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order for any cook. When our publishers come home from Frankfurt in October, with the new-bound Grass volume under their arms, we will know more. Till then . . . remember that most poignant...
...Several such interpretations of them have appeared in recent years, and Grant's book joins that group of attempts to understand him...
...Frankfort's book embarrasses most everyone...
...Each of the book's ten chapters contains biographical sketches and brief meditations on ,a particular saint...
...The truth is most Voice writers turned into Voice writers...
...9 Like A. E. Housman, Francis is fascinated with human beings, with flowers and small insects, caught at the moment of peak performance, at the height of their powers...
...Advertisers deal in numbers and it goes one place: whoever has the most readers...
...But ever since his conversion and because his life as 'the life which Cbrbt lived in him,' he unhesitatingly claimed full equality with the prophets of old and with the apostles who had known Jesus personally...
...A person does not become a specialist on Africa just by reading a book, making a trip or even going tO college...
...The Voice had readers (thanks to the New York newspaper strike of 1962): "On Pearl Harbor Day, 1962, the New York Typographical Union Local No...
...Carroll was that rarest of things, a genius...
...Although many of his interpretations of Pauline passages remain faithful to the text itself, they are often laced with these questionable accretions, apparently in the attempt "to bring Paul to fife...
...42) is to reintroduce into the study of Pauline theology the "old chestnuts" that we have long since learned should never have been brought in in the first place...
...22), a reference to Pauline boasting...
...The etchings are interesting and well-executed, and they make money...
...What about the 3 millions of Afrikaans-speaking people and one and 8 July 1977:446...
...c) belief in the unbelievable...
...Magda Denes explores in a compelling style and compulsive manner the thin edge of existence and its meaning in an abortion hospital...
...His previous scholarly writings deal principally with the English Romantics...
...In "Pitcher," one of his bestknown poems, Francis might be describing himself: "He/ Throws to be a moment misunderstood./ Yet not too much...
...The author fails to realize, however, that these movements are not dedicated to furthering the causes of equality, human rights, and freedom, but are committed to establishing oppressive governments...
...Aspects of Alice is not mentioned in another context in which it might have been: In his note on Carroll bibliography, editor Guiliano laments the current state of Carroll bibliographical studies...
...Given our disenchantment with miracles, idolatry and holy cards, it is no wondef...
...both were exactly what the historic moment called for (Time in 1923, The Voice in 1955...
...yet Furniss's daughter herself, in a memoir, swears the strips existed, and I for one am glad to see Pudney stick to his strips...
...It is the pulse beat of secular conscience...
...For instance, he recognizes that "the Letters of P a u l . . . are by far our most reliable source of information about his fife and personality and ways of thinking" and that "Acts is far inferior to Paul's Letters as a source of evidence for his actions and thought--and indeed as a historical source at all" (p...
...Richard Smith, S.J...
...The object was absolute secrecy of the manuscript...
...This failure becomes evident, perhaps, only after living with Lowell's poems for awhile...
...The present is endangered...
...It is, within its genre, a substantial and useful achievement...
...HIS is a distinguished body of work, but I fail to understand why, in many literary histories and in the best anthologies, such as The Norton Anthology o~ Modern Poetry, Lowell is represented by twenty pages of poems, while Ignatow and Rukeyser, for example, are not even included...
...Her reviews have appeared in Thought and America...
...Indeed, the art reproduced in the book, and Commonweal: 439 I i | m m m m m m n u m m m m m m m eml smsl the commentaries upon it, provide one of the chief reasons to purchase it...
...Grant is aware of the numerous interpretations of Paul throughout the various periods of the history of Paulin e exegesis...
...The consolidation of advertising destroyed the multiplicity of publications...
...For a long time it has been a reality as obvious as Mount Everest...
...denial is the universal and unvarying stance...
...The sixth-century Byzantine historian John Malalas added that be had a thick grey beard, light bluish eyes, and a fair and florid complexion...
...he sets aside the prejudices or preferences of various %chools," the disciples of Eliot or Pound, the followers of Williams or Tate, and gives some time to everyone who was read seriously in their time...
...She speaks with embarrassed and anxious parents, uneasy husbands and boy friends...
...WILLIAM O'ROURKE teaches in the English Department at Rutgers University...
...For despite the differences between the age in which they lived and our own age, "saints should become contemporary enough to force us to examine the way in which we regard Christianity...
...but he provides pertinent information about popular writers, too: Alice Meynell and Francis Thompson, as well as Kipling, Chesterton, Belloc, and Noyes...
...15), is unacceptable...
...Lewis Carroll Observed is not, I suppose, indispensable the way Gatt~gno's fractured biography seems to be, Gatt~gno has shared the original psychoanalytical intuitions of Florence Becker Lennon, in her The Li/e of Lewis Carroll, and has carried them to their logical conclusions...
...Luce was never duplicitous about the editorializing (or free-enterprising) in the newsarticles of Time (his prospectus spelled it out) and Wolf never had to be duplicitous about where the profits went because no one asked him...
...For Grant feels obliged to spell out for readers all sorts of banalities, marking with asterisks such troublesome words (that will be explained in the glossary and that are not found in today's comic books or in TV discourse) as "apostles," "Jewish Christlans," "Fathers of the Church," "John the Baptist," "Luther, Martin," "Messiah," "Pharisees," etc...
...5) While we wait: (a) the unification of all human beings...
...There is often a sense of the inevitability of fate in these poems, events or lives working themselves out and revealing what has to be...
...In this reportorial account, one quickly learns that human c a r n a g e l the sight of tiny bits and pieces of human bodies or of a perfectly formed 24-week infant--will never lead anyone at this hospital to deny the denials, to feel the suppressed revulsion that might build limits or reenforce taboos...
...indeed her arguments will never stand where despair and expediency combine to argue that there i s no future worth having children for and that the insistent present can provide the only justification for one's acts...
...Some of the participants acted better than others (READ ALL ABOUT IT!I...
...The economics of The Voice startled and disturbed them...
...And why not...
...the 1976 Guiliano and Pudney studies cited above, to date, have not received their share of attention...
...The confessional journalism practiced in The Voice became self-parody...
...The Sacramental Li/e o~ the Church, Sr...
...The Vo4ee: Life mr the VIH~e Volee ELLEN FRANKFORT William Morrow, $8.95 WI~LI~I O'ROURK~ Our time is full of irony and an Ironic Age does not necessarily sound corrupt, but you must remember that irony comes from a Greek word meaning ignorance purposely affected...
...Mostly from newsstand sales...
...Mary Peter MeGinty, C.S.J...
...96 per credit...
...Septemher 7, 1977-December 22, 1977...
...It, also, ends with a question: Where is the evil/ Here where the river pours upon the rocks/ And sun pours on the rocks and on the fiver?/ Here is no Eve...
...Yet, one of the most refreshing meditations on the subject of sainthood, and one that helps restore our concept of the term, is John Garvey's Saints ~or Con/used Times...
...the rest are new poems, including two particularly moving ones, '~Definitions of Old Age" ("Even your own thoughts sound wrong to you,/ something some old idiot has misquoted") and "The Old Gray Couple...
...Finally, on this score, apropos of what Grant writes in his psychoanalytic interpretation of Paul's conversion, I find it very difficult to square the Sandmelian interpretation of Paul's being crushed by the Law with Phil 3:6: "as to righteousness under the law [I was] blameless" (this Paul wrote as a Christian, looking back at his Pharisaic past...
...Individual voices could be given a free reign in The Voice as long as they fell within the frequency received...
...Staling Prod MICHAEL GRANT Scribner, $14.95 JOSEPH A. I~[TZMYER As "one of the most perpetually significant men who have ever rived" (p...
...Wolf stunted his writers in ways never perceived...
...and (c) Paul and Rome...
...Perhaps such possibilities are overdrawn...
...Without it, the future is lost...
...this proclamation will not come as news to the Palestinians or their sympathizers, nor will it remove the issue...
...Yet on p. 113 is Harry Furniss's drawing of Carroll (whom he entertained many times) wearing an overcoat...
...needs a radical assessment" of its African foreign policy...
...For the saints, God was not an abstraction...
...Does he succeed...
...Stern provides some striking parallels between Carroll's own illustrations of Alice for Alice's Adventures Under Ground and those of works by Arthur Hughes and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, painters whose visualizations of innocent women seem to correspond with CarroWs own ideas about the perfect image of the female soul (in Jungian terms, the Anima...
...Written with clarity and perception, John Garvey's book offers a fresh perspective for our own confused time...
...Grant disclaims that he is writing "as a theologian would" but tries "instead"--that adverb is intriguing in view of much of what he prr poses in this book--"to bring Paul to fife as a human being of outstanding and altogether peculiar gifts who has influenced people of widely divergent beliefs and races and epochs, and who merits study and admiration amid the great and rapidly growing emergencies with which we ourselves are struggling today" (p...
...Even then, to anyone who had visited Nablus, Gaza, Ramallah and Nazareth, the statement was silly on its face...
...A middle-aged mother of five weeping and incoherent expresses her inability to cope with one more...
...Richard Costigan, S.J...
...In television the blood-letting is more obvious...
...it was powerfully stimulated by the creation of Israel, and by the policies Israel has followed...
...Such mysteries are the subject of Francis's best poems, in a style that recognizes a need for tradition and experimentation, sometimes rhyming, sometimes not...
...Lewis Carroll Observed is a handsome collection of unpublished photographs, drawings, poetry and new essays, of which Carroll himself would approve: "And what is the use of a book," his Alice thought, "without pictures...
...Only a handful of exceptions come to mind...
...MICHAEL TRUE is an associate professor of English at Assumption College and lecturer at Clark University in Worcester...
...Given their history and their situation, I find it understandable that the Israelis should continue to misperceive how they are perceived by their neighbors and by their subjects in the occupied lands...
...The staff lifted the rock and finally saw what lived beneath...
...1] Notre Dame professor Peter Walshe states that the U.S...
...The description of Paul's three missionary journeys is almost wholly dependent on Acts...
...Also commendable are a much-needed study of the Sylvie and Bruno books as Victorian novel, by Edmund Miller...
...But Pudney's Carroll comes alive in these pages, and he is far from pleasant...
...He goes on to cite the selective checklist in Donald Gray's 1971 edition of Alice in Wonderland as one which helps "fill in some of the current gaps...
...If the world is to have no heirs, preserving its values becomes absurd...
...It is good to have a classical historian's view of New Testament writings, because it often contributes a perspective to them that can easily be forgotten...
...The lack of hypocrisy (our decade now growing weary of irony) as Frankfort implies, might be a tonic...
...The saints were engaged in a process of "deification," the process by which we are transformed into what Christ is, and they gave themselves completely to this process...
...Though Grant is aware of the problems of modern Pauline research, one wishes that he would have paid more attention to them...
...Having built up this description and even labeled the chronographer John Malaias as a "historian" (presumably to enhance the testimony), Grant then labels the descriptions as "merely curiosities...
...I welcome its appearance...
...Grant should have informed himself by studying the problem raised by P. Vielhauer, "On the _9 Paulinism' of Acts (Studies in LukeActs, Nashville, 1966, 33-50...
...This tempest may have taken place in a teapot, but it is still all the more per8 July 1977:444 sonally acidic for so doing...
...They graduated from 1200-word articles to magazine journalism...
...The paper increased from twelve pages to seventy and advertising expanded from 20 percent to 65...
...Not errant, arrant, wild,/ But every seeming aberration willed./ Or, like "The Base Stealer," which appears in the same section of the book, "he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases,/ Taunts them, hovers like an ecstatic bird...
...In the present volume, he records the dates, names the poems, and sets up the markers in a manner that one expects of a knowledgeable literary scholar...
...Early in the second century, a New Testament writer counseled his readers: "There are some things in them [the letters of our beloved brother Paul] hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures" (2 Pet 3:16...
...BARBARA M U'rKO6KI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued /rom page 419) gun to be before Israel existed...
...mort sense) on The Voice...
...The book's thesis is a simple one: "Saints are people who have seen through the idol we usually, make of GOd to the knowledge that God is real...
...At their best, things achieve a balance between freedom and conformity, like a weather vane, the subject of a representative short lyric: "Moving unmoved,/ Like the fixed tree/ For constancy/ But like the leaf/ Aware/Of all the tricks/ and politics/ That only he/ Who freely turns/ Discerns,/ Moving unmoved is free...
...Rich young men and women writing about the poor, the oppressed: there was a deep well of neurosis to pump and Wolf did not see it run dry...
...parents by flighty daughters...
...In Necessity and Sorrow is important because it is a first primer in that curriculum...
...They need the novels, but the novels don't need them...
...Indeed, the major criticism of Frankfort's book is that it reads (as was her earlier Vaginal Politics) like a series of articles...
...And ever since that time Pauline interpretation has had its ups and downs...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BRIEF S~wrs volt CONVUS~n TIMES, by Iohn Oarvey, The Thomas More Press, $8.5O...
...Indeed, after his death he hoped for early, individual translation to the presence of Jesus himself in heaven...
...LetVts Car~'eU Observed Edited by EDWARD GUILIANO Clarkson N. Potter, $12.95 Lew~ Ca~ll mid D t l W~ld JOHN PUDNEY Scribners, $8.95 ROBERT PRPJLll~ Despite the plethora of recent Carroll studies, the English-speaking world seems "curiouser and curiouser" about the creator of Alice in Wonderland (to use the book's popular name...
...If you like your Paul laced with Robinson Crusoe, Freud, Karl Barth, Malcolm Muggeridge, or even Anseim, Pascal, or Kierkegaard, this is the book for you...
...They tend to make Paul answer questions that were not his...
...Francis's poems, like the athletes he often writes about and whose superior form he imitates, are firm, clean, and graceful...
...He succeeds, nonetheless, in his attempt, "to go behind the interpretations of modern literary history that has been current for the last forty years...
...How can we for example expect the application of one-man, one-vote rule in South Africa...
...John Kilgallen, S.J...
...Between 1970 when the New York State law banning abortions was changed and 1973 when the Supreme Court declared the ban on abortions unconstitutional, this hospital performed several thousand abortions...
...Magda Denes is ne mere observer of that tragedy...
...Instead of criticism only, our pseudo-intellectuals and intellectual snobs should be able to present constructive proposals...
...and Felker, his motives quite upfront in the style of the liberated Seventies, unhidden...
...finally (6) Summing up (with a sketch of later interpretations of Paul...
...a number of inconsistencies...
...4) What the world still has to wait for (Pauline eschatology...
...We must not only win allies, but also remember our commitment of insuring human rights throughout the world...
...One assumes Lewis Carroll and His World, like its companion volumes in the Scribner series (Proust and His World...
...Yes, o~ course, the Arab states have misused the Palestinian issue...
...It is the core of our morality...
...MaeLeish's latest book adds over sixty poems to the previous Collected Poems, published in 1962...
...3) The first act of rescue: (a) the coming of the Messiah...
...Footnote 54 refers to Phil 1:23 and 3:11 as support for this and adds: "His admirer Martin Luther was criticized for excessive concern with his own salvation" (p...
...Garvey's prevailing metaphor is that of wholeheartednes: ".he total focusing of a life...
...Commonweal: 443 he seemed a man and at times he had the face of an angel.' That description is owed to a work of the second century AD known as the Acts o~ Paul and Thecla...
...the checHist in Aspects of Alice, which he does not mention, contains 213...
...For the land that has been previously charted, Perkins gives the student and the general rcader a competent general survey...
...Dan Wolf was the magical editor who got the "best for less" and when he and Fancher sold The Voice in 1970 to Carter Burden and Bartle Bull for 3 million that was part of the pitch: "They were told that Dan was the only person in New York who could get people to write for so little---people of talent and origin a l i t y . . , it was the genius every financial wizard wished to possess...
...I cite this trivial example, because .it is characteristic of the way that Grant presents not only the Life of Paul but many of his teachings--in a mixture of relevant material and irrelevant, popularly associated (mis)understandings of Paul...
...This is said, although Grant earlier acknowledged that "the speeches recounted in Acts, like those of the classical literary tradition of Greece and Rome, could not possibly have been copied down by any bystander at the time and are for the most part inventions" (p...
...202)l One can recognize at times the Pauline verses to which Grant alludes in such analysis, but the clever twists of interpretation given to them, along with the introduction of later psychological understandings of Paul, create the real problem in this would-be non-theological presentation of Paul...
...and that Inc., lest we forget, is more powerful than printer's ink) were in conception...
...He is a person fiercely in love with the created world and fiercely angry, at times, with Commonweal: 441 the natural and supernatural powers that threaten them, so that his occasional protest poems seem consistent with his other preoccupations...
...Idealists are by definition naive and no one had turned investigative skills (nor even their com...
...Moreover, Pudney is not vicious...
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...Sentry, $6.95 S e l e c t e d Poems ROBERT LOWELL Farrar, Straus, $12.50 A Hlstm'W o f Mmleru P o e t e g : F~m8 the 188es to t h e Hlffk Moc~rNtatt Mocle DAVID PERKINS Ho~vard U. Pre~o $17.50 MIEllAEL TRUE At a symposium on "Poets and Their Critics," sponsored by the National Book Critics Circle, literary editors who seldom agree on anything else-Richard Howard, Harvey Shapiro, M. L. Rnsenthal, Theodore Weiss, and Grace Schulman---came together on one issue: decrying the lack of places in contemporary periodicals where a critic seriously interested in poetry can develop, over a period of time, a clearly established rationale for judgment...
...The patients are terrified, frightened, ashamed, and, rarely, indifferent...
...The silver began to flake and you could see through it...
...Three graduate credits each...
...Saints are not the most popular topic of conversation these days...
...or is a moral stance a necessary condition for interpreting the raw experience portrayed...
...1), the Apostle Paul has attracted a host of interpreters over the centuries...
...Elemental questions are posed with a kind of sureness, the speaker confident, yet never smug about where the answers lie...
...Can you name them...
...Indiscreet wives remove the evidence of their adultery...
...Well, there was once a high-school dropout, his name was Grass and he wrote novels too wonderfully for words . . . (too wonderfully for pictures...
...Writers succumbed, for as any beginner (or middler, or ender) knows, getring into print, nay, being read, is the coin sought after...
...To the Editors: In ' ~ h e United States and South Africa" [Apr...
...patients by the exigencies of their lives...
...And about the second, she says, "abortion is an abomination unless it is experienced as a human event of great sorrow and terrible necessity...
...Believe it or not, the first one is explained thus: "The Twelve, whom, according to the New Testament, Jesus sent out to preach the Gospel...
...When they found their wings they were expected to leave the nest...
...b) the relevance of Jesus' death...
...nurses by doctors...
...On Carroll's obsession with prepubescent girls, for instance, Pudney writes: "Nobody but obsessively self-centered man, chaste though he was, could have demanded such a massive diet of youth and gone to such lengths to sustain it...
...Today you will hear no such statement from Shimon pares or Abha Eban, or even from Menachem Begin...
...The Wild Old Wicked Man (I968) accounts for about half of these...
...When it was sold in 1970 for $3 million a few writers raised their eyebrows, but it took the unsteady course of the new owners (Burden and Bull) and the almost unconscious abandonment of the helm by WoLf to finally bring it all out...
...Both were founded by two men (Henry Luce and Briton Harden...
...Integration or majority rule (African style) is not going to work...
...Follow the money, as Deep Throat suggested to the equally nail Woodstein duo...
...I'll gladly read Getlein on any subject...
...the smallest percentage differences in ratings are the straws that break a lot of backs...
...Mary...
...we are further told that "it would be unfair . . . to count it against Paul that one member of his audience, Eutychus at Alexandria Troas, fell asleep" (Acts 20:9, p. 202...
...Grant's discussion includes maps of Paul's journeys, a table of Pauline chronology, a glossary of ancient writings and terms, and a bibliography (mostly Anglo-Saxon...
...The Gray checklist contains 69 literary and historical citations...
...Paul's letters have also been explained at times by specialists in other disciplines who consider his writings akin to their endeavors...
...Semester 1, 1977.78...
...I speak here of the fact that abortion is an abomination unless it is experienced as a human event of great sorrow and terrible necessity...
...He was a living God, with whom they felt in constant dialogue...
...Much of what is said in the book can be found in many other popular presentations of Paul...
...Most Carroll scholars have regarded this tale as apocryphal...
...It is harder to accept when an outsider who obviously cares about Israel should share the mistake, and fail to see the dangers it creates, the bad politics it inspires...
...So much for Stars...
...Generativity and the full experiencing of tragedy are fragile weapons in a battle where the big guns have been moral absolutes like, "abortion is murder," or "women have an inalienable right to their own bodies...
...Most of them are well presented, and novel interpretations of Pauline passages are few...
...etc...
...To lace one's interpretation of Paul in this day and age with predestinarianism, without cautious nuances, is just too much...
...With that condition in mind, one plunges ahead, nonetheless, to make the best use of the space allowed, calling attention to three collections of poetry from 1976 and a new history of modern poetry...
...For the second forty years, a volume yet to be published, he will need to be somewhat more prophetic, a reader rather than just an historian of poetry...
...Anyone acquainted with the Pauline corpus can easily understand how the main features of Paul's tenets fit under such headings...
...The Gatt~gno volume, rightfully, bag been widely reviewed...
...There are individual chapters on the major figures, Hardy and Frost, and on the early years of Pound, Eliot, and Yates...
...She interviews the eleven-, twelve-, and thirteen-year-olds who have as little psychological and factual understanding of abortion as they have about sex...
...As is inevitable with any book on Carroll/Dodgson, this one contains contradictions and unanswered questions...
...His conclusions, for instance, that Carroll's incessant labors to further the cause of mathematical education were significant failures...
...We may wring our hands, we may engage in political activity, we may try to remedy the conditions that have given rise to the OOO @OO OOO REVIEWERS MARGAI~ET O'BRIEN STEINEELS is editor of the Hastings Center Report...
...Are you aware of the fact that South Africa has at least 9 different black ethnic groups speaking 9 different ethnic languages with 9 different cultures and I00 different dialects...
...others have been born of later theological problems, and foisted on the Pauline text, and still others are born of modern attempts to psychoanalyze Paul...
...program or as unclassified students...
...Past biographies have imparted some or all of these traits, but never quite with this concentrated impact...
...THOMAS O. ~VEL$11KO Rockville, Md...
...Am I predisposed to imagine a burden of anxiety and guilt, a numbing of maternal feeling, a certain distancing from those children who are allowed to be born...
...Contact St...
...The reader is left to decide which of the two would better "fill in the gaps...
...And Grant acknowledges Paul's lack of success in addressing the Athenians, "quoting Greek poets and using Greek rhetorical style," for "most of them found the results unconvincing" (referring to Paul's Speech on the Areopagus, Acts 17:3234...
...Other criticisms are: Disputed accuracy on a few minor points...
...many who wrote regularly, but not on staff, were getting much less...
...everything is not going to be all right...
...Hearst and Pulitzer may have brought us the Spanish American War, Henry Luce the Cold War, but from Ellen Frankfort's The Voice: Li/e at the Village Voice we learn that Dan Wolf (more so than Fancher, who in Frankfort's telling drops out of sight much the way Hadden politely died early in Luce's career) practiced a modern guerrilla war, an attrition of the spirit that mirrors so well most of the failed movements of the Sixties...
...In book publishing, where once firms had unlimited supplies of young women from Seven Sister schools looking for a temporary mooring in the city, they found they had women who intended to stay and who wanted to advance...
...No book from the past year, in fact, so deserves special attention for the writer as well as for the publisher---in this case the University of Massachusetts Press, which has had the good sense and care to publish several of Francis's books, prose and poetry, including an extraordinary autobiography, The Trouble With Francis (1971), brief entertaining essays, The Satirical Rogue on Poetry (1968), and a memoir of his sometimes troubled friendship, Frost: A Time to Talk (1972...
...As with many highly personal books on subjects of moral controversy she wants to both explain and expiate...
...views of the book...
...Especially interesting is the illustrated essay, "Lewis Carroll the Pre-Raphaelire 'Fainting in Coils'" by Jeffrey Stern...
...And this is reenforced by the choruses of reassurance from doctors, nurses, orderlies, and social workers...
...Similarly, though Grant is aware of the Deuteropauline character of the Pastoral Epistles (1-2 Timothy and Titus) and is willing to admit that they are "of early second century date," he mixes throughout the book references to passages of undoubted Pauline authorship or disputed authorship (Colossians and Ephesians) with those of the Pastorals...
...Thomas Ranck...
...That task will bring both a greater challenge and a greater risk...
...and anyone who cares about poetry has lived with many of them, particularly that exceptional collection, Lord Weary' s Castle (1947), for three decades...
...Thus, Grant begins his description of Paul himself by quoting legends: He is said to have been 'a man of small stature, with a bald head and bow legs, who carried himself well...
...Yet the publication of the Selected Poems calls for a reconsideration, as the reader tests the language and subject matter against one's experience of the history Lowell describes...
...Michael Grant has been a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University, president and vice-chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast, and author of several popularizations of ancient classical history (The Ancient Historians, The Ancient Mediterranean, The Yews in the Roman World, and The Twelve Caesars...
...And so it does...
...Any man who can exploit people and have them think he is wonderful is no mere conversation guru...
...MacLeish's famous line, "a poem should not mean but be," is, in fact, echoed in Francis's poem "Museum Piece": 'It contains nothing/ We ask it/ to contain nothing./ Having transcended use,/ It is endlessly/ Content to he...
...His words are too valuable...
...she too has had an abortion in this hospital...
...Thus, Paul's discussion of marriage and celibacy (1 Corinthians 7) is treated in the first chapter, as a reflection of Paul's own characterl Grant tells us further: "His character was torn apart by inner confliers...
...In Necessity and Sorrow is a subtle and intelligent confession which collapses at moments into a romantic pessimism about the human condition...
...The MPLA take-over in Angola is a case in poinh To say that the United States could ameliorate its influence in Africa by merely supporting the winning side is too simple...
...Here is no little snake...
...Yet Denes's intent in so vivid a portrayal of clinical detail is obviously to convince us that "seeing" will modify the easy acceptance of abortion and open our eyes to "the tragedy of our age that renders us unable or unwilling to acknowledge tragedy...
...KOeERT rHXLLIPS'S study of Lewis Carroll, Aspects o/ Alice, has recently been published in a new Vintage paperback edition...
...But where Denes hopes to move us is unclear...
...And if the demographics are too similar, competing publications are doomed...
...After the death of Judas Iscariot he was replaced by Matthias...
...they had unions knocking at their doors...
...The foregoing dipped into the legendary "to bring Paul to life...
...Here as e!sewbere, Dr...
...Paul also claimed the status of apostle for himself, and the term was used for other missionaries and leaders" (p...
...Thus, Romans 8-9 had been used in the historic controversies about individual predestination, but we have long since seen that the problem to which Paul addressed himself in those chapters, when he spoke of God's hardening the heart of the Pharaoh or of the suppleness of the potter's clay in his hands, is not that of individual predestination but of the place of the election of Israel in relation to Christianity as seen from the perspective of God's salvation history...
...Denes's objections may seem to be only slogans strong on emotional rhetoric, weak on moral reasoning, and inattentive to what I believe remains the unavoidable, central issue, the status of the fetus...
...Robert Lowell has dominated the literary landscape for so long that it is difficult to make a judgment of his work without sounding impertinent...
...CAGO...
...Before he again addresses "Middie East Realities," however, I would urge that he spend two weeks on the West Bank, preferably without a guide...
...Yet John Pudney manages more: he has created a Carroll personality for us...
...These lines, from "Epitaph," suggest a persistent theme and tone: "Freedom he loved and order he embraced./ Fifty extremists called him Janus-faced./ Though cool centrality was his desire,/ He drew the zealot fire and counter-fire...
...Personal gratification, according to Pudney, was the driving force...
...History o~ Christian Thoulht: Ecdesiology through the Centuries, Rev...
...With fewer read publications there are more writers crying for space...
...All publications are fan magazines and The Voice readers were literate fans...
...None of this wilt be productive if we fail to recognize what Magda Denes has shown to be at the heart of the struggle over abortion: moral sensitivity, moral reasoning, and individual responsibility...
...Pudncy also delineates other less 8 July ]977:440 celebrated aspects of the "shy" Oxford mathematics don, including his indefatigable promotion of his own books and his use of the camera as a means of social climbing...
...his name was Meyn and he played the trumpet too beautifully for words...
...no index...
...i n this sense his book has made her pioneer study obsolete, but anyone with more than a passing interest in Carroll and his creations will find many useful things in it...
...Like too many Israelis, Getlein is still astonished that the peoples of the Levant have not ~oyfully welcomed the Israeli presence, in humble gratitude for the gifts that make the desert bloom...
...Nothing begats nothing is an axiom any capitalist would applaud...
...Grant's chronology of Paul's life is very similar to what I have proposed in the Jerome Biblical Commentary, minus some of the nuances...
...Luke-Acts and the New Testament Church, Rev...
...appearance...
...BOOKS INSIDE AN ABORTION HOSPITAL MARGARET O'BRIEN 8TEINFELS In N e e e s s i t g and Sorr~v: L i f e and Death in an Abortion Hosp4tal MAGDA DENES Basic Books, $10 In Necessity and Sorrow is a powerful and gripping book...
...Her book is valuable on many Commonweal welcomes letters on ~ubjects treated in its pages...
...Paul's apostolate was carried out in the world that Grant has otherwise widely studied, 8 July 1977:442 and thus he can bring to the interpretation of Paul a classicist's acquaintance...
...As a self-described "pro-abortionist with a bad secular conscience," Denes raises two objections to the abortions she witnesses...
...Perkins does what has needed doing...
...But having said that and having taken a critical look at the story of Paul's journey to Rome and the shipwreck, Grant gives the impression many times over that he has forgotten this necessary critical stance...
...He never gave them enough space...
...Timestyle became a clich~ and so did Voicestyle...
...In asking the questions, "Do these poems speak for me...
...This fact, about which she informs us in the introduction, is impossible to separate from her intense search for the meaning of abortion...
...That demands a level of moral education and discussion that we have yet to see from any camp in the abortion debate...
...Last year saw a facsimile edition of Carroll's own The Rectory Magazine (University of Texas Press), one of the eight children's magazines he edited as an adolescent...
...COllected J P ~ ROBERT FRANCIS U. of Masmchusens Press, $15 New m~ CoUeeted Peems ARCHIBALD MacLEISH Houghton, Mi~in, $15...
...This is certainly a noble purpose, and it is good to see a writer with such a background addressing himself to such emergencies and struggles, while claiming that he does this not "as a theologian would...
...None of the poets discussed thus far appears in the first volume of David Perkins, A History o/ Modern Poetry, except as they resemble the writers of an earlier time, that is, the first forty years of the Modernist period, 18901930...
...Stern's is a solid exercise in the criticism of probable affinities, and it is merely regrettable he omitted to cite Judith Bloomingdale's 1971 essay, "Alice as Anima: The Image of Woman in Carroll's Classic" (from Aspects of Alice) as the original study of the eternal feminine in Carroll...
...And The Voice, being a liberal paper, "anti-establishment," had any number of other guilts to trouble...
...Though one can't deny Grass's artistic talent, he is first, last and always, a writer--Germany's best living writer, a "court jester without a court," a snail with a worldwide following...
...The power of photos or vivid description is unpredictable and hard to focus...
...Walsbe contends that America should throw its whule-hearted support to various "socialist" and "egalitarian" movements...
...On p. 37, Pudney tells as (as does Francis Huxley in The Raven and Writing Desk) that Carroll never wore an overcoat...
...justification for abortion...
...S,milarly, Grant's attempt to isolate Paul's "psychological wrestlings, which will be reconstructed from his Letters in the course of this book" (p...
...Trouble is, Grant writes well and this breezy book will be looked on with no little enthusiasm as a "fresh appreciation" of the Apostle...
...So ironies abound and not the first or last is how similar Time, Inc...
...Again, as a bellwether of our times, Clay Felker's purchase and renovation of The Voice in 1974 is as appropriate as its beginning: Wolf, the closet capitalist, exploiting his minions while seeming to espouse a more equitable world...
...Rather, he is self-serving, overly meticulous, fastidious, pedantic, selfevasive, obsessive, hypocritical, and a relentless pursuer of celebrities...
...Peter McGinty, C.S.J., LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, 6525 North Sherid...
...About the first she argues, "the affirmation of generativity is the essence of a world without end...
...So-called specialized audience publications axe said to be healthy...
...One of the strangest of them was a clash between genuine modesty and overwhelming self-confidence" (p...
...The Voice was not just a mirror to the changes it saw during the Sixties, hut it was warped as well...
...2) Our disastrous past history: (a) the age-long rule of evil, and (b) the need for total change (in effect, a description of the world and mankind without the Christian gospel preached by Paul...
...that the procedure was performed in a context where their legal rtghts to have an abortion for any reason were scrupulously honored, but their moral and emotional concerns were minimized...
...New and Collected Poems reminds us of how and why his claim to that honored place is legitimate...
...The Fall Semester offerings include: Themes and Methods in the Interpretation o] Biblical Thought, Dr...
...Cohen's Snark article is as lucid as Harold Beaver's "Whale or Boojum: An Agony" is not...
...Yet Getlein, by ignoring the Palestinians and defining the conflict as one between Israel and the "Arab states," still follows Meir...
...The past has no meaning...
...Newspapers are elementary economic textbook cases...
...But then why quote them...
...Wolf, as he aged, turned out to be the Lear who escapes with the loot and leaves his daughters (and sons) penniless...
...James Boswell and His World...
...Don't worry dear, everything is all right...
...Ed Fancber and Dan Wolf...
...and the Village Voice, Inc...
...Voice writers eventually became staff writers, the gyre slowed at the end of the Sixties, old blood did not want to be spilled for new and indeed as they themselves aged security beckoned...
...This makes one query at times the perspective from which much of the book has been written...
...The first has to do with a commitment to future generations, the second with the tragedy of denying feelings...
...Later this year Francis Huxley's The Raven and the Writing Desk (Harper & Row)'will be reprinted in America after its initial U.K...
...The selection of saints is eclectic and curious: Francis of Assisi, Mary, Thomas More, Peter, Paul, Germaine Cousin, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin, Benedict, and Catherine of Siena...
...yet such appeals to the emotions can move us in a way that reason or moral principles alone do not...
...He can also be quietly, but deeply erotic, as in "The Good Life," an idyllic, even romantic meditation, reminiscent of F. T. Prince's famous anti-war poem, "Soldier's Bathing...
...Frankfort rightly casts Wolf as a father-figure...
...Such astonishment, evinced by a journalist as humane and knowledgeable as Getlein, is astonishing...
...MacLeish's writings, beginning with his first volume in 1917, have become a permanent part of American literature...
...it was (and is) a buyer's market...
...John Cannery., S.J...
...Henry Luce was much more than that, the Lord of the Manor, rather than a mere householder...
...The Voice literally had hundreds of freelance writers to tap...
...Two years ago an English translation of Jean Gatt~gno's excellent biography, Lewis Carroll: Fragments of a Looking-Glass (Crowell) was published here...
...Did he or didn't he, and does it matter7 On p. 113 Pudney also repeats the tale of Carroll's supposedly cutting the manuscript of Sylvie and Bruno into pre-numbered horizontal strips of four or five lines, shaking them in a sack, and pasting them onto new pages in random fashion...
...Rackin proves himself to be one of the most sensible living commentators on Carroll...
...ltOBERT O. HoY'r Afvlems IAbcn.~Jms Baltimore, Md...
...and a piece on the Snark by Morton H. Cohen, which he accompanies with a useful reprinting of seven original re...
...a general "Hell hath no fury like a journalist scorned" tone...
...indiscreet husbands accompany careless mistresses...
...One would guess from reading his book that Perkin.q is not greatly moved or substantially informed by poetry...
...A writer's misgivings are often as large as his ego...
...Wolf's balm was that he made his writers what they were, gave them The Voice as a showcase, turned them into Stars...
...Morality and the Control o~ Human Li/e and Death, Rev...
...Its promiscuity within social limits, and its persistence till the end of his life, might be compared with that of Don Juan himself...
...The compulsive manner, the hint of hysteria, the laments about cosmic injustice reveal the expiational purpose .,f the book...
...To those many Carrollians who still regard "their" Lewis as a saint, this book will be hard to embrace...
...In both partnerships one was the "creative" mind (Hadden and Wolf) and one was the financial (Luce and Fancher...
...In addition to Stern, other fine contributors to Lewis Carroll Observed include Donald Rackin's study of the humor in Alice in Wonderland--so many forget it is the book's comic qualities which first attract...
...His eyebrows met in the middle and his nose was rather large and he was full of grace, for at times Graduate Courses in Theology, LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHI...
...do these poems convey, in connotation and rhythm, the experience of American life since World War liT' I can only answer "No...
...Worse still, to seek an answer in Pauline terms to the question that Man Friday asks of Robinson Crusoe, "If God much stronger, why God not kill the Devil...
...They help mythologize the man and his literary creations...
...In 1969, in Golda Meir's ofrice, I heard the statement that the Palestinlans are not a people and therefore cannot be a nation...
...The 109 illustrations, including some I have not seen before, delight, as does the interweaving of Victorian backgrounds throughout (e.g., "the Duke of Wellington had deplored the notion of railways on a national scale because 'they would encourage the lower classes to move about...
...and (d) direct contact with the Deity (Paul's own and the Christian experience...
...The one thing it is impossible to imagine is that, as so many of the figures in this book's pages try to believe, none of this makes any difference---we should worry...
...The glare of medical efficiency, legal permission, and women's rights blind them...
...Till then . . . remember that most poignant and memorable chapter in The Tin Drum that begins, "There was once a musician...
...In graphic and gory detail she describes D and C procedures, performed in busy times at the rate of six per hour, and saline abortions which provide women with 24 hours of labor and a dead baby...
...They ought, nonetheless, to provide the occasion for thoughtful appraisal about the cumulative consequences of abortion in the lives of individuals and our common life as a society...
...and both were a mixture of blatant opinion and less blatant fact...
...and that he was a man who often smiled . . . (p...
...They were being paid $150-200 a week...
...But at times Grant dips into the theological problems of later centuries...
...This book has 77 drawings and photographs, including many penand-ink sketches by Carroll...
...Did photos of children's bodies in Vietnam convince the already convinced, or did they show those committed to the war its brutal and hidden consequences...
...To the Editors: An article in the April 1 issue of your magazine by Peter Walshe is a complete disgrace...
...Magda Denes is a psychologist who, over an unspecified but extended period of time, observed and interviewed staff, patients, and relatives of patients in a private, for-profit New York hospital...
...The proposition which he poses is at once provoking and unsettling, as well it should be...
...Additional courses arc available through the Loyola Institute of Pastoral Studies...
...Readership jumped from 17,000 to 135,000...
...I speak of our propensity to deny that we hurt, at the awful cost of turning to stone...
...there are also informed general chapters on the Georgians, the First World War Poets, the Imagists, and the Black Poets...
...What it would mean to fall into the hands of the living God, and not the God we have ideas about, is something we can begin to learn by looking at the lives of the saints...
...is an attempt to reconstruct-through pictures, documents, and text ---the backgrounds and events of an author's life...
...His pictures, his etchings, are, if anything, addenda to h i s novels...
...Is there a way out...
...and that Sylvia and Bruno is appalling, largely because Carroll "knew too much and he tried too hard," seem undeniable...
...Grant divides his presentation of Paul into six parts, sometimes subdivided: (1) The life, work, and character of Paul...
...b) the other Christians who objected...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance o] being published...
...These men and women were often unsettling to their own times, and Garvey managed to focus them for our time...
...A picture, in Orass's case, is not worth a thousand words...
...Consider: that by age thirty, hundreds of thousands of American women would have had an abortion, and a certain percentage of them two or more abortions, some beginning at the age of twelve or thirteen...
...One delusion Frankfort does not dispel is that The Voice acted as a careerist platform...
...Whether it is the Carroll personality is impossible to say...
...and that the procedure was carried out by doctors and nurses who harbored a good deal of latent hostility toward their patients and communicated this in subtle ways...
...Be that as it may...
...Of the four books, Robert Francis's Collected Poems is surely the most significant-not only because it brings together his life's work, but also because it exhibits so clearly the achievement of an exceptional, if infrequently honored, craftsman...
...Some of those interpretations have been legendary, and some exigetical...
...In comparing them with poems by his distinguished contemporaries, the late Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, David Ignatow, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, one recognizes that Lowell no longer holds our attention, no longer speaks with the same authority that these other poets do...
...Beaver is an agony to read: "That initial dedication to Gertrude Chataway . . . suggests a deeper, unconconscious level of inchoate lusts and fears of self-destruction--some covert sexual trauma turned to a mimic tea with mutfns, jam, and conundrums...
...Kierkegaard's belief that 'purity of heart is to think one thing' applies to them...
...But considering that Carroll biography, from the first, was largely protective (the initial biography was by a nephew, and the Hudson and Green biographies seem laundered) this will come as an antidote, with truth lying somewhere between the extremes...
...A writer's narcissism (to see himself in print) will overwhelm his greed (or even permit the most miserable conditions--Frankfort tells separates victim tales of a number of women including herself who wrote for The Voice...
...Commonweal: 445 level,: as ~ iournalistir history a ragged journal, and as another personal fable of our times...
...No one is responsible for what is happening...
...Following doctors as they move from operating room to operating room, Denes records their contempt, their cynicism, and their support for women's rights...
...These courses may be taken in the M.A...
...FATHER JOSEPH A. FITZMYER, S.J., is professor of New Testament and Biblical Languages at Weston College School og Theology in Massachusetts...
...6 called the longest newspaper strike in the history of New York...
...He is a very shrewd businessman...
...BARBARA MUTKOSKI is an assistant prolessor at Bergen College...
...for reasons, good or bad, denying the possibility of life to another and temporarily or permanently denying a possibility about oneself will have repercussions that seem neither liberating nor fulfilling...
...But in the last analysis, it is Paul for the sociologists...
...The element of celebration so characterjstic of Francis's work appears persistently in Archibald MacLeish's poems, the familiar as well as the new...
...His book throughout seems logical and goes a long way to make Lewis Carroll a human being, one with at least as many vanities and frailties as the rest of us, and probably with a lot more...
...Cumulatively one has the sense of people being pushed and pulled by forces beyond their control: doctors by money and changes in the law...
...That romantic pessimism underlies her conviction that moral sensitivity about abortion will emerge from a sense of what it looks and feels like...
...Theology o~ Prayer, Rev...
...Dan WoLf was making $72,000 a year...
...But can her vivid word-pictures, so 8 July 1977:438 much like photographs, elucidate a moral stance...
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