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Comments from sixty years 'NORMALCY' & ITS DISCONTENTS T !O SOME PEOPLE man is a machine, and man is no more than a branch of physics. To other people man is an animal --mere!y-and economics,...

Searching for Truth (April 1980)

A tough & hard-earned Christianity SEARCHING FOB TROTH: A PEBSONAL VIEW OF BONAN CATHOLICISM Peter Kelly Collins, $8.95, 192 pp. John P. Sisk I must confess that I approached Peter Kelly's...

PHILOSOPHIZING ON THE PAST (October 1977)

B O O K S fill II I l fill llllllllllllllll I I Ill lllllll II II l fill I llllllllllll l l l PHILOSOPHIZING ON THE PAST JOHN P. SISK Philosopher at Large: An l n t e U e e t u a l...

UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS (May 1977)

8ome Om~tmulbqf Books of the Y~r 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS Walter Arnold "Why should we not also enjoy an original relation to the universe?" Emerson's leading...

REBUTTING THE ANTI-TECHNOLOGISTS (July 1976)

BOOKS REBUTTING THE ANTI-TECHNOLOGISTS The Existential Pleasures of Engineering SAMUEL C. FLORMAN St. Martin's Press, $7.95 Samuel C. Florman's book, like so many others written during the past...

NOTRE DAME'S CHARACTER:RESPONSES TO THE STATEMENT: (April 1974)

may be studied at Notre Dame, especially what is best and most intellectually challenging in a robust Catholic tradition. This purposeful preservation of the Catholic interests of the University...

BOOKS (February 1974)

Alphabetically, the Dictionary ranges between Julius Weinberg's "Abstraction in the Formation of Concepts" and Nathan Rotenstreich's "Zeitgeist" as it presents articles of three different sorts:...

HOT SPORTING BLOOD (March 1973)

[ II 1 I HOT SPORTING BLOOD IOHN P. SISK All sports and games have a potential for fanaticism When Tom Meschery, former pro basketball player and coach, contended in a recent issue of Sports...

THE CITADEL OF PROSE (October 1965)

Poetry at the gate THE CITADEL OF PROSE .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 O O O O O .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 JOHN P. SISK Most of the trials of the Enghsh teacher can be traced to the fact...

THE SPECTER OF THE POOR (June 1965)

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE SPECTER OF THE POOR Psychological de/enses in the war against poverty JOHN P. SISK Given the competitive nature of the world in which we live (to say...

THE LATE DEMON RUM (April 1965)

can be set-depending on state constitutions and administrative practices-by state courts, State's Attorneys or those who locally have the power constitutionally. Admittedly, even with...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1964)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week W. E. ARNOLD The "Catholic book" seems to be an indefinable, if dispensable category. I do not know what a "Catholic book" is, but the following is a choice...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1963)

BOOKS Critics' Choices for Christmas THOMAS CURLEY Let me begin with a quotation: "Hence, the search for motives, the demand that everybody display in public his innermost motivation, since it...

Books (October 1963)

BOOKS An Uncommon Emotional and Imaginative Involvement Culture Against Man. By Jules Henry. Random House. $7.95. by John P. Sisk THE OPENING line of Culture Against Man-"This book is about...

Books (October 1963)

BOOKS A Bold, Speculative Stab Matter and Spirit. By R. C. Zaehner. Harper and Row. $4.50. by Michael D. Zeik IN A far-ranging, exuberant and exhilarating survey, R. C. Zaehner, Spalding...

America and the Dream (July 1962)

Theory vs. Fact America and the Dream JOHN P. SISK AMERICA being the land of promise, it follows that one of our favorite pastimes is the discovery of the gap between the promise, the dream, the...

Tim Writer in America (December 1961)

Even the Optimistic Have Reservations about Our Culture The Writer in America JOHN P. SISK "THIS IS SO large and complicated a country," Robert Graves once said about America, "that almost...

Books (September 1961)

BOOKS England's Finest Hours on the Television Screen THE TELEVISION PLAYWRIGHT. Selected by Michael Barry. Hill and Wang. 490 pp. $7.95. By GERALD WEALES WE HEAR a great deal these days about...

Books (September 1961)

BOOKS Dispassionate View of a Most Passionate War THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. By Hugh Thomas. Harper. $8.50. By RICHARD GILMAN DURING the battle for Madrid in 1936 Louis Delapree, the correspondent...

Books (May 1961)

BOOKS A Brilliant and Thorough Contemplation of Dramatic Art THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY. By George Steiner. Knopf. $5.00. By RICHARD GILMAN NEAR THE END of this long essay on the decline of tragic...

Conservatism on Campus (January 1961)

Conservatism on Campus One gets the impression that the extreme, eccentric or heroic gesture is a luxury students feel they have no time for by JOHN P. SISK T HE NOVEMBER Esquire featured a...

Literary Ghosts (December 1960)

WORDS FOR SALE Literary Ghosts by JOHN P. SISK m ‘ EN," SAYS IAGO, "should be what they seem," and it is because so many of us — passionately agree with him that the ghost writer arouses in us...

The Confessional Hero (May 1960)

The Confessional Hero There is every reason for the confessee to be one of the few acceptable heroes in the...

Taking Man's Measure (April 1960)

The uses and abuses of the ubiquitous personality test Taking Man's Measure by JOHN P. SISK I T MUST have occurred to more than one Sherlock Holmes fan that the great detective, with...

The Mobile American (January 1960)

The Mobile American Every year, despite the traditional suspicion of the man who can't stay put, more and more Americans are on the move by JOHN P. SISK A HALF CENTURY ago H. G. Wells...

The Rover Boys Revisited (May 1959)

The Rover Boys Revisited In our youth, the real library was each boy's shelf or two of beaten-up, dog-eared and scribbled-in treasures, half of them borrowed by JOHN P. SISK B Y NOW several...

Beatniks and Tradition (April 1959)

The writer is by nature the critic of respectable society Beatniks and Tradition by JOHN P. SISK T HE BEAT generation writers have had a very good press if one uses as a standard the extent to...

Enter the Man's Man (December 1958)

310 The ad-men are cashing in on the battle of the sexes Enter the Man's Man by JOHN P. SISK IT SEEMS SAFE to say that Marlboro cigarettes, now in the fourth year of their tatoomanship, have...

American Best Sellers (July 1958)

As one studies the annual lists, certain patterns and tendencies do appear American Best Sellers by JOHN P. SISK T HE PRESENT YEAR marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of...

No Offense Intended (March 1958)

Sentimentality and good humor are the natural enemies of satire No Offense Intended by JOHN P. SISK L AST SUMMER in the New York Times Book Review British novelist Kingsley Amis predicted...

Rags to Riches (January 1958)

Horatio Alger and the Age of the Robber Barons Rags to Riches by JOHN P. SISK T HOSE WHO remember the stories of Horatio Alger may recall that once the hero had gotten a firm hold on one of...

The Western Hero (July 1957)

The Western Hero "THE WORLD OF THE HERO IS A VIOLENT ONE, CLOSE TO THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES OF LIFE AND DEATH" JOHN P. SISK IT IS HARD not to be aware that the nation is suffering one...

Books (March 1957)

BOOKS The Dignity Imposed by Perception and Reason GIVE US THIS DAY. By Sidney Stewart. W. W. Norton. $3.50. By THOMAS F. CURLEY THIS IS a book that makes one better for the reading of it. In...

Books (December 1956)

Challenges of Our Time CONTEMPORARY CHURCH ART. By Anton Henze and Theodore Filthaut. Sheed and Ward. $7.50. By H. A. REINHOLD THE OLD saying that there is no way of settling an argument about...

Books (September 1956)

BOOKS A Poetic and Wise Book THE LYCIAN SHORE. By Freya Stark. Harcourt, Brace. $6.50. By JOHN P. SISK T HIS BEAUTIFULLY written and illustrated book is the account of Miss Stark's journey...

The Exposé Magazines (June 1956)

WORM'S-EYE VIEW The Expose Magazines JOHN P. SISK THE EVER-CHANGING configuration of magazines on a newsstand might be the best possible index to the nation's state of mind. Why,...

Books (May 1956)

BOOKS Power in the Third Age of the Middle Earth THE LORD OF THE RINGS. III Vols.: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King. By J. R. R. To)kien. Houghton Mifflin...

Crime and Criticism (April 1956)

WORLD OF THE MYSTERY Crime and Criticism JOHN P. SISK MYSTERY stories, like golf, are not spoiled for the highbrows because the lowbrows like them. Once, reading them was something you did on...

Books (April 1956)

BOOKS A Scientist's Esthetic Rage for Order I AM A MATHEMATICIAN. By Norbert Wiener. Doubleday. $5. By JOHN P. SISK T HE CURRENT suspicion about the scientist is ,that he tends more and more...

Books (March 1956)

BOOKS The Literary Psyche of Modern Italy MODERN ITALIAN STORIES. Selected and translated by W. J. Strachan. Philosophical Library. $4.75. By WILLIAM DUNLEA T HESE short stories are...

Books (December 1955)

BOOKS Revealing Example of Charity and Hope THE CATHOLIC APPROACH TO PROTESTANTISM. By George H. Tavard. Harper. $2.50. By H. A. REINHOLD I F FATHER T a v a r d ' s book amounts to the...

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...

The Things that Pass (September 1955)

LIFE AND TIME JOHN P. SISK The Things That Pass S HAKESPEARE'S Troilus and Cressida, Orwell's 1984, and a stack of seventeen,year-old Li/e magazines may appear to be an unlikely combination,...

Life in the Movie Magazines (March 1955)

THE ILLUSION BEHIND THE ILLUSION Life in the Movie Magazines JOHN P. SISK I T is widely believed that most readers os movie magazines are women located under hair dryers, though this may be...

Passion in a New Dimension (October 1953)

white man? Let him leave us to our Coca-Cola civili- ADDED ILLUSION zation. The worthwhile Indian can take care of him- self. Let the white man leave him alone. ...

SECURITY FIRST (August 1949)

458 THE COMMONWEAL August 19, 1949 steel, which to date have been the gilts of their sweat to those cleverer or stronger. Without sowh~ hatred, but without cowardice, we cart spread over the...

ON HEARING MR. BUDENZ (July 1949)

360 THE COMMONWEAL July zz, 1949 resources in general, which were created for the benefit of all--should be the property of the State. But nationalizations, desirable as they are in principle,...

THE ZEITGEIST AND THE PILOT (May 1948)

Whether There Is Sorrow in the Demons Near the top a bad turn some dare. Well, The horse swerves and screams, his eyes pop, Feet feel air, the firm winds prop Jaws wide wider until Through...

The Timeless Tales of Hollywood (October 1946)

October 4, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 595 of discussing it used the following rather startling phraseology. "Every young worker," wrote that paper, "represents fifteen or twenty years of heavy capital...

The Taylor and/or Catholic Question (July 1946)

July 26, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 357 The Taylor and.or Catholic Question JOHN P. SISK o NCE I KNEW a very short man who married a very tall woman. How this came about I do not know, except...

Sison, Guillermo V.

Sister, A Maryknoll

Sisyphus

Sitman, Matthew

Sitman, Nicholas Haggerty, James Lassen, Matthew

Sitman, Philip Gorski, Susan McWilliams, Peter Steinfels, Matthew

Sitman, Robert W. McElroy, John T. McGreevy, Cathleen Kaveny, Matthew

Situ, Xiao

Sivack, Denis

Sivanstrom, Edward E.

SJ, AN ADOPTIVE FATHER, JOHN SNIEGOCK, ROBERT P. HEANEY,MD, LOUIS J. McCABE

SJ, Bryan P. Galligan