Table of Contents
Volume 9, Number 9 · November 23, 1967
V.S. Pritchett, The Autodidacts 
Robert Lowell, The March (poem)
Anthony Quinton, Cut-Rate Salvation
McLuhan: Hot and Cool—A Critical Symposium edited by G.E. Stearn
The Medium Is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, by Quentin Fiore
The Mechanical Bride by Marshall McLuhan
Paul Goodman, A Causerie at the Military-Industrial
Robert Mazzocco, Counter-Songs
Poems Three by Alan Dugan
Variety Photoplays by Edward Field
W.W. Bartley III, Hello Out There
If This Be Heresy by James A. Pike
The Bishop Pike Affair by William Stringfellow, by Anthony Towne
Stephen Spender, Randall Jarrell's Complaint
Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 edited by Robert Lowell, edited by Peter Taylor, edited by Robert Penn Warren
Elie Kedourie, Not So Grand Illusions
The Shaping of the Arabs: A Study in Ethnic Identity by Joel Carmichael
The Arab Cold War, 1958-1967: A Study of Ideology in Politics (Second Edition) by Malcolm Kerr
The Struggle for Syria: A Study of Post-War Arab Politics, 1945-1958 by Patrick Seale
M.I. Finley, Daedalus Lives!
The Maze Maker by Michael Ayrton
Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, An Exchange on the Left
Letters
Arthur I. Waskow, Dept. of Amplification
Contributors
M. I. Finley (1912-1986), the son of Nathan Finkelstein and Anna Katzellenbogen, was born in New York City. He graduated from Syracuse University at the age of fifteen and received an MA in public law from Columbia, before turning to the study of ancient history. During the Thirties Finley taught at Columbia and City College and developed an interest in the sociology of
the ancient world that was shaped in part by his association with members of the Frankfurt School who were working in exile in America. In 1952, when he was teaching at Rutgers, Finley was summoned before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and asked whether he had ever been a member of the Communist Party. He refused to answer, invoking the Fifth Amendment; by the end of the year he had been fired from the university by a unanimous vote of its trustees. Unable to find work in the US, Finley moved to England, where he taught for many years at Cambridge, helping to redirect the focus of classical education from a narrow emphasis on philology to a wider concern with culture, economics, and society. He became a British subject in 1962 and was knighted in 1979. Among Finley's best-known works are The Ancient Economy, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, and The World of Odysseus.
Robert Lowell died in 1977. His Collected Poems was published this summer. The letters in this issue will be included in The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, to be published next year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. (November 2003)
Anthony Quinton is the former president of Trinity College, Oxford, former chairman of the British Library, and the author of Hume. (June 2001)
