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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

A Question of Academic Freedom: The William A. Schaper Case

Realist Versus Realist: Bohlen Kennan and the Inception of the Cold War

Notes on Atlantic Change

Time in "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

The Mysteries of Antonia

Fitzgerald and Nostalgia

REVIEW

Griefs and Grievances: The Way Things Go

VERSE

Songs of the Shadows

Sofa by Matisse

Porcelain Lawn Chair

Ceremony for Rain

Brothers

The Boarder

The Occupation

The Most Generous Man

The Suicide-Man

Shipwreck

Abstract

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 Harvard and teaches political science at UCLA.

WALTER SHEAR, who writes about time in two stories by Washington Irving, received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin and is professor of English at KSCP. He has published a number of articles on American literature, some of them in the QUARTERLY.

EVELYN HELMICK, who writes about reverberations of the Eleusinian Mysteries in Willa Cather's My Antonia, received her Ph. D. from the University of Miami, where she is associate professor of English and directs the American studies program. Her articles and reviews have appeared recently in several journals.

EDWARD MARCO'ITE, who writes of nostalgia in and about The Great Gatsby, lives in New York City.

DAVE SMITH, who reviews four new volumes of poems, is on leave from Cottey College to work on his doctorate at Ohio University. He has published two collections. His poems have appeared in a number of magazines including the QUARTERLY and, recently, New Yorker.

JAMES CLEGHORN is poet-in-residence at the University of Houston.

CHARLES EDWARD EATON lives in Woodbury, Connecticut and recently won the Poetry Society of America's Castagnola Award for The Man in the Green Chair, his sixth collection of poems.

PHILIP PIERSON is co-editor of New River Review.

RON SLATE edits The Chowder Review and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

MICHAEL W ATERs' book of poems, Fish Light, appeared recently from Ithica House.

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