Volume 8, Issue 3
FRONT COVER: The Bettman Archive
URBAN SCENE: NYC from 34th St North to Harlem
Table of Contents
Dust to Dust, Fiction by Ronald DeFeo
It Will Happen, Poetry by Jeannette Nichols
No Reason: The Street; In Insect Light, Poetry by G. Lynn Cochrane
The Night Visitors, Fiction by Ralph Robin
Dream of an Old Girlfriend, Poetry by Steven Osterlund
Hemingway’s Staying Power, Non-Fiction by Edward L. Galligan
Letter from Pemaquid; My Daughter Cries Out in Her Sleep, Poetry by Gibbons Ruark
Literature and Sexuality, Non-Fiction by Donald R. Howard
A Question of Taste, Fiction by Jack B. Lawson
Washington, Poetry by Welton Smith
THE URBAN UNIVERSITY:
The University in an Urban Society, Non-Fiction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Urban University, Non-Fiction by David Riesman
Incipient Catastrophe: The University and the City, Non-Fiction by Glenn Tinder
Crisis in the City, Non-Fiction by Daniel P. Moynihan
The University of Massachusetts in Boston, Non-Fiction by John W. Ryan
The Intemperate Zone: The Climate of Contemporary American Fiction, Non-Fiction by Paul Levine
Song, Poetry by George P. Elliot
An Apology of Rain, Poetry by Bernard DeKoven
Odds and Ends, Poetry by Carl Rakosi
Some Night Thoughts on Samuel Beckett, Non-Fiction by J. R. Moore
To a Woman Whose Fiance Was Killed at War, Poetry by Herbert Scott
Recent American Poetry, Non-Fiction by Helen Vendler
Plaint, Poetry by Linda Pastan
IN REVIEW:
Norman Mailer’s Extravagances, Non-Fiction by William H. Pritchard
Politics and Spiritual Values, Non-Fiction by Mulford Q. Sibley
Eighteen Stories: Heinrich Böll, Non-Fiction by Tamas Aczel
Recent Books on Russian Literature, Non-Fiction by Philippe Radley
The Enemy of Freedom Is Fantasy, Iris Murdoch, Non-Fiction by Warner Berthoff
Contributors
Tamas Aczel, writer and lecturer, was born in Hungary, and is now visiting lecturer at the University of Massachusetts.
Warner Berthoff has recently moved from Bryn Mawr to Harvard University.
G. Lynn Cochran lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Ronald DeFeo‘s first published story appears in this issue of MR.
Bernard Dekoven is a Rockefeller Fellow in playwriting at Villanova University.
George P. Elliott is currently revising a full-length play.
Essays and stories by Edward L. Galligan appear frequently in the literary journals.
Donald R. Howard, author of The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World (Princeton University Press), will join the English Department at Johns Hopkins this fall.
Stories by Jack B. Lawson have appeared in numerous quarterlies including the Chicago Review and New Mexico Quarterly.
Paul Levine is an authority on contemporary fiction; he teaches at Rochester.
J. R. Moore teaches English at Hollins College; he has written on the plays of W. B. Yeats.
Daniel P. Moynihan has served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor; he is co-author of Beyond the Melting Pot (1963).
Jeannette Nichols has published a volume of poems, Mostly People, with Rutgers University Press.
Stephen Osterlund is international correspondent for Poesie Vivante.
Linda Pastan lives in Rockville, Maryland.
William H. Pritchard teaches English at Amherst College; his essays have appeared in MR and Partisan Review.
Philippe Radley is Chairman of the Russian Department, Amherst College.
David Riesman is Henry Ford II Professor of Sociology at Harvard.
Carl Rakosi, born in Berlin, is now a social worker in Minneapolis.
Ralph Robin‘s stories and poems have been appearing in journals since 1949.
Gibbons Ruark has had poems in MR, Poetry, and Southern Poetry Review.
John W. Ryan, formerly at Arizona, is now Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Herbert Scott lives in Cape Girardeau, MO.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., distinguished American historian, is teaching at C.C.N.Y.
Mulford Q. Sibley‘s most recent book is The Quiet Battle; he teaches political theory at Minnesota.
Welton Smith lives in New York City.
Glenn Tinder is author of The Crisis of Political Imagination (Scribner’s, 1964), and teaches at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Helen Vendler, formerly at Smith College, now teaches at Boston University.