Volume 2, Issue 2
FRONT COVER: Leonard Baskin
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
DRAWING
Table of Contents
International Prospects under the New President, Non-Fiction by Walt W. Rostow
Satan; Even Umpires Wager with Pascal; Spring Day for Fishing, Poetry by Paul Ramsey
Postcard from Home; The Polish Women; Midsummer Morning, Poetry by Jack Anderson
A Bellini in the Family, Poetry by Margaret Mathison
Blackbird, Poetry by Paul Petrie
Dusk on Scollay Square, Poetry by Morgan Gibson
Whichever way you look at it; Not a philosophic “problem” but a procreative pleasure, Poetry by John Tagliabue
The Achievement of Edwin Muir, Non-Fiction by Joseph H. Summers
Cold, Poetry by Kate Brackett
The Funeral; Apportioning a Day of Leisure: Time Chart, Poetry by Vern Rutsala
Island, Drama by Oscar Mandel
Obliquity on Death, Poetry by Bink Noll
Lilac: Outdoors In, Poetry by Charles Philbrick
The Zeiss House, Fiction by Harold T. McCarthy
A Way of Looking; Turning Tide; Imagine Beast-Wings; Prayer; The One Word, Poetry by Robert G. Tucker
Personality and Moral Leadership: Operations of the Political Mind, Non-Fiction by Sanchia Thayer
Ballad, Poetry by Jayne Berland
“The Eagle Must Have an Educated Eye,” Poetry by Laurence Stapleton
Five Poems, Poetry by Wilfred Owen;with drawings by Ben Shahn
The Unknown Picasso, Non-Fiction by Alfred Werner
The Sunday Morning Visitor: Reflections on the Crisis in Saigon, Non-Fiction by Luther Allen
IN REVIEW:
Kissinger and Cousins: No Guarantees Exist, Non-Fiction by Paul Lauter
The Problem of Pictorial Language, Non-Fiction by Vincent Tomas
Stereotypes and Jews: Fagin and the Magician of Lublin, Non-Fiction by Jules Chametzky
Old Songs in the New World, Non-Fiction by Margaret Irwin
American Communism—Ruthenberg to Browder, Non-Fiction by Howard Quint
Contributors
Luther Allen is serving this year as Smith-Mundt professor at the University of Saigon.
Jack Anderson is assistant drama editor of the Oakland Tribune.
Jayne Berland, whose poems have appeared in the Kansas Magazine and Approach, is at work on a novel.
Kate Brackett has published in Harper’s and the Atlantic.
Jules Chametzky is at work on a study of American Jewish writers.
Morgan Gibson teaches at American International College,
Margaret Irwin, author of That Great Lucifer, has often used Elizabethan ballads in her historical novels.
Paul Lauter teaches at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Oscar Mandel, of the University of Nebraska, is studying this year in Amsterdam on a Fulbright; his play, Island, will be presented at the University of Massachusetts in the spring.
Margaret Mathison, who received her M.A. at the University of Washington, lives in Laramie, Wyoming.
Harold T. McCarthy recently joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts; he is the author of Henry James: The Creative Process.
Bink Noll, of the Department of English at Dartmouth College, is spending the year in Spain.
Paul Petrie, whose poems are soon to appear in the Antioch Review and the New Yorker, teaches at the University of Rhode Island.
Charles Philbrick is the author of Wonderstrand Revisited: A Cape Cod Sequence (Wake-Brook House, Sanbornville, N. H., 1960); selections appeared in the Winter 1960 MR.
Howard Quint, of the University of Massachusetts, is the author of The Forging of American Socialism.
Paul Ramsey is author of a book of criticism, The Lively and the Just (University of Alabama Press, 1961).
Walt W. Rostow of M.I.T. is well-known for his political and economic analyses.
Vern Rutsala, a student at the State University of Iowa, hopes to teach in the Pacific Northwest next year; his work has appeared in the Paris Review.
Laurence Stapleton is the editor of H. D. Thoreau: A Writer’s Journal (Dover Publications, 1960).
John Tagliabue, now at Bates College, has lectured at Tokyo University and the University of Pisa; he is the author of Poems (Harper & Brothers, 1959).
Sanchia Thayer has taught at Emerson College and Wellesley.
Vincent Tomas teaches aesthetics in the Philosophy Department at Brown University.
Robert G. Tucker, of the University of Massachusetts, is working on a book of poems.
Alfred Werner is a contributing editor of Arts and U. S. correspondent for Pantheon.
The drawings by Ben Shahn originally appeared in Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen printed by The Gehenna Press; Mr. Shahn’s portrait of Owen was engraved on wood by Leonard Baskin.