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Spring 1998 Issue

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The Green Room

Staige D. Blackford — The Green Room, Spring 1998

Articles

HELEN BAROLINI — The Shadowy Lady of the Street of Dark Shops
Stephen Dixon — The Subway Ride
Morris Freedman — From Hellenism to Hebraism, the Essay In Our Time: Gore Vidal and Irving Kristol
Robert Mason — Surviving the Blue Killer, 1918
HILARY MASTERS — The Italian Grammar
JEFFREY MEYERS — "FROZEN EYES"
Michael Nelson — Ward Just's Washington
Richard O'Mara — The American Traveller
Sanford Pinsker — O Tempora! O Mores! and All That
Lisa Russ Spaar — Wild Imperatives in Character and Prose
Mariflo Stephens — Safe In Her Heart
George Watson — How to Be An Angel
Stephen J. Whitfield — Secession Crisis
Eric Miles Williamson — Blue Train

Poetry

Ruth Anderson Barnett — Drive-In Movie
Billy Collins — Nothing to Write Home About and Portrait of the Reader With Cereal
Sharon Leiter — Fame and Forgive This Prolixity
John Piller — Buddhist Monks Tour America
Browning Porter — Verge of Tears and Laurels
LEN ROBERTS — Mission, Late March, 1960 and Knots
Mary Ann Samyn — Bright Waiting and Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
David Wagoner — Alexandra and the Spiders
KAREN WHITEHILL — Partial Explanation
Lisa Williams — What the Wind Said to the Girl Who Was Afraid and The Growth

Reprint

Reprint, Spring 1998

Recent Books

Notes on Current Books, Spring 1998