News & Views
NEWS & VIEWS Image Books at 20 Doubleday marked the 20th anniversary of its Image Books series the other day in the Library Room of the St. Regis Hotel, and guests heard from John J. Delaney...
...Image Books was conceived by Delaney as a paperback vehicle which would make available at economical cost "well-written books for every intellectual need in the Catholic field...
...Blue, by Myles Connolly (461,000...
...It hopes how to make amends...
...Damien the Leper, by John Farrow (321,000...
...18, 1970 Commonweal...
...Imitation o] Christ, by Thomas A Kempis (230,000...
...Noted, too, was new interest in Chesterton, three of whose books (Orthodoxy, St...
...apologizes for having been so preoccupied with its own foreclosures and bankruptcies that it failed to take notice of the reduced incomes and profits of the Wall Street brokers...
...S.O.B...
...Carmel and Living Flame o[ Love...
...Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Li[e, all on the Image Books' list...
...Some 149 titles are now in print...
...The editors of Commonweal don't cotton to plagiarism...
...Cheer.Leader JuRe Julie Nixon Eisenhower's proposal about her father's future merited note to the extent accorded by the New York Times...
...But his keenest enthusiasm was reserved for Merton...
...Delaney, editorial director in charge of the Catholic Department at Doubleday, sees a strong revival of interest in things spiritual...
...But if something was going to be plagiarized, Mike Klare's article, given the circumstances, was fine, thank yOtl...
...Regis Hotel, and guests heard from John J. Delaney a more optimistic report on the state of religious book publishing than most present would have been prepared to offer themselves---or guess, in the instance of non-editors...
...Story o[ the Trapp Family Singers, by Maria Augusta Trapp (349,000) ; Popular History o[ the Catholic Church, by Philip Hughes (334,000...
...Over 20 years, 344 titles have been published, more than 185 million copies sold...
...Every type of relief is needed," says S.O.B.'s appeal, "but there is a particularly desperate - - and unusual shortage of towels...
...Windows and a glass door were broken...
...Our Lady o[ Fatima, by William Thomas Walsh (222,000), and The Spirit o] Catholicism, by Karl Adam (201,000...
...How come...
...no more...
...Thomas Aquinas and Everlasting Man) have been reissued in recent months...
...Cana Is Forever, by Charles Hugo Doyle (307,000...
...There is a tremendous interest in the writings of nificant spiritual writer of our times seems to be Thomas Merton...
...Inside, about 100 demonstrators disrupted Knowles' speech for more than an hour...
...Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle...
...The Times said that Abourezk was "understandably embarrassed" by the discovery...
...The speech dealt with the use of foreignaid funds for police training in other countries, a practice Abourezk opposes...
...It's not my style to lift stuff verbatim from someone else's work...
...Certainly ~ / / i f -~'~=~ ~ ~ _ from the viewpoint of Image k"7-/N] I/" ~ ~ r Books at least, the most sig- _[(/_~') ~___v--..-- . - l ~ l ~ / ~ , / ' 7 ~r ] t ~ . - . - ~ ~ A. Ross, Rothco 1 November 1974:98 New York City, 10005...
...Outside the hall, about 500 demonstrators picketed, carrying signs blaming Rockefeller for the 43 deaths resuiting from the 1971 massacre at Attica prison...
...If he is well enough to rove, the place to start will be a trip to Washington to testify in the Watergate cover-up trial...
...Increasingly, people are turning to books that through the centuries have stood out as exemplars of the great Christian tradition...
...Delaney reported favorable readership receptions to modern writers, such as Eugene Kennedy, Andrew Greeley, Martin Marty, John A. Hardon and Phyllis McGinley, whose Saint Watching recently appeared in the Image .series...
...It urges "all Americans" to join in this humanitarian enterprise and send Share Packages to the New York Stock Exchange, Thomas ,,Merton," he com- / mented, so much so that it ~ . - ' L I "~ . begins to appear that a Mer- ~ - - - - - - - - ~ , ~ J L-ton cult is forming...
...I had no idea that it was taken verbatim from the article," he commented...
...He canceled at the last minute, sending in his place John H. Knowles, president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...The best-selling multi-volumed work has been Frederick Copleston's The History o[ Philosophy, with 1,250,000 copies sold...
...Abourezk, of course, blamed an aide, whom, he says, he "strongly reprimanded...
...S.O.B...
...envisions "emergency relief for the victims on Wall Street through Share Packages...
...Later, about 200 demonstrators marched on a nearby branch of the Rockefellercontrolled Chase Manhattan Bank, of which Nelson's brother David is chairman...
...He cited St...
...John of the Cross' Dark Night of the Soul, Ascent o] Mt...
...Rocky Road He's not even confirmed (in fact, may never be), and already Nelson Rockefeller is forced to go the routes of LBJ and RMN in their political declines, and duck the public...
...Recently, in New York, Rockefeller was scheduled to address a forum at the Cooper Union, a New York art school...
...Those S.O.B.'s Moved by the revelation of Presidential adviser Alan Greenspan that Wall Street brokers have suffered more from current economic conditions than poor people, a group in Portland, Oregon, is organizing a campaign bannered SAVE OUR BROKERS...
...There were no injuries or arrests reported...
...Image's ten single-volume best sellers: The New Testament of the Jerusalem Bible (660,000) ; Parents, Children and the Facts o] Li[e, by Henry V. Sattler, CSSR (527,000...
...The article in question was Michael T. Klare's "Policing the Empire," a piece which examined the exportimport trade in law and order...
...Senatorial P l r a t t ~ The New York Times gleefully seized on the discovery that the major floor speech delivered last June 21 by Senator James S. Abourezk was lifted almost verbatim from the Sept...
...His 'gift for communication,' as his daughter describes it, can most usefully be applied there...
...He received word of "unfriendlies...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...The Times carried a three-sentence editorial: "Julie Nixon Eisenhower would like to see her father serve the nation as a roving ambassador...
Vol. 101 • November 1974 • No. 5
