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too depressing for me. I do not believe that freedom is already so illusory that we may as well do away with any semblance of it except for the possibility of attending a seance when you want...
...Liberalism could change into an irrational imperative benefiting only some, and not too many, as Louis Hartz noted...
...Philip Slater may indeed be right when he argues, in The Glory o/Hera, that the materialization of narcissism in modern history has proven far too costly and must give way to life lived under the banner of "Make Love Not War...
...These two, then, he sees as the pivotal figures in the literary relations of the two English-speaking cultures...
...20.00 Commonweal: 91 acters in the Diaries are as real as we have come to expect characters in novels by Dickens or Tolstoy to be...
...6] is excellent and most timely...
...School was never a passionate experience for Bernanos, as it had been for P6guy...
...Love.Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities STEPHEN SPENDER Random House, $8.95 BRUCE COOK There is so much good to say about this new book by Stephen Spender, so many pleasures that it will provide the casual reader, that it may seem meanspirited and petty, but I intend to begin with an objection: it isn't the book it purports to be...
...About all that has transpired since he is less good--again, except for those things that impinge upon him personally...
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...i,,x ~,.~44.~,;~.4 Hardbound $3.95 The God Who Comes by, Carlo Carretto A wise and warm book which reflects the simplicity of Christianity...
...The analogy of heavy water or graphite and the United Nations force in "Cyprus: Three-Dimensional Problem" [Sept...
...owes to Albert B6guin, literary executor of Bernanos, to Mgr...
...With her family she trails around Europe, behind the career of her musician father...
...All is not lost...
...There is a firm sense of a real human sensibility at work here and not some dryasdust scholar compiling facts and footnotes (although I'll concede that a note or two and an index, at least, would certainly have been welcome...
...Six weekends, November-Aprl . POWELL HOUSE, Old Chatham, N.Y...
...For his idea of democracy is that the whole people should respond to the genius of an Emerson or a Whitman...
...P6zedl who became executor at B6guin's death in 1959, to Jean-Loup, the sixth child of Bernanos, to Luc Estang who wrote the first book about Bernanos, to Andr6 Rousseaux, the critic who introduced Speaight to Bernanos in London in 1945, two years before the writer's death...
...Speaight draws parallels between Bernanos and three other figures: P6guy, first...
...It was awarded the Acad~mie Fran~aise prize and was turned into a film by Robert Bresson...
...The Diaries are full of comments about the question of our dream-selves, full of insights and ruminations about what we give up when we sacrifice the night-self to the hard, limited reality of the day-self--but the light in which the Diaries swim is clear and golden...
...He makes us see Pound, "the flame-haired, russetbearded, green-eyed visitant" who was to be the eternal outsider...
...Both the conventional wisdom of psychoanalysis and the new school of "uterine" women poets and novelists have prepared readers for this subterranean approach to a woman's stubborn strengths and weaknesses...
...Ancient Patterns in Modern Prayer is the first major study of the new Missal and has been eagerly awaited by scholars, theologians, liturgists and those educated laymen who opt for spontaneous prayer...
...A passing insight, a phone call expressing anguish over the reception of one of his books, an excerpt from a letter . . . . And, through the converging and diverging relationships of a group of her friends in New York after the war, she succeeds in giving as vivid a picture of those edgy, hopeful years as any Steinbeck novel might_9 In the present Diary, in the years from 1947 to 1955, the spiritual tone is restless, as are the physical journeys...
...They came to Europe for a new beginning, and realized, in fact, an end...
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...His choice of Randall Jarrell as an example of the sort of writer for whom these feelings were overwhelmingly real is tragically exact...
...For complete catalog, write ClDOC, Apde, 479, Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...In the first volume it was a shattering stillbirth...
...In order to clarify the rich subject of his book, Mr...
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...Their rites of initiation integrated the body and the mind, the senses and the soul to convey God's concern for the whole person...
...On another page we are in Hollywood in producer Jerry Wald's office, where the question of a movie version of Proust is being discussed...
...And he also began, despite ever-increasing poor health, his life of a nomad...
...In Paris, she becomes the center of a group of exiled artists which includes Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell, both as yet unknown...
...It shows how the Church must not only serve the poor but itself must be poor and serving...
...Such admiration, of course, sets the stage for the central drama of the Diaries' achievement in finding a place in the contemporary imagination: the identity of the central heroine, the author...
...Any large achievement is capable of being set in different lights and seen to possess different esthetic truths...
...Ferkiss has the ability to see that men cannot live only for themselves...
...For information write: Brother WalterK...
...This had various results...
...The Diary of Anais Ntn: Volume V Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $7.95 DANIEL STERN So much has been written during the past few years about Anais Nin's relationship to "the dream" to "the surreal," that I believe some corrective thinking may be in order...
...J. S. Rodricjues, St...
...This is not to say that Love-Hate Relations is not worth reading--merely that it would best be taken as dessert to the main course...
...It begins with a stunning evocation of Mexico---Acapulco before it became quite so fashionable...
...The repository of these concerns--in a form of continuing mirror effect--is the continuous composition of the Diaries themselves...
...After all, Spender is Spender --not just the poet in the anthologies, but of all active trans-Atlantic intellectuals perhaps the most experienced, the most understanding of and sym| pathetic to the American realities: the i very man, in short, to write this par~ ticular book...
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...On the contrary, the Diaries are full of precisely recalled and described detail--incident--laughter--ironies recollected sometimes in tranquility, sometimes in anguish . . . (as when she described, in this Diary volume number five, her recurrent battles with the disease of anxiety...
...The young may who accepts this offer and becomes a Marianist brother or priest will find a rewarding life in a religious community...
...His comments on the American university culture, "one of several parallel cultures," are well observed and to the point...
...Both men admired and tried to emulate the courage of Jeanne d'Arc in the assertion of her freedom and vocation...
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...Spy is, obviously a book, now, whose time has come...
...by Enzo Gatti This is a book of spiritual reading...
...000 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 75) merited tribute to Maurice Lavanoux and Eloise Spaeth and several other stalwarts who have lit many candles amid the encircling U.S...
...This then allows the reactor to become "critical" while the same amount of fuel without the moderator present would not generally be critical...
...The courage consists mainly in the act of endurance_9 Endurance in writing unpopular, lyrical and highly personal novels . . . endurance in continuing as a writer in the face of consistent neglect _9 . . (Indeed, she was forced to publish the first work that brought her into the public eye, herself...
...In elegant all-black or two-tone black and green...
...This novel, Journal d'un curd de campagne, was destined to become his best known work...
...These artists cannot be, even remotely, connected with the anachronisms of the Saint Sulpice-Barclay Street church goods industry...
...These are also the years of her parents' death--described with a simplicity of anguish: truthful and touching...
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...It was shocking for many readers to see the devil appear in the novel as a visible tangible person...
...But he never renounced his original faith in French monarchy...
...I write you as the president of a Manhattan gallery which for the past eleven years has been exclusively concerned with the presentation of painting and sculpture of contemporary artists who have drawn upon the great themes of the Judeo-Christian religions in their work...
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...Again there is a complex friendship with a younger man...
...October) is~x ,-~34~-4~5-2 Hardbound $7.95 ($6.95 before 1975) 1~,~o-88344-4~J-7 Paperback $4.95 ($3.95 before 1975) Rich Church...
...To the Editors: Frank Getlein's outspoken article [Sept...
...where England once dominated by virtue of its great tradition, America now does through its superior energy...
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...Well, don't get your ~, ~ hopes up...
...it can be, and should be, determined laboring in the direction of a final good which can never engineer into actuality but which we believe to exist above and beyond us...
...In all, Love-Hate Relations is an interesting, though not really very satisfying book...
...I believe that men can direct changes: lower speed limits save lives by giving people permission to go slower...
...21.00 CHRISTIAN SACRIFICE by Robert J . Daly Volume 18 Christian Sacrifice is a study of the idea of sacrifice from its Old Testament origins, through Paul and Philo to the great Christian theologians in the second and third centuries...
...Then New York, Los Angeles, a return to Paris (a partial spiritual home for this rootless wanderer...
...Marcinkus and Macchi did not deign to traverse the one short block from Madison to Lexington where we are located...
...He has demonstrated on many occasions an extensive knowledge of contemporary France and especially of the Catholic revival in French letters beginning with Charles P6guy in the early part of the century and culminating perhaps in the recent death of Jacques Maritain...
...He writes not only with meticulous care for detail, but with such a lucid sense of the essential that the reader becomes engrossed in the dynamic unfolding of this central Christian theme...
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...DON P. MO0~ Chairman, Natural Sciences Shimer College Commonweal welcomes letters on sttb]ects treated in its pages...
...Cyril of Jerusalem, St...
...Then, when her parents separate, she begins a Diary as a love-offering to her absent father...
...Philomena's Institutions...
...The book appeared in 1926, and was both a success and a scandal...
...Speaight describes the life-long struggle Bernanos put forth to recover from the politics of the Action Fran~aise and from its antiSemitism...
...The Diary of Anais Nin is, thus, synthesis not antithesis...
...An example: "W...
...And in the Diary's insistence on its own being, against so many odds, it is as much a human--as it is an artistic--achievement: a permanent gift...
...And behind the morning mind is always the shadowed memory of the nighttime symbols and buried fears and wishes that subtly color the day...
...Even a friend, the critic Maxwell Geismar, fails to understand the intent behind the "female" vision...
...Even Maritain feared there were traces of manichaean heresy in the work...
...The true drug for her is art and, in a fuller sense, the Diary...
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...In his correspondence at that time he was referring to a new work--the diary of a country priest...
...The experimental, dream-techniques of the early work, the novels, endeared Miss Nin to an underground following_9 Yet, strangely, those young people who share their Diary enthusiasm with the novels, admire such "real" virtues as the courage and independence of characters like Sabina in A Spy in the House O/ Love...
...The war years were spent in Brazil where Bernanos finished his novel Monsieur Ouine, considered today by several critics to be his masterpiece...
...Georges Bernanos occupied a central position in this movement...
...A young woman of mixed, cosmopolitan background--Spanish father, the composer Joaquin Nin and a French-Danish mother, who was a singer, leads a nomadic early life...
...It was made into an opera by Francis Poulenc...
...In his discussion of the beauty and importance of this novel, Robert Speaight develops a sound critical theory that it is essentially a book of happiness--in comparison to the first novel which he considers a book of unhappiness...
...Observe the outer drama . . . (and in the Diaries there is no conflict or arbitrary separation between the inner and outer dramas...
...Speaight never relinquishes an effort--no matter how delicate and difficult--to explain to his readers what Bernanos meant by his vocation, that of being a Frenchman, a writer and a Christian...
...John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia and St...
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...She is not unlike a female version of the young men in the novels of that ultimate realist, Balzac...
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...If there is an elite then everyone ought to accept and recognize it--not just a special public...
...Large visible ink chamber...
...This Diary, like the others, is shaped so as to end with an extraordinary event...
...But always encounters with people are judged not by their prestige or power, but whether they are alive or dead within...
...If he had, perhaps, had something of overriding importance to himself to get across to us, then the book's topical organization--sometimes it seems to have not organization at all--might then have worked...
...they work in the idiom of today and have brought new and dynamic insights to Christian iconography...
...The young priest in the north village of Ambricourt--we are never told his name--permitted Bernanos to develop the themes that were closest to him: poverty, simplicity and the spirit of childhood...
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...James Corlden, Department of Theelegy, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, Washington, D.C...
...Heavy water or graphite in a reactor instead of keeping the fuel from reaching a critical mass actually does just the opposite...
...To take a prime example, his treatment of Eliot and Pound is superb--the best thing in the book--and this is because these two are of immense personal importance to Spender, the poet...
...Another was perhaps to make a younger generation of English writers turn from the ruins of Europe to what they hoped would be the civilization of the United States...
...Segundo's reflections on the nature and meaning of life make this a signal contribution to pastoral as well as political theology...
...Nothing exists, though, beyond these generations, no transcendent directive, no God...
...As in the other Diaries, there is an ebb and flow of helping and being helped_9 (The numbers of younger writers Anais Nin has assisted must be, by now, uncountable...
...Liturgical reform and current emphasis on community make ChriJtian Initiation very timely reading...
...It is baroque and seductive . . . but Miss Nin rejects it, finally, as an authentic road...
...In commenting on Volume Three of the Diaries, elsewhere, I pointed out 25 October 1974:92 that the manipulation of events, the excisions of characters and the inevitable changes made to protect living people as the Diary is brought into print, make this as much a kind of long, contemporary "novel" as it is a journal in the classic confessional mode...
...Rodrlcjues also seeks funds for a $1,S00 tiller available in h s country ' to plough and cultivate our I;ttlQ land...
...The roster of characters of ear r Diaries is different from the persona of the novels...
...And yet it was Maritain who accepted Bernanos' first novel, Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan) for publication in the series Roseau d'Or he was editing for Plon...
...For those seriously interested in the subject, the best thing would be to read through Martin Green's excellent books, A Mirror/or Anglo-Saxons, Reappraisals, The Problem o/Boston and Cities o/ Light and Sons o/ the Morning, before looking at Spender...
...The dramatization of this work, Dialogues des Carmdlites, was Bernanos' last writing and still holds today an important place in the history of Christian drama...
...Charles de Gaulle, with his concept of French nationalism, is the second parallel...
...it is a touching two-page short story...
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...The concrete figure of the priest reaches its summation in Journal d'un curd de campagne...
...In its concentration on observed realistic detail it is most poetically moving...
...How to endure with an unpopular vision...
...even the nights are clearly painted in deep blues that may evoke mystery but do not, in themselves embody mystery...
...And the | | i i g l i | n i B | H i H f/3 f/) o i l Or) C'q [r. t_ principle: that gradually, over the past 150 years or so, America and England have exchanged roles as cultural dependencies...
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...While writing essentially a biography, Speaight studies each of the books of Bernanos as they emerge from the daily harassed and complex life of the writer...
...After them, nothing would be quite the same between England and America: they came to school in Europe, specifically in England--and they stayed to teach class...
...Just look at the title and subtitle-Commonweal: 93 Love-Hate Relations: English and American Sensibilities...
...Finally, there is no conflict between the small audience she gained with her underground (I always think of them as undersea) novels and the great audience for the Diary...
...The last words of the dying cur6 d'Ambricourt, tout est grdce, testify to that belief without which the priestly vocation has no meaning...
...Speaight has drawn upon all of the available sources for the writing of this biography: the books and correspondence of Bernanos, and the acknowledged debts the biographer The fountain pen that never went out of style Classics never go out of style...
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...At the time, however, the hostile comments of such women as Diana Trilling caused the author much pain...
...The characters that throng the earlier volumes---and this present o n e - - do so in the manner of the realistic novel...
...The dream of existence perfected and topped with a new cult is a nightmare, as searching spirits from Wordsworth to Reinhold Niebuhr have shown...
...The ~ ~ very nature of the subject calls for "~ ~ historical development, but Spender ~ makes only a gesture in that direction ~ ~ 1 early ~ in the bOOk" Instead' he mOves topically from one area that interests ,..1 ~, "~ ,~ him to the next...
...B'ernanos' wife Jeanne was a direct descendent of a brother of Jeanne d'Arc...
...It was Under a Glass Bell, and one of the earlier volumes of the Diary describes movingly and with some irony how Edmund Wilson unexpectedly praised the book in the pages of The New Yorker, and then proposed marriage to Miss Nin, saying 'TU teach you how to write...
...Only $9.00 at artist material and pen shops as well as college book stores...
...Still, it doesn't really take us anywhere...
...But it is clear from the Robert Speaight biography that the great mission of Bernanos was to describe the flowering of grace in a human life and the supernatural help given in the sacraments of which the priest is the minister...
...Piety toward planet Earth" adequately acknowledges "the forces of life which some call God...
...he is almost exclusively concerned with the how of it--with the deep impression made by England on Henry James, with the impact of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound on Georgian London, and finally with his own response to the turbulent American university scene in the late 1960s...
...by Carlos Mesters A bold, exciting, but convincing interpretation of the Paradise story...
...The alternative need not and cannot be inaction...
...A deep concern with generations unborn comes through his generally flat and unmoving prose...
...Religious, Xmas, Vatican City stamps...
...I SBN 0-88344-279-5 Hardbound $4.95 ($3.95 before 1975) ORBIS BOOKS Maryknoll, N.Y~ ~ ~.,~545 was an unusual position and Robert Speaight has set himself the task of exploring and analyzir~g the reasons that made Bernanos into the kind of witness he was...
...If you really want to learn Spanish quickly, fluently and correctly, and if you have the courage and stamina for intensive and disciplined study, then come for at least a month to CIDOC in Cuernavaca...
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...The charStudies in Christian Antiquity CHRISTIAN INITIATION by Hugh M. R i l e y Volume 17 Against the common background of classic initiation rites, the author investigates the baptismal practices of four classically recognized mystagogues: St...
...In an earlier volume, she wrote: 1 am not writing about objective reality, which is photographic, but as people see and feel reality, their reality . . . . Novels o / t h e past dealt either with classic objectivity, or accepted the subjective irrational but never clarified it . . . . In the continuing literary adventure of the Diary Anais Nin is merging both those approaches to literary and human experience...
...Behind the dream is always the material of buried quotidian life...
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...As Whitman wrote, "Great poets must have great audiences...
...For many of us the actions of the Marcinkus-Macchi team have not only appeared inept but have been extremely frustrating...
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...She dubs him Count Laundromat...
...6] is so incorrect as to cast doubt on the accuracy of the rest of the article...
...He succeeds, perhaps better than anyone has succeeded, in putting these two in the English context...
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...What is also clearer, now, is that it is a "novel" in the tradition of the artistic bildingsroman: Jean-Christophe, Portrait o/ The Artist as A Young Man . . . . In the reflections of shifting social, personal and artistic currents, the central concern is, always: how to maintain the integrity of the artistic self in a careless world...
...It is a breakthrough in Christian moral theology, speaking to the major issues of our times...
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...There are so many ~ " t,q gaps between that the effect is that "~" "~ "~ ! of a collection of essays loosely or~ ~ ~ ' ~ | ganized around a single subject and ~ ~ ~ ~ principle...
...Here it is an LSD experience that is the only unsentimental description of such an event I can recall having read...
...Acts of courage and acts of love mingle as she handprints and publishes Henry Miller's first work--and subtly jousts, sexually and romantically with Miller and his wild wife, June...
...He made new friends in Paris with Andr6 Malraux and with the Dominican Father Briickberger who called his attention to Gertrud von le Fort's Song /tom the Scaffold, a novel on the martyrdom of Carmelite sisters guillotined in 1794...
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...But Spender is not much interested in why all this should be...
...I prefer to let the great structure of human life alter piecemeal and so generate new attitudes, as perhaps the family already is reshaping itself, rather than resorting to institutional dynamiting in line with the attitudes of a relative handful of middleclass intellectuals...
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...The heavy water or graphite, which are called moderators, slows down the neutrons which are released in fission and ensures that a large number will be absorbed by the fuel rather than escaping or being absorbed elsewhere...
...The midi attracted him, and he settled in Toulon briefly in 1929, and then in La Bayonne, near Hy~res...
...India IN APPEALING for the poor old people he has to "feed and clothe " Msgr...
...September) tSSN 0-88344-,~3-* Hardbound $4.95 Faith for Today by Edmond Barbotin Written in poetic style to help those who fear that they may be "losing their faith," by one of Europe's outstanding spiritual writers...
...Soon after the appearance of this first novel, Bernanos began publishing briefer polemical works, and became from the start a pamphleteer in the great tradition...
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...Georges Bernanos: A Biography ROBERT SPEAIGHT Liveright, $8.95 WALLACE FOWLIE In an exceptional way Robert Speaight has combined his career of actor (many of us still remember his brilliant interpretation of the archbishop in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral) and his career of writer...
...His earliest passion was for the Action Fran~aise, and for its leader Charles Maurras...
...I also believe that classical liberalism contained real psychological wisdom in its call to men to discover and use their talents...
...But all this suggests the book's virtues, too: it is a personal work, one whose every page is informed by the author's first-hand experience of the two cultures...
...Personal growth, not encounter Ouaker Retreat setting...
...I believe that men can discern problems: fragile natural settings need protection against real estate maggots...
...Robert J. Daly argues that the early Christian idea of sacrifice, evolving from the Old Testament, was an ethical not a cultic concept...
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...In fact I don't believe it's a matter of preference: structures change, and attitudes follow, not the other way round...
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...At the time of that meeting, Bernanos had just returned from Brazil where he had been living with his large family for seven yeras...
...As important as the day-by-day existence of the man in France or Majorca or Brazil, was the political, social and religious background of the moment in French history between the First World War and the provisional government of Charles de Gaulle in 1945...
...They also confronted the English with this discovery...
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...He was a difficult pupil, noisy, eccentric, in rebellion against most of the conventions of secondary education...
...It suggests a II study that is comprehensive, complete, ~' i and with the addition of Stephen Spender's name beneath, perhaps even definitive...
...All the events and personal dramas that preceded that voluntary exile are discussed by Speaight in an analysis that involves a great deal of French history as well as a sympathetic understanding of the violence and the tenderness in the character of Bernanos...
...To the Editors: Please check the accuracy of the analogies your authors use...
...From Paris in 1945, General de Gaulle invited a few eminent exiles to return to France: Teilhard de Chardin from Peking, Maritain from New York, and 25 October 1974:90 Bernanos from Brazil...
...One has only to compare the 'availability' of the the wild, guitar-playing, sexual being the real Gonzalo is in the previous Diaries, to the fictional Range, to see that the essential esthetic of the Diaries is a An Offer You Can Refuse "Give away what you h a v e . . . and come follow me," Jesus said...
...It is not nearly as comprehensive as you might suppose...
...A controversial publication, because the deeply feminine and psychoanalytical (with a small "p") vision is ahead of its time...
...They also tie perfectly to the larger point he 25 October 1974:94 makes on the feelings of isolation felt by the American writer trapped inside that culture: The bitter bread on which he feeds is the reflection that the fire of American genius which flows through his veins is exactly that which cuts him off from the great materialist democracy...
...Before it was Gore Vidal, now the young playwright and novelist and actor James Leo Herlihy...
...It is shot through with wit, chatty and informal in style, with marvelously exact observations tossed off in paragraph after paragraph...
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...A small vignette about a man she meets at the laundry in Sierre Madre tells the life story of an aristocratic Austrian refugee, brought low by war and a strange marriage...
...EMILY BOUCHARD President, Contemporary Christian Art Gallery Mixed Metaphors Mount Carroll, Ill...
...Another was to show that these were the last Americans who could come to Europe to build a literature upon its civilization...
...Eather than consider all euchological texts, the author wisely focuses in depth on one set of orations, the prayers after Communion...
...One was to change the nature of the patriotic theme of search for the true England in English poetry...
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...24 Australian Xmas stamps 1957 thru 1972 plus Rwandaise Popes P|us XI XII, John, Paul for 30r with approvals...
...And their influence he sums up as follows in one of the book's many fine paragraphs: All the same, the paradox remains that Pound and Eliot left America because it had no center on which they could construct their vision of civilization, but having reached Europe their imaginations told them that the old European civilization was dead...
...And Eliot, so much a servant of the tradition he revered that "he did really become English and not a cultural crossbreed...
...The shifts in mood, without losing consistency, are dazzling...
...In Volume Four, the portrait of an ambivalent, ambitious, sexually ambiguous Gore Vidal is a fully-fleshed novelistic portrait...
...Even the techniques used are those of the realistic novel: almost a little old-fashioned...
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...Though the personae in the novels were often drawn from life...
...These are also the years of the publication of A Spy in The House of Love...
...Paul Minoar are three of the visiting professors for the Spring Term 1975 Department of Theology, Catholic University, Washington, D.C...
...In Dialogues des Carmdlites, Bernanos changed his focus from the mystery or sanctity of the priesthood to the mystery of Church, or the mystery of the Communion of Saints...
...realistic one: a poetics involving the observing and analytic mind as much as or more than the heart...
...Liberalism in fact came to fasten leechlike onto human narcissism and led men to erect skyscrapers on the backs of their fellows...
...20.00 ANCIENT PA'rrERNS IN MODERN PRAYER by Thomas A. Krosnicki Volume 19 After four hundred years of rigidly fixed liturgical texts, the 1970 Missal of Pope Paul VI at last provides Christians with modern prayers along classical lines...
...This early adherence to the Action Francaise made his associations with other Catholic writers difficult and stormy at times: Claudel, Massis, Mauriac, and especially Maritain...
...Despite the fact that this gallery has been able to place the work of many American artists in churches, monasteries, schools, seminaries and universities, Messrs...
...In the summer of 1935, he decided to emigrate to Paraguay, but made a first stop in Majorca...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o/ being published...
...His books on Hilaire Belloc and Teilhard de Chardin terrify to his skill in the art of biography...
...Interestingly, the more she is taken to task for an obscure and surreal art, Miss Nin expresses her concerns over this in a lucid, elegant commentary that uses the tools of the novelist, the essayist, the letter-writer and the poet...
...H. Auden was as much a New Yorker as he was British, but he was not at all American...
...One understands why the young have taken her up: it is the concern for authenticity...
...The tension between the two is like the dream and the psychoanalysis of the dreamm which leads to the clarity of the day...
...And one of the principal problems of dealing with Anais Nin's work has been the odd historieal, artistic and biographical accident that has segmented her work (and her followers and dissenters) into two parts: the surreal element in which her early novels lead their strange, dreamlike lives--and the crisply and elegantly detailed prose in which her Diaries lead their rich, emotional and intellectual lives...
...ISBN 0-s8344-125-~ Hardbound $3.95 At your local bookstore or write: Commonweal: 89 The Desert is Fertile by Dora Helder Camara Simple and moving poems, magnificently translated by an English poet, by a man who has pleaded the cause of the world's poor and powerless...
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...On one page we are with her in a feared return to Paris after the war . . . the Paris of her artistic youth...
...And the third is Dante, and the need, for any satsifactory reading of Dante and Bernanos, for the reader to accept their Catholicis ~vith its dogmatic definitions...
...But it Evolution and Guilt by Juan Luis Segundo, S.J...
...I do not believe that freedom is already so illusory that we may as well do away with any semblance of it except for the possibility of attending a seance when you want to...
...Bernanos made the voyage despite physical and mental suffering, and despite the first symptoms of cancer which was to cause his death...
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...One quite moving section in the volume deals with the author's struggle to transmute the real beloved man, Gonzalo, to the character, Rango, in the novel, The Four Chambered Heart...
Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 4
