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Fandel, John & Gordon, Jan B. & Rentini, Robert V. & Morrissey, Daniel

wrestling matches with Jacob's angel, integrity that none of us can find in erous and hard-working . . . I ask You full of blessing and wounding. Each in solitary confinement....

...Finally, I invite the reader who What Curtis cannot comprehend in JOHN FANDEL wishes to understand the wrestling his cheesecake celebration of these "un- match these two men carry on with If Frost had told me to write an orthodox" priests is how deeply their their God, their Church, their country, account of what he was going to say roots are planted in the rich soil of an to read closely Daniel's entries reflect- as I sat at his feet to listen to him immensely complex tradition, how gra- ing on his relationship to the tyrannical talk three hours of a late summer phically they express all the best and father-both contained in a letter to afternoon away, in 1950, "just the worst of that tradition...
...For reasons which the author If there is a Vilas in the cutthroat Lenin and Marx must also accept redoes not make clear the Democratic sports world of 1974, there are surely sponsibility for the terror...
...Classified payable with order...
...What she to find alternative legal jobs that pay have read in another recent book says simply has not been said before...
...Richard Adams' Watership Down is Douglas excelled at Columbia and RICHARD ADAMS one of those adult novels that began, moved to the faculty of Yale where he Macmillan, $6.95 we are told, as a bedtime narrative for specialized in monitoring the "preda- his children, only to be awarded the tory" practices of high finance...
...And even that and bequeath them to museums and and not altogether without compensa- is threatened, because adults make best- universities, and purchase books, while tions...
...of significant and interesting insights failure of the author to take his sub- He is not especially informative about into Irish immigrant history in Ameriject seriously...
...The first some fascinating inside, yet independ- language...
...bit) a combination of history, myth- Harper & Row, $10 -JURCEN .nd lLI$AIITM MOL11 ANM ology, and guidebook...
...Funds should be for devastating wit...
...Douglas into thinking they were both immune She relieved me of the welter of my also admonished the future lawyers that to forgetting...
...A major northern city Spanish poet Machado, which he trans- written...
...If the book lacks substance and larger manufacturing enterprises were BIOGRAPHY PRESS...
...Sadly, one turns from this 53.95 paperbound...
...the priesthood after graduating from For the Irish in Philadelphia that Religious Stamps meant more and better paying jobs Fordham University...
...Rutgers U. Press, $7.50 ations of notoriety...
...of their senior leaders...
...With Curtis' partisan and sensa- "hatred of the persecutors . . . (who...
...of one sort or another...
...He wrote, in like Court) was that the craggy-faced man many children's parties in Yakima, we blue vein, to Lewis Gannett: "°I7te with long, white hair was a relic of an were never invited to a single one, very thought of reviewing scares me earlier, more optimistic era...
...wrestling matches with Jacob's angel, integrity that none of us can find in erous and hard-working . . . I ask You full of blessing and wounding...
...Weekly tuition simplistic interpretations...
...story...
...As I read the second half I should like to quote the first nine work...
...I read this intro- his appointment to the Court...
...Of the winter the geographic equivalent of a fall, condescending toward his subject...
...But the second reminiscence on the early years, Go that this interest is in part voyeuristic: alternative-to stay as opposed to cutEast Young Man is basically a public when the loss of childhood is threat- ting and running (both of which rabautobiography...
...replied, "Yes, and I remember you can Irish families," concludes the and, because of the considerable inter- asking me what they were...
...10633.a great deal more than intimacy with numerous Irishmen in the grocery, the Bradys and associating with peo- dry-goods, tailoring, shoemaking, and Books Printed ple who were smarter than he was...
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...Birmingham repeats the number of its manufacturing estabeSPIRITUAL VENTURE GROUP...
...The Irishman looked at the keeping the Faith, has been the im- particularly attracted to the rise and American, thought a moment and then portance of making money to Ameri- fall of the McDonnell brokerage house...
...or Frost, her third and final section, "Frost as tic era-Douglas' first forty years before when he wrote prose, listened to the a Practical Critic...
...That was practicing his theory to its priority...
...rich connections between the animal term equally applicable to a terrain, Worse, Mr...
...and endowed him with a radical per- pias, the realm of childhood is always After working hiss way through spective and an energetic idealism...
...An Bill Douglas' formative years secured palaces of yore, these abodes are always early bout with polio drove him to him in the mysteries of the wilderness replicas...
...my desk...
...after all, his tiny Alice do we reconcile the natural world with industry it is supposed to regulate...
...may find a model for that honing to Circle...
...I went to demons as all of us must, and perhaps in the Department of Religious Studies dinner when I should have gone to it is well to remember Gandhi's paradox at Canisius College in Buffalo...
...From Aesop to Tolkien, literary makes of its membership eternal refuship grew out of a mutual love of the history is filled with examples of pro- gees, if not laden with baggage, at least earth...
...232 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y...
...Douglas restates his advice a substitute for some loss of confidence an omen that the warren is being overto FDR that an agency is capable of in their own communicative sets...
...Civil War and the identification of the there is real hope in this September...
...Douglas only mentions ened-by "professional" little leagues, bits do very well)-carries with it the his first wife and divorce in passing- or the vote (and "adult" responsibility) danger that the evil vision, if it is a a turn the curious reader might expect at age eighteen, or the disappearance of manifestation of some internal, family from the man who articulated the special juvenile courts, or wars that dispute within the burrow itself, would Constitutional right to marital privacy...
...the author offers little of weight or their seasons...
...longed adult fascination with children's always prepared to show a white tail Despite a good deal of personal tales, and there is the faint suggestion at the first sign of fear...
...Msgr...
...school, Supreme Court Justice William vation forced him to pick fruit with To get a letter from Frost had its de- O. Douglas came to Georgetown to de- migrant workers and through these light...
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...He season he writes that man's enjoyment and the substance which fills the pil- seems at times to go out of his way of it is really but a disguised enjoy- lows upon which children dream...
...City and Columbia Law School...
...Just so many sentence scription of his early self-education in sounds belong to man as just so many At the end of my first year in law the culture of poverty...
...Who liver the annual Law Day address...
...and even stirs people to anger...
...this wonderful work would not get a the Democratic party and developing careful reading either by the political political machines to rule their cities, left (of course for "humanly interestthe political influence of the Irish in 000 000 000 ing" reasons) nor by the ideological Philadelphia was nearly zero...
...largely strung on the more striking sen- DANIEL MORRISSEY The Justice gives the reader a detence sounds...
...But, because we lie venturous confidence liberated Douglas benefit from his amazing qualities...
...lightful is the story of a rich Mc27 September 1974: 530 and even less than that when compared the author points out, this consigned gument that the end justifies the means...
...Birmingham is the Great Famine in Ireland drove at lent a month to CIDOC in Cuernavaca...
...What kind of nonsense is points out in the foreword to the book, then a professional athlete...
...Frieda Berrigan and Dor- son judges him: "pertinacious, self-cen- one I have seen nowhere in print, one othy Day, both tolling their beads, and tered, generally joyless . . . acid, fierce I never heard him say again...
...ably even more numerous than Hitler's...
...One can be ex- setts found few opportunities to enter Books tremely critical of Spellman's career business and tended to comprise the and his influence on the Church in unskilled workforce...
...in this selection of his writing on second section, "Frost as a Critical Now comes the Senior Justice with writing: it sounds almost no different...
...Especially read the chapter "First Cell, Republican party with the Unionist The Rivers of Knowledge will run clear First Love...
...gave him upon his decision to enter and "more variegated economic base...
...But even searched study that reveals a number The chief fault with this book is the here the author is less than satisfactory...
...of this book, first, I kept hearing, pages of her introduction, "The Scope Two years have passed and many of over-hearing, the voice I remember, of Frost's Criticism," as an ideal, what my once altruistic classmates, unable speaking in letter, preface, review...
...en27 September 1974: 528 counter and fight their enemies led by and commandments which under nor- tage of the splendid reputation his the venerable General Woundwort mal circumstances would be regarded earlier work so rightly deserved...
...It spring and moves us through the ter- loss and renewal or death and rededi- has no overarching structure that might rors of winter and back again to Hazel's cation and were surely more prevalent infuse meaning to the material predeath in a heaven "where the first when man was closer to the earth which sented...
...And if there are, humanity of it as well as for its horrors...
...One suspects, suffered infamy in Communist and fasthe Irish in Philadelphia the squalor however, that without Irish Catholic cist regimes, he gave an informed view and congestion of New York's tene- rule Philadelphia missed a degree of of The Gulag Archipelago...
...As such, Watership Down The Irish deserve better than this is a prophetic book, like the Bible, or -even the rich Irish...
...It had staying power...
...won't be difficult...
...real-estate businesses, and a number of BOOKS PRINTED from well-typed manuscripts...
...flowing of droppings from Frith, the DENNIS CLARK her participation in Civil sun god, that made everything fertile) Rights struggles...
...Obviousy ecoUFM merit...
...Spellman is pictured as something of it compares the Irish experience in 54c, seven times...
...cry of rage...
...not, that is, in one essay, and, clearly conventional practice...
...cross a river at low tide...
...Phi la..Pa.1111 Watership Down tend toward the impression that the author just slapped totemic...
...He was honest and gen- notes while a man was talking," and here, and that prey to a Gnostic imagi- I felt sure I had his saying by heart nation, all but his intimates gigantized 00000 0000 forever-rather, it had me...
...I said it tis and many another idol-worshipper about, ignore...
...It had its surprises, too...
...that is to say that those events it together to take commercial advanCommonweal: 529 the Irish Catholic (who it must not be concentrated on a few families, in Donnell who went back to Ireland to forgotten is handsome, charming, witty particular the McDonnells, Murrays, visit and encountered an old schooland touched with the curse of drink) and Cuddihys, and to a lesser extent chum...
...Gotten not only by heart, and check, without which, alone, he JAN B. GORDON teaches in the English by rote, but by note, lodged in the Department at the State University of finds himself incomplete and the prey New York at Buffalo...
...I scholarship can sound like...
...Relationships in gossip-filled narrative with the distinct THE WESTMINSTER PRESS 920 Witherspoon Bldg...
...with Boston...
...He is shoes...
...to possess and hence to manipulate the and takes this reasonably natural manThe book's chapter on the bureaucracy language of their offspring-usually as ifestation of atmospheric refraction as is its best...
...the indisputable: Stalin's victims were probthis, too, is part of the Philadelphia walker makes the road he walks...
...His latest book of poems is Body be capable of renouncing it...
...features of good old-fashioned Catholic anger, his despotism, became a kind of I should have written the very words rigorism and moralism, anathematizing virtue in us-for he forced us to go down when I got there...
...I had, so I thought, already that only those capable of violence shall JOHN FANDEL is Commonweal's poetry sufficiently digested Frost...
...Maybe so, but this certainly marriage between the McDonnells, A totally different book is Dennis does not add in any significant way to Murrays and Cuddihys, the author al- Clark's The Irish in Philadelphia, a our understanding of the Irish experi- lows his story mainly to trace their serious, solid, widely and deeply reence in America...
...Birmingham is extremely and the human worlds...
...nedys, Butlers, Dohenys and several of came to school in your first pair of "Second only to the Church, and the California "silver kings...
...And The reader gets the feeling that being read to out of the big book by perhaps secondarily, Watership Down, Roosevelt always found such viewpoints her elder sister...
...Box 115...
...Lewis run by some mysterious invader...
...CHARLES F. KLINGER meant cheaper prices...
...endings as that represented by the HUMAN fox's scent...
...It belongs neither to children choice means that the rabbits would ent, comments on its programs...
...excitement and zest that was a part of nately, he prefaced it with the sneer Even more interesting is what hap- the history of her sister cities...
...achievements and failures...
...For example, This is where the story really begins...
...Stephen Birming- LIBERATION Blake's Jerusalem, or The Whole ham, whose earlier book Our Crowd IN A Earth Catalogue-that is, it relates the was so successful in chronicling the FEMINIST history of a race of variously "chosen" lives of rich Jews in America, has at- PERSPECTIVE and "dispossessed" rabbits to the his- tempted a similar treatment of the A THEOLOGY tory of their earth itself...
...24 Australian Xmas people who are smarter than you are," than what was available in Boston...
...Could the talking Frost be fully diof Earth (Roth...
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...POWELL HOUSE, Old Chatham, N.Y...
...book...
...It abounds in charming anec- nomic mobility was much greater in dotes about these select families, many Philadelphia...
...Compensation how- though not a manual for a Renaissance refreshingly unorthodox...
...Curtis...
...Only then can in a way so very alien to a technocratic Whereas the social study of Jews the homeland be reclaimed...
...He has not surveyed how these families acquired their im- ca...
...In this realm, prosperous Irish...
...But Bill Douglas and he didn't, and he did...
...head because literally written down...
...Like the fairy home...
...She does not nod, as even Frost quoting from what he said was his best pontifical emptiness...
...His family's privocal runs belong to one kind of bird...
...Now in Paperback Initially the Irish preferred the Democratic party but during the war many CORRESPONDENCE of them drifted into the Republican (Continued from page 515) PHYLLIS party and some of them even rose to prominence within that party's orga- much from revolution to revolution) nization...
...The novel begins in Most myths deal with the themes of substance...
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...It hopefully flushing out his own great FATHER DAVID S. TOOLAN, s.J., teaches was too good to be false...
...The plot is Securities and Exchange Commission Children's literature has a way of relatively simple: a young rabbit on and in a short time Douglas himself becoming adult literature, not when it midnight patrol duty is possessed by a was chairing that agency and inform- grows up, but when parents learn how vision of blood in the evening sky, ing it with his own brand of dynamism...
...Duchess"-explains the rise to power and living conditions among the immiand wealth of Francis Cardinal Spell- grant Irish in Philadelphia and their Classified man...
...CC, Columbia University Press, P.O...
...and her Temple University Press, $10 years of involvement with and a survival kit (instructions on de- organizations working fending oneself against such untimely ROBERT V. REMINI for human liberation...
...historical value, it is not without some conducted by Irishmen...
...sometimes was wont to do...
...In McGINLEY New York and Boston remained rela- view of this analysis, it is easy to see Saint-Watching tively united, it split in Philadelphia...
...57c, three times...
...Nor does he generations of urban experience, the concern himself with important histor- author races through the first six genLEARN SPANISH...
...Unfortuments...
...Were they, too, charmed by the 27 September 1974: 526 homey easiness of his indelible words reading and listening to her gloss...
...He repeats the old cliche about lem: "For rabbits, winter remains what man, our myths now belong to per- how the rich Jews go to concerts, it was for men in the middle ages- haps the only primitives that remain- opera, theater and ballet, buy paintings hard, but bearable by the resourceful our children at bedtime...
...91 finished berating American associations, an increasing number of state...
...If Noam history: to abandon their catacomb and lated utilities...
...cause, plus the rising forces of in- again one day...
...12136...
...Such an introduction to so Douglas blends American social histhe letter of it, strongly voiced when sensitive a selection is exemplary...
...It is the incisively, so nicely...
...What typical Christ...
...With better Apparently the price of economic adpaying jobs, with the luck of the Irish vantage was the loss of political clout...
...Immediately, I was set a standard of high idealism as an life, a leveling influence to wear the happy to note she bows but does not attainable social goal...
...This within the urges of the territorial im- as symbolic, have a presence even new effort is a quick read, written in perative, and eventually intermarry while absent...
...phia was nearly half that in New York AFL-CIO, La Paz, Keene, Calif...
...Particularly desent to UNITED FARM WORKERS of America...
...What even Cardinal Ottaviani, will under- to seize on weakness . . . the skill, even he said about the heart and the mind stand the connection between this rich at ninety-one, to keep his family on and poetry, in his inimitable way, I piety and militant resistance, but Cur- edge, to deride, show contempt, order thought, was unforgettable...
...That hardly sounds lives, he says, by the words of the center, read Gulag...
...civilization with its divisions of labor, was rich with detail resulting from This reciprocating motif in Water- generations, time, and space...
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...in Rome serving as "playground direc- are striking differences...
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...Thus, says life of Boston, New York, Chicago failure to be full-time literary critics of Clark, a pattern of "settled quality and and Philadelphia might yield some cries of rage by other writers who stability" was established that spared fascinating conclusions...
...The facts are without an Irish Catholic mayor...
...a living wage, have opted for more Frost's saying he never wrote a review...
...For there is peace on his old bones...
...Yet, to John Free- torium to see this living legendary clesiastical establishment of his home man he confessed he was "scared blue figure, the left anchor of the activist town, Douglas came to know them as at any demand on me for prose...
...why someone will always assert that a One of America's favorite poets So the Republican party remained revolution which needed force to suc- "sketches dozens and dozens of strong in the city but the Irish were saints in this spirited and inspiring ceed has been "betrayed...
...did Philadelphia have its first Irish for the game, then the money...
...I should also like is still on the High Court, his vigor unvoice taped in an interview included to quote the first paragraph of her diminished, his dissents unabated...
...The unvarnished truth twice over as I walked from the hilldo not...
...After reading both diaries, one can gested if but dimly recollected, not DANIEL MORRISSEY is the personal clerk understand why each brother finds in of a federal judge in Chicago...
...More, I its way serves as an antidote to the pab- Daniel's counterweight to Philip's rage, ask that by your gracious gift, he may ulum hagiography served up in the dual detecting that "the most insidious and be father to me, and I son to him, biography of the brothers by Richard pervasive form of destruction" lies in through all the years that remain to me...
...rights, poverty law, and public interest the voice...
...right (for "obvious and uninteresting" until 1962, as William V. Shannon reasons...
...Personal growth, not encounter, Quaker Retreat settin Six week- advice Spellman's father supposedly lishments and as a result had a larger nds, November-A~ril...
...has a tendency to fall asleep when the supernatural demands of faith...
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...Although theory about saying and writing sen- heady days of peace marches and fanci- those early American radicals were retences would be scared by the thought ful social revolution, packed the audi- garded as rabble by the political and ecof writing prose...
...Although the subtitle of the work America's Irish Rich...
...Go East, way he talked...
...Douglas, according called words may be strung...
...A comparative study of corrup- heads of state for approving of Alekworking people were able to purchase tion and achievement in the political sandr Solzhenitsyn and criticizing their two-story brick row houses...
...A man to his narrative, did not take the golden is a marked writer if his words are Random House, $10 gravy train...
...My general impression warm-hearted people...
...Religious, The Irish congregating in MassachuXmas, Vatican City stamps...
...He came and we were far too poor to have one incoherent...
...For box numbers add 50c per insertion...
...tory, descriptions of the countryside and half a life of "saying" to go, he talked bits of his personal philosophy with the it into letters John Bartlett and Sidney Go East, Young Man: chronicle of his journey from boyhood Cox, particularly, got: "A sentence is The Early Years poverty in the Far West to a seat on a sound in itself on which other sounds WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS the Supreme Court...
...selling novels out of them before the Far beyond the simple weaving of kids even learn the rules of the new an entertaining yarn, however, Richard game, Watership Down...
...Always go with COLLECT RELIGIOUS STAMPS...
...although they appear as utohiking which became a life-long habit...
...Theorist," and the final paragraph of the self-told story of that more optimisFrost wrote a spoken prose...
...At least that the book would be "widely bought pened politically...
...For example, tor" to cardinal-archbishop of New Philadelphia outpaced Boston in the Workshop York...
...editor...
...monthly In advance clesiastical ladder from "humble" priest ence in Boston and New York...
...There was more land avail- the status of "permanent minority step- will have to repeat Solzhenitsyni s "long able in Philadelphia which, in turn, children" within the Republican party...
...Twelve words a toady as he scrambled up the ec- Philadelphia against the same experiminimum...
...50...
...duction last but I am enlightened by Young Man runs along like a travelog...
...to arrive in Philadelphia during a Whether Philadelphia benefitted from To the Editors: After Saul Maloff home-building boom, and with the the lack of Irish domination of the ["Solzhenitsyn's Long Cry of Rage," help of available building and loan urban machine the author does not Aug...
...Maybe Whitman College in Washington and a Those may be virtues of another era, it is the closest most of us ever come two-year stint teaching English liter- but as long as Justice Douglas stays on to confronting what we imagine ourature at Yakima High, a spirit of ad- the High Court American society will selves to have lost...
...If you really want to learn ical, sociological or psychological erations in the first chapter to get to Spanish quickly, fluently and correctly, and if you have the courage and stamina for in- questions that could have made his the generations beginning in 1846 when tensive and disciplined study, then come for book valuable...
...The Yet Go East is hearty fare for both construct an artificial kingdom of per- solution is a sort of compromise exothe historian and the reader who is petual childhood replete with bunnies dus: the rabbits leave their ancestral looking for moral inspiration...
...exhibited the same cycle as it rotated with those incidents that are dramatic Throughout his novel, Adams makes about the sun...
...It is concerned primroses were beginning to bloom...
...And who will say that Philip by all reports-and yet, "I am going to side cabin on the old Homer Noble does not exhibit the most intolerable say thank you for him . . . even his farm in Ripton, back to Bread Loaf...
...about its object of address, children's from his provincial home and impelled literature is among the most subversive him East on a freight car to New York Watership Down of genres...
...The young ever is the dream of "Alice in Wonder- king-to-be, is a tale about growing up SEC chairman became a regular at the land...
...namely, how inevitably become a captive of the pleases children...
...He Please, readers, right, left and dead Catholic mayor...
...Faced with the dreaded table and once starkly confronted FDR hobby horse invented by adults as a omen, the lapine security council with the fact that his son Jimmy and medium for inculcating moral or peda- (Owsla) must make a decision that, of friends were exercising a very lucrative gogic advice in some form, believed course, has antecedents in human form of extortion over certain regu- to be familiar to the child...
...While the Irish in we know now why at one time there but little read" and the implication that Boston and New York were capturing were so many "Philadelphia jokes...
...The nor to their parents, but is the illusion surrender a physical kingdom for a author expresses his fondness for where both assume that they might spiritual one, a sort of diaspora that Roosevelt and says their close friend- meet...
...Warren Court...
...Down," after all, is a or humorous or simply entertaining...
...Yet lates thus, "There is no road...
...She writes judicial opinion, that the First Amend- Although the good life of turn-ofwell...
...It is both a This remarkable volume regenealogy (and hence a study of be- The Irish in Philadelphia: flects Dr...
...There for more than E:ree times...
...Rushing home to do before he spoke to them, in 1918, in a letter to J.C., as the "outrageous" his dying father's bedside, the loyal I could add to his recorded sayings Daniel does...
...And his diary is replete readily understand Philip's harsh dis- with gracious acknowledgements of hu- Robert Frost on Writing trust of journalists, the "friendly" ones man touches in an otherwise bleak land- ELAINE BARRY almost more than his staunchest critics, scape coming from good men in the as well as Daniel's aversion for the tax- wrong uniforms...
...make them adults very quickly-we gradually infect all of the rabbits...
...It offers impressive research and pulsed with an ship Down, the cycle of departure and a genuine "world" complete with its abiding respect for the deportment and return, is part of the natural synchrony own language and offering the con- achievements of the Jews, in Real Lace between the creatures of the earth and venience of maps for the lost...
...from a time when people really believed in our own home . . . if I had been I felt a little that way in turning that an energetic government could im- united with the elite of Yakima by even to the first half of this book, the prove the material condition of all so tenuous a cord, then to become acnearly 53 pages Elaine Barry modestly citizens, not just the wealthy, and could cepted might have been a goal in later allows herself...
...Adams has done something else in "A most profound Watership Down...
...But where the Irish vote in are compromised and "betrayed...
...author...
...stamps 1157 thru 1172 plus Rwandaise Popes Pius XI, XII, John, Paul for 30% with approvals...
...content with surface observations, thousands of Irishmen to America...
...Russell's extensive Ten Generations of pastoral experience with the ginnings, complete with the rabbit verUrban Experience poor, the blacks, and the sion of Creation: an excessive over- Puerto Ricans in East Harlem...
...Better, far, to have been impressions, soothing my awe into rea- instead of "jumping on the golden the lucky someone Frost wrote to, to son, weaving Frost's scattered words gravy train" we should seek out more have his words in his own voice: into a seamless garment, not, happily, satisfying alternatives such as prisoners' Frost's prose, letter or essay, records a patchwork quilt...
...The result is a near by Lefty M. Russell one's natural history is the same as disaster...
...Chomsky is correct in assuming that to become temporarily nomadic or to Douglas talks about the various per- the ultimate alienation is linguistic, attempt to defend what would appear sonalities of the New Deal and gives then children's literature is a displaced to be an indefensible fortress...
...For complete catalog, write CIDOC, in presenting material about working and does the author have fun with the Apde...
...The prose following this is remarkable, of the "Great Dissenter" (as he had Douglas even relishes his childhood "scraps" from a lecture Frost "once then become known on the Burger status as an outsider: "While there are came near reading...
...Stu- associations young Douglas became would have thought one with a lover's dents, fresh from college in those familiar with the Wobblies...
...Here is a violent man, keep faith...
...Rather he has mense wealth, except in the most gen- credits it as an examination of ten eral and superficial way...
...The creative work only in its first decade and Carroll probably realized, better than theme is surely as old as Hamlet's after that it must be abolished or it will most, that children's literature seldom dilemma on the ramparts...
...As Nietzsche remarked, all love tionalistic account of Berrigan origins stand in need of our compassion and is creative, and all true lovers are hard and happenings before you, you can our courtesy...
...of the past, never of the future...
...scripturally memorized, not recorded the other an irreplaceable complement verbatim...
...Meriden, Conn...
...I also recommend these medita- mere, honest, straightforward report of left-winger today meditates on, and tions to Jewish readers who were re- what I say to you," what he told the draws inspiration from, the hypostatic cently deeply offended at Daniel's criti- schoolboys of Browne and Nichols to union, or pours out his agony of soul cism of Israeli policy...
...Her prose does not prove Frost's ment invites dispute and that free the-century Yakima escaped Douglas, sentence-theory, though her sentences speech best serves its high purpose he found real beauty in the surroundtest it, and I had the pleasure of when it induces a condition of unrest ing wilderness and began a life-long, Commonweal: 527 nourishing symbiosis with nature...
...Sic, thirteen times...
...Those who try to dle- and upper-class groups...:' As justify them are really asserting the ar- .IDOUILEDAY Commonweal: 531...
...The book has no thesis...
...THE UNITED FARM WORKERS, led by Cesar Also, Clark reveals that the death Chaves, struggle for survival against the com- of which document the Irish reputation bined forces of the California lettuce-and-grape rate for Irish immigrants in Philadelgrowers and the Teamsters Union...
...for seem an infantile fixation indeed...
...There are wrong-thinkers left and right and thus beyond himself, not to settle our lives two ways of taking notes: when a man defacing the army of his adversaries on his terms, to find in ourselves the is speaking to you and after he has and making the community he quests virtue that would make love and truth spoken to you," Frost told the boys...
...Hav- to mock the pretensions, foolishness ment of proof against it, whereas for ing just about done away with the and behavior of these social-climbing the rabbit, there is always a food prob- spontaneous simultaneity of primitive Irish...
...It is very well believable...
...DOROTHY BETTS KIERNAN dustrialism, the majority of Philadelphians joined the Republican party...
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Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 22


 
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