Editor's Note

EDITOR'S NOTE Beginning with the next issue, the Bulletin will have a new name. The newly-appointed Secretariat, with the endorsement of its predecessors and the blessing of the Executive Board, has renamed the journal the Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, effective the first issue of Volume 29 (Spring 1975). Other adjustments are hopefully forecast as well, among them an expansion of the scope and kind of contributions to be included . Though one function of the Bulletin, from the time it began to outgrow its name, has been to publish papers read at RMMLA conventions, it has not confined itself to those for some time; for several years, in fact, it has served less as an outlet for convention papers than as a kind of supplementary forum, the relationship between what was read at section meetings and what was printed in the journal being occasional and coincidental at most. That practice, hopefully, will continue in the Review. Though submission of papers read at the meetings is encouraged, the usual cautionary things should be kept in mind — that oral discourse differs from written, that gentle whimsies played before a live audience are sometimes baffling when reduced to cold type, that, finally, a paper conceived and executed for a ten- or fifteen-minute presentation before an assembled company of kindred specialists is rarely transmissible intact to the printed medium. Assumptions and ellipses made for the sake of time often have a perfunctory look on the page, where space may be a factor but time is not. Such papers commonly require revision, sometimes extensive revision, and the melancholy task of the editors has all too often been to compose tactful letters saying so, usually accompanied by excerpts from reports by one or more outside readers to the same effect. Grateful attention, then, will be paid to articles that have not reached us direct from the Spanish Room without benefit of re-diinking, that do not have the look of constriction about them characteristic of papers fitted into a tight schedule, that have been given the care and thought — and if necessary the expansiveness — normally given to any paper on language, literature, or the belles lettres when fashioned for and submitted to any professional journal of letters. Articles are encouraged that have never entered the convention competition but that are interesting (even to educated nonspecialists ), informative, and well-written. The editors will in future issues solicit book reviews and hopefully film reviews as well. The aim is to make of the Review (né Bulletin) a more various journal than it has been, one that appeals as much (this is an old dream of editors of quarterlies) to readers as to contributors. 75 ...