Explores the rhetorical factors which underlie this British film's extraordinary popularity with American audiences. Argues that the rhetorical force of the film comes from the struggle between moralism and materialism, two aspects of the American Dream, thus providing a uniquely powerful American experience. (PD)

Author attempts indirectly to suggest two ways in which psychology informs the study of literature: by illuminating the assumptions about mind and behavior which an author holds and in providing additional metaphors which enable us to overcome our own obstacles to perceiving a poet's vision of human experience. (Author/CB)

Examines the symbolism and theme of Eudora Welty's Petrified Man" and finds the most pitiless indictment of the venal spirit of modern civilization. (Author)

Discusses the formulaic sports novels written for adolescents and the genre of such writers as John Tunis, Joe Archibald, William Campbell Gault, and John Carson. Describes several of these author's novels. (NKA)