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BOOKS GERARD REEDY The Realms of Gold MARGARET DRABBLE Knopf, $8.95 The Realms of Gold, Margaret Drabble's seventh novel in twelve years, concerns the Ollerenshaw family. Frances Ollerenshaw...
...She was, you see, already a star...
...Greeley raises the question at two levels-the absence of Church-funded research involving the views of the laity and the absence of any effective two-way communication between Rome and the rest of the Church...
...It did not prevent Catholics from practicing birth control, and it did not stop the erosion of support for the church's birth control teaching either among the clergy or the laity...
...Finally, there is the question of how seriously the Church listens to the laity...
...Can school curricula and teaching be directed toward the new and more realistic formulation of purpose-when the official Church still holds to the earlier formulation...
...Naturally, the book begins with a grabber-Quinn seeking out the actor Warren Beatty-her "friend," she once interviewed him for the Post -for career advice in his Beverly Hills Hotel room...
...Contemporary Medical Ethics JOHN F. DEDEK Sheed & Ward, $7.95 WILLIAM E. MAY In a relatively brief book...
...Sally Quinn, a Washington Post feature writer, has a much more limited story to tell: her four months as an anchor-woman on the CBS Morning News in the fall and winter of 1973...
...Catholics Schools in a Declining Church ANDREW GREELEY, WILLIAM C. McCREADY, KATHLEEN McCOURT Sheed & Ward, $15 GEORGE ELFORD Once again Andrew Greeley and his NORC colleagues have made an important contribution to the church and Catholic education in the area of empirical research where contributions are sorely needed...
...Take her essay, "Baking Off," on the Pills-bury contest...
...And she is correct about the potential dangers of consciousness-raising groups...
...In this study, which replicates a 1963 study {The Education of Catholic Americans), Greeley and company examine the changes in the impact of Catholic schools after a decade marked by unusual turbulence within the American Church, which Greeley describes, on the bases of various indices (Mass attendance, contributions, acceptance of authority, etc...
...This is not the place to argue the merits of this methodology...
...She is working in another literary tradition...
...The Quinn book can be mined for more than titillation...
...But Ms...
...It is one indication where post-Watergate journalism is going...
...Worse, she is promoted as a "sex bomb," despite her bleached hair and Vassar lockjaw speech...
...The chief finding of this study is that, withal, those who went to Catholic schools came through the turbulence in better shape as Catholics than their public school/CCD counterparts...
...One learns to smile even at one's own expectations that there is some psychic or material real of gold...
...Before taking up educational questions, Greeley makes a compelling case that the 1968 papal encyclical on birth control (Humanae Vitae) was an unmitigated disaster and the chief single cause of decline in the American Church...
...It is rather intended to give readers a solid introduction to the major questions in medical ethics today, the dilemmas posed by scientific developments, and the terrible complexity of those problems...
...Corral of the televised presidential news conference were once-in-a-decade events...
...As for religion, Drabble uses the biblical titles of several of her novels ironically: there is no superstructure behind experience here, no master plan to give meaning to the whole...
...Quinn, on the other hand, has done no research...
...For instance, I believe that he justifies far too easily non-therapeutic experiments involving no risks on children...
...Her heroines habitually have good memories and a "passion for facts...
...In the future there are new marriages, even a hint of more of the Ollerenshaw saga...
...Sexism is not endemic to capitalism, but it certainly hasn't hurt merchandising...
...Nephew Stephen follows Alice, Frances' sister, to self-destruction...
...We have all been there before...
...The decline in Catholic schooling Greeley considers to be the result chiefly of a decision in the 1960's by churchmen not to build Catholic schools to serve new suburban parishes...
...explored and put in communicable order, but not abstracted...
...Quinn comes through in her own pages as an unattractive, egotistical, modestly talented debutante journalist...
...Nevertheless, Nora Ephron assures us that she is committed to the women's movement and possesses a most em-pathetic personality...
...In short, can Catholic schools openly embrace a responsible kind of doctrinal pluralism...
...Yet I think that Dedek does not sufficiently probe the depths of the issues with which he is concerned...
...The study's importance extends beyond the findings themselves to include several large questions raised by the study...
...This merits further attention...
...And, ultimately, we learn more about CBS from Quinn's account than from Metz's, or any number of other "objective" narratives (including Dan Rather's own book...
...The notion that the network news is constantly being stunted by political ideologies of the other capos of the Nixon gang...
...Quite frequently Dedek's survey of a question and its historical development is very illuminating...
...She does not ask why some women find it imperative to enter the Pillsbury contest or why they struggle to be "super" homemakers...
...This methodology, quite dominant in contemporary Catholic moral theology, is properly a species of - consequentialism, something that McCormick clearly acknowledges, although it is a subject that Dedek himself does not formally address...
...Kissinger-then why not about Mike Wallace or Ben Bradlee or Sally Quinn...
...Victorian verbosity was never defined by sex...
...This implies, of course, that only plain women earn the right to question a sexist society- presumably because they are less readily accepted by it...
...If so, can and should this reformulation be made explicit- in effect, documented to provide a guide for Catholic educators today...
...In this survey of Catholic adults, Greeley documents the large scale abandonment of "sexual orthodoxy" which includes the official Roman position on birth control, divorce and pre-marital sex...
...It was better to be dead than alive...
...I don't know how lucky I was, they say...
...To be fair, Ephron recognizes that fundamental changes in ourselves are required before relationships between men and women can be improved, even to the point of altering our basic fantasies...
...One hopes that the author will continue his investigations in this field and in the future deal at greater depth with some of the basic human questions posed by contemporary biomedical and behavioral technologies...
...It should be noted, however, that it is open to serious challenge, and that Germain Grisez and Paul Ramsey are perhaps the writers offering this methodology its most serious challenge today...
...This decline, which cost the Church 1.8 billion dollars in 1974, was largely the result of the Humanae Vitae disaster...
...Naturally, then, Quinn gives us star material, she tells us about her sex life and her drinking habits and her acne...
...Despite some of my dissatisfactions with the book, it is one that merits wide readership insofar as it is very comprehensive in scope, usually informative, and quite stimulating intellectually...
...Catholic schools were producing a new kind of Catholic-better suited to the times...
...Ten years later, the schools were noticeably less effective in terms of these purposes...
...Greeley reported a decline in church income- 9 percent in ten years in the face of a 34-percent increase in the number of Catholic families...
...The very unintelligibility of the objects, which have yet endured, lends a cold comfort...
...Metz is thorough, with names, dates, facts and anecdotes about every phase of CBS's corporate, news, and entertainment operations...
...A 1974 NCEA study showed that all lay schools met the test of feasibility...
...But the truth is that Nora Ephron refuses to take women seriously...
...failure to listen in the second instance led to the disastrous encyclical on birth control...
...In fact, in 1974, Catholic education was one of the most important predictors of religious behavior, ahead of parental religiousness and second only to religiousness of spouse...
...As Emma Evans says in The Garrick Year, "I know that realism is not all, but to me it is all, and anything that does not seem to be dredged up from a fleshly occurrence leaves me undisturbed...
...One wishes she had addressed herself to the problem of why so many women for whom this movement is ostensibly intended feel so alienated from it...
...When I recently taught a Drabble novel, several of my students perceived overtones of "existentialism...
...Has the definition of Catholic education in fact quietly- bit by bit-been reformulated in this past decade...
...If Janet's marriage remains awful, she has still had a nice dinner out with her cousins, and new friendships seem to be emerging...
...Ephron is not in business to tell her audience anything it does not wish to hear...
...Nor does Ephron deal with the obvious profitability of sexism...
...Ironically, The Millstone is the most rigorously plotted of the novels...
...However dimly outlined in its essence, the family sickness in its varied operations is the basic action imitated in The Realms of Gold, more or less binding the travels, personalities, and narratives of the principals into an intelligible pattern...
...One ought not to expect too much understanding...
...One can only hope that this major study receives far more attention than Greeley himself seems to anticipate...
...If "the people" have "a right to know" the inside story about Sonny and Cheror Dr...
...Its modesty and sensitivity to the feelings of people and its respect for the complexity of the topics taken up are also in its favor...
...Coupled, in the public mind, with the diligent sapper's work done by Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post, Rather's stingers helped weaken the exposed flanks of the Nixon White House fortress...
...I think they are full of shit...
...her cousins Janet Ollerenshaw Bird and David, a geologist, her brother Hugh, and his son Stephen, and her grand-aunt Connie also lend, in one way or other, their points of view...
...One misses in Dedek the depth that is to be found, for instance, in the work of Paul Ramsey on this topic...
...Frances suffers from somewhat more clinical and frightening mood-swings, the down side of which is explored in the long, extraordinary opening panel of the novel...
...Quinn succeeds in giving us the feel of the "real" CBS because she was there-and simply and unin-hibitedly put down everything "zingy" that happened...
...If there is anything more boring to me than the problems of big-busted women, it is the problems of beautiful women...
...Drabble fits very well into a venerable tradition of British empiricism, high on gathering the evidence, low on speculation...
...in some ways CBS can be as unpleasant a place as the White House- arrogant leaders, conniving department heads, the sail-trimmers, the bottom-line worshippers and all the rest...
...He has interviewed scores of people and read every word written on the subject...
...While "nature," human and otherwise, is talked about a good deal in The Realms of Gold, it is, again, accepted in its variety, not understood...
...I do not care very much for the plots myself," writes Rosamund Stacey in The Millstone, "but I do like to have a sequence of events...
...These unify the novel in an extrinsic sort of way...
...The women in her consciousness-raising group are "settled into a running soap opera...
...It is simply done, mature people do it, and the moral effort brings some degree of happiness...
...She prefers, rather, to quote the silliest member of the lot...
...The Rather-Nixon showdowns at the O.K...
...Greeley was the first to study the emerging generation of Catholics who were confronted with both Humanae Vitae and Vietnam...
...Failure to listen in the first instance led, in Greeley's view, to some debatable decisions in educational planning...
...No character offers a rationalization, to counter Stephen's, to go on living...
...What novelists...
...It is to be noted that on this view the existence of a proportionate reason alone is required in order to justify a deed that does harm or brings about evil...
...Truth and Consequences" stresses the importance of overcoming one's political prejudices and reporting and accepting unpleasant truths...
...A line perfectly attuned to its audience from a feminist most admirably suited to Esquire...
...According to this methodology the fundamental ethical principle is that a proportionate reason or a greater, higher good is sufficient to justify the doing of "premoral" or "nonmoral" evil...
...A religious institution which could be so patently wrong on such a critical issue was judged to be wrong, or at least questionable, on a wide range of other, related issues...
...Dedek, who recently moved from St...
...I have thought about their remarks, tried to put myself in their place, considered their point of view...
...She never uses her skill to probe these women...
...The chief reason for non-attendance was "unavailability of Catholic schools...
...She refuses to repeat even the successful format...
...His work is a sensitive account of these issues, one that is well informed, irenic and reasonable in its approach...
...Any effort to expand Catholic schooling today must include the willingness to accept lay-staffed Catholic schools...
...Greeley reports a willingness on the part of Catholics to give more for Catholic schools...
...Name Address City, State, Zip...
...It is easy to imagine the delighted guffaws from the Esquire audience...
...She gives us a whining, account of her wretched television "career...
...Some verbal valium of a more suitable ending would, presumably, fail to allay the complex anxieties Drabble presents...
...yet he argues that situations can and do exist in which these types of activities can indeed be justified on the grounds of a higher value that serves as a proportionate reason...
...Crazy Salad NORA EPHRON Knopf, $7.95 HARRIET KRIEGEL "And my girl friends, the ones with nice big breasts, would go on endlessly about how their lives had been far more miserable than mine...
...The birth control encyclical, paradoxically enough, was issued to restore faith in the institution, but in fact badly weakened it...
...At the height of the Vietnam agony, CBS News' Walter Cron-kite was adjudged the most trusted man in America...
...Several large questions are raised by this study-the question of the definition and purposes of Catholic education, the question of doctrinal pluralism in education, and the question of how the Church's decision-making relates to the concern of reflective Catholics-the "sensus fidelium...
...And so we lap up Quinn's story because we are made to half believe "And that's the way it is"-and not the way Walter Cronkite might tell it-behind scenes at CBS...
...Greeley found that the positive dynamic created by the Second Vatican Council was to a large extent wiped out by the encyclical which was seen as a betrayal of realistic hopes and expectations...
...Ephron can't believe that beautiful women or women with breasts have anything to complain about...
...Since Ephron agrees that they don't why make the difficulties of women inconsequential...
...For Frances, David's glass "seemed an appropriate gift...
...the lion has "weathered into identity...
...one expects to be weathered by life, by good winds and bad...
...Unfortunately, Ms...
...Unlike the other characters-especially David, who, Drabble notes, is especially impenetrable-Stephen has thought life through...
...Watergate, and similar media events, have already made them "stars...
...Invent a more suitable ending," Drabble writes, "if you can...
...She shows, to be sure inadvertently, how "the news" is shaped by non-news factors: the kind of night's sleep the writer got, one or another communications breakdowns along the line, the infighting among news executives, the quantity of film available, what the "opposition" may be doing, the amount of air time journalist A got compared to journalist B last week...
...In the radio years, CBS was the network of such popular stars as Jack Benny, Kate Smith and Bing Crosby...
...Since nothing about Drabble's work suggests "extreme simplicity," the reader expects that Stephen will not have the last word...
...as a "Declining Church...
...Elizabeth Gaskell...
...In Janet Bird the sickness takes shape in nagging domestic anxieties-we have seen them before in Drabble-about what to serve for the guests and how to avoid sex with husband Mark...
...The answers he found are not surprising...
...He was CBS...
...But it wasn't until the Nixon White House took out after the Big Media that CBS became personified...
...they are no more typical of the "real" CBS than the Woodstein investigations are of daily journalism...
...Frances Ollerenshaw Wingate is the chief character but not the only consciousness through which the events reach us...
...One of the greater pleasures in starting any new Drabble novel is to note the new technical problems she continually creates for herself...
...And is the point of "A Star is Born" that Nora Ephron, rather than Sally Quinn, should have been CBS's answer to Barbara Walters...
...Must Catholic teachers stand silent on these important issues-or be constrained simply to repeat official positions which few find believable...
...In the women's movement, to be called the mother of anything is rarely a compliment...
...Thus readers are given concise yet informative accounts of the debates going on among leading authorities in the field of medical ethics and some insight into the reasons behind their differing judgments...
...He has organized the material into four parts: the human body, human sexuality, human life, and the human mind...
...The message of this study is that Catholic schools are more important today than they were in 1963...
...The first formulation, universally held in the early 1960s, describes the purposes of Catholic education to be that of maintaining and promoting Church involvement, transmitting the Church's ethical values.and doctrinal knowledge, sustaining the Church's basic world-view and developing an acceptable kind of loyalty to the Church...
...Comfy, authorial intrusions do not satisfy this reader's marginal question in these pages: where is this novel going...
...One reason it that Quinn is not working "objectively...
...No amount of research, even by a professional like Metz, can recreate that sensation of being inside the CBS corporate whale...
...These two books are intended to show the true side of the CBS personality...
...Nor does she feel sympathy with mothers and housewives...
...She's too busy scoring points off those Pills-bury ladies...
...However they allude to the whole, they fail as episodes in a progressive sequence...
...Two products in the place of one becomes the rule: male and female razors, bikes, shaving creams, deodorants...
...Given all the big egos that have to be massaged and all the elaborate corporate games that have to be be played out, the wonder is that the network news,-morning, noon and night-turns out to be as well done as it is...
...He then surveys ethical positions pertaining to the questions posed, beginning, when possible, with those taken by the magisterium and by such earlier Catholic medical ethicists as McFadden and Healy, and following this with a synopsis of the stands taken by such contemporary authors as Haring, Curran, Ramsey, McCormick, Fletcher, and Fuchs...
...But what is most disturbing about this book and its critical reception from other feminists is its display of feminine self-hatred...
...In taking up these issues Dedek's customary procedure is first to sketch the state of the art and the nature of the moral dilemmas, at times quite agonizing, raised by the possibilities created by scientific and technological developments...
...Drabble need not attempt to cure what her and our society has not...
...Unable to "understand any woman's wanting to be the first woman to do anything," Nora Ephron treads too many well-worn grooves: Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Rosemary Woods, one more negative comment about women in Israel...
...Are Catholic teachers free to formulate-in the light of day-a "state of the question" approach on controversial issues -an approach which presents for the guidance of the young several positions which include the collective wisdom of reflective Catholics and other Christians along with the official positions...
...Yet Dedek's work is not intended to be a systematic presentation of this approach and an application of it to contemporary medical ethics...
...More's the pity, for this is exactly where the movement is at its weakest...
...Ephron's audience can, no doubt, speak with some authority here...
...After all, there are men lurking in those Esquire bushes...
...These are real, frightening as well as familiar, endemic to our culture, brilliantly dissected and presented in good prose...
...Of course, if less time and energy were spent on office intrigue and backbiting and more went into the production, then the whole output of CBS-and the other major news retailers-would be measurably better...
...NCEA studies in the early 1970s showed "Catholic school" to be the name of no one thing...
...If one needs an ism for Drabble, let it be "empiricism...
...In an earlier day of the Walter Winchells and Hedda Hoppers, this was known as "gent's room journalism" (with a small research grant, someone might be able to trace the form back to Addison and Steele...
...The glass is "weathered...
...Frances is crushed by the death of Stephen, her favorite, but she endures with Karel's help...
...Most of the pieces in Crazy Salad originally appeared in Esquire or New York Magazine...
...He admits that these deeds are disvalues, premoral evils, and acknowledges that in most instances there is no higher good that can serve as a proportionate reason for permitting artificial insemination by a donor, for instance...
...Frances herself is a worldly, successful archaeologist, whose travels to the Mediterranean and Central Africa bring the action away from the London/north of London symbolic geography that is Drabble's usual and, even here, most comfortable moral terrain...
...It was an attractive video image...
...Charlotte Bronte...
...With some cooperation, good will and team work, in fact, the CBS News crew could have made a broadcast journalist out of Sally Quinn...
...The Realms of Gold stretches the hereditary canvas to show a "Midlands sickness" effecting, on Frances' side of the family alone, five generations of Ollerenshaws...
...His performances raised the press high in the public esteem, when the full extent of the Nixon trickery was revealed...
...In those decisions not to build Catholic schools-the unavailability of religious and the unwillingness of religious communities to commit themselves to the staffing of new schools played perhaps the deciding role...
...The presence or absence of risks in an experiment done to a human being who cannot consent of himself to participation in the experiment is not, I suggest, the crucial ethical issue...
...The revelation was one of extreme simplicity...
...Perhaps an awareness of intermittent wandering prompted Drabble to insert repetitive images into the work-octopuses, teeth, frogs, ditches, seeds, volcanoes...
...He ordinarily concludes by advancing his own tentative position...
...Are male serf-help groups better...
...The advocates of this type of consequentialism believe that it steers a course midway between the cost-analysis utilitarian type of calculating consequentialism of Joseph Fletcher and the more rigorous deontological approach common to older Catholic moralists, an approach that Dedek and many contemporaries reproach for being blinded by a physicalistic understanding of the natural law...
...Greeley, however, offers some evidence that in 1974 Catholic schools were effective in terms of a distinctively new though not altogether different formulation of purposes...
...The Realms of Gold continues to explore the individual consciousness of anxiety that is Drabble's special matter...
...She attacks the style in which Jan Morris writes about her sex change operation as one which "makes the style of Victorian women novelists seem spare...
...the story of a pregnancy rather forces any novelist into an observable beginning, middle and end...
...Ironically, while the Greeley study was on the presses, Rome presented the world with yet another pronouncement on sexual orthodoxy...
...The future of Catholic schools is tied in part to the financial resources of the Church...
...Especially in the second third of the novel, the jumping back and forth from the minds of Frances to Janet to David calls too much attention to itself, however it explores the Ollerenshaw curse...
...Catholic school purposes, as embodied in school practices, varied widely...
...Quinn offers one good corrective to such Right Think...
...It is "Kissinger-and-Tell journalism...
...In Crazy Salad it is difficult to find evidence of either...
...Like The Needle's Eye, The Realms of Gold ends in a kind of denial of the quest for self-knowledge, which, in the case of Stephen Ollerenshaw, has been self-destructive...
...their symbolism, i.e., the insight they offer into the whole, eludes me...
...They had a terrible time of it, they assure me...
...She is the novelist par excellence of contemporary anxiety...
...Unable to understand that many women honestly enjoy the homemaker role, she never questions their isolation from the women's movement...
...The matter deserves further study...
...I feel that the present novel begins rather than perfects a cycle of self-upmanship...
...Some of the explorations here strike me as isolated excursions...
...she confesses to voluptuous fantasies about rape...
...Vaginal Politics," on health care for women, is eminently worth reading, as is "Dealing with the, uh, Problem," an essay about vaginal sprays...
...While this tradition, internalized in a novel, lends itself well to a strong sense of "fleshly occurrence," it does preclude certain kinds of tidy structures and endings...
...The 1963 study showed Catholic schools to be effective on nearly all of these counts...
...Both this novel and The Needle's Eye end in contemplation of hard, opaque, ill-formed objects: a broken stone lion, a dessert glass David gives Frances and Karel for their wedding, a block of "smoky quartz" on David's mantle...
...Robert Metz, a New York Times-man, has written a long and intermittently interesting history of CBS dating back to the decision of a wealthy young Philadelphian named William S. Paley to invest some of his family's cigar-business money in a limping venture called radio broadcasting...
...Do the lives of single men merit a higher rating...
...Janet Bird's unhappy marriage is also brilliantly anatomized...
...The Realms of Gold furthers this narrative mode and moves towards a tighter unity, the family curse colors not only the events but also the individual Ollerenshaw reflectors of those events...
...In previous novels a narrow-minded mum or dad up North frequently influences the Drabble heroine's London conduct...
...But nobody's perfect...
...this is perhaps particularly true of his discussion of the distinction between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" or, perhaps better, "obligatory" and "elective" means for preserving life, a subject that he discusses at length in the chapters on surgery and on euthanasia...
...Brother Hugh has made a compromise with the family curse, "at some cost to his liver...
...CBS hires her to "knock off' NBC's Barbara Walters, and the Today Show, in the Holy Neilsen ratings...
...When tough, clean-eyed, competent Dan Rather would get up to ask Richard Nixon a hard question, both the audience and the President knew who Rather was...
...Being alive was sordid, degrading, sickly, unimaginable: to struggle on through another fifty years, tormented by fear and guilt and sorrow, was a fate nobody should ever embrace...
...When a woman chooses to take on motherhood, is it incumbent upon her to give up person-hood, even by those who claim greatest sympathy for her position...
...Yet this is something that Dedek does not even take up for consideration...
...Not disposed to educate or alienate her audience, Ms...
...To do this, Catholic school purposes were conceived in terms of a more nuanced involvement with the Church, more sophisticated and subtle values, more elaborate and less rigid knowledge, a restated and more appropriate world-view, more enlightened social and racial values, and a more discriminating loyalty to the Church...
...We're Going to Make You a Star SALLY QUINN Simon and Schuster, $7.95 CBS: Reflections in o Bloodshot Eye ROBERT METZ Playboy Press, $13.50 EDWIN DIAMOND I think Richard Nixon, more than anyone, put CBS on the map of the American psyche...
...Under the first category he takes up the questions posed by developments in surgery, organ transplantation, and human experimentation...
...Although he does not provide a systematic account of the ethical methodology that he believes is proper for verifying moral judgments, Dedek makes it clear in his discussion of specific issues that he agrees with the methodology developed by Bruno Schiiller in Germany (and elaborated in detail by Richard McCormick in this country...
...The first day one thing is perfectly clear: she is a disaster on camera...
...Any reformulation of purposes is not free from difficulty...
...last lines of "A Few Words About Breasts" from Crazy Salad...
...But she has absolutely zero broadcast experience and a snotty personality to match...
...Ephron herself never asks why beauty is such an important commodity in this society and fails to recognize that when ludicrous physical standards are created, we all become losers-plain, ugly and beautiful...
...In her next three, ending in The Needle's Eye (1972), she developed graceful, third-person entrance into a multiplicity of conscious centers...
...Are men any less contentious at political conventions than the women she describes at the National Women's Political Cauc " Why is Betty Friedan given so much derisive attention, when George McGovern, the recipient of strong feminist support, ultimately betrayed the woman's movement in 1972...
...Under the second he considers contraception and sterilization, trans-sexualism and homosexuality, and genetic manipulation, giving greater attention to artificial insemination than to any other topic under the final heading...
...With Quinn's book, and others like it (such as Barney Collier's), Kissinger-and-Tell journalism has been extended to include the media stars themselves -journalist celebrities all but indistinguishable from the show biz and political celebrities they cover...
...Unavailability" might well prove to be a rather complex term involving geographical distance, costs, value choices, etc...
...At the end Stephen takes his infant daughter off to the cold woods and dies...
...Mary of the Lake Seminary in Illinois to Catholic University, covers a wide range of issues in contemporary medical ethics...
...Modern Atreidae, the Ollerenshaws labor under a family curse, "some incurable and ratlike family disease...
...With this as his basic approach, it is no surprise to find that Dedek is willing tentatively to justify contraception and sterilization, homosexual behavior and artificial insemination by a donor...
...Cattiness is a particularly expensive commodity in a feminist...
...The main plotline traces the divorced Frances Wingate's separation from and reconciliation with her lover, Karel Schmidt...
...According to this principle an act that does harm or brings about evil, for example mutilation, death, deception, is not "morally evil" and hence permissible provided that a good of proportionate value is at stake that can serve as a justifying reason...
...This seems to be the feeling of the author also...
...It is a workmanlike job...
...it is an enormously successful corporation (profits of $91,000,000 in the last year...
...Quinn offers no large insights about "the media" but instead bitchy little "items...
...In this study of Catholic schools ten years later, Greeley offers two formulations of the purposes of Catholic education...
...The lives of single girls in New York are "B novel" material...
...Yet we devour every word of it...
...Now it has moved from Broadway and Hollywood to the real centers of power...
...Although Frances Wingate dominates the fifty-six long and short panels which make up the novel, Drabble continues to distance herself from the single, female, first-person center of consciousness she perfected in The Millstone (1965), her third novel...
...Nobody tells her what to wear, how to do her hair, how to write or speak for television, or even where to look when the camera is on (she claims not to have known that the "little red light" means the camera is working...
...Late in the novel Aunt Connie's death by starvation brings the main characters together...
...Edward R. Murrow and Elmer Davis, before him, gave broadcast journalism its first professional stamp of authority...
...George Eliot...
...Compare any of these styles to, say, that of a George Meredith...
...It is not a very pretty picture...
...I doubt the usefulness of either term...
...Recent critical comment has also suggested "Calvinism" as an apt category in which to examine her work...
...How can schools keep when the official Roman position and the working consensus of the believing community are clearly at odds in important areas...
...Human nature is truly impenetrable," muses Frances at the end...
...One shuffles and squeezes through the needle's eye, but not to the kingdom of heaven...
...CBS, of course, has been around since the late 1920s...
...Under the third rubric he considers abortion and euthanasia, while under the fourth he discusses psycho-surgery and behavior control...
Vol. 103 • June 1976 • No. 13
