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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 …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 15 No. 4, Julian Gitzen, Anne Patterson, Howard H. Hinkel, Duane Edwards, Sanford Pinsker, Clive Marin, Charles Edward Eaton, Laurence Josephs, X. J. Kennedy, Philip Legler, Ted Kooser, William Mclaughlin, Tomas O'Leary, Gibbons Ruark, Larry Rubin, James Schevill, Grace Schulman, Helen J. Williams, Judith Johnson Sherwin, Dave Smith, Barry Spacks, Dabney Stuart, John Stone, Lewis Turco, Harold Witt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

WE RARELY commission articles but are content for the most part to select what appears most suitable to our needs from the more than sufficient number that drop unsolicited on our desk. From time to time we have remarked that our yearly Summer Literary Number appears to attract a preponderance of writers devoted to the American literary scene. Articles on British writers have been far scantier, on Continental European writers almost non-existent. We did not like to think this imbalance betrayed a parochialism on our part (we are conscious of none) or of our writers, …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 15 No. 3, F. N. Boney, Walter S. G. Kohn, Martin E. Spencer, Michael Paul Novak, Robert Bray, Harold P. Simonson, Joyce Benvenuto, Christopher Howells, Louis Phillips, David Bottoms, Gary Kerley, Norman Russell, Thom Tammaro, Maura Stanton, William Velde, Ronald Wallace, Peter D. Zivkovic, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

THIS APRIL 1974 issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY testifies to our continued interest in a wide range of topics having in common a meaningful relation to contemporary thought. One and all, our authors speak in a contemporary voice and to contemporary concerns, whether they demythicize the Southern "aristocrat," discuss the politics of modem Austria or of our own country, argue for the preeminence of contemporary black poet Robert Hayden, spring to the defense of Hamlin Hill's iconoclastic study of a national literary idol, or in a manner reminiscent of the Geneva "Critics of Consciousness," define …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 15 No. 2, D. E. Shepardson, Haig Bosmajian, Sandra W. Cameron, Robert Watland Rinden, Alberta T. Turner, Louis Hasley, Orville D. Menard, Robert Bowie, Barbara Shirk Parish, Jack Flavin, Gerald Costanzo, Jim Heynen, William Velde, Ron Slate, James Cole, Greg Kuzma, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in the issue. . .

IN THIS JANUARY 1974 issue, we range uneasily from the tragedy of the Mid East to the more predictable behavior of Chief Justice Warren Burger respecting the First Amendment to a quiet but hopeful examination of the political efforts of the elderly to improve their straitened lives to informed speculation on the rate of personality cults in general and the cult of Chairman Mao in particular; and we end on the literary note with a new approach to the criticism of poetry illustrated by a comparison of three poems by William Stafford, and with a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 15 No. 1, Catherine S. Frazer, Lorna Jaffe, Rebecca Patterson, Sr. Lucy Schneider, Margaret D. Uroff, Sam Bradley, Franklin Brainard, Jack Early, Stuart Friebert, Louis Ginsberg, Albert Goldbarth, Greg Kuzma, Tomas O'Leary, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WE BEGIN OUR FIFTEENTH YEAR by devoting the bulk of this issue to articles by and largely about women. CATHERINE S. FRAZER, head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, contributes an analysis of the Watergate Scandal, written in early June. Professor Frazer earned her B. A. at Wellesley College and her M. A. and Ph. D. at Yale University. She has published articles on David Hume in the Journal of the History of Philosophy and Studies in Burke and his Time and has had one previous article in THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY (October …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 4, Rebecca Patterson, Robert Bray, David C. Stineback, Michael J. Kelly, Carole Gottlieb Vopat, Albert J. Devlin, D. Clinton, Victor Contoski, Bruce Cutler, Gene Degruson, A. A. Dewey, Harley Elliott, Tom Ferrell, Robert Green, Jonathan Katz, Michael Paul Novak, William Stafford, James Tate, Arthur Vogelsang, Sylvia Wheeler, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

TAKING THE NAME MIDWEST QUARTERLY a little more literally than usual, and acknowledging further that we happen to publish our magazine in the place that Allen Ginsberg has called, with splendid empathy, "this vortex named Kansas," we have decided to indulge a typical American penchant for regionalism and give over a special section of this summer's issue exclusively to the work of fourteen Kansas poets. Our reasons are simple: we wanted to do it, and we think it is about time that we did. Furthermore, as we believe our selections will demonstrate, a number of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 3, D. E. Shepardson, Rolland Dewing, David S. Lindsay, C. Roger Lambert, T. M. Parssinen, Dale J. Schmitt, Phillip Appleman, James Cole, Philip Dacey, Tom Dorrien, Charles Edward Eaton, Jack Flavin, Albert Goldbarth, Chad Walsh, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

SPRING hopes eternally. We misquote with deliberation, thinking our rearrangement of Pope's line no less true to human nature and considerably more cheerful, whereupon we ask ourselves whether our springtime mood borrows any color from the contents of this April issue of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY. Despite the foreboding subtitle "Tenacity in the Pursuit of Folly," there is a guarded optimism in the conclusion made by D. E. SHEPARDSON to his study of American policy in Asia, and ROLLAND DEWING might be said to be determinedly hopeful about "The Limits of Economic Expansion." Deploring the ethnocentricity …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 14 No. 2, W. T. Wooley, Theo. A. Couloumbis, Elias P. Georgiades, Rodney M. Sievers, L. Robert Stevens, Alan Casty, John M. Reilly, Louis Phillips, Gibbons Ruark, Michael Cadnum, Chad Walsh, S. J. Marks, Peter C. Fogo, Alberta T. Turner, Peter Cooley, E. F. Weisslitz, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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in this issue. . .

WITHOUT A CRYSTAL BALL and with no faith in our special sensitivity to coming events (writing as we do in late October of the preceding year), we have no confident picture of the world to which this issue of January 1973 will be going out. We do not know who will be President, though we have our lively suspicions, nor whether the cruellest, bloodiest of wars will have come to some sort of conclusion, though we have our desperate hopes. But one thing we can be sure of, and that is, it is time—it is …

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

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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

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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

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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 …