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Winter 1981 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Winter 1981

Articles

Jane Barnes — John Updike: A Literary Spider
Maur Bettman — The Edessa Legend
Maxine Brown — The Thirties Revisited
Robert Coles — Even Yet the South
Margaret Edwards — Eve
Walter Harding — Walden's Man of Science
A. S. Knowles — "SHADOWS ON THE SAND"
Charles Maechling — Japan and the United States: the Brittle Alliance
Larry J. Sabato — The Torch Is Passed
Mary Lee Settle — Works of Art Or Power Tools?
Lewis P. Simpson — The Inwardness of History
David L. Smith — Recordings
Albert E. Stone — Career Criticism
Ted Walker — The Peace Rose

Poetry

Daniel Mark Epstein — Lafayette Square
Barbara Eve — Dark Side of the Moon
Heather Mchugh — Impressionist
Linda Pastan — November and What We Want
William Stafford — Some of the Ways
Eleanor Ross Taylor — Order and Law and Women's Terminal Ward

Reprint

Reprint, Winter 1981

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Winter 1981