BOOKS
Sloyan, Gerard S. & Clifford, Nicholas R. & Williamson, Chilton Jr. & Druska, John
Books Notes for the Ttvo-Dollar Window LEONARD KRIEGEL Saturday Review Press, $8.95 JOHN DRUSKA Little Sammy leads off the strongest part of Leonard Kriegel's Notes for the Two-Dollar Window,...
...there were no Jews, no ethnics of dubious loyalty, and not one of them was educated by the Big Red Machine of Harvard...
...Still a waitress at 39, holed up in the Village with a 29-year-old actor-lover, Audrey ends her narration: "When you come right down to it, though, I guess it doesn't matter who's in that bed...
...Most documentary studies of anything are generally carted away unread to the second-hand bookshops, but in Beethoven Mr...
...America, that ultimate bookie, lets her folk gamble for a fortune, but like any smart operator takes much more than she gives...
...they are works which do not have a wide circulation, and unlike Kubek's "history," are not underwritten by the American taxpayer...
...and Jones Avenue in the Bronx...
...Dominic's voice sounds at times too self-consciously thoughtful, a melodramatic street-kid with good heart trying to make sense...
...The editors in their essays and twelve other contributors abstain from any view, three say that there is nothing against it, and one argues that the office of oversight (episkope) by women is not the ministry of women that the church needs...
...By reference to many similar examples, Kolodin shows how musical ideas were patiently worked out certainly not divinely received by Beethoven...
...Apparently indifferent to money," Sammy quit repairing full-time: "He wanted no claims made on him...
...If the initial choice was to serve God through the love of specific persons, fidelity might be better assured (some have concluded) through the choice of other persons...
...Serving his time...
...In doing so they seem to rob it of any realistic working vocabulary...
...The perspectives on ordination in this book are rich, those on vocation less so...
...For, as both Landon's and Kolodin's books make appropriately clear, Beethoven as a man and as an artist was a rebel, if not a revolutionary...
...I think Kriegel could have tightened Notes by combining "Lennie" with "Dominic," since Kriegel as "Lennie" comes alive throughout the "Going Home" sections...
...from reviews of Beethoven's keyboard performances and of performances of his compositions...
...Until then their function had been one of counsel to a priestly episkopos...
...America, whose first Europeans so mistrusted the wilderness that they set out to garden the nation, has so mobilized her people in pursuit of the buck that the plots and rows of her past are being trampled...
...Audrey's history, with its bedrock of frustration, embodies the rhythms and themes Kriegel sounds on the larger scale of the neighborhood...
...If Kriegel's Notes did no more than sketch the geography of his old neighborhood in the Bronx, I'd still read it with a reflex of affection...
...and from numerous other sources...
...As a favor he still fixes sets for his friends...
...It would seem, however, to be wishful thinking to suggest as Kahn (quoting Service) does, that had we been more cooperative towards Mao earlier, Sino-American relations would not have been the sterile wasteland they have become since 1949...
...Of the changes which war had brought to the Party...
...The author suspects that the figures say something about fidelity or the lack of it, and so argues...
...I'm forty-three...
...Neither "Dominic" nor "Lennie," the other longer pieces, create as surely that sense of live connection with Kriegel's neighborhood...
...how they were drawn into the very center of his consciousness and then, when they had been fully developed, fully realized, were dropped by the composer for good, though they often produced, "through some form of parthenogenesis...
...Unfortunately it must be said that the book seldom rises above this level...
...One essayist argues for it as a necessary corollary of Galatians 3:27-28 (Guthrie), which contains Paul's statement that in Christ sex no longer matters...
...He is, as he scrawls on the back of a picture postcard showing Ring Lard-ner's house in Niles, Michigan, 'seeing America.' " Of the longer, first-person self-portraits in Notes, "Audrey" is the most convincing...
...By the time you learn these things, it's too late...
...The Irish collegian backing off from sex after indulging, Audrey's bloated friend Jeanette wasting into a morbid middle age, Audrey's mother pulling out of her marriage to dye her hair red, diet, and take on a "rich Greek boyfriend" through Audrey's voice Kriegel plays them, off well against Audrey and her final recognition...
...Their ruin hasn't been Black or Latino invasion...
...Kriegel's three "Going Home" chapters nicely detail, in short anecdotes, his Bronx experience at home and on the street...
...Kolodin is clever too at pinpointing, both through Beethoven's music and the known facts of his life, the year in which Beethoven first became aware of his deafness, the great tragedy of his life and career, and he is excellent at detailing Beethoven's skillful handling something of which Mozart for one was tragically incapable of his noble Viennese patrons...
...A die-hard individualist and nonconformist, he shook music loose from the cool abstractness of the saloon although when Kolodin writes that Beethoven "made music speak not only to men but to man...
...When Kriegel last sees him, Sammy, thinned by a diet, is mourning the passage of the neighborhood boys: '"You moved...
...When Chairman Mao announced in October 1949 that the Chinese people had stood up, he meant that China, so long the object of the policies of others, had now become a subject...
...The assumption of the book, that in making perpetual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience one has committed oneself in personal love forever to the members of one's monastery or institute, after the model of marriage, may come as news to some in this state...
...How much did these men know of Communist politics and policies...
...and their cumulative force makes us feel the ironies of growing older in America's cities during the postwar era...
...While "Audrey" is one of his "Portraits from an American Neighborhood" (Notes' subtitle), Audrey's life is the life of the whole neighborhood, serving time, awaiting its next lukewarm lover, even as Little Sammy's life and death are in another way the neighborhood's too...
...By putting us in touch with the lives of Sammy, Lennie Kriegel, Hardass and the rest of their friends, Notes suggests what doomed these neighborhoods from the start, while it shows Kriegel reacting to his neighborhood's death with a most credible emotion, a kind of perceptive bafflement...
...Beethoven: A Documentary History H. C. ROBBINS LANDON, EDIT...
...Here too, some background would be helpful to explain these glaring inconsistencies...
...and unintentional, nonvoli-tional extension and expansion of ideas which continued to mature and grow within him until they achieved maximum fulfillment...
...Some were born and raised in China, speaking the language from childhood, and others had to undertake later in life the daily struggle that learning Chinese involves...
...He is less at ease, or so it seems to this student of the Bible, in discussing the fidelity of Israel's God to Jesus and his God, and the religious commitments of Mary and Paul...
...Books Notes for the Ttvo-Dollar Window LEONARD KRIEGEL Saturday Review Press, $8.95 JOHN DRUSKA Little Sammy leads off the strongest part of Leonard Kriegel's Notes for the Two-Dollar Window, "Going Home: II," the second of three farragos of neighborhood people and scenes, each of which precedes a longer character portrait...
...At home he lives with his mother, carefully storing his tools in a work-room sanctuary, once the site of his flourishing radio-TV repair business...
...You know, once I was close to fucking Audrey's mother...
...Just waiting...
...During the war they tried to convince their superiors that there was enormous danger of a civil war in China, that Chiang was losing the backing of all but the most reactionary elements, and that unconditional support for his regime would only hurt American policy...
...How far were they aware of the cheng-feng (rectification) campaign of 1942 and 1943, which did much to tighten Party discipline...
...Yet brinkmanship as the Western world never properly learned, alas, during the 1950s is a form of courage frequently rewarded...
...neither is as controlled as "Audrey...
...from Beethoven's several inamoratas...
...As Beethoven's stock of musical ideas began to grow formidable, he stuffed them, these "building blocks of a scheme he would eventually find time to realize," into his notebooks: by the summer of 1803, when he wrote the "Eroica," Beethoven had "set so many different forces in motion, fertilized and cross-fertilized so many different strains of musical growths, that the harvest would be many years in the reaping...
...The chapter reads like a pastiche of incidents that bring his memory up against the neighborhood-present, threaded with excerpts from his mother's record of the passage to America...
...How far were they aware of the differences between the American usage of the word "democracy," with its libertarian overtones, and the Chinese usage, which emphasizes popular support (min-chu chu-i, "people's rule-ism...
...Kolodin, until 1800, when Beethoven was thirty, that his instincts as a composer overcame the instincts of a pianist who composed to a large degree for his own performance, and that his development as a composer was at last unhampered by the restrictions that the latter had imposed...
...But their books were pub...
...Some neighborhood fixtures, like Uncle Morris the furrier and would-be socialist, earn success of a sort: weekends off and in time a black, chrome-holed 1948 Buick that points the way out of the neighborhood...
...puts some questions to a nation that recorded 980,000 divorces in 1974 and saw 30,000 Catholic women resign from their religious congregations in a recent ten-year period (no figures are supplied on men...
...While patent failures of all ages rust out in the neighborhood, wearing hard-guy facades, bearing memories of thwarted passion, left with the misconnection or disconnection their lives tail into: Spaldeen sucking "angel dust" on a vacated subway train...
...He pulls together the careers of these men, who were, as he points out, an unlikely group to be labeled as traitors...
...Her changes from Catholic girlhood through sexual initiation, an idyllic romance with a college boy, his rejection, profligacy and an accidental baby, to an affair with her best friend's husband and her own move away from him shape a natural story, supported by a finely-drawn cast...
...In fact, the book does not address itself to the question extensively...
...Conversely, priestly service in the church episcopal and presbyteral, with the assistance of deacons and others is the subject of the twenty essays in the second book...
...from Beethoven's own notebooks...
...If Kolodin is masterful in pursuing his researches into Beethoven's musical development, he is also clever in explaining the relationship between the composer's interior and his exterior life...
...Should Anyone Say Forever...
...He "slips off the landscape...
...One of the lessons we've had to learn since 1945 is precisely that we do not have the power to determine the policies of other nations...
...Like me...
...In the same way, it has earlier been said in this essay that Christ and the Spirit are typified by Adam and Eve...
...Happily, Landon lets him roar throughout...
...The China Hands: America's Foreign Service Officers And What Befell Them E. J. KAHN, JR...
...They were, in short, reporting the truth as they saw it, in order to help formulate those policies which would best further the interests of their country...
...I'm with him when he talks of the candy store anchoring his world, of games in the streets and vacant lots, the characters on the Parkway, severe childhood ill ness, and that leafy, often feverish, pressure of once-immigrant families trying to cultivate their rituals with their children, on a hothouse scale, in a dream of permanence, while the New World gives in to mindless sprawl...
...At one extreme, the warm memory of young Lennie cuddling in his matriarch-grandmother's seal coat: "Sometimes, I would fall asleep that way, to find her looking at me when I awoke...
...Too late.'" Leonard Kriegel's Notes for the Two-Dollar Window, as strong up the middle as a good baseball team, is eloquent in localizing this truth: time's about up for the neighborhoods too...
...These writers do not advert to the marriage and family life of priests except to record that in Eastern orthodoxy a priest who marries a second time must forego exercise of his sacramental office, while priests of the largest rite of the Roman church need to ask to cease exercising their ministry in order to marry validly...
...at other times too much like Professor Kriegel's: talk of "demons" and "symmetry" and statements like "Cage the reason why...
...Nowhere is there any analysis of the complicated political background, both Chinese and American, against which the story is played out...
...Those of us who, like Kriegel, have grown up in the ethnic neighborhoods of large cities, have aged in our memories, I think, more quickly than others...
...She was conscious of the fur's power her power to transform...
...The judgments on Chiang Kai-shek are facile...
...Each of these new titles represents, to my knowledge, a valuable addition to whole warehouses-ful of accredited scholarly Beetho-veniana...
...Nor is there a word on the absurdity of Roosevelt's proposal that we take over the armed forces of an allied power on that power's soil...
...Punctual and meticulous, Sammy presides daily beside the newspaper stand, near the bus and subway stops outside the candy store...
...Kolodin, that is, set out to trace the inception of Beethoven's musical ideas and to chart their course into, through and out of the vocabulary of his composition...
...Beethoven was as a child the victim and beneficiary of his father's ambition to produce a prodigy on the order of Mozart: to this end he was kept hard at practice at the keyboard and discouraged from composition "But isn't that beautiful...
...another idea altogether...
...we are told, on p. 77, that his chief interest was in making China secure for himself, and on p. 126 that his primary objection to having Stilwell given unrestricted command of all Chinese troops in China (Roosevelt's wish) stemmed from his fear that "his very title of 'Generalissimo' hung in the balance...
...No, beneath all the rhetoric spawned by America's penchant for mobility ("movements," "changing neighborhoods"), a fatal irony spreads...
...Time robbed him of his function...
...Education or the big break as a dream car...
...In it, patristic typologies of Eve and Mary are put forward to establish the Tightness of a partner for Adam as the priest of creation and the fittingness of Mary as the image and personifier of the church, the renewed creation...
...Not only was their conduct the opposite of treasonable, but their reporting was of a very high quality indeed...
...But it is 'gone' only from the forefront of the creator's mind...
...The China Hands reported home certain uncomfortable facts dealing in particular with the loss of support for Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang, and the growth in strength of the Communists, and by an illogical process they were later accused of thus having foisted a pro-Communist policy on the United States...
...these peoples, as well, have been victimized in turn, and will be again, by that old thief America...
...In truth it would seem that Roosevelt neither knew nor cared much about China...
...and that the two major impulses that relate such cycles are "intentional, volitional re-use of material he had invented and used previously...
...As for Mr...
...We should take him at his word, and realize that China, as well as the United States, must bear at least some of the responsibilities for the wretched state of rela-lations between our countries, just as we realize that the betterment of those relations in recent years has come when China, as well as we, have been willing to compromise...
...By following the progress of those forces, Kolodin has been able to perceive the successive movements that make up Beethoven's oeuvre...
...Since Haughey is concerned with two social situations in which the reviewer has never had a part, his first instinct is to abstain from a view and leave judgment to those who are implicated...
...For me, too, there is no salvation outside of memory...
...Kriegel moves nimbly, with good range, from his early childhood to accounts of those adrift, cut off from their childhoods, the neighborhood, themselves...
...Nothing is said of male ministry in a community conceived as the bride of Christ...
...In The Interior Beethoven, as in his history of the Metropolitan Opera, Kolodin exhibits a certain animus against the well-born and the well-heeled: a disdain that seems, as the book proceeds, to parallel Beethoven's own resentment, though it rarely equals it...
...Almost a spillover from "Going Home: III...
...JOHN C. HAUGHEY, S.J...
...Thus the "germ-cell" of the C-minor (#5) Symphony composed in 1803 first made its appearance in a work by Beethoven the C-minor Piano Sonata (Opus 10, No...
...Macmillan, $11.95 The Interior Beethoven: A Biography of the Music IRVING KOLODIN Knopf, $15 CHILTON WILLIAMSON, JR...
...We reflect in order to connect with the characters of our past, like Little Sammy and the others in Notes' "Going Home" sections, whose presence helped create for us a particular place in time we loved...
...After getting off to an unfortunate start with a chapter on the portraiture of the Maestro that is no worse and no better than most of the stuff that is regularly ground out, by automatons out of card files, in art history departments, Landon proceeds to compile a most vivid account of Beethoven's life, pieced together from the letters of friends, patrons, colleagues, pupils and hangers-on of the composer...
...They called the vacant lots "prairies...
...Nor does it reappear in the remaining seventy measures of the moment...
...Unlike the first book, To Be a Priest does not concern itself with the priests of the Anglican, Roman, and Orthodox churches whose ministry is exercised as members of religious orders and congregations...
...Change has forced us...
...The bishop's supposition was that discussions of priesthood and sexuality among church people would result in some good published resources to deal with the question of the ordination of women to the priesthood in that church...
...Dominic" and "Audrey," framed by "Going Home(s), would connect as naturally as ever, though now we don't see their special oblique connection until "Lennie...
...lished by university presses...
...His intention forwarded by extensive forays into many of the sources that Landon draws upon was to perform "an inquiry . . . into musical botany, tonal horticulture, and aesthetic crossbreeding...
...But to suggest that a friendlier American attitude towards the Communists would have made much difference is to fall victim to the old American illusion that we could make China over in our image...
...He considers canonical regularity to be not a legal nicety but a fact that conveys an essential truth in the present controversy...
...Landon has produced a useful and pleasant book...
...It may also, as Kahn suggests, have encouraged later F.S.O.'s to report, not the truth, but the views which their superiors wished to hear...
...So much is priesthood a matter of God and church in these essays that human readiness for its tasks are explicitly downplayed...
...Beethoven," he argues, "had an obsession with realizing his unfulfilled conceptions...
...A mite too short for the Army, later forced from his flight mechanic's job by returning servicemen, plump Sammy assumes a position as "Mayor of the Corner" on 213th St...
...What's he doing there anyhow...
...Kahn's work is welcome then, as a book aimed at a wider audience...
...Dominic concludes near the end of "Lennie," on the last page of Notes: " 'I'd do anything for a start in something...
...A theological essay from the host communion that is especially worthy of attention is that of Bishop Arthur Vogel, who "personally believes that the change [ordaining women as presbyters] can be made...
...By and large they were solid middle Americans by background and upbringing...
...At the other extreme, Kriegel's story of Gunner Kopit, ex-boxer, onetime Great Jewish Hope, who enjoys a brief renascence as savior of a youth center, but gets too far in hock with the bookies to stick around...
...how many had read, for instance, Mao's On New Democracy (1940), an enormously important work...
...Ministry, presumably presbyteral, is considered a "state" of life in which a permanent commitment is also made (although to whom is not said...
...Under a forest of TV antennas, where the quilt-gardens of neighborhoods once grew, cities wither in a new American wilderness...
...The Orthodox contributor (Hopko) writes a tightly-packed theological essay worthy of study...
...You are not ready to play things out of your own head...
...The book is altogether helpful both in what it says and what it does not say...
...Big Boy...
...Beethoven himself was not, like Berlioz or Verdi, a cogent prose stylist he wrote pretty much as he conducted: arratically and with great swoopings of emotion that left good form bulging out all over like a collapsed circus tent but not even his ineptness with words concealed or even clouded the roaring personality that found expression mainly, yet then so completely, in music...
...shortly thereafter, in a disastrous move, he sent out Patrick Hurley as ambassador to Chungking, despite Hurley's total lack of qualifications for the job...
...her powers aren't mechanical, nor in America are they saleable...
...Kolodin's new book, it rests upon the thoroughness of scholarship that underlies all of his work...
...That is another matter...
...Consequently it was not, according to Mr...
...On occasion, cards arrive bearing strange postmarks...
...One theological piece entitled, "What Is a Priest...
...Only the Church as an ecclesial community, by means of its own communal processes, can determine and recognize who will be its servants...
...Nevertheless, whatever terms you employ, it's hard to overestimate the man who once wrote of himself: "Beethoven can compose, God be thanked though he can do nothing else in this world...
...Shepherd produces all the evidence that exists to say that only toward the middle of the third century are there precise indications of priestly office committed to presbyters...
...Service has answered Kubek's attack, and two of the others Clubb and Col...
...Success and failure stratify men and women, in America's terms, and banish collective dreaming along with its ceremonies...
...It had to happen, but the happening hurts...
...how far was our Indochinese adventure an outgrowth of these years...
...So too, it would help to have somj information on American attitudes towards, and knowledge about, Chinese Communism, and an analysis of the reports which Davies, Service, Clubb and others were sending to Washington...
...Kahn's book recalls the whole sorry debate of some twenty-five years ago over the question of responsibility for the "loss" of China to the Communists...
...So far, so good...
...There are splendid historical pieces from the pens of Bourke and Shepherd, respectively on the priesthood of Christ in Hebrews and on preby-ters in the early church...
...The Haughey volume has its merits but they are of a different order than the best in Ter-williger and Holmes...
...The emphasis is so new, in fact and so non-explicit canonically that many have probably resigned precisely because confronted with it...
...Viking, $12.95 NICHOLAS R. CLIFFORD Mr...
...One would hope that they would no longer need vindication, but in 1970 the Government printed two massive volumes of documents, under the auspices of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, for which Dr...
...Your cousin Leo...
...It is not further attended to...
...The cars widened our territory, denied our singularity...
...Everybody . . . None of you were satisfied here.'" A younger Kriegel warns Sammy that he'll get lost if he stays on the corner, and comments: "He is going to be forty soon and to call upon memory by the time one is forty is to be made aware of how much has been left to the whims of fate...
...Most of the writers insist that this calling is not a profession, a career, or an occupation...
...Even as she once calmed a mad dog by addressing him in Yiddish...
...For the younger, success on America's grand scale so often means dispersal...
...The two divine persons eternally begotten of the one Father can no more do without each other than can the primordial pair...
...Questions like these come to mind, but they have no answers here...
...The sole woman in the book (Thompsett) writes about clergy education in Tudor England and is alone in underscoring the Protestant character of the Church of England as its modern origin...
...that he made it "an instigator of social purpose and ethical action," I think of certain eighteenth-century composers and their intelligent patrons and begin to look about for a Scarlet Pimpernel...
...AH of them served years in China and East Asia, and came to know the country and its people well...
...There was money on Jones Avenue in the fifties, a sense of possibility in the air, teasing our imaginations...
...There is wisdom quoted from Sartre, Marcel and others, to which the author adds his own...
...In "Lennie," also, I missed a fullness in Kriegel's portrayal of himself...
...He writes that he proposed such a plan to the House of Bishops of his church at the end of its General Convention at Louisville in 1973...
...Anthony J. Kubek provided a 113-page introduction raising all the old charges again...
...Very little is said of the changes which war brought to China, or the way in which, by driving Chiang's regime from the modern cities of the east coast to the backwards hinterland of Szechwan, the war deprived the KMT of what progressive elements it had earlier had...
...As it happened, Roosevelt changed his mind almost immediately and recalled Stilwell at Chiang's request...
...He concludes, for example, "from a collation of all the available evidence . . . that everything Beethoven did between 1803 and 1810 was part of a continuous, cyclical turmoil of creation...
...he carves wood expertly, eyes passersby, and listens...
...It is also largely without a sociological or economic dimension...
...The Terwilliger and Holmes book carries a foreword by John Maury Allin, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, which indicates that it is the first collection of a projeected mosaic of studies...
...I am no musicologist and hence unfamiliar with much of the body of Beethoven literature extant, but it must be of sufficiently elephantine proportions that to publish yet another book on the subject of the great man is as much to engage in brinkmanship with the supererogatory as it would be to write a tome on Abe Lincoln, sex or dieting...
...A Roman Catholic Catechism," serves as a machete to help one cut one's way through the tangled thicket of discussions in the church of the author (Quesnell), or indeed anyone represented in the book...
...This course he follows as Beethoven's scores and notebooks show the way...
...Then, looking back, "Dominic" sounded more plausible, but still read as if Kriegel were skimming experience instead of letting his character enter it...
...I guess if we accept Dominic's experience boozehound father, abortion-queen mother who gets busted, school dropout, Marines, screwing and psychoanalysis, briefly happy marriage, barroom work and marital breakup, years of college courses we ought to be able to hear him in the veering diction...
...The principles the author selects governing human love and community seem the right ones and his nuances ample...
...John Haughey's Should Anyone Say Forever...
...Skill is fragmented, self hammered to fit the open shapes...
...Perhaps this is so...
...Others, piece-workers or waitresses or whatever, not as quick to snatch or not as lucky, work in harness and endure in place Kriegel's parents cooped up without a bedroom...
...I'm with his Jews, Italians and Irish in the Bronx, and I'm replaced on the west side of Chicago, in that wedge of land between the El tracks and the sanitary canal that by midcentury looked like a patchwork garden, each people in a plot defined by churches, streets and railroad tracks: German, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, Bohemian...
...Took me a long time to understand, I should've fucked Audrey instead...
...A quarter-century later our old neighborhoods appear to wither, and Notes does do more than sketch the geography of the past...
...The destruction of the careers and reputations of the China Hands, which Kahn chronicles in the last and best third of his book, deprived this country of the services of one of the most intelligent and perceptive groups of foreigners who ever sought to explain China to the West...
...Kriegel's grandmother disdains the auto...
...Minor craftsmen, ail-American but innocent like Little Sammy, live until they warp and vanish, and leave little behind...
...But I had trouble with the section, and had little idea of Dominic as a character until the later "Going Home: II" and "Lennie," where Kriegel draws on his 32-year friendship with Dominic...
...We are left to draw our own conclusions...
...Kahn sets this down in a book which is chatty, gossipy, full of amusing anecdotes (part of it appeared in the New Yorker) and adventure stories as well, as the Hands fought for survival in wartime China and postwar Washington...
...David Barrett (a military China Hand) have told their sides of the story...
...The treatment of the requirement for those in a priestly order, episcopate or presbyteratei, can only be called high-minded...
...furthermore, by 1944 it was evident that the war would be won in the Pacific Ocean rather than on the mainland, and China no longer played an important role in our strategic thinking...
...A month later Sammy destroys the master antenna atop a new apartment building, and jumps off its roof...
...It is only when he seems to shy away from the implications of his principles that one grows uneasy...
...Near the end of his book Kriegel, forty himself, touches his own fate and connects it with Sammy's nostalgia: "Even now, a forty-year-old crippled academic with two young sons of his own, I want to run with them, stride for stride, to prove my endurance as they will be forced to prove theirs...
...Kriegel's impression of the neighborhood in its heyday, "the virus of penny-ante gamblers" rampant, and his notes on its aging reveal how the push to make it as an American undermines the neighborhood's tribal values, and insures its death...
...His heroes are the China specialists of the State Department John Carter Vincent, John S. Service, John P. Davies, O. Edmund Clubb, and others all of whom reported from and about that country during the war years, and most of whom had their careers destroyed by the Know-nothing wolfpack who ran with Joseph McCarthy and his henchpersons in the early 'fifties...
...1) written at least six years earlier: "five statements of the seemingly insignificant phrase and, in the space of two and a fraction measures, it has come and gone...
...that he "liberated it from servitude to caste or class, the church or the court...
...They have been dealt with by others, such as Kenneth Shew-maker and Tang Tsou, but unfortunately their books too come from the university presses...
...Doubleday, $6.95 To Be a Priest EDITED BY ROBERT E. TERWILLIGER & URBAN T. HOLMES Seabury, $3.95 GERARD S. SLOYAN The first of these books is concerned chiefly with the commitment of the married to one another and of people of both sexes in religious congregations to each other...
...from people who met the man but once or twice and wrote down their impressions of him...
Vol. 103 • August 1976 • No. 17
