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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 2, John C. Burnham, Robert M. Khoury, Judith A. Spector, Leslie M. Thompson, Robert Wexelblatt, Pierre Papazian, Donald E. Secrest, Lucile Blanchard, Kelly Cherry, Martha Collins, Malcolm Glass, Robert Harlow, Duane Locke, George Looney, Naomi Shihab Nye, Cynthia S. Pederson, Jim Thomas, Kathleen Spivack, James Armstrong, Stephen Meats, Paul W. Zagorski, Philip Paradis, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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Playing JOHN C. BURNHAM's new parlor game, "Who Is Now Great?” unexpectedly forms a negative consensus: the great men and women, like the dinosaurs, seem to belong to an earlier time, not to our own. The author wonders why, and shares his thoughts on the past, present, and future of greatness. Professor of History at The Ohio State University, with a scholarly interest in the history of psychiatry and American medical and social history, Burnham' s most recent book is on the psychoanalyst and physician Jelliffe.

ROBERT M. KHOURY and JUDITH A. SPECTOR explore the …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 27 No. 1, Virginia J. Laas, Mark A. Plummer, Jeffery A. Hughey, Robert K. Ratzlaff, A. J. Shakeshaft, Stuart Friebert, Julie S. Hughes, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The waters of historical research abound with shoals, whirlpools, and uncharted, if not unimportant, wastes. VIRGINIA J. LAAS relates one such encounter on a voyage of discovery related to the biography of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee she undertook with Dudley T. Cornish, a successful and altogether fortuitous collaboration which benefitted both scholars and their profession. The book which resulted, entitled The Life of Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee, U.S. Navy, will be published in early 1986 by The University Press of Kansas. The marriage in 1843 of the young naval officer, then a Lieutenant …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 4, Jonathan Rose, Susan L. Carlson, Gregory Waters, Ellen Williamson Kanervo, Richard M. Gardner, Jack D'Amico, Linda Walvoord Girard, Michael Burns, George Gott, Art Homer, Ben Howard, Ernest Kroll, Lolette Kuby, Laurie Sheck, Philip Raisor, Gary A. Schrag, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The man who created the child-spies of 1984, JONATHAN ROSE makes clear in his examination of George Orwell, was a writer filled with nostalgia for childhood. Assistant Professor of History at Drew University in New Jersey, Rose has recently completed a book-length manuscript on the intellectual history of Edwardian Britain and hopes to launch a scholarly journal devoted to the life and works of George Orwell.

Though current society has distanced them from us, the women of Edwardian problem plays, argues SUSAN L. CARLSON, do have something to tell us about our own social …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 3, Paul J. Muenzer, Hugh Fox, Ernest Gallo, Charles Guzzetta, Thomas D. Isern, Francis Edward Devine, Michael Heffernan, Lex Runciman, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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PAUL J. MUENZER presents a translation of the Minoan Phaistos Disk--a supplication for oracular wisdom from the prophet-king. Turning from a career as an electronics engineer, Muenzer became first a technical writer and for the last decade an archaeologist specializing in deciphering Linear A and Linear B texts. He lives and writes in Munich.

HUGH FOX conjures up a living, mythic, unified world of our cultural past in which Old World and New coexist and share a common reality. Author of over fifty books of poetry, criticism, fiction, plays, and Latin American scholarship, among …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 2, John A. Mills, William C. Pratt, Angela Hague, Clayton Koelb, Edward L. Galligan, John Churchill, Michael Heffernan, John Stone, Brendan Galvin, Gordon D. Marino, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN A. MILLS finds in The Time of Your Life an absurdist meaning lurking below the surface vision of pleasant typicality. Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, Mills has written several articles and a book, Hamlet on Stage: The Great Tradition, on the theater.

WILLIAM C. PRATT dissects the roles of the intellectual in contemporary society and finds merit still in that calling. Pratt is Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His scholarly interest in the American left and farmer and labor movements has resulted in several …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 26 No. 1, Otis C. Mitchell, James Tice Moore, David Lloyd Jones, Haig Bosmajian, Judith A. Spector, David W. Pitre, Ralph Burns, Paul Hamill, Michael Heffernan, Ben Howard, Stephen Meats, Eric Pankey, Stephen J. Teller, Richard D. Fulton, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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OTIS C. MITCHELL traces the rise of the desperado in Hungary and Italy in the bitter denouement of World War I. With extensive publications in the history of Nazism and totalarianism, Mitchell is author of Hitler Over Germany and editor of Nazism and the Common Man. He is Professor of History and Head of the Department at the University of Cincinnati.

JAMES TICE MOORE focuses on King Vidor's assertion of rural values and collective agriculture in his 1930s film, Our Daily Bread. Chairman and Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Moore has published …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 4, Anthony Channell Hilfer, Richard Dillman, Michael Gillum, Richard Nickson, Peter Scheckner, Abby Arthur Johnson, J. V. Brummels, Michael A. Carey, David Etter, Sam Hamill, Jaan Kaplinski, Mark Vinz, Judith G. Shaw, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ANTHONY CHANNELL HILFER pursues Tom Ripley, Patricia Highsmith' s faceless, sinister character, and finds him both other-directed and protean. Author of The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction and The Revolt from the Village, as well as articles on popular culture and criticism, Hilfer is Professor of English at the University of Texas in Austin. For the past year he has served as Visiting Professor of English at the University of Lancaster in England.

RICHARD DILLMAN suggests that Willa Cather fashioned Tom Outland more after the Transcendentalist ideal developed by Ralph Waldo Emerson than as …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 3, Peter Haley, Gorman Beauchamp, Susan M. Matarese, Paul G. Salmon, Alfred G. Killilea, Frederick R. Swan, Jennie M. Hornosty, David Lee, Susan Leigh Baughn, Walter Shear, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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The essence of Karl Marx's criticism of the modern world, argues PETER HALEY, rests more on ethics than economics. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, Haley has investigated the charisma concept in Weber and some of his precursors.

Theocracy, whether championed by a Solzhenitsyn or a Jerry Falwell, says GORMAN BEAUCHAMP, is fundamentally antidemocratic. Author of numerous articles on utopian fiction and of a recent book on Jack London, Beauchamp is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities in the College of Engineering at the University of …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 2, John E. Atwell, William V. Davis, John R. Clark, Anna Lydia Motto, Francis Donahue, Joyce Quiring Erickson, Steven Barza, J. W. Cullum, Charles Edward Eaton, Michael Heffernan, Tomas O'Leary, William Page, Edward Wilson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JOHN E. ATWELL explains Nietzsche's view that the dance expressed joy and represented belief in personal immortality. Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Atwell includes articles on Kant, Sartre, Schopenhauer, and Husserl among his publications.

Poet Robert Bly, according to WILLIAM V. DAVIS, has put new meaning and vigor into the prose poem, a development of historical significance to Bly and to American poetry. Currently Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Baylor University, Davis is a distinguished poet, is author also of criticism, short fiction, and the book, One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, and …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 25 No. 1, Frank W. Shelton, Marcy S. Powell, Cheryl Herr, William O'Neill, Richard J. Voorhees, Mark Allister, Peter Cooley, Albert Goldbarth, David Lee, Harold Witt, Robert L. Sheverbush, Robert Wexelblatt, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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In the view of FRANK W. SHELTON, E. L. Doctorow's first novel, Welcome to Hard Times, like his later bestsellers, involves an examination of both the unreality and the persistence of the American Dream. Professor of English at Limestone College in South Carolina, Shelton has published numerous articles on modern fiction and drama.

MARCY S. POWELL recounts Thoreau's journeys and finds the denizen of Walden Pond a dedicated observer of America. A traveller of note himself, Powell was until his retirement in 1974 Chairman of the Department of French and Latin at Miami University in …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 4, Alicia Ostriker, Jonathan Holden, Robert A. Morace, Judith A. Sheffler, Robert Dana, Greg Kuzma, J. V. Brummels, Albert Goldbarth, Carolann Russell, Donald Junkins, John Stone, Sam Hamill, Eric Pankey, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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OUR SUMMER LITERARY NUMBER this year, under the acting editorship of Poetry Editor Michael Heffernan, is entirely devoted to contemporary American literature. Since two of our articles discuss works by Richard Hugo and John Gardner, both of whom died last fall, we would like to dedicate this issue to their memories. Requiescant.

ALICIA OSTRIKER edited the Complete Poems of William Blake from Penguin (1978). A collection of her critical essays, Writing like a Woman, has just appeared in the Michigan series of Poets on Poetry. Her most recent book of poems is A Woman under …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 3, William F. Smith Jr., Walter S. G. Kohn, Sanford Pinkser, David M. Cicotello, Carol A. Martin, James F. Maxfield, Jack Flavin, Greg Kuzma, Thomas P. Lynch, Tom Hansen, James E. Gilbert, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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WILLIAM F. SMITH, JR., reveals the depth of meaning, both for students of the American Indian and for those seeking better to know the human personality, in the historical novel, Seven Arrows. Now Chairman of the English Department at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan, Smith has published extensively on topics dealing with American Indian literature.

Joining the parliamentary and the presidential types of democratic government, according to WALTERS. G. KOHN, is a new, French model, the "presidential prerogative system." Author of many articles on politics in Liechtenstein and the rest of Western Europe, Kohn …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 2, Robert M. Kahn, H. Roger Grant, James Fulcher, Roy Lechtreck, Charles E. Wynes, Narasingha Prosad Sil, Robert Dana, Michael Burns, Gibbons Ruark, Michael J. Kelly, V. J. Emmett Jr., Therese M. Jones, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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BRUCE DANIEL joins The Midwest Quarterly as the new Book Review Editor and replaces Michael Connaughton who, after valiant service to Pittsburg State University and to this journal, has moved on to St. Cloud University in Minnesota. Bruce Daniel is professor of physics and director of the Kelce Planetarium at Pittsburg State. He studied music at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, taught violin in Kansas City, and served nine years as concertmaster of the university symphony. He holds a B.S. degree in engineering physics, M.S. in radiation biophysics, and Ph.D. in physics …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 24 No. 1, Arthur L. Kalleberg, John M. Theilmann, Ashby Bland Crowder, Charles Stroh, Robert W. Hoffert, John L. Dusseau, J. V. Brummels, Michael Burns, Jeannine Dobbs, William Hathaway, Harold Witt, Devon Jersild, Eugene H. Degruson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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ARTHUR L. KALLEBERG assesses the recent, tentative attempts to reconcile Marxism with Christianity and concludes that proponents of both must make concessions to effect a more perfect union. Middlebush Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Kalleberg has published numerous scholarly articles in his discipline and is now at work on a book dealing with social justice.

Through a discussion of certain aspects of medieval history, JOHN M. THEILMANN examines the value for historians of symbolic anthropology and finds much to recommend a mutual sharing of the two approaches. Author of many papers …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 4, Judith Rinde Sheridan, Andrew Hudgins, Carol Helmstetter Cantrell, Cordelia Candelaria, Melvin J. Thorne, Robert J. Coard, Charles Edward Eaton, Robert Funge, Greg Kuzma, Judy Ruiz, Bruce Cutler, Kathleen L. Nichols, Branley Allan Branson, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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JUDITH RINDE SHERIDAN suggests that the Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, employs sexual love as a means of depicting both good and evil in the world. Author of an article on Wallace Stevens, Sheridan has also exhibited a continuing interest in Jewish literature. She currently teaches in the English Department at Salisbury State College in Maryland.

For ANDREW HUDGINS Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass marks the transition from the traditional to the modern epic. Hudgins has published his own poems and his articles on modern and contemporary poetry in numerous journals. He is presently a …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 3, Steve Glassman, Charles Harmon Cagle, William C. Baurecht, Giles Mitchell, L. Robert Stevens, Robert Wexelblatt, James David Fairbanks, Jack Flavin, David Ewick, Liz Mayer, Theodora Todd, J. T. Knoll, Walter Shear, Kelly Cherry, Carol Walker Mackay, Midwest Quarterly Editors

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STEVE GLASSMAN finds David Livingstone neither a saint nor a devil in examining the explorer's dramatic 1848 confrontation with the Boer leaders. Glassman teaches English at the University of Miami (Florida) and is pursuing a degree in the Goddard M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. He has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary magazines.

CHARLES HARMON CAGLE discusses the role of Gertrude Stein in introducing the young Ernest Hemingway to the works of Paul Cézanne and the interplay of their creative influences on Hemingway's writing. Cagle also contributes a review of John Wheatcroft's newest book of …

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 …