...John Lewis Gaddis Soviet-American Confrontation: Postwar Reconstruction and the Origins of the Cold War . By Paterson Thomas G. . Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1973 . Pp. xiv , 287 . $12.00 . Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 BOOKS...

..., afforded him an unusual source of raw ma­ terial, not generally available to the run-of-the-mill writer of stories and novels. Even more than that, however, it also suggested a unique structural framework for his great poem Paterson, which I think I am not alone in believing to be (after Whitman) our great...

.... The South Atlantic Quarterly 81:4, Autumn, 1982. Copyright © 1982 by Duke Uni­ versity Press. Permission to reprint excerpts from Audubon: A Vision copyright © 1969 and Selected Poems 1923-1975 copyright © 1976 by Robert Penn Warren was granted by Random House, Inc. Permission to reprint from Paterson...

... S. Truman Library). 24. Athan Theoharis, The Threat to Civil Liberties, in Thomas G. Paterson, ed.. Cold War Critics (Chicago, 1971), p. 293. Historians and the Liberal Presidency 27 Lives. It was that of someone who sang The Internationale, microfilmed secret blueprints, and was captured...

... tic, E. E. Cummings as the Now Man, and the four neo-epic poets as conscious failures which explains why Pound s Cantos, Eliot s Four Quartets, Crane s The Bridge, and Williams Paterson are structured on the principle of repeated new starts within each poem. Mr. Dembo writes very well...

... in the present collection mirror that emphasis. These deal with Paterson, New Jersey, and offer ex­ aminations of the Rags-to-Riches Myth, Class, Status, and Community Power, and Class, Status, and the Gilded Age Radical: A Reconsideration. The latter essay is the only one in the collection which has...

... of the historical writing on Truman during the past decade. Most of the major themes that have been de­ veloped by Williams, Kolko, Paterson, Bernstein, Berman, Theoharis, and others can be found in the volume. Cochran does not, however, give these historians credit for their contributions. His brief notes do...

... that has been one of the main features of the historical writing on Truman during the past decade. Most of the major themes that have been de­ veloped by Williams, Kolko, Paterson, Bernstein, Berman, Theoharis, and others can be found in the volume. Cochran does not, however, give these historians credit...

... Quarterly any one of them at the expense of the others tends to produce myopia. Whatever its conceptual problems, though, Paterson s book is the most reasonable and persuasive revisionist account of the Cold War which has so far appeared. It is moderate in its arguments, thorough in its research...

.... as an Imagist, John Gould Fletcher as an Aesthetic Mys­ tic, E. E. Cummings as the Now Man, and the four neo-epic poets as conscious failures which explains why Pound s Cantos, Eliot s Four Quartets, Crane s The Bridge, and Williams Paterson are structured on the principle of repeated new starts within each...

... of these pieces as book reviews and criticisms. They are undated. They are printed very much as they first appeared, although, as periodical essays of so contemporary a nature, they would have profited greatly by being shaped to the current scene of 1953. The review of Paterson (Book I), for example, needed...

... of experience rather than a delayed report of experience. Mr. Brinnin describes Dr. Williams conception of a poem, relates the poetry to contemporaneous movements in art, and gives an extended critique of Paterson. There is no discussion of Williams considerable achievement in prose fiction. Mr. Leary...

... contexts, seems then to have led Gutman to probe the na­ ture and historical development of social-structural relationships in industrial cities. Three of the essays in the present collection mirror that emphasis. These deal with Paterson, New Jersey, and offer ex­ aminations of the Rags-to-Riches Myth...

... to contemporaneous movements in art, and gives an extended critique of Paterson. There is no discussion of Williams considerable achievement in prose fiction. Mr. Leary acknowledges the limitations of his subject and tran­ scends them without finding more in Washington Irving than is there. By placing Irving s...

.... The review of Paterson (Book I), for example, needed to be combined with the later comments added when Books II, III, and IV appeared. The attack on Oscar Williams as editor of A Little Treas­ ury of Modern Poetry would make more sense if Mr. Jarrell were not dealing, apparently, with the early edition...

... changing economic and political conditions of Victorian England, the hero s fall robs him of his stature and dig­ nity without putting an end to his life. Notes i See, for example, D. A. Dike, A Modern Oedipus: The Mayor of Casterbridge," Essays in Criticism 2 (1952): 169-79; John Paterson, The Mayor...

... little mark on history. Fred Rodell, whose judgment may be a bit harsh, calls the Washington court (it consisted of Chief Justice Oliver Ells­ worth, Samuel Chase, William Cushing, William Paterson, Bushrod Washington and James Iredell) easily . . . the worst in U. S. his­ tory, and adds that shifting...

... through the force of example the benefit of this in­ struction. Science in the Development of the South. 121 It is an interesting study, that of determining why certain industries have been successful in certain communities. Why, for instance, is Paterson, N. J., the center of the silk industry...

... itself; it can t really go anywhere, and the plots end up in frenzy, with every narrative gesture heading back toward a kind of infancy, wetting pants, etc. Whereas, in even the few lines Jameson quoted from Paterson ( Mr. I Paterson has gone away / to rest and write. Inside the bus one sees / his...

..., Nugent, and Paterson 2017 ). Yet as “crisis” becomes a constant reference and a continuous discursive presence, it brings with it a need for analysis: not only of specific crises, but also the notion of “crisis” and the implementation of that notion. Crisis has become an ever-present signifier of our...