NEWS & VIEWS:
NEWS & to the high diction of `In the other way against holders in three days, it can produce Memory of W.B....
...There ing the recent crisis to in"It was an appropriate ob- courteous but never warm...
...Samuels' death was his mastery was before us, Church of England, on April sudden...
...Yeats': of power, increasing as the 115 percent in five days and VIEWS He disappeared in the dead power increases...
...clarify my sense of Auden...
...tains lutely"-is by now almost a Mrs...
...death and had fulfilled adUrsula Niebuhr-read from In a letter to Mandell mirably...
...Both leave spouses 'September 1, 1939' and King unlike other men, and young families...
...I Britain's recent three-day English Department at Wil"It was, in fact, like the had thought that all his feel- work-week experience: "In liams College, and Michele burial of a Head of State...
...ingenuity...
...particularly during the 1960s overwhelming a place was Mass symbolizes...
...Less familiar is the book reviewing for a number die...
...matter-of-fact opening of on that we are to judge Pope she, 40...
...the spectacle was not only from Auden the man...
...Auden cre- dency...
...John only an acquaintance, one dency or the certainty of cor- would link performance durthe Divine: who was always correct and ruption by authority...
...is no worse heresy than that creased worker efficiency reservance for a poet who had Yet while the great pageant the office sanctifies the holder sulting from the lesser hours broken away from a pious of death moved me by itself, of it...
...The I sit in one of the dives with a favorable presumption greatest loss is theirs, and On Fifty-second Street that they did no wrong...
...How much, then, New York-all of them ated touchstones to which should the presidency be ex- A Last Thanks dressed in red and white, with individuals could bring their pected to protect the Presisurplices of every color own personal experiences of dent...
...Lord Acton's aphorism- that "if a factory can produce a last book review for Comand touch the winter sky...
...Murray's extensive where the beautiful go to cliche...
...and John Updike...
...He was when you superadd the ten- three- or four-day work week York's Cathedral of St...
...still more percentages...
...Historic re- 140 percent in six...
...his work, and the range of Creighton, a bishop of the Dr...
...ings had gone into the poems, spite of a 60 percent reduc- Murray, the novelist, poet And despite the annoying tel- but the Requiem reminded tion in hours of work, indus- and critic of Bethesda, Md...
...has come up with an interest- were Dr...
...Proponents of a for W. H. Auden at New him by his first name...
...His work gave Shorter Work-Week to death, and this week Comdrums, and, for the proces- resonance to the times in a monweal has double reason sional, banners and candles manner that was at once for- The Manchester Guardian for sadness...
...Either way, said solid reputations in their litliams setting of 'For all the and conversely, old forms are The Guardian, whatever con- erary specialties...
...It expressed "Let no one be taken in by Guardian's statistic to crop up choir, the dean and his chap- Auden's generalized good will, the argument that the Presi- when unions next push the ter of canons, Horace Don- his benevolent influence on dent is protecting the presi- shorter work-week idea...
...It is sad at any magazine trimmed with gold...
...egan, the retired bishop of contemporary life...
...NEWS & to the high diction of `In the other way against holders in three days, it can produce Memory of W.B...
...Great men it is the one crew working professor Frank MacShane public statues...
...of winter: sponsibility has to make up That's an argument that Auden's Requiem The brooks were frozen, for the want of legal respon- doesn't necessarily follow for the airports almost de- sibility...
...What is Perhaps it was a new-found when both were establishing upheld by the Vaughan Wil- transient becomes permanent...
...are almost always bad, even the five days or the six days reflects on the Requiem High "Certainly I never knew when they exercise influence that is expected to hike the Mass celebrated in October Auden well, never even called and not authority...
...worked...
...context in which it appeared, of journals in addition to Then seven poets-Robert and this was recalled recently Commonweal led to her bePenn Warren, Galway Kin- by Washington Post reader coming book editor at The nell, Muriel Rukeyser, Rich- Gordon M. Murray to make National Observer, a post she ard Wilbur, William Mere- a point about . . . who else held at the time of her dith, Richard Howard, and but Richard Nixon...
...Lost to death and clouds of incense rising mal and unpretentious...
...of the High Mass, from the "I cannot accept your can- Both were young-he, 38...
...Uncertain and afraid...
...Shortly beAuden's wry little poem: The Guardian's point was fore his death, he completed O lift your little pinkie...
...This 70 percent of the normal...
...evision cameras and lights, me that the feelings came trial production only fell to Dr...
...saints who from their labors given new life...
...there is any presumption it is JOHN DEEDY 5 April 1974: 98...
...Murray did considerable book impressive but moving...
...The is of course the paradox of "Perhaps it was the ab- reviewing for Commonweal, awesomeness of death in so life and art, which the High sence of late-night television...
...Murray's, after superseding the theatricality 5, 1887, Acton said in part: a lengthy illness with cancer...
...tributed to the increased pro- Dr...
...Charles Thomas in the high vaulted nave and "It took the High Mass to ing statistic in connection with Samuels, a professor in the the Gothic choir...
...Power tends to cor- proponents of a shorter workIn the Winter issue of The serted, rupt and absolute power cor- week-most certainly not if Columbia Forum, author- And snow disfigured the rupts absolutely...
...If we grieve with them...
...Power tends to corrupt and 70 percent of normal output monweal that is in type and Love's all over the moun- absolute power corrupts abso- awaiting publication...
...There was the `Age of Anxiety,' which when it loses a contributor a brass choir and kettle he named...
...Samuels and Mrs...
...home and then returned to it also seemed to celebrate Gordon's point: In any case, look for The Anglican orthodoxy . . . full something more...
...Samuels became an rest'-even by Benjamin Brit- ductivity rates should be ex- authority on Henry James ten's musical arrangement of Acton and Nixon plored and reapplied...
Vol. 100 • April 1974 • No. 5
