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Spring 1996

Volume 72, Number 2

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1996

Articles

Paul Asen — Marriage Made In Heaven
Lionel Basney — Mia California: An Opera Journal
CATULLUS — The Poems of Catullus, At the Green Cabaret Five In the Evening, Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa), Alvaro De Campos (Fernando Pessoa), and Oporto-Style Tripe
J. A. S. Evans — The Present State of Canada
Russell Fraser — The Scotsman's Return From Abroad
Frances Stokes Hoekstra — Perilous Lives
John Kuehl — Sheilah and Scottie
Harold B. Mcsween — How to Succeed In Washington Without Really Trying
Cyril R. Mill — A Victorian Eminence Revisited
Richard O'Mara — Obsolescence, the Death of Newspapers, and All That
Sanford Pinsker — Who Killed Satan?
Shelley Rolfe — Heyday of the National Pastime
JEANNE SCHINTO — The Lover of Libraries
Stephen J. Whitfield — A Critical Cicerone

Poetry

Sally Ball — Sirens and Austerlitz, New York
Marianne Boruch — Above the Chinese Cemetery
Elena Karina Byrne — Immaculate Measure, Without the Elation of Rage, and His Song
PATRICIA DOBLER — Some Heretics, Scarification, and Her Plan
Jon Loomis — Giverny, 1926
Alethea Gail Segal — The Spell and Circus: Tightrope Walker

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1996

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1996

Book Reviews

Jack R. Fischel — The Rise of Neoconservatism