The American Scholar 1996: Vol 65 Index

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Index to Volume 65
Pagination of the volume is divided as follows: Winter, 1-160; Spring, 161-320;
Summer, 321-480; Autumn 481-640. Listed in Readers’ Guide.
Ackerman, Felicia, Volte-Face (BOOKS), 142; A Volte-Face, Felicia Ackerman, 142, review of Au-
Grove of Academe (BOOKS), 621 tobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy.
Against Misinterpretation (BOOKS), Susan Miron, Boston Poetry Party, Robert B. Heilman, 145,
469 review of The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from
Album of Bullet Holes (MEMOIR), Stanley Kauff- Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, 1955-
mann, 259 1960 by Peter Davison.
All or Nothing! (Books), Michael Burns, 296 Table 52, Jacob A. Stein, 146, review of Winchell:
Angels of Sunlight (Poem), Michael S. Glaser, 123 Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity by Neal
Anna to Anna (Poem), Barbara Ras, 87 Gabler.
Anniversary: One Fine Day (Poem), Walter Mc- A Last Valentine, George Szamuely, 152, review
Donald, 416 of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World,
Aristides, So to Speak (LIFE AND LETTERS), 7; A 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm.
Real Page-Turner (LIFE AND LETTERS), 167; Margaret Fuller: The American Mind Writ
Ticked to the Min (LIFE AND LETTERS), 327; Large, Tess Lewis, 284.
Trivial Pursuits (LIFE AND LETTERS), 487 Brave Mrs. O., Sonya Rudikoff, 292, review of
Art History: Degas in New Orleans, Christopher Mrs. Oliphant: ‘A Fiction to Herself.’ A Literary
Benfey, 579 Life by Elisabeth Jay.
Art of the Impossible, The (LETTER FROM All or Nothing!, Michael Burns, 296, review of
FRANCE), Eugen Weber, 91 Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown.
Arthur, Chris, Ferrule (MEMOIR), 441 Naked Words, Clarence Brown, 300, review of
Augustan Peter Pan (BOOKS), Arthur J. Weitzman, 1920 Diary by Isaac Babel, edited with an in-
304 troduction by Carol J. Avins, translated by H.
Autobiographer’s Lies, An, Andrew Hudgins, 541 T. Willetts.
Augustan Peter Pan, Arthur J. Weitzman, 304,
Bagels on Sunday (DaILy Lire), David A. Morowitz, review of John Gay: A Profession of Friendship by
121 David Nokes.
Barzun, Jacques, Is Music Unspeakable?, 193 Let’s Make a Deal, Jim Holt, 306, review of In-
Bassoonist (Poem), Robin Chapman, 554 evitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule
Bell, Millicent, Jane Eyre: The Tale of the Govern- Our Minds by Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini.
ess (CLASSICS REVISITED), 263 Virtucrats on the Loose, J. C. Furnas, 309, re-
Benfey, Christopher, Degas in New Orleans (ART view of The Secret Six: The True Story of the Men
History), 579 Who Conspired with John Brown by Edward J.
Bernstein, Jeremy, Remembering E. J. Kahn, Jr. Renehan, Jr.
(JOURNALISM), 119 Exiting Extremism, Damon Linker, 312, review
Bernstein, Michael André, “Remember That I Have of New French Thought: Political Philosophy ed-
Remembered” (Books), 126 ited by Mark Lilla and An Intellectual History of
Bobier, Michelle, The White Woods (MEMOIR), 279 Liberalism by Pierre Manent, translated by
Books: 126, 284, 445, 602 Rebecca Balinski.
“Remember That I Have Remembered,” Imperial Impresario, Peter Dailey, 315, review
Michael André Bernstein, 126, review of Konin: A of Mosaic: Memoirs by Lincoln Kirstein.
Quest by Theo Richmond and The Buchenwald No Failure Like Success: The Life of Ray-
Report translated and edited by David A. mond Chandler, Arthur Krystal, 445, review of
Hackett. Stories and Early Novels and Later Novels and
Don’t Fence Him In, John P. Sisk, 132, review of Other Writings by Raymond Chandler.
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Soft-Hearted Hannah, Paul Roazen, 455, re-
RichardsonJ,r. view of Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by
The Young Man and the Sea, Mark S. Micale, Elzbieta Ettinger.
134, review of Charles Darwin: A Biography. Vol- Pop Goes the Critic, Peter Schwendener, 459, re-
ume 1: Voyagbiy Jnange t Browne. view of Cultural Studies and Cultural Value by
Vivre le Livre, David Simpson, 138, review of John Frow.
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Thrilling Days of Yesteryear, Stephen Miller,
Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts. 462, review of The Lost City by Alan Ehrenhalt.
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Necessity and Nobility, Wilson Carey Mc- DAILy LiFe: Bagels on Sunday, David A. Morowiiz,
Williams, 465, review of The Humanity of 121
Thucydides by Clifford Orwin. Darken Ship (Poem), Michael Spence, 218
Impossible Reason, Edgardo Krebs, 467, review Death of Plato, The, James V. Schall, 401
of The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Degas in New Orleans (Art History), Christopher
Analytic Detective Story by John Irwin. Benfey, 579
Against Misinterpretation, Susan Miron, 469, Determination (Poem), Robert Pack, 44
review of Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Diggins, John Patrick, The National History Stan-
Parts by Milan Kundera, translated from the dards, 495
French by Linda Asher. Djanikian, Gregory, A Moment for Wife and Hus-
Kill the Messenger, James Bowman, 472, review band (Poem), 398
of Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine Don’t Fence Him In (Books), John P. Sisk, 132
American Democracy by James Fallows. Du Béarn, Roger, Clerihews for the Clerisy II
Out of This World, Harold Fromm, 475, review (Poem), 356
of Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries ofJ ohn
Cowper Powys, 1929-1939 selected and edited Earring for Erring, An: Robert Frost and Kay
by Morine Krissdottir. Morrison, Jeffrey Meyers, 219
Honorable Thugs?, Eugen Weber, 602, review of Espaillat, Rhina P., Workshop (Poem), 242
All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the Exiting Extremism (Books), Damon Linker, 312
American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield. Exzrati, Milton, Losing the Thread in Japan, 177
The People’s William, Edward Lipman, 610, re-
view of Gladstone by Roy Jenkins. Fedoroff, Nina V., Two Women Geneticists (Sci-
The Republican Tradition, Adam Wolfson, 614, ENCE), 587
review of Democracy’s Discontent: America in Ferrule (MEMOIR), Chris Arthur, 441
Search of a Public Philosophy by Michael Sandel. Filkins, Peter, Just (Poem), 106
Here’s to the Ladies, John Meurig Thomas, 618, Following Dreiser, Seventy Years Later (LETTER
review of Cambridge Women: Twelve Portraits ed- FROM RussiA), Thomas P. Riggio, 569
ited by Edward Shils and Carmen Blacker. For My Mother (Poem), Sidney Wade, 400
A Grove of Academe, Felicia Ackerman, 621, Fortress (Poem), Patricia Hooper, 444
review of Alma Mater: A College Homecoming by Fromm, Harold, Out of This World (Books), 475
P. F. Kluge. Furnas,J . C., Virtucrats on the Loose (Books), 309
Is That All There Is?, Richard Jones, 624, review
of Kingsley Amis: A Biography by Eric Jacobs. Glaser, Michael S., Angels of Sunlight (Poem), 123 LL
Sckool of One, Alan Rutenberg, 628, review of Glazer, Sophie, Untold Tales (THE LITERARY LIFE),
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail 430
Levin. Gottfredson, Linda S., What Do We Know About
Boston Poetry Party (Books), Robert B. Heilman, Intelligence?, 15
145 Griffin, Jasper, The Library of Our Dreams, 59
Bowers, ) eal, Multiples of One (Poem), 440 Grove of Academe, A (Books), Felicia Ackerman,
Bowersock, G. W., The New Cavafy: Unfinished 621
Poems 1918-1932, 243 Guernsey, Bruce, Maps (Poem), 592
Bowman, James, Kill the Messenger (BOOKs), 472
Brave Mrs. O. (Books), Sonya Rudikoff, 292 Handlin, Oscar, A Career at Harvard, 47; The Un-
Brown, Clarence, Naked Words (Books), 300 marked Way, 335
Burns, Michael, All or Nothing! (Books), 296 Heilman, Robert B., Boston Poetry Party (BOOKs),
145
Career at Harvard, A, Oscar Handlin, 47 Here’s to the Ladies (Books), John Meurig Tho-
Celebration of the Last Day (Poem), Doug Talley, mas, 618
539 Hicks, David V., The Strange Fate of the Ameri-
Chapman, Robin, Bassoonist (Poem), 554 can Boarding School, 523
CLassics REVISITED: Jane Eyre: The Tale of the Holt, Jim, Let’s Make a Deal (Books), 306
Governess, Millicent Bell, 263 Honorable Thugs? (Books), Eugen Weber, 602
Clausen, Christopher, Welcome to Post-Cultural- Hooper, Patricia, Fortress (Poem), 444
ism, 379 Horgan, Paul, Credo (Poem), 415
Clerihews for the Clerisy III (Poem), Roger du Hostetler, Ann, Resisting Geometry (Poem), 88
Béarn, 356 Hudgins, Andrew, An Autobiographer’s Lies, 541
Credo, (Poem), Paul Horgan, 415
Imperial Impresario (BOOKS), Peter Dailey, 315
Dailey, Peter, imperial Impresario (Books), 315 Impossible Reason (BOoKs), Edgardo Krebs, 467
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INDEX
Indefatigable Alchemist: Richard Rorty’s Radical Rorty’s Radical Pragmatism (PHILOSOPHY), 417
Pragmatism (PHILOSOPHY), Tibor Machan, 417 Madigan, Mark, Sidney (Poem), 600
Instructions for Composing a Haiku (Poem), Maltby, Barbara, What Do Movie Producers Do?, 31
David Starkey, 258 Manqué (0em), Michael Mott, 568
Is God Really Dead in Beverly Hills?: Religion Maps (Poem), Bruce Guernsey, 592
and the Movies (MoviEs), Stanley Rothman, 272 Margaret Fuller: The American Mind Writ Large
Is Music Unspeakable?, Jacques Barzun, 193 (Books), Tess Lewis, 284
Is That All There Is? (BOOKS), Richard Jones, 624 Maristed, Kai, Nicotine, An Autobiography, 389
Mason, David, A Motion We Cannot See (Poem),
Jacobson, Dan, Thomas Hardy: The Poet as Phi- 203
losopher (REAPPRAISAL), 114 MEnmorr: The Last Man of Letters: Julian Symons,
Jane Eyre: The Tale of the Governess (CLASSICS William H. Pritchard, 107; Album of Bullet
REVISITED), Millicent Bell, 263 Holes, Stanley Kauffmann, 259; The White
Jones, Richard, is That All There Is? (Books), 624 Woods, Michelle Bobier, 279; Ferrule, Chris
JOURNALISM: Remembering E. J. Kahn, Jr., Jeremy Arthur, 441
Bernstein, 119 Meyers, Jeffrey, An Earring for Erring: Robert
Just (Poem), Peter Filkins, 106 Frost and Kay Morrison, 219
Micale, Mark S., The Young Man and the Sea
Kauffmann, Stanley, Album of Bullet Holes (MEM- (BooKs), 134
OIR), 259 MiLiTARY History: Mon Général: The Case of Jo-
Kill the Messenger (BOOKS), James Bowman, 472 seph Joffre, Barnett Singer, 593
Krebs, Edgardo, impossible Reason (BOOKS), 467 Miller, Stephen, Thrilling Days of Yesteryear,
Krystal, Arthur, No Failure Like Success: The Life (Books), 462
of Raymond Chandler (Books), 445 Minn, Susan, Against Misi ion (BOOKS), 469
Moment for Wife and Husband, A (Poem), Greg-
Lafcadio (Poem), David Ray, 124 ory Djanikian, 398
Last Man of Letters, The: Julian Symons (MEM- Mon Général: The Case of Joseph Joffre (MILI-
oIR), William H. Pritchard, 107 TARY History), Barnett Singer, 593
Last Valentine, A (BOOKS), George Szamuely, 152 Monagan, John S., A Visit with Anthony Powell:
Lecture Theater of the Absurd, The (TALK CUL- Time’s Musician (LITERATURE), 433
TURE), John Lowe, 99 Morowitz, David A., Bagels on Sunday (DAILY
Let’s Make a Deal (Books), Jim Holt, 306 Lire), 121
a LETTER FROM FRANCE: The Art of the Impossible, Morris, Cecil, The Time for Haste (Poém), 578
Eugen Weber, 91 Motion We Cannot See, A (Poem), David Mason,
LETTER FROM RussiA: Following Dreiser, Seventy 203
Years Later, Thomas P. Riggio, 569 Mott, Michael, Manqué, (Poem), 568
Lewis, Tess, Margaret Fuller: The American Mind - Movigs: Is God Really Dead in Beverly Hills?:
Writ Large (Books), 284 Religion and the Movies, Stanley Rothman, 272
Library of Our Dreams, The, Jasper Griffin, 59 Multiples of One (Poem), Neal Bowers, 440
LIFE AND LETTERS: So to Speak, Aristides, 7; A Real Myers, Jack, A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose (Poem),
Page-Turner, Aristides, 167; Ticked to the Min, 270
Aristides, 327; Trivial Pursuits, Aristides, 487
Life with Father, Matthew Stevenson, 555 Naked Words (Books), Clarence Brown, 300
Linker, Damon, Exiting Extremism (Books), 312 National History Standards, The, John Patrick
Lipman, Edward, The People’s William (Books), Diggins, 495
610 Necessity and Nobility (Books), Wilson Carey
Lipman, Jeaneane Dowis, Rosina: A Memoir, 359 © McWilliams, 465
LITERARY LIFE, THE: Untold Tales, Sophie Glazer, 430 New Cavafy, The: Unfinished Poems 1918-1932,
LITERATURE: A Visit with Anthony Powell: Time’s G. W. Bowersock, 243
Musician, John S. Monagan, 433 Nicotine, An Autobiography, Kai Maristed, 389
Losing the Thread in Japan, Milton Ezrati, 177 No Failure Like Success: The Life of Raymond
Lowe, John, The Lecture Theater of the Absurd Chandler (BOOKS), Arthur Krystal, 445
(TALK CULTURE), 99
On Contemplating the Commissioned Portrait
McDonald, Walter, Anniversary: One Fine Day of a British Viceroy of India (Poem), Huston
(Poem), 416 Smith, 90
McWilliams, Wilson Carey, Necessity and Nobility Out of This World (Books), Hareld Fromm, 475
(Books), 465
Machan, Tibor, indefatigable Alchemist: Richard Pack, Robert, Determination (Poem), 44
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People’s William, The (Books), Edward Lipman, Stein, Jacob A., Table 52 (Books), 146; Sefior
610 Wences (SHOW BUSINESS), 425
PHILOSOPHY: Indefatigable Alchemist: Richard Steinman, John F, A Room with Half a View, 71
Rorty’s Radical Pragmatism, Tibor Machan, 417 Sternberg, Robert J., What Should We Ask About
Pop Goes the Critic (BOOKS), Peter Schwendener, 459 Intelligence?, 205
Pritchard, William H., The Last Man of Letters: Stevenson, Matthew, Life with Father, 555
Julian Symons (MEmoiR), 107 Strange Fate of the American Boarding School,
The, David V. Hicks, 523
Ras, Barbara, Taza Shambal (Poem), 86; Anna to Szamuely, George, A Last Valentine (Books), 152
Anna (Poem), 87
Ray, David, Lafcadio (Poem), 124 Table 52 (Books), Jacob A. Stein, 146
READER REPLIES, THE: 157, 319, 478, 632 TALK CULTURE: The Lecture Theater of the Ab-
Real Page-Turner, A (LIFE AND LETTERS), Aristides, surd, John Lowe, 99
167 Talley, Doug, Celebration of the Last Day (Poem),
REAPPRAISAL: Thomas Hardy: The Poet as Phi- 539
losopher, Dan Jacobson, 114 Taza Shambal (Poem), Barbara Ras, 86
“Remember That I Have Remembered” Theory of Art, The (Poem), Robin Shectman, 113
(Books), Michael André Bernstein , 126 Thomas Hardy: The Poet as Philosopher (REAp-
Remembering E. J. Kahn, Jr. (JOURNALISM), Jeremy PRAISAL) ,D an Jacobson, 114
Bernstein, 119 Thomas, John Meurig, Here’s to the Ladies
Republican Tradition, The (Books), Adam Wolf- (Books), 618
son, 614 Thrilling Days of Yesteryear (BOOKS), Stephen
Resisting Geometry (Poem), Ann Hostetler, 88 Miller, 462
Riggio, Thomas P., Following Dreiser, Seventy Tictko tehed Mi n (LiFE AND LETTERS), Aristides, 327
Years Later (LETTER FROM RUSSIA), 569 Time for Haste, The (Poem), Cecil Morris, 578
Ritchie, Elisavietta, Visiting Great Aunt Eugenya Trivial Pursuits (LIFE AND LETTERS), Aristides, 487
by the Chesapeake (Poem), 536 Two Women Geneticists (SCIENCE), Nina V.
Roazen, Paul, Soft-Hearted Hannah (Books), 455 Fedoroff, 587
Room with Half a View, A, John F. Steinman, 71
Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose, A (Poem), Jack Myers, Unmarked Way, The, Oscur Handlin, 335
270 Untold Tales (THE LITERALIRFYE) ,S ophie Glazer, 430
Rosina: A Memoir, Jeaneane Dowis Lipman, 359
Rothman, Stanley, Is God Really Dead in Virtucrats on the Loose (Books),j . C. Furnas, 309
Hills?: Religion and the Movies (Movigs), 272 Visit with Anthony Powell, A: Time’s Musician
Rudikoff, Sonya, Brave Mrs. O. (BOOKS), 292 (LITERATURE), John S. Monagan, 433
Rutenberg, Alan, School of One (Books), 628 Visiting Great Aunt Eugenya by the Chesapeake
(Poem), Elisavietta Ritchie, 536
Schall, James V., The Death of Plato, 401 Vive le Livre (Books) ,D avid Simpson, 138
School of One (Books), Alan Rutenberg, 628 Volte-Face (BOoKs), Felicia Ackerman, 142
Schwendener, Peter, Pop Goes the Critic (BOOKS),
459 Wade, Sidney, For My Mother (Poem), 400
SCIENCE: Two Women Geneticists, Nina V. Weber, Eugen, The Art of the Impossible (LETTER
Fedoroff, 587 FROM FRANCE), 91; Honorable Thugs? (BOOKS),
Senor Wences (SHOW BUSINESS), Jacob A. Stein, 425 602
Shectman, Robin, The Theory of Art (Poem), 113 Weitzman, Arthur ].,A ugusPettear nPa n (Books), 304
SHOw Business: Senor Wences, Jacob A. Stein, 425 Welcome to Post-Culturalism, Christopher Clausen,
Sidney (Poem), Mark Madigan, 600 379
Simpson, David, Vive le Livre (BOOKS), 138 What Do Movie Producers Do?, Barbara Maltby, 31
Singer, Barnett, Mon Général: The Case of Joseph What Do We Know About Intelligence?, Linda S.
Joffre (MitiTary History), 593 Gottfredson, 15
Sisk, John P., Don’t Fence Him In (Books), 132 What Should We Ask About Intelligence?, Robert
Smith, Huston, On Contemplating the Commis- J. Sternberg, 205
sioned Portrait of a British Viceroy of India White Woods, The (MEMoIR), Michelle Bobier, 279
(Poem), 90 Wolfson, Adam, The Republican Tradition (Books),
So to Speak (LIFE AND LETTERS), Aristides, 7 614
Soft-Hearted Hannah (Books), Paul Roazen, 455 Workshop (Poem), Rhina P. Espaillat, 242
Spence, Michael, Darken Ship (Poem), 218
Starkey, David, Instructions for Composing a Young Man and the Sea, The, (Books), Mark S.
Haiku (Poem), 258 Micale, 134
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