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The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

Contents

ARTICLES

Trends in Viewing Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Civil Religion of Apartheid: Afrikanerdom's Covenant

The Case of A. D. Sakharov

Why the Soviet Government Will Tolerate Dissent

Morality and American Foreign Policy

Eliot's Quest for Man's Significance

POEMS

Studies in Twilight Landscape

The Sorrow of Captain Hook

Fixing the Deep-Well Jet Pump

Nesting

Liberace

Three Poems on Bernoulli's Principle

Crazy Horse: Final Reflection #7

Words for a Long Mid-Winter Night

Monkey Nipples

The Magnifying Glass

The Prowler

Some Kind of Blessing

REVIEW

A History of Georgia edited by Kenneth Coleman

Abstract

in this issue . . .

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, holds advanced degrees with specialization in political theory and Soviet studies. He lives in Venice, California.

DONALD E. SECREST, who applies the just-war theory to the problems of nuclear war and nuclear deterrence, received his Ph. D. from The University of Michigan and teaches political science at The University of Oklahoma. He has published a number of articles.

SISTER MADELEINE KISNER, A.S.C., who follows T. S. Eliot's development, holds a doctorate from The University of Michigan and teaches English at Kansas Newman College. She has published a number of poems.

J. W. CULLUM lives in Atlanta. His chapbook of poems, An Almanac for the Shifting Seasons, was published by Omnivore Press in 1976.

JONATHAN HOLDEN is the new poet-in-residence at Kansas State University, Manhattan. His first book, Design for a House, was the Devins Award winner (U. of Missouri Press) in 1972. His new collection, The Sorrow of Captain Hook, is in search of a publisher.

WILLIAM KLOEFKORN's sixth collection of poems Not Such a Bad Place to Be, will be released this spring by Copper Canyon Press. Cottonwood County, poems by William Kloefkorn and Ted Kooser will appear in July from Windflower Press (Lincoln Nebraska).

RON SLATE is the editor of The Chowder Review and the new Chowder Chapbooks poetry series. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

MARK VINZ teaches at Moorhead State University in Minnesota and edits Dacotah Territory. His most recent collection of poems is Songs for a Hometown Boy from Solo Press. The fall '78 issue of The Ohio Review features a chapbook collection of his work.

ROBERT RATZLAFF, who reviews a new history of Georgia, received his Ph. D. from The University of Kansas and is chairman of the Department of History at Pittsburg State University. He as published a number of articles.

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