NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS Vale, Sisyphus For Commonweal's Sisyphus, that tortuous rock has rolled back down the hill for the last time. He died at his home in Bethesda, Md., on June 22, the victim of a brain...
...Wes Barthelmes didn't want a pseudonym any more than we at Commonweal wanted him to use it...
...George Eliot & 1980 Henry James made it into Westminster Abbey on June 17, a stone commemorating his memory being unveiled in the floor of the Poet's Corner, next to those of T.S...
...HO 9-4184...
...Washingtonion magazine knew his worth, and recently rated him among the top five Senatorial aides on Capitol Hill...
...The sensitivity was Wes...
...The George Eliot Fellowship is determined that this "century-old injustice to a great English writer shall be redressed," and has launched in England a campaign to gain a place in Westminister Abbey for Mary Ann Evans, the Warwickshire-born girl who achieved fame as George Eliot...
...The Nixon Administration, of course, made it its business to know, and one day Wes Barthelmes received the -inevitable and ostensibly innocent visit from officials of a , creep federal agency to say that if they could ever help in any way, well just say the word...
...It was one of the happy things to happen in middle age, but we both should have been forewarned...
...he died in 1889 and had to wait until 1975...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Boiling illustrates my point in the acknowledgements section of Power in the House (Dutton, 1968), the second of two books on the House of Representatives that Wes helped him write...
...Father Daniel Berrigan, and Clare Danielsson, coordinator of Intimate Community Workshop...
...He was a selfless guy, and so many of the best things he did were anonymous or, more particularly, for the byline or for articulation by those on whose staff he served...
...He died at his home in Bethesda, Md., on June 22, the victim of a brain tumor unmanageable by surgery...
...Like George Eliot...
...In 1975 it awarded him its prize for the best column of opinion appearing in a Catholic journal...
...Brewster Beach of Wainwright House in Rye, N.Y...
...There were years of silence, then the moving finger that writes effected a reunion through Commonweal...
...He felt it necessary, lest he should ever appear to compromise or trade upon his "boss:" Wes was Administrative Assistant to Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., of Delaware...
...Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen of Bread for the World...
...Moral support might be needed more...
...He was one of the finest in the magazine's history of outstanding columnists, a fact underscored by the Catholic Press Association...
...The Fellowship is aiming for December, 1980, the 100th anniversary of George Eliot's death, as a rehabilitation date...
...Another friend of long standing...
...So many phrases and ideas from Sisyphus' Washington Reports were cropping up in the Congressional Record on the lips of another that it should not have been difficult to trace the source...
...Eliot and Gerard Manley Hopkins...
...No one would have approved more than James...
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...He was given to calling himself "the observant stranger," but he was actually the classic expatriate Anglophile: as British as the Union Jack...
...The workshop is limited to 40 participants, and there is a requested donation...
...For Commonweal, the death of Wes Barthelmes is a real publishing loss...
...Before Biden, they included Representative Edith Green of Oregon, Senator Robert Kennedy (for whom he worked as press secretary), Representative Richard Boll-ing of Missouri, Senator Frank Church of Idaho...
...Weekends will feature lectures and discussions headed by Thomas Berry of the Riverside Center of Religious Research...
...So now the guessing game of Sisyphus' identity is over -although it never should have been much of a guessing game in the first place...
...It is also looking for funds, although this would seem to be the lesser of problems...
...Wes Barthelmes and I broke into newspapering together at the Worcester Telegram back in the early 1950s...
...Silver/gray striped female kitty-about 1 yr...
...After all, Eliot died only in 1964...
...It was a sad end...
...Sisyphus Was A. Wesley Barthelmes, Jr.-Wes Bar-thelmes-and from 1969 until his operation two months ago he appeared regularly in these pages...
...Odds and Ends - From a neighborhood newspaper in Syracuse, N.Y., this classified ad: "missing since May 5th from Wente Terrace...
...Practical dimension of the workshop is exploration of how homes and communities can better help in providing for human needs, not excluding those of children, the aged, and the emotionally and physically handicapped...
...He dropped his formal byline and switched to Sisyphus when he began writing the Washington Report column on Nov...
...And there are those who are waiting yet...
...He went on to the Washington Post...
...She died in 1880, and the decision has never been reversed by which she was denied entry nine decades ago...
...Advance registration is necessary...
...Support of any kind can be channeled through Mrs...
...Wes wasn't intimidated...
...The other was House Out of Order...
...The only complaint James would likely lodge, were he able, would be over the delay of 60 years in getting him into Westminster...
...It was based, it will be recalled, on the "moral stigma" of her union outside marriage with George Henry Lewes...
...It was his Commonweal signature to his last appearance in print-the May 7, 1976 issue...
...Information may be had from Clare Danielsson at 259 Wolcott Ave., Beacon, N.Y...
...23, 1973...
...did the late evening writing, in contrast to my early morning habits," Boiling wrote...
...I to religious journalism...
...Middle age is also when corners are turned the most suddenly...
...Checks should be made out to the George Eliot Fellowship, and will be acknowledged...
...Ah, but there are those who waited longer to make it into the heaven-haven for writers in the English language-Hopkins, for one...
...Biden never pressed the issue, and actually had no objection to Wes using his own name...
...In so many ways it was characteristic of him...
...E. Lenton of the George Eliot Fellowship, 150 Attle-borough Road, Nuneaton, CV11 4JW, England...
...The cost of placing a stone in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey is a modest £2,000, and of this £1,000 already has been raised...
...Dutton, 1966...
...He was 54...
...Our stint as colleagues was relatively brief...
...Intimate Workshop The fifth Intimate Community Workshop, which aims to take the techniques that come out of the personal growth and therapeutic disciplines and make them available to ordinary people to help them run their households, will be held July 30-August 14 at Marist Hall in Cold Spring, N.Y...
...For me the loss is a personal one as well...
...It is hard to say which words are his and which mine...
...Once again, there would be no book without Wes...
...Named The Little Flower of Jesus.' Reward...
Vol. 103 • July 1976 • No. 15
