This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the rhetoric of the Moral Majority, (2) epideictic rhetoric in the works of 16th cntury humanist John Colet, (3) rhetoric and the Equal Rights Amendment, (4) John Wesley and the women preachers of early Methodism, (5) a fantasy-theme analysis of the rhetoric of the Symbionese Liberation Army, (6) the paranoid style in rhetoric, (7) corporate rhetoric of the atomic power industry after Three Mile Island, (8) secular religious images in presidential broadcast economic policy messages from 1923 to 1983, (9) the rhetorical function of narrative in the preaching of Baptist minister John Claypool, (10) antiwar rhetoric in Massachusetts Federalist newspapers from 1812 to 1815, (11) fantasy-theme analysis of the rhetoric of prison inmates, (12) Arkansas governor Winthrop Rockefeller's political speeches from 1964 to 1971, (13) Plato's conception of persuasion, (14) the rhetoric of Quebec independence from 1960 to 1980, (15) rhetoric in the security clearance hearing of J. Robert Oppenheimer, (15) the speaking of Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1968 presidential campaign, and (16) a rhetorical analysis of the sermons of Pope Innocent III. (HTH)