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Wimsatt, John C Cort, George Devine, Margaret
BOOKS The National Labor Relations Board FRANK W. McCULLOCH & TIM BORNSTEIN Praeger, $10 JOHN C. CORT On the one hand, there was the Carnegie steel executive who back about 1890 contributed...
...I cannot answer his question, because in no way did my article suggest that Father O'Connell "regards the divinity faculty of questionable orthodoxy...
...the first Sunday of Advent, 1964) affords some perspective...
...I have viewed this from the viewpoint of the religious educator, lamenting the pre-Conciliar confusion of substance with accident...
...As the leader of the opposition to Allende in the Chilean Congress, he lead his party in blocking all the progressive legislation the President had been elected to effect and, in the latter days of the Popular Unity government, when CIA-supported strikes and terrorism had the country tottering on the brink of social and economic dissolution, he lead the opposition in asking the military to take over...
...It would leave life in the United States without moral savor...
...Actually, it took two more years and a threat by Roosevelt to unpack the Supreme Court before that august bulwark of conservatism voted by a 5-4 squeaker to uphold the constitutionality of the Act and persuade the more sensible members of the business community to turn their faces toward the rising sun...
...On the other hand, further back, in 1797 to be exact, there was Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson and Madison, who coun-terposed to this philosophy of industrial monarchy by divine right of terror the following: "The democratic principle on which this nation was founded should not be restricted to the political process but should be applied to the industrial operation as well...
...Louis University Board of Trustees voted on Jan...
...However, I would not hesitate to agree with Dr...
...Did Rochester, or did he not, in cowardly fashion avoid a duel with the Earl of Mulgrave over a slanderous remark...
...Frank McCulloch was appointed chairman by President Kennedy in 1961 and served until 1969...
...In trying to force on Israel compromises and concessions—"only for her own good, in the name of justice, and with her own long-range survival in view"—we are in grave danger of self-deception...
...And of all the recapitulations and re-evaluations, perhaps none is more thoughtful, and thought-provoking, than Professor Hitchcock's book...
...They are also good at clarifying the amendments which, with the inevitable swing of the pendulum back to the right, swept through Congress at twelve year intervals and came to be known as the Taft-Hartley Act (1947) and the Landrum-Griffin Act (1959...
...Greene, having read Vieth, is sure that it was written by one of Rochester's enemies to discredit him...
...Under her more modern hand, he comes out much tougher and more interesting, less sentimental, less like bits of Lovelace and Suckling (Loveling and Sucklace, those two indistinguishable cavaliers we all struggled with in school...
...Hitchcock does not advocate an erasure of liturgical aggiomamento...
...Were Israel to die, a part of us would die...
...And I do not see what this has to do with the Divinity School as an entity playing a progressive, or if Dr...
...I frankly question if Dr...
...Most significantly, this "principled leader," witnessing since the coup the destruction of all democratic liberties and institutions, the abrogation of human rights, and the imprisonment and torture of thousands of Chileans, including members of his own party, has uttered not so much as a winner of protest: another display of the opportunism he has shown in the face of a savage coup from which he hopes to reap ultimate personal, political advantage...
...Despite a number of anti-union stingers in these two bills neither the authors nor this reviewer mean to imply that they were all bad...
...John F. Kennedy's limmerick was correct, but in a different context than that in which he wished it to be applied: Like the "Lady from Niger/ those (like Frei) "who ride the CIA tiger/ END UP INSIDE...
...rather, he focuses on those deeper realities and relationships to which the signs point...
...A Chile To the Editors: Rather than dwelling wistfully on the past—what might have been— in our relations with Chile, Abigail McCarthy ["The Fact of Interdependence," Dec...
...of London, who planned, illustrated, and produced the present volume for Viking Press...
...I regret the error although in context my intent was probably clear to most readers...
...As to Dr...
...it was enough apparently to cause his banishment from court until the scandal died down...
...Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse prints under his name four short lyrics, two of them probably spurious...
...BOOKS The National Labor Relations Board FRANK W. McCULLOCH & TIM BORNSTEIN Praeger, $10 JOHN C. CORT On the one hand, there was the Carnegie steel executive who back about 1890 contributed this gem to the enduring literature of labor relations: "I have always had one rule— if a workman sticks up his head, hit it...
...An historian by academic profession, Hitchcock relies heavily on anthropology (in particular, the work of Mary Douglas...
...One thing has been added that would have amazed the hungry Greene of Chipping Campden days...
...There are times when Hitchcock seems to fall into the same trap as those he opposes: in some cases, he appears to attach more effective power to external ritual- than it might really have, in this case claiming more damage done by liturgical alternation than would appear attributable to that one among many elements of recent change in American Catholic life...
...To fail Israel would be to betray everything we value—and ourselves...
...Greene thinks yes...
...His only regret is that these gains could have been made with less injury to the People of God...
...But make no mistake...
...one wonders why...
...This book will be a refreshing answer to those who are tempted to judge that conservatives have nothing to say about the Church or its liturgy, largely because Hitchcock considers himself a liberal (even if after the fashion described by Garry Wills, reminiscent of the American Church of the 1950s), who feels genuine liberalism in the Church was thwarted by liturgical re-upholstering, experimentation and anarchy (again including that of the schismatic Right) run amok...
...Behind the debate is the mass of poetry Rochester wrote out of his wit-lightened pain...
...Possibly, as some insist, we serve our ideals thereby...
...Dame Helen Gardner's Book gives him five...
...And there was the New England textile industry journal which, during the great textile strikes of 1934, wrote with calm and majestic confidence, "A few hundred funerals will have a quieting influence...
...Certainly he reads a good deal of himself into his subject...
...In any case, the controversy is now theoretical as the St...
...His basic thesis is that you cannot manipulate ritual symbols of belief or relationship without somehow affecting the belief or relationship...
...Moreover, he argues, if ritual change takes place without extreme care and sensitivity, beliefs and relationships will be affected in a manner which is confusing, demoralizing and even destructive...
...Was he, for that period, living near the Tower of London disguised as THE FAMOUS PATHOLOGIST, or THE NOBLE MOUNTEBANK...
...But the lavish style of this book reflects the affection and respect its author has earned, in the years between...
...As to my thesis being "inherently illogical," either Dr...
...Hitchcock prefers, liberal role and the theology department playing a traditional or conservative role in the university...
...Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin provided checks on union power and, in particular, made it more difficult for union czars to emulate the employers and maintain their own little czardoms within the labor movement...
...Not all cultures do...
...Edouardo Frei, whom Ms McCarthy praises as a "principled leader" is a traitor to the Chilean people whose commitment to the democratic process was opportunitstic at best...
...In fairness to Father O'Connell I would also state that in talking with me in connection with the article, he in no way questioned anyone's orthodoxy...
...Rochester, "In Imitation of the Eighth Satire of Boileau" As a young man's book, presented by an author of years and attainments...
...The Recovery of the Sacred JAMES HITCHCOCK Seabury, $6.95 GEORGE DEVINE A decade after the initial advent of liturgical reform in the Roman Catholic Church, particularly in the United States, we are in a position to evaluate somewhat critically the gains of the "liturgical movement" in the American Church which culminated in the decrees of the Second Vatican Council (1962-5...
...Possibly, we serve the gleam of oil dollars...
...Not only did his party accept $20 million in campaign contributions from the CIA in 1964, in effect subverting Chile's electoral system to his own advantage, but during the Allende years Frei himself travelled the European bankers' circuit urging a suspension of loans and credits to Chile, thereby seeking to feather his own political nest in the consequent economic disruptions of his country...
...To the Postboy is a bit of doggerel that' asks the postboy the way to Hell...
...The Recovery of the Sacred offers not only a series of carefully developed theses, but a number of little insights which could easily become future articles or books by the same author: for example, an assertion by Hitchcock that the suburban movement of American Catholics is a threat to the ritual faith-communities which thrive in cities—or his arguments indicating that 1966 (not 1963 or 1964) is in fact the pivotal year in American liturgical history...
...In general, however, though they were not as honest about it, the legislators and judges of our beloved country, being mainly men of property, favored the former philosophy rather than the latter until such time as the Great Depression of the Thirties scared the hell out of them and sometimes drove them into a salutary retirement...
...The complication is that in arguing back and forth between the poems and the life, the evidence is confused...
...Lord Rochester's Monkey GRAHAM GREENE Viking, $15.95 MARGARET WIMSATT I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, Or anything but that vain animal Who is so proud of being rational...
...The case is just as difficult when it comes to determining the canon of Rochester's poetry...
...There is a kind of "mystical body" of those cultures that aspire to similar ideals...
...Delicate concessions and slippery arrangements must be negotiated...
...Margaret m. carlan For more on this, see News & Views, page 442.—Ed...
...And if this appears to be Monday-morning-quarterbacking, it should be noted that most of the points Hitchcock makes concerning ritual, symbol and belief are going to be valuable for the ongoing life of the Church, especially in light of our experiences with liturgical reform since 1964...
...Hitchcock that "if the terms are applicable, there are liberals and conservatives" on the faculties of both the School of Divinity and the theology department...
...A hundred years from now the entire Middle East may have blossomed and become again, as in the past, the leading ornament of world civilization: wealthy, beautiful, characterized by free, just, and intellectually vigorous institutions...
...And thereby hangs the judgment on Lord Rochester, the man...
...Critics talk about the poems in terms of influences: Donne, Milton, Marvell...
...What exactly was his role in the midnight prank that ended with the death of Captain Downs...
...25 to abolish the eight-year-old School of Divinity by merging it with the theology department in the College of Arts and Sciences...
...The credit goes, though inconspicuously, to Greene Rainbird, Ltd...
...Our self-interest in Israel is preeminently moral...
...The authors' overall evaluation of the NLRB, the agency responsible for the implementation of all these Acts, is favorable, as one might expect from two men who have so much responsibility for its performance...
...Probably...
...Forty years later, the book sees life...
...Alexander Bendo...
...John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-1680), wit, courtier, rakehell, poet, is about as tricky a subject as any aspiring young biographer could tackle...
...Both are now professors...
...It is dirty, and extremely anti-erotic, reflecting, sexually and in all ways, the torments of a splenetic mind...
...Greene has not seriously revamped it, only added a preface and a bibliography that take account of later work...
...There are almost more pictures than one needs, too many of them bled, and the attributions, at the back, are not as full as they should be...
...I can only suggest a rereading of the article and disown the thesis he imputes...
...A betrayal of Israel would be worse than Munich, 1938...
...Time will tell how long Divinity School faculty members— liberal or conservative—will be around to teach mandatory theology courses to undergraduates...
...Professor Vieth gives it to Rochester, saying that it reflects his ambivalent feeling on the squalid death of that otherwise unknown Captain Downs...
...Some questions are still open, and the reader may very well choose to accept Greene's empathetic judgment of which poems are Rochester's rather than Vieth's six-step procedural analysis...
...Moreover, Roman Catholics with ecumenical perspective will welcome Hitchcock's references and sensitivity to the liturgical life of the Anglican communion...
...But, with that possible excess taken account of, The Recovery of the Sacred is a valuable "position paper" which deserves serious consideration...
...CHARLES BR1ODY Secretary, Bay Area Ecumenical Committee of Concern for Chile Michael Novak (Cont...
...I never used the terms liberal or conservative in the article...
...Its authors are competent scholars with more objectivity than you might expect from men who have been so close to the Board...
...Pepys' Diary is a help for some parts...
...And, overall, the book is readable and engaging...
...In so doing, he is mindful of the axiom Lex orandi, lex credendi, and it is in this light that he provides us with a most articulate—if not the most or the only articulate—statement of the conservative (but not schismatically and therefore falsely "traditionalist") anguish over our liturgical experiences of the past ten or so years...
...ministering principally to women's diseases, Dr...
...the book is sumptuously produced...
...Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense: Fools still are wicked at their own expense, or Huddled in dirt the reasoning engine lies Who was so proud, so witty, and so wise might have been written fifty years on, by Alexander Pope...
...Many of the incidents of his life in the teeming bawdy London of Charles IFs days are obscure, come to us only from such gossipy letters as happen to have survived, colored by the partisanship of the writers...
...So that Congress in 1935 was moved to pass the Wagner Act and put the federal government behind a guarantee that American workers should have the right to organize in unions of their own choosing and share a say in deciding the terms and conditions under which they would have to work...
...But in those days he had more pressing problems: how to pay his income tax, where to find the price of a train ticket to London on important business, how to shape his next novel, Stamboul Train...
...Behind these differences is the monumental effort of scholarship which produced David Vieth's Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester in 1968...
...And even today, many of their brethren continue to ignore the law, albeit at the price of some pretty fat fees to sophisticated attorneys who teach them how to castrate a union and still get away with it...
...Were we to turn our backs on Israel, whether openly or in self-deception, the United States (and the West) would have demonstrated its moral emptiness...
...But he did then speak with affection of his rural life in Chipping Campden, the walks around the Cotswold countryside, which spills over into Oxfordshire, where, at Spelsbury, Lord Rochester was born...
...Gilbert Burnet...
...Israel has a long and dangerous road to walk with its Arab neighbors...
...A sound and valuable job...
...Did I say "guarantee...
...CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 443) have said "School of Divinity...
...In such a vision both Israel and the Arab-Moslem nations have proportionate roles to play...
...Inevitably, as union power grew, this power too was abused and not always at the expense of employers but often at the greater expense of workers...
...Hitchcock just did not understand it or is trying to do some muddying himself...
...Let us hope that the nearest—and perhaps most dangerous—steps along the road are taken wisely, justly and bravely...
...The haphazard, sloppy, unexplained changes of the Roman liturgy in the wake of Vatican II, the author maintains, did many people, and their Catholic lives of faith and practice, much harm, from which the Church and many individuals in it (or no longer in it) are yet attempting to recover...
...Of course, as head of the seven-member search committee that recommended Father O'Connell for the presidency, perhaps Dr...
...Hitchcock wishes to maintain the opposite...
...But they make their case with almost no trace of special pleading or windy pointing with pride...
...Its purpose was to give workers the power to stand up and talk back to the boss...
...judicial and political infrastructures, the full development of individuals, intellectual liberty, a state compassionate toward and responsible to its citizens...
...Perhaps in the intervals of writing the early novels (and reading his evil genius, Conrad) he turned to the Restoration poets and found a connecting link between the peaceful landscape where he himself was suffering, and Rochester's unhappy mind...
...And what are we to make of his famous deathbed conversion to the Church of England and her sacraments so movingly described by the eminent churchman Dr...
...They are very good at developing the background to the Wagner Act which a sharp historian like James MacGregor Burns once characterized as "the most radical legislation passed during the New Deal, in the sense that it altered fundamentally the nation's politics by vesting massive economic and political power in organized labor...
...A number of liturgical retrospectives are coming out nowadays in print and otherwise (including one by this reviewer), since the passing of a decade since the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (December 4, 1963, to be implemented in the U.S...
...But there is more to the question than that...
...I see them as precursors, in their best passages, of the m ster of wit...
...One finds one's way through these thickets by nose and ear and bias...
...Professor Hitchcock sees it on a more subtle "gut" level of symbolism, but it comes down to the same realization—you cannot be careless with ritual, whether you argue for or against its external reform...
...The Wagner Act made no bones about being onesided...
...It was reprinted frequently after his death, went into limbo with the Augustans...
...And even now that it is published, he does not tell us its inspiration...
...V.S...
...The National Labor Relations Board, one of a series that Praeger is doing on federal agencies, is the story of how democracy came to the workplace and was legalized and hassled over and amended and pilloried and defended...
...6] would have done better to focus on the continuing intervention of the United States government in Chile's affairs in the form of the $20 million in economic aid awarded the repressive military junta according to the terms of the recently passed Foreign Assistance Act and on the continuing intervention of American corporations and financial institutions, such as the Maufacturers Hanover Trust and the Bank of America, which extend millions in loans and credits to the fascist regime which they denied Allende's democratic Chile...
...Hitchcock knows something I don't...
...Graham Greene mentions in his sort of autobiography, A Sort of Life, that one of his frustrations in a period of penury in the early thirties was the rejection by his publishers of "a life of Lord Rochester...
...Western civilization would in us have proved itself hollow...
...On the contrary, he lauds the gains made—which he feels will serve the Church well—in the vernacularization of the 'Roman liturgy, and the involvement of the xongregation in its rites...
...Did he indeed hire the thugs who set upon and bruised John Dryden in Rose Alley in 1679...
...Hitchcock follows one of the cardinal rules for good liturgists and sacramental theologians: he refuses to become preoccupied with the external signs...
...Tim Bornstein was his assistant during two of those years...
...Hitchcock's complaints about my "muddying the waters," I think he protests too much...
Vol. 101 • March 1975 • No. 16
