks at Congdon House, review of "Four Days in November" and "Fail Safe", recruitment for Institute of Mental Health volunteers, editorials, opinion column on automobiles of 1965, Freshman NYC field trip, Ghosts of Gerry Mansion photo essay, Architect Robert Venturi to speak at RISD, opinion pieces, editorials, and creative writing.

Blockprint November 4, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 4, 1964 issue highlights the upcoming Harry Callahan RISD Museum exhibition, a review of Roland Penrose's Convocation address on the topic of Picasso, Senior Class Pink Tent Blast event at Tillinghast, goals of Blockprint in light of criticisms, critique of RISD food services, editorial on Convocation, opinion column on women's dormitories, Film Society kicks off second series, review of "Purple Noon" and "Intruder in the Dust," editorial on Hugh Gourley, opinion columns, and creative writing.

Blockprint October 2, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Oct. 2nd issue highlights new appointment of RISD Development Director, Roy D. Welch Jr.; Fine Arts Society reactivated; New faculty appointments, "Painting and Construction of the 1960's" exhibition at RISD Museum, Museum Membership Drive, frustration over media portrayal of RISD students' attire and Convocation, on-campus employment, film screening schedule, Danforth Fellowship, Yacht Club cup, critique of RISD President Dr. Bush-Brown's remarks from Convocation, Museum screens "Panda and the Magic Serpent," editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol 6. No. 1, Howard N. Meyer, E. B. Smith, Donald R. Mccoy, Bill G. Reid, Ernest Eugene Helm, Rebecca Patterson, Robert Lewis Weeks, Eugene Brooks, James A. Emanuel, David Pearson Etter, Edsel Ford, Leonard Gilley, Margaret B. Purcell, Sy Kahn, Mary Graham Lund, John Stevens Wade, Hollis Summers, James Worley

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

LOOKING FORWARD as we began Volume V a year ago, we predicted "a number of articles on aspects of American politics, American foreign policy, and American internal problems" in our issues for 1964. Our record demonstrates the accuracy of our prediction. So for that matter do the contents of this issue. From Edmund Wilson to Emily Dickinson, from Thomas Hart Benton (the Missouri Senator, not the Missouri artist) to Alf Landon, from the agrarian myth to the relatively new discipline of musicology, we present another diverse combination of discussions for your fall fare. CERTAINLY no …

Blockprint September, 23, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The Sep. 23rd, 1964 issue welcomes new RISD Dean Hershey, "Recent Accessions" on view at RISD Museum, first fall faculty meeting, film screenings for "Public Enemy" and "Little Cesear," Brown bi-centennial year, RISD Museum appoints new acting director; Hugh J. Gourley III, Freshman week, RISD Alumni Bulliten wins six awards, parking woes, film society screening schedule, calls for art, and editorials.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 4, Rebecca Patterson, Epifanio San Juan Jr., Frank J. Anderson, Elmo Howell, Richard French, John W. Willcoxon Iii, Bernice Ames, Peter Lorden, Branley Branson, James Hearst, Menke Katz, Michael Paul Novak, Mary Oliver, Tracy Thompson, Emilie Glen, Richard Schramm, Sanford Sternlicht, Leonard Bernstein

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

FOLLOWING the pattern of a year ago, this is our summer literary issue. Whether we can set it down as a hard and fast rule that every future summer issue will be literary, it is impossible to say at this writing. Our five years of publishing experience indicate that we can expect to continue to receive an abundance of manuscripts treating literary subjects--probably at a ratio of three to two over all other subjects. This makes it relatively easy if not down right good sense to devote at least one issue a year to literature. …

Blockprint May 30, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 30, 1964 issue features press release for RISD Museum prison exhibition at URI, R.J. Abraham lecture, Commencement details, and Alumni Weekend information, opinon articles, creative writing, and a gag "Brickplont" newspaper along with a faux "Neo-dada" exhibition.

Blockprint May 13, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 13, 1964 issue features articles on a talk at URI by Senator Claiborne Pell, a ceremony at RISD to make foreign students feel welcome, Collection '64, what art represents, Rhode Island's Sunday night television programming, the Sunny's Lunch diner, a student exhibition, theater reviews, the Ford Mustang, the Slater Memorial Park zoo, and other events and notices.

Blockprint April 22, 1964, Students Of Risd, Risd Archives

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Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 22, 1964 issue features articles on parents' weekend, the opening of the student center, a blood drive, a painting lecture, "Dr. Strangelove," "Freaks," a motocross event, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; editorials, opinion columns, and creative writing.

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 3, John Manning, Edmond P. Odescalchi, Hans Beerman, Robert N. Hertz, Charles R. Metzger, Myron Levoy, Emilie Glen, Fred Moeckel, Gordon Gilsdorf, James Worley, Leonard S. Bernstein, John Clarke, Patricia Lamb, Jack Bobbitt, Albert W. Vogel, A. D. Freeman

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

INITIALLY we had ambitious, even extravagant, plans for this spring number, plans involving a variety of essays from key members of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as well as a carefully selected covey of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Quite obviously, the Congress has been busy of late, although its business is not always as fruitful as many would hope. And that New Hampshire primary on March 10 rather alters calculations regarding the GOP standard-bearer for 1964. In mid-February one of the (then) leading (?) candidates in that primary wrote …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 5 No. 2, James W. Vander Zanden, A. J. Shakeshaft, E. H. Shakeshaft, Homer Obed Brown, Florence Jeanne Goodman, Donald Atwell Zoll, Eric Solomon, Menke Katz, John Clarke, Stuart Friebert, Emilie Glen, Robert Ward, Tracy Thompson, William Sallar, John Judson

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

in this issue. . .

A JOURNAL of contemporary thought cannot and ought not become a journal of current events; editorial and production problems alone prevent this. There are occasions, however, when events are of such transcendent importance and impact that they require immediate attention--even by academics who tend to prefer a measure of detachment if only for the development or emergence of perspective. One such event was the "Jobs and Freedom" march in Washington, D. C., last August 28. Thanks primarily to television coverage, it had a tremendous and immediate impact on all Americans who cared to look and …