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Runaway pope SAVING GRACE Celia Gittelson Alfred A. Knopf, $10.95, 229 pp. Deris Grumbach No institution of any strength or endurance is without its satirists, and now the papacy has one. It...

World Without End (May 1981)

Books: THREE INSIDERS, ONE OUTSIDER WORLD WITHOUT END Francine duPlessix Gray Simon and Schuster, $12.95, 320 pp. Doris Grumbach IF ONE were given to reviewing by bestowing genre-labels one...

The Multifarious Horses of Instruction (February 1977)

T HIS is TBE fourth account of the annual meetings of MLA I have written. The acronym may be unfamiliar: the Modern Language Association, organized in 1883 to "promote and advance all...

BEAUTIFUL BOOKS (May 1976)

BEAUTIFUL BOOKS DOMg GRUMBACH From Vniversiif/ Presses Dint ability of New Republic I lave been conducting a low afair of sorts with university-press publishing. While I. was still ppening...

HARRISBURG: A SUMMING UP: (September 1974)

bandits and graverobbers may or may to say the least. nothing less than a scandal that Mau- not still flourish among museum trustees The three members are...

BOOKS (October 1973)

The Lady Was m Bisfiep JOAN MORRIS Macmillan, $6.95 DORIS GRVMBACH Joan Morris is an historian and a scholar, and her book is scholarly, tightly packed with fact after fact, and historically...

BOOKS (January 1973)

BOOKS Marriage, open and otherwise Open Marriage NENA & GEORGE O'NEILL M. Evans & Co, $6,95 Marriage Is Hell KATHRYN PERUTZ William Morrow, $5.95 Eve's New Rib ROBERT T....

CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS (December 1972)

BOOKS Critics' Choices lor Christmas BRUCE COOK If 1972 was anything it was election year—or didn't you notice? And because there will be books and books about it next year, perhaps you...

BOOKS (October 1972)

At the very least gag writers would like to die earlier this year. Both films are westerns set in the laughing themselves; and one can sense in the back-desert, both are picaresque allegories that...

Whose Business Is Business? (June 1972)

WHOSE BUSINESS IS BUSINESS? DORIS GRUMBACH Can and will corporations be responsive to human needs? Early in May, in a classroom at the State University in Albany, less than thirty-five persons...

BEYOND SEXUAL POLITICS (December 1971)

tablish a National Legal Services Corporation, and initiate a large-scale child care program. President Nixon vetoed this bill, objecting to the lack of "accountability" in the legal services...

THE GREENING OF THE LAITY (July 1971)

The Greening of the Laity The National Association of Laity (notice the new name; liberation-of-women sentiment insisted on replac- ing "laymen") is now in its fifth year of life. In...

A SEXUAL REVOLUTION, WOULD YOU BELIEVE? (April 1971)

A. Sexuai Mtevotution9 HVouid You Graymoor, at Garrison, New York, is quite a place. Originally a seminary for the training of Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, it is now a retreat house...

LIVING THROUGH THE REVOLUTION (January 1971)

Living Through The Revolution Everyone by now has heard of the wife of the famous biologist Garrett Hardin who, in the last days of 1970, attending the American Association for the Advancement of...

FATHER CHURCH AND THE MOTHERHOOD OF GOD: (December 1970)

Father Church and the Motherhood of God She is 72 years old, slightly stooped, and her scanty, yellow-white braid is wound about her head in the same way it always has been. Her eyes are red-rimmed...

AMERICAN PEACENIKS, 150 YEARS AGO: (November 1970)

American Peaceniks, 150 Years Ago Who in this country's past first spoke out for conscientious objection to all war and for refusal, under any terms, "to support the cause of war and bloodshed"?...

IN THE WORKS AT MERCY (July 1970)

In the Works At Mercy Last fall, for several Sundays in a row on the education page of the New York Times, there appeared a witty advertisement for a small college in Dobbs Ferry, New York. It...

OUT OF THE GROOVES OF ACADEME (January 1970)

Two recent reports on the news media have substituted • • • • some light for the heat generated by Mr. Agnew. Sociolo- gist Herbert J. Gans, at work on a study of national...

LAYMEN'S ASSOCIATION APPROACHES ITS MATURITY (July 1969)

Here's how it works---on paper: over the next two years the U.S. cuts its forces to between 100,000 and 200,000; half would be held in reserve on the coast to reinforce those Asian boys who...

Albany Stows Its First Throne (June 1969)

tion at all as to the need of what Mr. Romney is attempting, and we wish him every success in his efforts. At the same time we must admit that we wouldn't bet much on his chances. WE GAVE...

The Sad, Slow Death of a Cathebral (May 1969)

An Edsel [or which it is now impossible to get spa; parts THE SAD, SL 0 IV DEA T I I OF CA THEDllAL DORIS GRUb[BACH In most moderately-sized United States cities which serve as diocesan seats,...

NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET (February 1969)

Ecumenism, who needs it? NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET 0 _9 _9 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 DORIS GRUMBACH These days my life is almost equally divided between the anguish of looking on at the...

LAST LOOK OR FIRST HOPE?: (July 1968)

LAST LOOK OR FIRST HOPE? On the very day that the Pope declared that the bones discovered under the Basilica had been identified, to his satisfaction, as those of St. Peter, and a few days before...

REPORT ON THE UNDERGROUND: (May 1968)

REPORT ON THE UNDERGROUND It was a curious, truculent, heartening, orderly, confusing, hopeful, exhausting, scholarly, heavily-clerical, all-white meeting. By Friday night about 500 persons had...

THE SILENT SINGERS (January 1968)

Barred from the promised land • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SILENT SINGERS DORIS GRUMBACH In a short story Thomas Mann has noted that "knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us...

Parish Organizations (March 1966)

Too much dead wood PARISH O O _9 _9 _9 O ORGANIZATIONS _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 _9 0 DORIS GRUMBACH O A story is told of a boy whose large family had just been evicted. A kindly neighbor...

On Women Novelists (May 1964)

The View Is Less Panoramic On Women Novelists DORIS GRUMBACH LET US NOTE the phenomenon that, in the world of critics, it is mainly Catholic critics who have felt a need to raise such questions...

A Woman's Place (April 1961)

A Woman's Place The educated woman does not need special courses to prepare her for home-making or even bathing the baby by DORIS GRUMBACH IN THE YEAR just behind us there has been a spate of...

Books (June 1956)

BOOKS The Severe and Light-hearted World of Saroyan MAMA I LOVE YOU. By William Saroyan. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $3.75. By THOMAS F. CURLEY T HE BEST review of this book was written by...

Books (April 1956)

BOOKS A Cunning and Curious Dramatization THE MALEFACTORS. By Caroline Gordon. Harcourt. $3.95 By JOHN W. SIMONS M ISS Caroline Gordon, whose novels and short stories have always been...

Books (February 1956)

BOOKS The Universe Rang True When Fairly Tested SURPRISED BY JOY- The Shape of My Early Life. C. S. Lewis. Harcourt, Brace. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE T HE author of the best-known Anglican...

Book Reviews (January 1956)

And Ever the Twain Shall Meet THE HONORABLE PICNIC. By Thomas Raucat. Translated by Leonard Cline. Decorations by Lorraine Combs. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM DUNLEA F OR the sake of...

Book Reviews (November 1955)

Life and the Dream MARJORIE MORNINGSTAR. By Herman Wouk. Doubleday. $4.95. By R. T. HORCHLER M R. Wouk's designation of Mar]orie Morningstar as a love story and an entertainment...

Books (September 1955)

BOOKS A Note on the Prevalence of Anthologies ESSAYS TODAY. Edited by Richard M. Ludwig. Harcourt, Brace. $2.50. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. A LTHOUGH the publishers evidently have some notion...

Books (February 1955)

BOOKS The Defense of a Basic American Tradition THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TODAY. Mr. Griswold accurately sum- ample, the case of the man who By Erwin N. Griswold. Harvard. Cloth marizes an attitude...

Book Reviews (January 1955)

The Inside Picture of Stendhal's Formative Years THE PRIVATE DIARIES OF STENDHAL. Edited and Translated by Robert Sage. Doubleday. $7.50 By MARTIN TURNELL I N 1799, when he was sixteen years...

Books (October 1954)

BOOKS Finding an Epicurean Basis for a Victorian Culture THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP: A study of E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, and their Circle. By J. K. Johnstone. Noonday....

Books (July 1954)

BOOKS Spiritual Freedom Linked to Political Liberty THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN WORLD AFFAIRS. Edited by Waldemar Gurlan and M. A. Fitzsimons. Notre Dame Press. $4.25. By JOSEPH N. MOODY “What the...

Books (July 1954)

BOOKS Spinning Literature Out of Old Lead AROUND THEATERS By Max Beerbohm. Simon and Schuster. $6. By WALTER F. KERR I T seems to me that all the rest of us who don't write as well as Max...

Books (May 1954)

BOOKS And He Sang in His Chains like the Sea THE POETRY OF DYLAN THOMAS. By Elder Olsen. University of Chicago. $3.25. By NICHOLAS JOOST N OW we have the first detailed appraisal of Dylan...

The Lost Liberals (March 1952)

The Lost Liberals "For a few of us, it is a matter for regret that it is no longer tenable, or practical, or loyal to have been even a small liberal." By DORIS GRUMBACH r - ] I ' V e Rose...

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