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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Dirty War Revisited

Ideology Versus Scientific Rationality

Daedalus and the Adjusted Man

Hippies: Not So New, Not So Different

Of Time and the Union: Kansas-Nebraska and the Appeal from Prescription to Principle

The Sun Also Exposes: Hemingway and Jake Barnes

VERSE

The Girl in the Blue Imperial Ritual with Wine

The Turtle

Wrong Number

The Fox

November Garden

The Frontier

Trackside, in a Plains County

In Tall Tree Country

Girls' Laughter

Old Woman Feeding Gulls (Meersburg)

Flower of Winter

Abstract

in this issue. . .

REGRETFULLY the editors of THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY announce the resignation of our colleague and longtime adviser in the fine arts, REED W. SCHMICKLE, whose duties as chairman of the Art Department of Kansas State College have increased until he can no longer spare the time so generously given to us these past six years and more. Professor Schmickle contributed an article "Art and the Modern Mind" to the Spring 1960 issue and joined our Board of Editors with the October 1962 issue. A native of Missouri, he holds the B. S. degree from Southwest State College in Springfield and the M.A. degree in art from the University of Missouri. His oils and water colors have appeared in numerous juried shows about the country, and his striking thirty-two foot concrete sculpture on the south side of our own Whitesitt Hall testifies to the skill he attained in architectural sculpture while studying with Bernard Frazier and working with him as project assistant. A member of the College faculty since 1954, he has taught art history, design, and painting, and has participated in the general education program of the College. In 1966 he became chairman of the new Department of Art. As his most recent benefaction to this journal he recommended his successor, a choice in which we warmly concurred.

OUR new adviser in matters of the fine arts, ROBERT BLUNK, JR., joined the faculty of Kansas State College of Pittsburg in 1962 and is now Associate Professor of the Art Department. A Marine Corps radar technician in World War II, he "never fired a shot in anger” and after the war returned with alacrity to school. Graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1950, he taught in Chanute, Kansas, supervised the art program in the elementary schools, and became interested in the exhibit and display techniques of museums. His first undertaking, a bootstrap operation, was the Safari Museum of Martin and Osa Johnson at Chanute. Currently he is involved in the Crawford County Historical Museum promotion and has designed a possible structure. In 1966 he was appointed to the Kansas Cultural Art Commission by Governor Avery and reappointed in 1967 by Governor Docking. He has had several architectural sculpture commissions, the most considerable by weight (2300 pounds) being the figure of Justice on the Coffey County Courthouse. Although the size of sculpture limits exhibiting, he has had various works in the Mid-America Annual at the Nelson Art Gallery of Kansas City, the Kansas Designer/Craftsman Show at the University of Kansas, and the Springfield (Missouri) Annual. His sculpture tends toward welded steel and large collages. Professor Blunk has an interesting wife and three lively children, for whom he has found time to build with his own hands "a house in the woods, somewhat Thoreau inspired."

THE TORMENT of a distant war, unwinnable, unstoppable (in terms of anything the United States has ever tried), may already have led to unprecedented action by the time this October issue appears. The chances are, however, that the hemorrhage of men and wealth will be continuing or even intensifying. In such a juncture of uncertain purpose and bitter frustration it might be worth our while to take the fresh look advocated in "Dirty War Revisited." ORVILLE D. MENARD writes out of a long and careful study of the French experience with revolutionary war. His article "The French Army Above the State" appeared in the Fall (1964) Military Affairs, and his book The Army and the Fifth Republic was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1967. Professor Menard holds the B. A. degree from the University of Omaha and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. He has taught at the Texas Arts and Industries University and is at present an associate professor of political science in the University of Nebraska at Omaha. During the summer of 1966 he was Visiting Professor of Political Science at Colorado State College and last summer was Senior Faculty Fellow in the United States Department of State.

LAST WINTER we published an article by a man who, we said, "has not lost his optimism." HENRY WINTHROP, we pointed out, "finds a qualitative difference in 'post-industrial' man which augurs a new and more hopeful society." We now have the pleasure of publishing an article in which Professor Winthrop outlines the techniques of creating and managing that more hopeful society. The author of many learned articles, an economist and administrator with the Federal government, a practicing psychologist, Dr. Winthrop is at present a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the University of South Florida.

THERE is doubtless a certain perversity in following an expression of strong confidence in our technological apparatus with an article full of humanistic doubts, of regretful backward glances, of guarded pessimism. May they nevertheless illuminate each other! STEBELTON H. NULLE tells us that since writing his "Daedalus" he has "ineluctably turned professor emeritus" of Michigan State University. Before coming to East Lansing, he taught political and constitutional history at New York University and Vassar College and published a study of Newcastle, the eighteenth century English statesman. Finding more stimulation in the teaching of humanities, however, he turned to reflecting on Western culture, past and present, and contributed a good many essays to various quarterlies and scholarly journals. The present study is the latest product of his concern with the nature of the hopes of man.

THE HIPPIES may be declining in numbers and influence, but they have not gone away. According to CATHERINE S. FRAZER, they have in fact been with us for a long time and may be expected to be a recurrent though minor phenomenon of distant futures. Professor Frazer received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M. A. and Ph.D. from Yale. A Junior Sterling Fellow at Yale and the recipient of an A. A. U. W. Fellowship, she taught in the Philosophy Department at Wellesley and was a lecturer in its Interdepartmental Humanities Program before coming to the University of Denver, where she is an associate professor in the Philosophy Department. She and her husband, Attorney Arthur L. Frazer, have a daughter and a son of high school age, a fact which may have contributed to her interest in the topic of this article.

OUR OWN Civil War has a perennial fascination for American readers, and never more so than in times of uncertain national purpose and bitter divisiveness like the present, when the events of 1861-65 and the years leading up to the war are painstakingly canvassed for parallels and portents. MAJOR L. WILSON, author of the present study of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the accompanying debate over an "appeal from prescription to principle," writes with keen awareness of this interest. Professor Wilson holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas and is an associate professor of history at Memphis State University. His strong interest in United States intellectual history before the Civil War has informed a number of the articles he has contributed to such journals as Mississippi Quarterly, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, and American Quarterly.

ANY CONSIDERATION of the "Hemingway mystique," according to the final and only literary essay in this issue, necessarily focuses attention on his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises. More than any of his other novels, says IRVING A. YEVISH, this novel "is Hemingway's confessional, and, like most confessionals, it reveals more than it intended." Dr. Yevish has always found his chief literary interest in the novel. His Ph.D. dissertation for Columbia University dealt with what he called "The University Quest Novel," and he has published articles on the novel in several journals. Dr. Yevish has been a teacher of English and department chairman in secondary schools and is now a supervisor in the New York City Public School System.

BEFORE we introduce our four newcomers and five old hands among the poets, perhaps we can do a service to them and to our friends the editors of Poet Lore by calling attention to the latter's annual Stephen Vincent Benet Narrative Poetry Award with its five handsome prizes: First Prize, $1000; Second Prize, $100; three Third Prizes, $50 each. Interested poets are urged to write to:

POET LORE: Benet Awards

5 Cranbury Road, Westport, Conn. 06880.

OF OUR OLD HANDS, the oldest in terms of the QUARTERLY, where he first appeared in the October 1962 issue, is our friend and Arkansas neighbor, EDSEL FORD. The two poems of this October 1968 issue will reappear shortly afterwards in his new book, Looking for Shiloh, to be published this November. . . . LEONARD GILLEY has been writing poems and articles for us since October 1963. In a recent letter he tells us that after some years at the University of Denver and a briefer stay at Bloomsberg State College, Pennsylvania, he is returning to home country as Associate Professor of English at Farmington State College of the University of the State of Maine. His first book of poems is scheduled to appear in December. . . . It was in July 1964 that we began publishing the attractive poems of BERNICE AMES. This past year she received the James Joyce award for a poem and the Wroxton fellowship for study in England during August 1967, both given by the Poetry Society of America. As a further honor, her short story, "New Shoes," published in the spring 1967 issue of the Arizona Quarterly, won their short story award of the year. . . . A poem by VICTOR CONTOSKI appeared in our pages as long ago as October 1965. We note that meanwhile he has been working on his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin and has published poetry widely in such quarterlies as Antioch Review, Chicago Review, Prairie Schooner, and others, and that his fables have been a regular feature of the North American Review. . . . . The newest of the old, KINLEY ROBY, caught our eye not much over a year ago with four poems which have been appearing issue by issue ever since. Although this October number contains the third and fourth of this group, we shall not suppose that they are the last.

OUR FOUR new poets are FRANCES COLVIN of Burbank, California; SHARON ANN JAEGER of Spenard, Alaska; and a husband a wife team, HARGIS and NANCY WESTERFIELD, of Kearney, Nebraska. Frances Colvin who is represented by two poems in the current issue, has published poetry in such journals as The American Scholar, Arts in Society, Commonweal, Prairie Schooner, and others, has completed one novel and is working on another, and until recently was one of the editors of Ante, a quarterly published in Los Angeles. She names the University of California at Los Angeles as her alma mater. . . . Sharon Ann Jaeger has had a varied experience for so young a poet. She has attended Villanova University, Fort Wright College, the University of Dayton, and Alaska Methodist University, has been a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, has studied in Austria and traveled in Germany (whence the present poem). Other poems have appeared or will shortly appear in The Inner Wall, Mustang Review, and Haiku Highlights. . . . We have observed that the faculty of Kearney State College is surprisingly prolific of poets. We welcome two new ones-new to us, that is, for Dr. Westerfield's poetry has appeared in the New York Times, Christian Century, Saturday Review, The Writer, and other periodicals, and a book of his poetry, Words into Steel, was published by Dutton; and Mrs. Westerfield's poems have appeared in the New York Times, the AAUP Bulletin, College English, and the Reporter. Hargis Westerfield holds the doctorate from Indiana University and has published a number of scholarly articles. Nancy Gillespie Westerfield holds the M.A. degree from Indiana University and has also published scholarly articles. Both are train buffs and have gone abroad "to trail the last whistling of steam locomotives," an interest reflected in Dr. Westerfield's book-length verse manuscript Train-Watcher, from which comes the poem we have chosen for this October issue.

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