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46 MODERN DRAMA' May same dead end he has devised for his hero, the fruitlessness of logic, even in a play, only to surprise him with a way out, the concept of grace. In Die Physiker the abruptness of the ending should not be misleading; an understanding of the pattern in Diirrenmatfs plays makes the ending clear and the theme apparent. KURT J. FICKERT NOTE At the 1968 meeting of the MLA, a group of scholars attending the Brecht Seminar formed themselves into an International Brecht Society. Since the formation of the Society, plans have been advanced for the publication of a Brecht Yearbook with the first issue to appear in early 1971. The new Yearbook, with Eric Bentley (Columbia) and Reinhold Grimm (Univ. of Wisc.-Madison) as Senior Editors, and John Fuegi (Univ. of Wisc.-Milwaukee) as Managing Editor, is planned as an international clearing house for the best writing on all aspects of Brecht studies. Brecht, the, man of the theater, will be as welcome to the Yearbook as the poet, playwright, and aesthetic theorist. Those wishing further information on the Society and the Yearbook may obtain it by writing for a free offprint of the Modern Language Journal (October, 1969) article: "The Brecht Society: A Prospectus," to Professor John Fuegi, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201. U.S.A. ...