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...Life must mean something diff e r e n t : t h e a t t e m p t t o live in union with God...
...F A 18 Bedford Row London, WC1R 4EJ England to the pluralistic America he champions...
...In "Funeral Rites" it is the recent victim of a "neighbourly murder," craving rhythmic requiem that spurs the poet's resolution: I would restore the great chambers of Boyne, prepare a sepulchre under the cupmarked stones, he insists...
...They have wide interests--biography, painting, liturgy, educational reform, politics, high school and college teaching, the power of the media, architecture, humor, sex, religious controversy, new fiction . . . many of the same things you care about...
...life is a good jol...
...On the other hand, praising this "Personal Manifesto" sometimes seems like taking a loyalty oath to Senator Daniel Moynihan and the late Mayor Richard Daley, while agreeing to turn over Dan Berrigan and assorted liberation theologians to the secular arm...
...If Avedon photographs out of love for his material, he has a converse way of loving...
...It was the esthetic of a convert who did what converts usually do and that is swing to the opposite extreme...
...Class of Zip Commonweal: 317...
...He would know the creeping and chilling despair of total solitude in prison...
...Greeley is right to call for more professionalism and to ask supporters of Freire and/or liberation theology to show the relevance of their theories to current issues in the United States...
...That esthetic appears to have promised--inversely-that truth is not beauty, beauty not truth...
...It is a movement through life that is motivated by instinct and passion, by the heart in conflict with the intellect and the patterns New from ORBIS THE COMING OF THE THIRD CHURCH Polonaise PIERS PAUL READ Lippincott, $10 GERARD REEDY by Walbert Buhlmann "The best Catholic book of the year...
...The Paulists offer a way of life which can s a t i s ~ young men who seek more t h a n the ! "good life...
...We are missionaries...
...Several of Stefan's short works are transcribed in Polonaise...
...Even if the reader suspects that the author's astringent approach to many 3 sensitive and probing new books on religion and American society RELIGION AT THE POLLS by ALBERT J MENENDEZ Do individuals tend to vote for their co-relig~on~sts 9 Are members of certain rehg~ous groups ~ntnns~cally conservahve or hberal pohhcally, and...
...If in fashion he glamorized for mercantile reasons, in serious he deglamorized for an apparent esthetic...
...however complex and ironic in its narration, Polonaise is also refreshingly and unabashedly nationalistic...
...The male fashion designer gazes predatorily like a seamy gigolo, representing the surreptitious speciousness of.._ what?---haute couture...
...Amusingly enough, Greeley himself would be about the last person one would describe as a "communal Catholic" since, from the days when ,he was having his message piped to the clergy courtesy of archdiocesan closed-circuit television to his present rages against the bishops---understandably provoked by his local ordinary--no one can have followed the zigs and zags of the ecclesiastical apparatus with more fascination...
...Part Two contains autobiographical poems written earlier (1966-72) and reflects on the troubles in the wartorn province...
...Germans and Greeks are thrown en masse in his all-purpose Catholic ethnic stew, while the poor Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and other Hispanics get linked up with the Blacks as groups the media and the liberals are spending too much time on...
...Her relationships are a continual affirmation of the need of one sex for the other in our common endeavor...
...In Part One of North Heaney is a word-wielder of considerable stature...
...Don't let your i d e a l i s m die...
...The prevailing principle, however, is negative capability, and here again Avedon's words provide the clue...
...But when the exhumations have been done, our poetexcavator contemplates the softness of the bog: in "Kinship" he admits I love this turf-face, its black incisions, the cooped secrets of process and ritual...
...Name Sir r162 Address City ~tate College Attending...
...Powell's characters tread, as Jenkins writes, "the formal dance with which human life is concerned...
...it is a superficial attempt at outdated apologetics...
...To speak the message of Jesus Christ to this modern world: to communicate His shatterin9 love and overwhelming forgiveness in a t i m e and world where He so often seems absent...
...His heroic Gabriel Garcia M~irquez is a humorous play on Rodin's august Balzac...
...Polonaise succeeds because Stefan's experience is real both inside and outside the theistic affirmation...
...Stefan tirelessly searches for an "action" which will consummate his current ideology...
...report us fairly, how we slaughter for the common good and shave the heads of the notorious, how the goddess swallows our love and terror...
...we are actively involved in parish work...
...For most of us...
...The matching hound dog eyes and droops of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor that Avedon--perversely--rivets upon speak for his rebound from the fashion photographer's obsession with youth...
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...In this novel, the polonaise is not a "formal dance...
...Come to the Bower" and "Bog Queen," necromantic fantasies of decayed loveliness, suggest a macabre sexuality...
...THEY ARE COMMONWEAL CRITICS...
...Greeley's reminder of the existence of anti-Catholic nativism in academic and other circles is surely useful, but would probably gain wider acceptance if coupled with more recognition of legitimate criticism of Catholic group behavior and hierarchical insensitivity ADULT VOCATIONS special program for men over twenty-one...
...For all the technical skill of the latter and its occasional gem, the drive to puncture pretense becomes evangelical and too often suspect...
...Dorothy Day was one of those first feminists to go to jail in the struggle for suffrage...
...Greeley himself recognizes that the phenomenon is hardly new...
...from Greensboro to Houston, from Los Angeles to Fairhanks...
...Thus it is that I am reminded throughout Polonaise, Piers Paul Read's enormously satisfying sixth novel, of Anthony Powelrs twelvevolumed Dance to the Music of Time...
...It is in grasping the reasons for his opposition to this evil that Stefan discovers, at the end, that God, whom he has long denied, exists...
...And his conclusion, offering a prescription for "A Church for the Communal Catholic," gives me a sufficient data base to reveal that Andrew Greeley is a closet Commonweal Catholic...
...The side-by-side mug shots of a Kansas City murderer and his resembling father suggest that murder is hereditary and verified by weird looks...
...Stefan's art, sometimes understood as a positive element in his moral growth, more often retards this...
...FATHER GERARD REEDYj S.J., teaches in the English Department at Fordham...
...He's interested in looking sage...
...North SEAMUS HEANEY Ox/ord U. Press, $5.95 DANIEL J . CASEY North, Seamus Heaney's fourth collection, is his best to date...
...City, State, Zip...
...I prefer a one-year subscription at $17...
...As a small communiW of Catholic priests, we have worked [or over a cent u r y t h r o u g h o u t t h e United S t a t e s and Canada--from Manhattan to Toronto...
...As someone reasonably familiar with antiethnic snobbery on pseudo-liberal Madison Avenue, however, I should be allowed to testify that I have yet to meet those elite Catholic editors who "are ashamed of and angry at the immigrant parish of their childhoods...
...The Communal Catholic is a minor example of the Greeley oeuvre, hastily ,put together from journalistic byproducts of recent research...
...Despite his verbal overkill, however, Greeley's suggestive remarks on ethnic parishes and communalism as a basis for urban government and social policy need to be thoroughly pursued...
...Of course, such attention might well be considered virtuous in a priest and sociologist, but it is to ordinary (and even "elite") lay people one needs to go for perspective on the "communal Catholic...
...His two loving spoofs---Robert Oppenheimer envisioned as angelic seer and Marianne Moore as the wimpled saint--both look foolish but the photographer's conception is fresh and intrinsic and, therefore, justified...
...they also alter the reader's subsequent perceptions of literature...
...since American Catholic history was presented in largely ecclesiastical terms, without much reference to the mammoth social problems of the immigrant church, only specialists found it absorbing reading...
...This convert's inverse tactic now is manifest in the collection of his gallery photos under the title, Portraits...
...population, about food, about mass poverty, about the gap between the poor and the rich nations, about illiteracy, child morbidity, unemployment, and . . . about the very air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink...
...Greeley should also practice more restraint in using the adjective "Catholic...
...Greeley is surely right in his insistence that some more profound impulses than nostalgia is at work among those communal Catholics now preparing a harvest of historical and sociological studies on aspects of the American Catholic experience, but why the wild exaggeration of "Not a single journal is ready to devote any space to a sympathetic though critical reevaluation of its meaning...
...Buhlmann sees the Church's mission to humanity entering a new phase, one in which new questions are being asked because the situations in which people find themselves today cannot be handled along time-honored lines...
...Two remarks on the style of Polonaise: its prose never calls attention to itself, either by over-writing or by fuzziness, and is a cold, clear, marvelous achievement...
...He submits, in irrational acts, to life...
...Long before he assents to the polonaise of life, the reader has watched events defeat his theories...
...The forbidding glance of the spinsterish fashion editor suggests that she herself needs beautification...
...This disdain suggests why he took both paths at the fork in the road: he preserved the almighty childhood influence in fashion and exposed the ruse in serious work...
...Not a book "for specialists only" but for anyone willing to face the future and think...
...why "~ These and other important queshons are explored ~n th~s fascinating study of rehg~on as an tntluence on the outcome of Amencan pres~denhal elect~ons, from the hme of Jefferson to the present...
...If Avedon's fashion work divested his subjects of individuality, his serious work appeared bent upon accentuating it through egregious irregularity...
...It is surprising, however, that he isn't more humbly curious himself since, although he scrupulously ignores any discussion of capitalism vis-a-vis Catholic communalism, he can hardly blame Garry Wills and Wilfrid Sheed for the superhighways that destroyed so many old neighborhoods...
...We seek to serve the Gospel inever new ways...
...Success has not spoiled Seamus Heaney...
...Richard Avedon's own words in Harold Rosenberg's fine introduction give the clue: "Whenever he poses for me, he smiles and becomes benign, gentle . . . and somehow wise...
...Unpredictability becomes predictable as photo after photo bear out the principle of negative capability...
...houses of Poland, France, and England...
...The pictures of his father work because the point of view emerges from his primal wrestle to get his Commonweal: 315 independent artistic vision...
...But not complete satisfaction, for we are constantly searching to make the Gospel real to more people in today's world...
...The pouched, bloodshot, jaundiced visage of Truman Capote reverts him to the psychopathic criminals in his own book, In Cold Blood...
...Director of Vocations PAULIST FATHERS/Dept.C 415 West Sgth Street New York, N.Y...
...In the desolate waste, where stripped off layers of sod reveal eternities of savagery and passion, he makes his grove, assumes an Antaeus-like pose, interprets bog history with biting sarcasm: Come back to this 'island of the ocean' where nothing will suffice...
...10019 Dear Father DeSiano...
...When he finally acts, to rescue his nephew Teofil's engagement from vivid evil, the one salvific act of his life, he has no "plan of action...
...Both internalize the political events of the era, here the Spanish Civil War, the embrace of and apostasy from Marxism, the Stalinist purges, the second great war, and the apoliticism of the fifties...
...The "good life" somehow is not enough...
...Read's Kornowskism Stefan and his sister Krystyna--are altogether more passionate and erratic...
...Charles Owen Rice was essentially right when, after getting Greeley's quick statistical comeback to a lament at Catholic racism, Rice cried out, "You and your damn facts...
...to serve others, to give a s totally and as generously a s you can...
...At the end, moral and aesthetic resolution unite: in order to finish his romantic novel about Teofil 13 May 1977:312 and his fianc6e, Annabel, he must defeat, in life, the forces that seek to corrupt this match...
...The absence, after all, is as conventionally perceived as its presence...
...we are bridgebuilders...
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...North" conjures the mindseape of a battle-scarred Ulster but suggests, too, the poet's obsession with Icelandic sagas and Stone Age swordsmen of the frozen wave: I face the unmagical invitations of Iceland, the pathetic colonies of Greenland, and suddenly those fabulous raiders, those lying in Orkney and Dublin measured against their long swords rusting, those in the solid belly of stone ships, those backed and glinting in the gravel of thawed streams were ocean-deafened voices warning me, lifted again in violence and epiphany...
...Affirmative action is simplistically dismissed as antiCatholic: does Catholic communalism have nothing more to say than that...
...He shows the Jesuit priest steamy with winged eyebrows and matted hair, the surgeon with a face like a death mask, the psychiatrist in the trough of despair, the caterer beefy as a butcher, the artistpainter as a Mafia hit man, the architect as a Brooks Brothers banker...
...the reader begins to suspect that people fail to get the gold star of "communal Catholic" largely because they have failed some crazy test of Greeleyian orthodoxy: Sydney Call,ban, because she "viciously" attacked Michael Novak...
...13 May 1977:316 In "Belderg" it is the spectacle of the cyclopean quernstones "piled like vertebrae" and the mysterious phonic marriage of a bogland name that signify the "congruence of lives" and prompt our fierce imaginings...
...JOSEPH CU~NEEN, editor of Cross Currents, teaches English and Religion at Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y...
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...She is wifely iS F LIFE COLLEGE?I it depends on what "life" means...
...however harmful to himself, this play-acting is of a different order than the hateful, Jamesian evil of Annabel's family...
...The sheer accumulation of photos that marks the alienated photographer cannot legitimize the alienation however legitimate its original and specific source...
...In a childish attempt to keep the mortgaged family estate in Poland, Krystyna loses her virginity early in the novel...
...LINDA KUEHL is a member of the faculty at the New School in Manhattan...
...Responding to undulating rhythms of "fabulous" Norsemen exhorting him to rhyme in darkness, the poet senses, in their violent voices, soul warnings from an heroic Northern past to a tragic Northern present...
...In describing how his family took their photographs--with borrowed dog and magnificent auto--he sums up: "Every one of the photographs in the family album was built around some sort of lie about who we all were...
...Since the journal is frequently cited in The Communal Catholic as an example of Catholic elitism and self-hatred, any criticism of the book is apt to be interpreted as another piece of evidence for the existence of a sinister conspiracy against the National Opinion Research Center...
...Thus the son-as-protagonist comes into conflict with the fatheras-antagonist, a relationship that presupposes his rapport with other elderly and otherwise serious subjects as well...
...The irony, apparently, is that the Jesuit is the Devil, the surgeon in need of his own knife, the psychiatrist of his own therapy, the caterer of catering, the artist of aesthetic transformation...
...P o r t r a | t s RICHARD AVEDON Farrar, Straus, $25 LINDA KUEEIL When Richard Avedon's "serious" photography had a gallery showing last season, viewers were known to respend, "How curious...
...The key to Avedon's youth-age dichotomy reveals itself through seven --extraordinary--portraits of his aging, dying father, Jacob Israel Avedon...
...If liberals are shocked by Greeley's claim that the best example of Polish-Black collaboration is under the banner of Chicago's Democratic organization, let them work to build a better one...
...There is subtle ambiguity in his title...
...The Con~munal Catholic ought to be read, perhaps especially by those who will not be completely convinced, because, whatever its inadequacies, it is a provocative summary of many of the major concerns of a priest-scholar who cares deeply about his church and his country, and makes an effective case for a positive, though not uncritical, reappraisal of the American Catholic experience...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS JEFFREY MEYERS, a regular contributor to London Magazine, is visiting Associate Professor at the University of Colorado...
...It's not that the second part of the book is weaker...
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...Cloth $6.95 THE CHURCH AND THIRD WORLD REVOLUTION by Pierre Bigo Bigo argues that the Church must not fail now to identify with the poor and oppressed rather than their oppressors...
...The structure of Polonalse in effect offers a proof for the existence and providence of God, from "conscience," although to state the matter this baldly disregards the vast imagery and episodic inventiveness that make the proof credible...
...a good house, a 9nod c a r . . , and if we're lucky, a good marriage...
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...For some (and perhaps for you) this is not enough...
...Nevertheless, Greeley's excessive reverence for computers is no excuse for not thanking him for a willingness to go on taking controversial positions and for a suggestive outline of opportunities--in the opening chapter of his section on "Resources for the Communal Catholic"-that could spark half-a-dozen special issues for any alert editor...
...his printmaking heightened them...
...In his far shorter space, however, Read is altogether more intense in his pursuit of meaning in the thirty-year polonaise of his main character, Stefan Kornowski, who is, like Powelrs narrator, Jenkins, a writer...
...If fashion deified conventional beauty, art would deify its emphatic absence...
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...KARL RAHNER Great literary works, it is said, not only break through language and form so that other, analogous works may be written...
...Over the years she has insisted on being taken seriously on the subjects Mrs...
...The sneering Everly Brothers snapped in Las Vegas say that this sweet-harmouizing duo harbors heinous thoughts...
...the relationship between art and life is a central theme...
...Whatever You Say, Say Nothing" responds to the rhetoric of violence in calculated irony...
...Stefan's disenchantment with Marxism begins when his cell prudishly asks him to keep the hero of his proletarian short story virtuous...
...From Igor Stravinsky to Jorge Luis Borges to Vladimir Horowitz to George Meany, the accentuated bags, wrinkles, jowls and sagging smile lines--now frown lines testify that age is an affliction...
...Indeed, the whole chapter on the ethnic revival shows that when he is not indulging himself, Greeley is quite capable of making careful distinctions, even on a subject about which he feels deeply...
...this reader did not suspect that Stefan would end where he does until he in fact did...
...Although references to it are scattered throughout the book, the title concept never produces the shock of a genuinely fresh insight, partly because it is never made sufficiently concrete...
...Polish instinct and idealism clearly stand as moral norms against which Read measures each of his character's actions...
...The polemical tone, although frequently entertaining, also gets in the way...
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...Avedon took the romantic's perverse revenge...
...His merciless camera eye shot for flaws...
...The slashed throat of the tarcast Grauballe Man and the shaven and severed heads of an adultress ("Punishment") and an ax-stunned maiden ("Strange Fruits") translate to further grim reminders of the here and now...
...DANIEL J . CASEY is a professor of English at State University College, Oneonta, N.Y...
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...Though his Siberian exile was an agonizing experience, recorded in The House o/ the Dead, Frank writes in a moving conclusion that it would also "widen the range of his moral and psychological experience...
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...Ugly photos by a Vogue man...
...what he finds new, apart from the increase in numbers, is that "they are interested in the Catholic tradition and are not angry at the institutional church...
...he would live through the terrifying agony of the condemned clinging desperately to the last precious moments of life...
...The Communal Catholic ANDREW M. GREELEY Seabury Press, $8.95 JOSEPH CUNNEEN Andrew Greeley presents the Commonweal reviewer with a loaded deck...
...and he would have instants of sublime inner harmony in the ecstatic 'aura' preceding an epileptic attack...
...preaching, adult education, camp u s m i n i s t r y , p u b l i s h i n 9 and mass communications...
...John Cogley, because he was a "professional or official" Catholic...
...The new poems are provocative, inspired, and well wrought...
...Stefan tries to be rigid in his ideologies, first Marxism then sadism...
...Stefan writes about sadism and several times tries and comically bungles making his art govern his life...
...In North he responds eloquently to criticisms of sameness in substance and form...
...It would be unfair, however, to make a list of careless errors or to dismiss the work because most of its positions are predictable...
...She is very sure of which half of the world's population she belongs to, and is not threatened by sharing with the other, as the evidence inclines us to think that men may be...
...And in "Viking Dublin: Time Pieces," he probes for involuted logic in the serpentine patterning of artifacts, but finds in them the ineluctable common denominator of tribal retribution...
...he would sink to the lowest depths of society...
...he would feel the desperate anguish of the hunted...
...Sipita lists, and she has insisted that men share her concerns...
...Finally, we need to hear more from those ethnics who suffered from Irish domination of American Catholicism, who will probably not be satisfied with Greeley's bland reassurance that "the Irish need no defense...
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...It is certainly true that until recently American Catholics relied excessively on foreign models...
...Stefan derides and dismisses his "Polishness" through much of his life...
...Read the inhumed faces of casualty and victim...
...For much of the novel, Stefan thinks life "a fraud, a charade, a dance, a polonaise of silly Slavs-while others marched...
...In this collection there are the same intriguing word plays, graphic images, mythos of place, and touches of wry Ulster h u m o r that characterize Heaney's earlier successes, but, with saga impulses and bog ruminations, there are exciting added dimensions...
...By this point it is clear that throughout his life Stefan has merely simulated evil...
...Polonaise has what most good, contemporary novels lack--an ending...
...The eleven members of the Mission Council in Saigon, circa 1971, show that they smile and smile and still are villains...
...And, indeed, the photos were curious...
...both, in different ways, end where they begin...
...The Paulist life is not an easy one...
...Bruno Kaczmarek, Krystyna's husband, loves Poland and dies as a partisan during the war, attempting to save Rachel, Stefan's Jewish wife, from the Germans...
...Both write works about society, which for Read is the cafes, restaurants, flats, and country "Challenging," "daring," "provocative," "shattering" are some of the adjectives applied to the German and Italian editions of this book...
...In fact, most of Heaney's selections in Part One commemorate dark deeds and celebrate mossy ancestors lifted piecemeal from the peat to give us psychic revelations of ourselves...
...One cannot imagine Dorothy in a community of women alone...
...But if Heaney's latest bog thrusting turns up bones and things, it also dredges the race memory and pricks our consciousness of primal instincts lately roused...
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...To do so...
...But one who dares will find rewards beyond ex)ectatJon...
...If Commonweal is turning down first-rate contributions in this area, I hope Father Greeley will be kind enough to give their authors the address of Cross Currents, where I will also have an eye out for those that might be publishable in larger, more commercially rewarding outlets...
...it's just that the ground has been covered before...
...As for the architect--Buckminster Puller - - t h e irony presumably is that the inventor of the geodesic dome looks like such a square...
...Please send me more information on the work of the Paulist$ and the PaulJSt Priesthood...
...The vision of "the TolIund Man" (Wintering Out, 1972) still haunts the poet...
...Avedon's stratagem is the ironic twist that assaults the eye...
...it is only later that his mind catches up, and with this illumination, he dies...
...by an ofiicer of the secret police and was suddenly thrown into a new existence that would strain his spiritual and emotional capacities to the utmost...
...If you rejoinder that, well, such inferences are entirely in the eye of the beholder, you have to ask i~ there are any alternatives, especially when Avedon's subjects are over sixty-five...
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...More significantly, since Greeley still preaches confidence in the effectiveness of Catholic education, the recent Catholic high-school graduates I have been teaohing seem mostly uninterested in their ethnic neighborhoods or larger Catholic traditions, leading me to fear that as more and more Catholics "make it" economically, pressures toward cultural assimilation will be more powerful than parochial schools in inculcating basic values...
...As in so much discussion of ethnicity, there is the strange inability to keep in mind that a commitment to Christ is not transmitted biologically, and that even a loose sociological identification with Catholicism can no longer be inferred by reference to recognizable Italian, Polish, or Irish names...
...why can't he get sufficient perspective on himself to understand that the veteran social-actionist Msgr...
...Both PoweU and Read cover the recent era--in Polonaise from 1928 to 1958 --under the guiding metaphor of dance...
...The structure is as refreshing as the writing...
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...by its end she is indifferent to her first husband's wartime heroism, has married into the French bourgeoisie, and does not understand her son Teofirs increasing Polishness...
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...Truth may not be beauty but that does not mean it is its exclusive absence either...
...In the early poems of North the genetic memory runs wild...
...He positioned his subjects as if on a police lineup, under harsh lighting, against stark backdrop, with 13 May 1977:314 no special makeup or later flattering touching up...
...Where that enters a priori, it becomes gratuitous...
...The religious resolution is both surprising and just...
...Similarly, his encomium of Chicago's heavily Catholic ethnic neighborhoods would have greater credibility if he also explained why they might look quite differently to Black families seeking to move in, or simply living a few blocks away...
...Both self-consciously choreograph repeated gestures and situations, a technique that gives formal unity to their works...
...Both novelists have an extremely firm grasp on their diverse characters and situations, even while these maintain lives of their own against the controlling themes of the sagas...
...With all his very real achievements--about which he is probably correct to lament that he is widely envied by his fellowpriests (and who ~hould not envy his productivity and the high level of his readability...
...Polonaise even takes momentary symbolic interest in the French, post-Renaissance art which gives Powell his title...
...Orange Drums, Tyrone 1966" toys with a metaphoric lambeg pounding aerial hstred...
...To write that the data show "ethnic families are less likely to be racist and more likely to have been against the Vietnam war from the beginning" is worse than poor grammar...
...The poems, "Bone Dreams" and "The Digging Skeleton," disinter more blackened corpses...
...5-la-r~ lithic shards and shrunken heads of Jutland man-killers...
...It's worth subscribing to Commonweal just to read their essays and reviews in the back-ofthe-book...
...The exceptions are a poignant Marilyn Monroe, poetic-tough Jean Genet, passionate Ezra Pound, Buddha-like Henry Miller, even, maniacal Oscar Levant and corpse-like Groucho Marx...
...satisfactions beyond dreams...
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