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The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 3, Arthur Scherr, Alfred Cismaru, George W. Shields, William M. Bueler, Wade Sikorski, Earl Lee, Jeanne Murray Walker, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

In Candide, argues ARTHUR SCHERR, Voltaire's women are intelligent, resourceful, and erotic individuals, quite the equal of males, if not infrequently their superiors. Having taught history and English at Bernard Baruch College and Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York, as well as the New York City high schools, Scherr is a self-styled "Renaissance person" who has published articles in a number of scholarly journals.

Human memory is a curious thing: it remembers what it wants to remember and forgets what it is inconvenient to remember or simply refuses to believe a contrary fact. So it is …

Aggregate Vote Functions For The Us. Presidency, Senate, And House, Henry W. Chappell, Motoshi Suzuki

Faculty Publications

Estimates vote functions for presidential, House and Senate elections following the premise that vote functions are likely to be related. Use of a seemingly unrelated regressions technique adapted to the case of unequal numbers of observations across equations; On-year versus mid-term congressional elections parameters; Influence of economic variables on election outcomes; Incumbency effects.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 28, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cassady, Pam. Preston Health & Activities Center Pool Flooded With Problems
• Mahaney, Jill. Elvis Fans All Shook Up Over Stamp
• Morris, Linda. Students Want Their Own Floor – Non-Traditional Students, Housing & Residence Life
• Tungate, Matthew. Class to Learn, Receive Credit at Inauguration – Bill Clinton
• Universities Await Word on Cuts – Budget
• Faculty Evaluations of President Must Be Made Public
• Hofmann, Martin. Editorial Cartoon Public Demanding Thomas Meredith’s Evaluation
• Holland, Kamela. Marriott Turnstile Hinders Some – Dining Services
• Stoess, Ray. Summer Camp Needs Counselors …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 2, Peter Scheckner, Eugene Kraft, Michael Jeffrey, Irvin D. Solomon, Thomas Whigham, Ronald Larson, Steve Broidy, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Trent Busch, Duane K. Caylor, Patricia Fargnoli, Judy Goldman, Sidney L. Hall Jr., Patricia Hooper, Bob Kaven, Victor Pearn, Joe Salerno, Rebecca Thompson, Robert Tremmel, Richard W. Slatta, Thomas R. Walther, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

During the 1989 democracy demonstrations in China, Americans struggled to understand, and in so doing challenged their own stereotypes about the people of China. PETER SCHECKNER, who with his wife was then teaching American culture in Beijing at a tourist college, had hoped to challenge his Chinese students' stereotypes about American society and found his expectations repeatedly called into question. Author of books on D. H. Lawrence and Chartist poetry, Scheckner is Associate Professor of English at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

The great truths often present themselves to us repeatedly and in unlikely circumstances, as EUGENE KRAFT demonstrates in …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 19, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Tatum, Doug. Crisis Looms at Universities
• Thomas, Kim. Cable TV Might Tune Out Study – Housing & Residence Life
• Lindenberger, Michael. College Heights Herald: Paper Wins National Pacemaker Award
• Lockert, Anya. Students Stirred by Election Madness – Politics
• State Band Competition Saturday
• Health Screening Available – Health Toppers
• Cassady, Pam & Maria Burnham. While Democrats Party, Republicans Keep the Faith
• Newman, Stephen. Western Must Stay in Sun Belt Conference
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Bill Clinton’s Wardrobe
• Smith, David. Knowledge Can Destroy Homophobia – Gays, Lesbians …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 18, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim & Chris Poynter. Louie Nunn Says Money Used for Drugs – Audit
• Bryan, Angela. Students Concerned by Arrests at Cellar
• Kinnaird, Kevin. Bingo, Succession Also on November 3 Ballot – Politics
• Gagliardi, Melissa. Some Fraternity Houses Spooked by Ghosts – Phi Delta Theta, Delta Tau Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma
• BellSouth Chief Executive Officer to Speak Today – John Clendenin
• Wesolowski, Jim. Pro-Choice Kills – Right to Life
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Presidential Slot Machine
• Hariess, Michael. Vote Bill Clinton / Al …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 17, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Faculty Pay Misrepresented, Ray Mendel Says
• Grundy, Julie. Budget Cuts Likely to Total $900,000
• Carrico, Leigh. Homecoming: Couple Scores Marital Touchdown – Alex Mitchell, Debbie Gott
• Lockert, Anya. Program Helps Male Freshmen – African Americans, Enrollment
• Voter Registration on the Rise
• We Want Nunn of It at Western – Louie Nunn
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Louie Nunn October Surprise
• Coppage, Joseph. Make History; Vote for Independent Ross Perot – Politics
• Baxter, David. Conservatives Reduce Pride to Cheap Product
• Pennington, Jimmy & Becky Smith. …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 16, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Grundy, Julie. Brereton Jones Warns Budget Cuts Are Coming
• Good, Epha. Fraternity Gives Pleasure for Profit – Sigma Phi Epsilons
• Homecoming Happenings
• Linderberger, Michael. Election: Candidates Court Elusive College Students’ Votes – Politics
• Armes, Anya. Some Students Excited, Look for November Win – Politics
• Faculty to Select Regent Today
• Athletics Must Quit Frivolous Spending
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Lou Marciani Budget Buster
• Duren, Loir & Wendy Terhune. Pro-Choice is Right, Freedom of Choice
• Adams, John. Veteran Supports Bill Clinton / Al Gore
• Powell, T.J. Rally …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 15, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Cassady, Pam. Gift is Envy of Many Institutions – Robert Penn Warren Library
• Flynn, Leslie. Program Stresses Dangers of Alcohol – National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week
• Poynter, Chris. Game Gets Lots of Hype, Little Money – Football
• Brewer, Mike. Students at Top of Hill Are Left Out in the Cold – Heating Buildings
• Russian Game a Waste of Time – Football
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon WKU vs Russian Czars
• Setters, Belinda. United Student Activists Supports Bill Clinton / Al Gore Ticket
• Mendel, Ray. Faculty Should …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 14, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Nations, Jeff & Chris Poynter. Students Protest Probable Budget Cuts – Demonstrations
• Grundy, Julie. Brereton Jones: Can’t Make Commitment – Budget
• Tatum, Doug. Jobs, Trust Most Important Issues for Some Students – Politics
• Grundy, Julie. Where the Candidates Stand, What They Say – Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ross Perot
• Volunteers Raise Most Money Ever in Phon-A-Thon
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Phon-A-Thon
• McDowell, Robert. Beware of Service Fee on Credit Cards
• Hess, Doug. George Bush Vote is Vote for Unborn – Right-to-Life
• Amaro, Maria. Les Liaisons …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 12, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Show Thunders Over Bowling Green – Great American Air Show
• Nations, Jeff. Student Government Association Gets Support for Rally
• Linderberger, Michael. Most Students Not Thrilled by Ross Perot’s Return – Politicians
• Thomas, Kim. The Wid: Comedian Uses Props, One-Liners for Laughs
• Staff Elections Continue Today
• Republicans to Visit Bowling Green Today
• Leadership for the 1990s Underway
• Loan Closet Needs Donations – International Student Affairs
• Hop on the Budget Bus
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Frankfort Budget Rally Bus
• Weigel, Richard. Weigel Welcomes Questions from …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 11, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Hannah, Jim. Forum to Focus on Candidates – Politicians
• Nations, Jeff. Great American Air Affair to Fly Here Saturday
• Burnham, Maria. Al Gore’s Parents Make Visit
• Bernarby, Patrick. Dungeons & Dragons: If You Keep Playing That . . . You’re Going Straight to Hell
• Graduate Student Found Guilty – Richard Raymond
• Open Records Request Denied – Student Evaluations
• WKU Choir to Perform Saturday
• AAUP Looking for New Members – American Association of University Professors
• Bryan, Angela. New Law Calls for Schools to Release Crime Reports …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 34 No. 1, Michael J. Bugeja, Donald R. Mccoy, Joyce R. Durham, Haim Gordon, Thomas M. Norton-Smith, Linda L. Norton-Smith, Richard M. Gardner, Don Boes, Marguerite Bouvard, Kim Bridgford, Carl Buchanan, Charles Bukowski, Duane K. Caylor, Mary Crow, Myron Ernst, Patrick Worth Gray, Ray Greenblatt, Christopher Guerin, Marguerite Holley, Ernest Kroll, Rachel Loden, Peter Ludwin, Joyce K. Luzzi, Hillary Lyon, James Magorian, Jo Mcdougall, Gean Moreno, Richard Pau-Llosa, Timothy R. Phillips, Paul Ruffin, James Scofield, Barbara Stallone, Barry Sternlieb, Laura Anna Stortoni, Robert Tremmel, Robert Wexelblatt, Steve Wilson, Harold Witt, Daniel E. Sutherland, Virginia J. Laas, Donald Wayne Viney, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

What is wrong with today's university? MICHAEL J. BUGEJA believes academia has wandered away from individual excellence---in teaching and in the student's rational and aesthetic education--and turned a diploma into dollars, not sense. Internationally published poet and writer, editor of a volume of cultural essays from Oklahoma State Press, and author of two journalism manuals, Bugeja is a professor in the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where he teaches ethics, writing, and editing.

Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, as DONALD R. McCOY shows, were thrust together by war and driven apart by partisan politics. University …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Lockert, Anya. Minorities: We’re Starting to Improve – Enrollment
• Burnham, Maria. Appearances Planned to Boost Party Support – Politicians
• Gilbert, Alicia. Conference Brought People from 40 States – Women’s Studies Conference
• Johnson, J.L. Students Kick, Punch Way Through Class – American Martial Arts Association
• Freshman Elections Will Be Today – Student Government Association
• Mandatory Fee Unfair to Faithful Faculty & Staff – Athletics
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Hilltopper Athletic Association Picking Faculty’s Pocket
• Harwood, Stan. Vote Bill Clinton / Al Gore
• Bell, Julie. Dan Quayle …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 9, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Whitely, Jason. Hillary Clinton Sees Future in Eyes of 10-Year-Old – Asa Sparks
• Lockert, Anya. Life Without Cars Drives Some Students Crazy
• Bryan, Angela. Former Food Services Employee Is Arresed – Howard Lindsey, Dining Services
• Cassady, Pam. Conference Focuses on Contributions, Ideas – Women’s Studies Conference
• Kentucky Building Has New Hours
• Busser, J.D. Hillary Clinton Draws Reactions from Students
• Recycle: Do Your Part for Mother Earth
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Trees Thanking WKU for Recycling
• Landers, Denise & Britt Callender. Resident Assistants Here to Help …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 8, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Lindenberger, Michael. Hillary Clinton to Visit Today
• Burnham, Maria. Dan Quayle: Plans to Put Economy On Track
• James, Becky. Water Washes Out Library Basement – Helm-Cravens Library
• Cooley, Tammy. Faculty Couples Share Lives, Work At Western
• Faculty Senate Meets Today
• Sizemore, Jeff. What’s In a Name? – Housing & Residence Life
• Staynings, Mark. Drop Dorm Debate
• Gregory, Randall. Bug Problem Not Students’ Fault – Housing & Residence Life
• Dull, Stacy. Vote Republican
• Botsaris, Penelope. Boyfriends: If He Leaves Me, I’ll Just Dye . . . …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 68, No. 3, Wku Student Affairs

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WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Bryan, Angela. Death of Student May Be Solved – Kristi Hedden
• Hannah, Jim. You Rang? Concierge Offers All Kinds of Services – Marriott, Housing & Residence Life
• Burnham, Maria. Students Wanting Change Support Bill Clinton
• Provano, Jennifer. Class Puts A in Accessories – Perspectives of Dress
• Students Need to Be Serious With Evaluations
• Johnson, Steve. Editorial Cartoon Thomas Coohill Erasing Student Body’s Trust
• Brown, Larry. Lambda Society Welcomes Gays
• Stockton, Mary, et al. Marriott Coffee More Expensive – Dining Services
• Shepherd, Katherine. Changes Promised But …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

"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 …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 …

Bill #92-09-S - Establish Asg Health Insurance Ad-Hoc Committee, Wku Student Government Association

Student Government Association

Bill regarding the creation of a student health insurance committee.

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iii, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

• Camp Nelson
• Slavery
• Slave Hiring
• Free Blacks
• Underground Railroad - Fugitives
• Post-Civil War Living Conditions
• Society & Culture - Medical Care
• Professions - Employment
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights
• Politics
• Recreation
• Population
• Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
• Civil War
• Education
• Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part I, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

• Camp Nelson
• Slavery
• Slave Hiring
• Free Blacks
• Underground Railroad - Fugitives
• Post-Civil War Living Conditions
• Society & Culture - Medical Care
• Professions - Employment
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights
• Politics
• Recreation
• Population
• Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
• Civil War
• Education
• Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Iv, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

• Camp Nelson
• Slavery
• Slave Hiring
• Free Blacks
• Underground Railroad - Fugitives
• Post-Civil War Living Conditions
• Society & Culture - Medical Care
• Professions - Employment
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights
• Politics
• Recreation
• Population
• Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
• Civil War
• Education
• Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …

General Index To Research Notes For: A History Of Blacks In Kentucky, Part Ii, Marion B. Lucas

Kentucky History

This index, general in nature, is organized under seventeen larger topics:

• Camp Nelson
• Slavery
• Slave Hiring
• Free Blacks
• Underground Railroad - Fugitives
• Post-Civil War Living Conditions
• Society & Culture - Medical Care
• Professions - Employment
• Freedmen's Bureau
• Civil Rights
• Politics
• Recreation
• Population
• Segregation- Changes in the 1890s
• Civil War
• Education
• Religion

Under these general headings, there are numerous subtopics. The research notes are numbered and presented in numerical order, and they are searchable by note numbers, names, dates, events, and topics (occasional hand-written numbers may not appear in searches). There are no missing notes, but there are occasional missing numbers, …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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. …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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 Commons: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Nonprofit Organization, Voluntary Action And Philanthropy, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The task of identifying nonprofit organizations, voluntary action and philanthropy as the principal constituents of a single "sector" within the larger economy, society and polity has been a central challenge for the multidisciplinary paradigm which seems to be emerging in this field. The concepts of the commons and common goods are presented as concepts with important multi-disciplinary implications. The commons is characterized by uncoerced participation, shared purposes and resources, mutuality and fairness and the derivative concept of common goods, as desirable ends which are universal and indivisible within a commons but not necessarily beyond. Taken together, commons and common goods …

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

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

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 …