THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD:
McCarthy, Abigail
THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD ABIGAIL MCCARTHY They are going back to college-not all but vanished from our world. A...
...A major northern city Spanish poet Machado, which he trans- written...
...One significant reason for Irish Catholics either to political frus- Until Maloff and all of us realize this, this, Clark finds, was better housing tration within the Democratic party or there will be many in the future who conditions...
...To the many who see ex-Presicent of the students dropping out after . . Nothing could possibly dent Nixon's chief error in that he a year or so...
...Alistair Cooke import might seem exotic indeed- finals...
...At least that the book would be "widely bought pened politically...
...And this, even when he had and discovered their excellences to a "honor of the mind" is of such serious $16,000 at stake as in the Louisville whole new audience...
...THE WALKER MAKES THE ROAD ABIGAIL MCCARTHY They are going back to college-not all but vanished from our world...
...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...
...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...
...The national climate is sideration, the quality of university time...
...the indisputable: Stalin's victims were probthis, too, is part of the Philadelphia walker makes the road he walks...
...He Please, readers, right, left and dead Catholic mayor...
...All this came home to me as I was false statement of fact, made de- But a fruit of the human spirit, like rereading favorite detective stories this liberately, is the most serious the reverence for truth, never quite summer-among them Dorothy Say- crime a scientist can commit...
...with Boston...
...Miss Sayers' debo- He also makes such abstruse places...
...Clouds of Witness and The we shall get a social revolution of a correct calls against his opponents Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club quite unparalleled sort...
...private grants are drying up...
...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...
...To get the this summer included several paraArts and Sciences flow from better of an argument...
...Msgr...
...story...
...excuse deliberate falsification.' did not burn the tapes, dishonoring Yet, in the thousands still returning 'There's no sense in deliberate truth in scholarship would hardly seem or going for the first time, I doubt falsification, anyhow,' said the worth discussion...
...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 facts are without an Irish Catholic mayor...
...Civil War and the identification of the there is real hope in this September...
...Not Abigail McCarthy (Cotta...
...Plagiarism and falsithat there are many who think of the Bursar...
...In making the which made science possible is as I know, expressed no compunction end, not the way, the important con- that the truth shall be told all the to this day...
...A fragment of the discussion all over the country...
...It is very well believable...
...ably even more numerous than Hitler's...
...First you are a sportsman, our nostalgia for values and manners granted, according to recent studies...
...book...
...university as did John Donne: by it?' After all, a speaker at the American The University is a Paradise, 'It has been done,' said Miss Bar Association's national meeting Rivers of Knowledge are there, Hillyard, 'frequently...
...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...
...Yet lates thus, "There is no road...
...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 open admissions ship...
...You wouldn't want to see in his introductory commentaries now 40 years later-to a college him (the opponent) cheated," he told reminds us, however, that the population in which cheating on a interviewer Bud Collins of the Boston peculiar charm of the revival lies in very large scale seems to be taken for Globe...
...Meriden, Conn...
...Or out of graphs from another's scholarly paper thence...
...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...
...What kind of nonsense is points out in the foreword to the book, then a professional athlete...
...The degree is the passkey Search: poses, said so to reporters checking to upward mobility, to the job which "The only ethical principle his sources afterwards, and has, as far will define one's life...
...Unfortuments...
...With better Apparently the price of economic adpaying jobs, with the luck of the Irish vantage was the loss of political clout...
...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...
...CHARLES F. KLINGER meant cheaper prices...
...What could anyone gain fication of data seem mere peccadillos...
...And a true knowledge is based...
...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...
...system born of the theory of the abso- among the Oxford dons involved will Not only would it seem exotic to lute equality of opportunity has re- give some idea of the values presum- the students but to their elders as sulted, in most places, in over 50 per- ably at stake: well...
...Especially read the chapter "First Cell, Republican party with the Unionist The Rivers of Knowledge will run clear First Love...
...DOROTHY BETTS KIERNAN dustrialism, the majority of Philadelphians joined the Republican party...
...But where the Irish vote in are compromised and "betrayed...
...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...
...A faculty committee at the University quite as many this year, it is true...
...right (for "obvious and uninteresting" until 1962, as William V. Shannon reasons...
...Tennis crowds this year have nair, aristocratic Lord Peter Wimsey statements, as "If it ever occurs to been astonished by 22-year-old chamhas been resurrected this past year people to value the honor of the mind pion tennis player, Argentinian Guilby public television's Masterpiece equally with the honor of the body, lermo Vilas, who asked linesmen to Theatre...
...It is absorbing...
...vision viewing, for the plot revolves inations "rampant" on that campus, There is no longer a need for a haven around a point of honor in scholar- and the same condition is said to exist from the draft...
...A senator makness attributed to them seems to have utation one knew one didn't de- ing a nominating speech at a national passed away...
...John S. Kennedy never able to capture its leadership The truth is that violent revolutions An Image Book, $1.75 from the preponderant "power base of are simply immoral and cannot possibly native Americans, Protestants and mid- be morally justified...
...It springs up in surprising ers' Gaudy Night...
...Those who try to dle- and upper-class groups...:' As justify them are really asserting the ar- .IDOUILEDAY Commonweal: 531...
...ambition.' without attribution, and, when chalMovements of students of the '60s 'Ambition to be what?' cried lenged, said that his secretary had were at the university but not of it, Miss Lydgate...
...That hardly sounds lives, he says, by the words of the center, read Gulag...
...If we do not penalize false not very favorable to the pursuit of life has been drastically changed, the statements made in error, we knowledge for its own sake, and the "Rivers of Knowledge" perhaps pol- open up the way for false respect for fact and truth on which luted past all cleansing...
...With the coming of the excels in the pursuit...
...statements by intention...
...Continued on page 531) 27 September 1974: 518 and even less than that when compared the author points out, this consigned gument that the end justifies the means...
...cause, plus the rising forces of in- again one day...
...It is doubtful that Gaudy Night of California at Los Angeles, for Government funding has dwindled could even be adapted to today's tele- examp!e, reported cheating in examaway...
...And if there are, humanity of it as well as for its horrors...
...disappears...
...Snow's The the Founding Fathers to suit his purit is earned...
...What satisfaction made a mistake in including more and, in any case, the fine righteous- could one possibly get out of rep- than one paragraph...
...did Philadelphia have its first Irish for the game, then the money...
...It would be horrible.' convention not so many years ago Again it is the degree that matters, In the course of the discussion blithely made up a quotation from not the delights of the place in which Lord Peter quotes C.P...
...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...
...cry of rage...
...You play this...
...serve...
...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...
...party in the antebellum period was not collegians who value the pursuit of Yes, the book is long-Solzhenitsyn able to consolidate Irish immigrants knowledge and the rules by which one wanted to tell it all-but read it for the into the party...
...whenever he thought the calls were have delighted aficionados of her books A university atmosphere in which wrong...
...91 finished berating American associations, an increasing number of state...
Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 22
