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Wright, Elliott & Gibbons, Russell W.
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...She entered the world of men and bested them in verbal confrontations and the art of persuasion and propaganda...
...On Your Body : "All created things have their echo in your body as the sound of the sea echoes in the conch...
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...36J gift in large supply, and in this new book the theologian-lawyer sets forth what he discerns about America by viewing the nation biblically, more especially, through the eschatology of Revelation...
...The author is not surprised that civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s failed to produce a benevolent society...
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...Indeed, she may he one of the more remarkable American women which the republic has allowed to alter its course, yet few have known her history...
...Jones was a little 72-year-old lady, a bonnet on her snow-white hair and attired in a black silk basque with a lavender vest and lace around the neck, was enough to ensure her life as a challenge to future historians and biographers...
...Cows and corporations" are fallen...
...Yet addressing a group of striking steelworkers in Gary, Indiana in 1919 she declared that "if Bolshevist is what I understand it to he, then I'm a Bolshevist from the bottom of my feet to the top of my head...
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...Resistance to death is the only way to live humanly in the midst of the Fall," Stringfellow advises...
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...Babylon is the image that emerges, not Babylon as symbol of a wicked place but Babylon the epitomy of fallen creation, the realm of death...
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...These are the only English versions I have seen of these poems, and I don't know whether they have been approved by Ernesto...
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...Mother's ideological biographers may have likened her to a flawless industrial Carrie Nation, swinging away at tyrants and bosses, clothed in truth and utter dedication...
...The work of others, too, is viewed sub specie Nicaraguae...
...In truth, she may have known days of little glory in addition to those of intense personal loss...
...Like many a spellbinder and leader, Mother was "consistently inconsistent" in her preachments and practices about violence, unions and politics...
...She was a delight to those who saw and heard her, and today remains even more so to those who would fashion hero figures of those who urged on seemingly hopeless causes...
...They allow us to see the atom in terms that are essential to the debate and definition of public policy...
...What mattered about Mother was not her motivation, but her style...
...That a woman should utter such an admonition in the year 1902 was an assault on the transparent American tradition of gentility, but given that Mrs...
...Perhaps her own personal tragedy had brought her to the now reactionary posture that women belong in the home with their children...
...That gift encompasses the ability to see the "remarkable in common happenings," the reality of resurrection in a time of despair and the transforming power of the Word of God in the absence of miracles...
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...Her detractors spread anonymous tracts calling her a onetime prostitute and madam, which she attributed to a position she took in a letter to a newspaper protesting the policy of the church in denying burial of a prostitute for whom she had once done sewing...
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...It just may be that human wilIfulness is aggressive enough to produce the disorientation he calls the Fail...
...Cardenars friend and colleague Jos6 Coronel Urtecho has pointed out that, up to the present, poetry is the only Nicaraguan product of universal value...
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...That alone would have rubbed Mother out of the litany of saints of most Revised Standard Editions of labor history...
...leaders in the first decades of this century, Fetherling observes that Mother Jones was "herself a revolutionary only on impulse and not upon reflection...
...A California newspaperman, Fetherling has not produced a work for nostalgia buffs, or for ideological types seeking a barricades romantic school version of her life...
...Yet also in truth, her story is about as splendid as anyone who lived a full century can claim...
...The book, however, is persuasive in arguing that the state--any state--is paramount principality, committed to death...
...The strikers cheered her for a full five minutes...
...There is a strong-minded axiom of Ronald Christ's that "Writing translatable literature may not he a measure of greatness...
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...the Fall itself more than the consequence of human sin...
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...What is the meaning of that odd quotation...
...And from that view it becomes intriguing to wonder what your elected representatives and your nation's bureaucrats are devising...
...Stringfellow is the modern American church's Jeremiah: He cries woe and lives hope...
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...Mary Jones was human, and a very human portrait emerges in his book...
...What about hope...
...RUSSELL W. GIBBONS, a long-time contributor on labor affairs, has also appeared in The Nation, The New Leader and Dissent...
...To their face, an antiunion federal judge was "a scab" and a corporation president "a high class burglar...
...I have never had a vote and I have raised hell all over this country," she said...
...Christ inquired about is pretty evident (in the interview Cardenal deflected the question because its phrasing permitted him to talk about Pound and so on...
...Why the hell don't you take your high-power rifles and blow the goddamned scabs out of the mines...
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...And millions would call her Mother...
...When a poem has developed a series of images expressing nakedness, emptiness, solitude ("without any makeup, without her Press Agent, without etc...
...Since Stringfellow says little about the nature of fallen bovines or other examples of non-human creation, there is room to challenge his assertions about the impact of sin...
...Mary Harris Jones told a wretched group of striking West Virginia miners, "and fight like hell for the living...
...It means something like "stream" or "jet" or "downpour" of light...
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...Thus Cardenal identifies as a "special circumstance" which differentiates two Jesuit poets "essentially" the fact that one, a Spaniard, has been in Nicaragua while the other, an Englishman, had not: "I say this because a reading of any of his poems is enough to make it clear that for him the presence of the Nicaraguan landscape is always felt as a sense of relief...
...For the next 60 years she would know no real home or family, but instead would adopt America's toilers...
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...The gift of discernment," Stringfellow writes, "is basic to the genius of the biblical life style...
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...The only hope he sees is in faith...
...They were the days of "the martyrs and the saints...
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...Despite the fact that she had become a critic of the growing conservatism of labor 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS WILLIAM LANOUE'FFE is on the staff of The National Observer...
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...Contemporary liberationists would have a difficult time enshrining Mary Jones, however...
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...If so, I can only observe that a poem once published has some rights held in trust by its readers which are not the poet's to abrogate...
...but it is, after all, what we often mean by greatness...
...For it is only in that context that the atom's power can ever be controlled...
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...And Mary Jones earned her niche in history "from countless cold nights in miners' hovels, sleeping on a bare floor with her handbag for a pillow...
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...Timesaving, "inside" summary of religious and social news . . . a rich source of ideas for sermons, prOgrams, classes, Twenty-two issues yearly for $16.%, by First Class Mail...
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...Born in 1830, seven years before Queen Victoria ascended the throne and less than 50 years after the end of the American revolution, she died at the threshold of the New Deal and the CIO...
...Home training of the child should he her task, and it is the most beautiful of tasks," she said after suffrage was enacted...
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...High position did not impress her, for she had no betters...
...None looking for a word from God will dare ignore it...
...Yet Mother Jones did not fit into neat historical compartments: she was -Catholic yet outrageously irreverent...
...Transmiten la noticia . . " is in fact a typical introduction for the kind of radio news item one might hear under all that neon, as one might hear "From the wires of United Press International . . ." or "An unconfirmed report on the AP wire . . ." Returning to the first poem, "chorro de luz" is not a conventional way of talking about light...
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...She quoted from Lincoln's speeches which she heard him make, and yet in her last days of activity was to use the telephone, the radio and the automobile...
...It is probably the greatest achievement of these two books, and their authors, that they allow the inquisitive reader to consider nuclear energy not as a technological mystery, but as a force that is just as prone to personal and political influences as it is to the laws of nature and science...
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...She thrived in the era of social discontent and economic upheaval which produced a labor movement born of secret groups of hunted men...
...When Rockefeller sent her a telegram on her 100th birthday, speaking of Mother's "fearless adherance to your duty as you have seen it," she mellowed and said that he "had a Christian heart...
...l his may he an overstatement ---Gerard Manley Hopkins and Angel Martinez differ in other important ways...
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...There is no hope for America, and the Lord's song in this strange land is "the heavenly chorus at the doom of Babylon...
...True to her style, however, she would in the end make peace with the chief villain of her age, fellow centenarian John D. Rockefeller, but one of her last acts before her death in 1930 was to support a movement in the Miners union to oust John L. Lewis, who Mother felt "had betrayed my boys...
...It is distressing to have to note that the samples exhibited by Commonweal are adulterated goods...
...But the "fixed point of view" Mr...
...The galaxies are precisely the regions of space which are least empty and lonely...
...it elicits echoes of Danae and 28 }une 1974:366...
...Or, the incredible journeys to reach such places, or the jails, in some of which she claimed she had to fight off rats with a broken beer bottle...
...For Mother Jones there was only one struggle--the economic battle which embraced all organizations, movements, men and women...
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...are, in his view, principalities, creatures of death that are not amenable to the corrective efforts of likewise fallen people...
...Indeed, the widespread use of nuclear energy requires the rapid development of near-perfect social and political institutions...
...Consider this rebuke to a mass meeting of miners in Raleigh County, West Virginia in 1917: "You goddamned cowards are losing this strike because you haven't got the guts to go out and fight and win it...
...Even in death, she was agitating: she is buried in the Miners' cemetery in Mt...
...Biographer Dale Fetherling, a native West Virginian where Mother Jones remains an active legend, has written a personal portrait which should remedy the 50-year-old lament of George West, who wrote in The Nation in 1922 that her life "is an epic and it is the shame of American writers that it has never been told...
...As the authors conclude: "None of man's previous discoveries compares with nuclear energy in terms of the demands placed on him to use it wisely...
...For "Mother" Jones has been legend in the four decades since she has been dead and in fact was a living legend for as many years of her life...
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...While a pioneer of social change, an organizer, a champion of rights and of dignity, she was nevertheless adamantly opposed to women's suffrage...
...why is the culminating simile ("sola como unastronauta frente a la noche espacial") perversely blunted by translating "noche espacial" as "galactic night" instead of something like "the night of space...
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...If Mother had not left her native Ireland, a fellow labor agitator 28 lune 1974:364 observed, she "probably would have been hanged--or have been President of the Irish Republic...
...Carl Sandburg would write in Memoir o] a Proud Boy that "He had no mother but Mother Jones...
...And grand and glorious it was...
...The high class burglars of today would never have understood that...
...On this issue she was poles apart from most of the other female activists of her day...
...In all, she was a benevolent fanatic, a Celtic blend of sentiment and fire, of sweetness and fight, who captured the imagination of the American worker as no other woman--perhaps no other leader-ever has...
...Literal translation can be treacherous too, of course...
...At the age of 37 she was left a childless widow when a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis took her husband and four young children in one week...
...and inventive combination of physical certainties (the periodic table of elements, radiation levels of various isotopes) with political and psychological unknowns (the susceptibility of certain governments to blackmail, the limits of credibility and likelihood of successful hoaxes, the motivation of dissident individuals and groups...
...an individualist who defied virtually every convention of her day, yet gregarious in fully exploiting the mass meetings and rallies of an evolving union movement, and finally an ascetic who knew little of the comforts she sought for the working people of her crusade...
...a rhetorical radical yet in many ways conservative in politics...
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...Although her mere 100 pounds and genteel appearance suggested the opposite, Mother Jones was not reluctant to urge violence when violence had been done to "her boys...
...The next week a fusillade of 300 rifle shots closed the mine...
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...You don't need a vote to raise hell--you need convictions and a voice...
...Bethat as it may, and whatever "greatness" may mean, any poem deserves to have its strength and weakness translated faithfully or else left untranslated...
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...Her specialty was agitation, and in style Mother Jones emerged as a toilers' Joan of Arc--if a grandmotherly one--who led armies of the angry and the abused...
...Stringfellow has the On Chastity: "Chastity does not forbid love...
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...This consciousness, political but transcending politics, lends continuity to the contrasts created by his maturing sensibility, from the early love lyrics to the Gethsemani poems and the Salmos...
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...When asked where she lived, she would reply: "Well, wherever there is a fight...
...She was left with little more than her husband's fervent belief in trade unionism...
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Vol. 100 • June 1974 • No. 15
