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to the dissection of statistical data: his analysis of the hucksters of the counterculture is exceptionally sharp; and he brings to his account of the breakdown of the civil-rights movement...
...His beloved Allie Colombo had gone to work in a supermarket supply house and was accidentally crushed to death by a truck a few months before Rocky died...
...Marciano was never a pretty boxer...
...The finished product does not differ radically from other surveys of the topic, but it does convey in succinct, readable prose the general overview and careful judgments made by one of this country's most distinguished church historians...
...He was, especially in the beginning, an embarrassingly clumsy mauler and slugger, who could apparently take any amount of pounding punishment...
...Restless, aimless, often caught in comical circumstances (he insisted on being shot rather than knocked out in a pilot TV adventure program), bounding around for far-fetched and abortive business deals, Rocky was a Stranger, with friends everywhere...
...Perhaps the surviving family and friends, whose close cooperation Skehan had, did not want to talk before...
...She too explores the paradoxical freedom and constraint bestowed on her through the blood of her forbears...
...Such an orientation makes a great deal of sense because many of the same denominations have flourished in the two countries, including those imported from Europe as well as those originating in the New World...
...Already Tiana's editor has not considered the luncheon important enough to be covered...
...He was locally known as the hermit of Grossinger's, where he often trained for his bouts...
...His twenty-one page bibliographical essay is a sure guide to standard sources as well as to pertinent material for investigating topics at greater length...
...Any person who has attended doubleheaders at the old "Garden" and then followed the crowds to Gilhooleys or AI Mullers, or done the Third Avenue bit from Joe Kings to the Lorelei, or followed the Green Wave on March 17th up Fifth and then down Third, or experienced the Boardwalk from Beach 98th to 116th at old Put a Catholic newstand in your parish...
...I saw them often, before school in the morning, out my living-room window, jogging and shadow-boxing up the street...
...A dying Vito Genovese told Rocky, "Some of us have done bad things in our lives, but you have us proud...
...No heavyweight before or since has equaled this...
...Your own hands are lying...
...Much of this has been said before, though seldom at such a consistent level of excellence...
...Of Laura's contemporaries, there is Tiana Briggs, a White House correspondent and a veteran of five administrations, who has earned her way into Washington society by hard work and tough armor...
...His mother, Pasqualena, was a tremendously strong woman who hated boxing and spent most of the time during Rocky's matches praying for him in St...
...The concerns of the book are complex, however, and the question of women's identity is central...
...As Sarah Streator climbs the spiral stairs to the luncheon she wonders about her identity...
...Insecure," capitalized and underlined, flashes like an existential neon sign throughout his notebook...
...White...
...Indeed...
...Her Slavic ancestors bequeathed her rituals of religion and husbandry, customs that were "sacred and eternal...
...The question is sensitively treated in Circles and reflected on by women of various ages...
...The deepest harmonies Forche discovers are with nature itself...
...It is because of Jeff Streator's documentary on possible presidential candidates than Sam Nordahl is catapulted into the national limelight...
...I never really knew him, but I remember him and his family very well...
...But he had something else, the boxing equivalent of a tactical nuclear weapon, that absolutely natural and devasting looping overhand right he called his Suzy Q. The contest was usually over when Rocky got tired of drawing out his opponent, or of being hurt, and found the opening for his remorseless parabolic arm...
...Finally, some of the essays are from less popular journals and are just now finding their way between hard covers...
...Dickstein's "sense of things opening up" in the early sixties is largely missing from Hodgson's book...
...You can't explain this night, my face, your memory...
...This larger focus helps readers understand the broader ramifications of British colonial policy, the continued story of 30,000 Loyalists who preferred northern emigration to republican government, and over the next 150 years comparable trends in revivalism, ethnic tensions and social reform together with recent developments in ecumenical experimentation...
...yet in another sense-in the sense in which Dickstein discusses the culture of the decade--"the sixties" do not appear at all Hodgson's "consensus" continues uninterrupted until about 1965...
...The staff is patronizing toward her, calling her "Lady Alice," and the media see her as simply a necessary appendage to her husband's career...
...The rainbow colors of the fairy tale books that other children read can be but a nightmare of garish colors for her...
...I am Black because I come from the earth's inside now take my word for jewel in the open light...
...In the return bout he easily knocked out Jersey Joe in the first round...
...As he concedes in his foreword, a mild confusion may result...
...Louis holds the next best knockout record...
...When this honest effort to deal imaginatively with the complex response of their inner world to exterior phenomenon is fused with intelligence and technical control...
...Skehan writes absolutely truly: "Rocky had that personal touch that made average people feel comfortable and welcomed...
...Sarah~ shakes her head as she looks at the political ladies...
...One has to have one's own identity...
...Here are 31 of those essays, 22 of them from The New Yorker, White's literary home...
...The resulting study affords us a pair of compact surveys, with little integration of the two, but it is still good to read them side by side...
...The story was suggested t o Mrs...
...Nordahl emerges as the confident public figure when her husband's career begins to crumble...
...Rocky's professional record is astonishing: he never lost a fight, and won 43 out of his 49 by knockouts, most of these within five rounds...
...In the counterpoint of voices, serious questions are raised...
...They offer no gold on enchantment "for the vanished mother/ of a black girl...
...He kept it so well in fact--he hid quantities of cash compulsively in ceiling fixtures, bathroom plumbing, holes in the groundm that to this day his family has not found half of it...
...Some tapes of news programs...
...Introduced as an accomplished reporter, she questions what her legacy will be when she is Laura's age...
...reap the benefits of a more informed laity...
...This kind of inclusive effort is certainly praiseworthy, but in my view the discussion of churches in the two areas is more Commonweal: 763 juxtaposed than fully meshea, even in the common chapters where subheadings keep topics apart...
...It will serve many purposes, whether as a reference tool or read from cover to cover as a basic text...
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...It is a masterful synthesis of the latest information...
...distinctive lines of thought are judged important when they contributed to the larger spectrum of religious forces...
...You want to know what I know...
...One must be caught up in the game we all play here, placing little bets of pieces of our lives on who will win, who will lose, who will stay, who will go, who matters...
...His father, Pierino Marchegiano, was a frail man who had been gassed at Chateau-Thierry and worked most of his life in a factory...
...A H i s t o r y o f t h e Churches i n t h e United S t a t e s and Canada ROBERT T. HANDY Ox/ord University Press, $19.95 HENRY WARNER BOWDEN Probably one of the first questions one has to ask when picking up a book like this is: why another general history of American churches...
...Lorde's poems are concerned most often with the mystery and variety of love relationships...
...In "Burning the Tomato Worms," the little girl in the poem is being initiated by her old grandmother into the rites of Slovakian womanhood...
...Or maybe they were waiting for a writer like Skehan, a reporter for the Worcester Evening Gazette who came from Brockton, Massachusetts, where Rocky was born and grew up...
...Read carefully, his book gives a very different impression: "it is in fact much worse...
...Hodgson takes as his theme nothing less than the rise and fall of the governing consensus in the two decades after World War II...
...They are artists who, without being "confessional" poets, are not afraid to come to terms with their full experience of life...
...White has been sending the world pleasant, deceptively profound essays from middle Maine, and these have delighted, moved, influenced a couple generations of readers of the Atlantic, Harper's, .Holiday and most especially The New Yorker...
...Then it is time to go...
...Hodgson emphasizes its racial fragmentation, its self-conscious "Americanism," and its pursuit of an "equality of Opportunity" that he deems unreal--all of which have produced working-class support for candidates of the Right...
...Others have called them brilliant iconoclastic meditations for moderns, poetic musings and moral essays, even monodramas...
...This is largely due to the fact that the two countries and their churches really ai'e different, and their histories require cognizance o f different environmental and social conditions which shaped their ends, often disparate in nature...
...Now all of this analysis is debatable, but the point is that by his own terms he seems to foreclose the possibility of the very movement he believes essential for a more rational and a more humane political system...
...It seems to me that she has given her life to the shadows of reality...
...Lorde broods on her impotence to forestall either the blessing or curse she leaves her child: Of the way she will taste her autumns--toast-brittle or warmer than sleep--and the words she will use for winter I stand already condemned...
...Throughout his book Hodgson insists on describing the consensus established in the mid-fifties as a "liberal" consensus, reminding the reader only at the very end of his account that it included conservatives as well as liberals, businessmen as well as intellectuals...
...McCarthy uses the technique of multiple point of view and, thus, we are privy to the thoughts of five major characters at different times throughout the novel...
...in fact he goes out of his way to make Kennedy's administration indistinguishable from Eisenhower's...
...A good part of Rocky's motivation was to use any talent he had to avoid working in the shoe shops like his father "for cheap money.'"' Ironically, his eventual triumph and last years fairly coincided with Brockton's last years as a flourishing independent industrial city, and Skehan might have made more of this...
...C i r c l e s ABIGAIL McCARTHY Doubleday, $7.95 BARBARA MUTKOSK...
...Rocky's first sport and first love was baseball, which he quit high school to play...
...The sixteen meditations here gathered by Seabury (Orbis, bravest of the publishing Catholics, declined) are among his most pleasurable offerings to date...
...Handy's latest book provides solid foundations for that understanding...
...and he brings to his account of the breakdown of the civil-rights movement an unusual degree of sympathetic understanding...
...He devotes three chapters--the first two and the last--to combined analysis, about 30 percent of the total pagination...
...at the most intimate moment a lover can be the enemy...
...only that I will read any that he commits to paper with what I take to be profit and know to be pleasure...
...Neither was he Joe Bonaparte of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy, although Joe's metaphor for himself of "a bullet when it sings through the air has not past, only a future" is all too fitting...
...Jeff's reputation has grown because his his perceptive interviews and his effective speaking voice...
...Sarah Streator is not content with the role of homemaker, and opts to return to her work in journalism...
...Ema...
...When he told his old Brockton neighbor and local sports organizer Allie Colombo about this, Allie was the first of his friends to have visions of the heavyweight championship for Rocky and became his trainer (along with, later, little Al Goldman) and constant companinn for the rest of his career...
...Perhaps more--perhaps someday I will affect events...
...Today mostly paper tigers," Rocky wrote on a sheet of motel stationary in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he was making notes for a talk on boxing...
...Paper $2.95 ( ~ Write for 115-title catalog ORBIS BOOKS Maryknoll, NY 10545 insult, he fought savagely and mercilessly...
...Some essays are dated--again "Here Is New York," which was written when the subway cost a dime (up, alas, from a nickel) and when the city could be cited for its solidarity and continuity...
...Like the biblical tales themselves 25 November 1977:764 on which these reflections are based, each yields a variety of interpretations and not all yield easily...
...It's the voice of the universal observer," states one critic, "the Greek chorus of our time...
...He was a naturally powerful hitter, but the very muscles that made him so also made him a poor runner and thrower...
...He was a strange one," Skehan quotes a friend of Rocky's, "Nobody ever knew Rocky except Rocky, and that was exactly the way he wanted it...
...Closely following those, but by no means opposed to them for comparative purposes, he gives almost equal space to Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans and Reformed churches...
...Rocky had, of course, KO'd Louis the previous yearwand immediately wrote him out a note of regret and homage...
...She makes her own statement to reporters, and it is she who saves Nordahl from psychological ruin, supporting him when his staff scatters...
...While it does not err on the side of being too dry and encyclopedic, neither does it give undue space to pet themes or try to reduce the panoply of New World religion r a few holistic interpretations...
...As to the first observation, this biography leaves no doubt...
...The main focus of this learned exposition is on religion and society, not on the internal growth of churches as ends in themselves...
...But by arguing that the 1968 election saw a rejection of "liberalism," he also implies that it marked the collapse of the governing consensus and its illusions...
...She muses at the beginning of the novel that certain attitudes are necessary for Washington survival...
...JOHN VEaVY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued trom page 739) Everett, Wash...
...And the fight descriptions that climax this narrative are everything a fan could hope for: fresh, detailed, dramatic, harrowing...
...a sophisticate with the polish of the slicker who just dropped in from the big city...
...Ask the guy behind the counter...
...And (at least since the Coolidge years) has any group in power been more complacent about the American economic system than the ideologues who surrounded Gerald Ford...
...At least four good texts have appeared in the last ten years, covering much the same ground, so how can another be justified...
...It is not enough...
...However, I must take issue with the reviewer's final paragraph...
...He finally found it it the 13th round (after being knocked down for the first time in his career in the first) of the title bout with Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952 and became the first white heavyweight champion since James J. Commonweal: 761 Braddock was knocked out by Joe Louis in 1937...
...He is in fact remembered by her and everyone who knew him I have ever talked with as a sweet and gentle man, above all a modest man, a sort that now seems almost almost extinct...
...But the first fight Allie got for Rocky, in the Ancient Order of Hibernians Hall in Brockton, ended inauspiciously: Rocky fouled out...
...WmrrE, by E.B...
...The fearsome or classic bouts with Carmine Vingo, Roland LaStarza, Joc Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles, and Archie Moore are recounted as if they were happening for the first time...
...Did any administration ever show more "paranoia about the threat of communism" than Richard Nixon's, a paranoia no less intense because it focused On students in California and on workers in Chile more than on bureaucrats in the Kremlin...
...The whole question of woman was then latent in our lives...
...Game run by men of greed little interest in long range plans for the good of all classic image of the gallant gladiators in battle giving their all I've become a computer (no human element) nature of man to be better never quit toy people in a make believe world...
...The Unified Magazine Program, a service of Paulist Press, offers a convenient and accessible parish reading rack system that attracts interest, appeals to the budget-conscious pastor and offers a choice of timely and informative Catholic periodicals for everyone...
...He wanted to retire undefeated and keep the millions he made and would make in public appearances...
...It is a world they have made for themselves," a world of unspoken agreements as to morality and behavior...
...His own brother had to scream who he was at Rocky once when they were sparring and Sonny hit him a little too hard...
...Not all the women in Circles are able to find their identities in conjunction with their husbands...
...Rocky was forty-six...
...McCarthy by an incident in the presidential year of 1972, and she deftly places it in a "hypothetical 1976," with the actual candidates of that year...
...But she presses always to know more, to understand the mystery behind the ritual...
...Patrick's Church...
...Another aspect worth noting is that this publication helps keep readers up to date with current scholarship...
...Here Is New York," for instance, moved from Holiday to the Book-of-the-Month Club, a 1949 selection...
...Her quiet insistence on looking simultaneously at the beautiful and the ugly makes her poetry complex...
...He did not pick fights, ever, but only ended them, very fast...
...This is Carolyn Forche's first volume of poetry...
...They write what critics fike A. Alvarez call "depth" poetry, a poetry of psychological integrity...
...In defense of this attitude, and hoping that the reader will not think her cynical, she writes: "It is the game played everywhere and I am glad to have played it in the greatest arena of all where the survival of humanity is at stake rather than, let us say, the competition of business interests...
...Smith and L.A...
...E.B...
...Her poems are often angry and bitter, etched in vitriol on the stark page...
...Unlike the roman a clef which portrays real people under fictional names, Abigail McCarthy gives us an interesting variation: "Real people walk through the story under their own names, but, with one exception, they carry on fictional conversations with fictional characters in a way that I think is faithful to the manner of their own casual conversations...
...poets create exciting works in a distinctively modern voice...
...You recognize strangers, think you lived through destruction...
...Cain's letters from the joint are troubling...
...But I will have earned my way...
...Perhaps because Forche writes with such deceptive ease, these poems achieve an unadorned eloquence, a seeming inevRability of statement...
...her job is to interpret, reflect, and round out the image of the public man...
...Audre Lorde has published three previous books...
...Sometimes the reader will find me in the city when be thinks I am in the country, and the other way around...
...That, however, is very doubtful...
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...The plot line is simple: the rise and fall of a presidential candidate, Senator Sam Nordald, and the influence of the media upon his career...
...then come three years of turbulence...
...It can serve equally well as an introduction to the many forms which religion has taken in America and Canada, or it can be a trusty reminder for advanced students who are looking for essential points and an index to further reading...
...The voice of American poetry is excitingly alive in their writing...
...And it consistently overlooked those social forces which would ultimately disrupt it: the migration of blacks out of the South, the explosion of the collegestudent population, the insecurities of a very real working class...
...So when he was invited to try out for the Chicago Cubs' farm team, he failed to make it...
...Never mind...
...But Forche is no romanticist...
...His choice makes it possible (and doubtless was selected because of that facility) to include the majority of church members in both countries being studied...
...Surprising revelations about the political wife's m~tier emerge...
...He points out that neither Nader nor the ecology movement nor women's liberation have transcended their middle-class base, yet his conclusions about the American working class serving as a basis for the Left are pessimistic...
...The publisher's answer is that this is an early contribution to a proposed twenty volume series, edited by British scholars Henry and Owen Chadwick, eventually comprising a many-faceted view of Christian churches "and their part in the religious heritage of humanity...
...After Rocky hit his target, the rest of his life was more like the career of a pinball in a machine with no tilts...
...As a result, the optimism Hodgson expresses in the opening and closing chapters--in which he seems to say, "It is not as bad as you think, Americans"nappears misplaced...
...The author's answer, I surmise, is that it represents his mature reflections and insights acquired over decades of research...
...fact...
...an observer with the wit add candor o f the sage by t h e putbellied stove...
...Since the novel is subtitled "a Washington story," the focus is on the identity of married and single women involved, however peripherally, in the game of politics...
...But the glosses on Elijah, Elisha, Daniel and David invite the reader to pause-----often--and ponder...
...It does not stress controversial hypotheses, nor does it bring to light any new discoveries...
...Tiana questions the world that Laura represents...
...And equally clearly full of hope...
...The most sensitive of the new poets reflect this influence through a serious attempt to put themselves in touch with the full range of their experience...
...The ghetto kid in for murder one becomes at one point the son of a crusty old Irishman...
...Alice Ann Nordahl represents to the public the typical political wife...
...Personal experiences are relevant insofar as they gave rise to new motivating factors...
...One lives in one's time and place as well and truthfully as possible...
...One is what one does," she reflects...
...One has a sense of a passing away of another generation of women, the conservators of the rituals and ceremonies, those symbols of the "fine, delicate web of associations and friendships and unspoken understandings which hold humanity together...
...What makes Hodgson's book frequently provocative (and occasionally puzzling) are the perspectives through which he sees all these developments...
...Both women write with authority and intensity...
...Lines from the title poem, "Coal," might stand as an epigraph for the entire volume...
...Cloth $4.95 REVOLUTIONARY PATIENCE by Dorothee Solle These poems are also prayers, of a kind rarely heard in our churches, Dorothee S611e's lines will sing and sting their way into your heart...
...In this troubling and surprising account he begins to seem a metaphor for the fifties themselves...
...Obviously Rocky Marciano was not Rocky Balboa, despite not coincidental resemblances...
...A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada previously...
...Hodgson argues again and again that the deeply flawed consensus arose in the first place because there was no American Left to criticize it...
...She writes a sequence o f movingly beautiful elegies for a dead girl and a long narrative portrait of the unique Martha who, fighting off death in a hospital bed, evolves through her pain into another Martha...
...The narrative begins and ends with Laura Talbert and her sections form a frame, or a circle, about the plot line concerning Senator Nordahl and his wife...
...Institutional developments loom large in such a study as separate churches flourished and interdenominational cooperation increased to affect wider circles of life in both colonial and national contexts...
...Yet the elegance and ritual of that world is clearly fading, as Mrs...
...But the total impact of the poems is positive...
...Ironically, Mrs...
...Talbert makes her Chekovian exit...
...White worries in the foreword, written last April, that New York now suffers from an undetected brain tumor...
...It was Lyndon Johnson's tragedy not only to act on the flawed assumptions of the consensus but to do so at the very point at which these forces manifested themselves in ghetto riots, student protests, and "white backlash...
...her technical skill makes it a disciplined art...
...As for syndicate crime figures, even though he was fascinated by their way of living and became genuinely friendly with some of them, he deplored their influence on big sports and would have nothing to do with that...
...He was on such an errand in August of 1969 when the small private plane he was in crashed in a fog into a lone tree in a Nebraska cornfield, killing everyone aboard...
...a lifelong friend and sometime sparring-partner ran terrified from the ring once, seeing Rocky's face contorted by momentary rage...
...The fact that it has been published by the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets means that public acknowledgement of her gifts has come early...
...Jeff Streator follows Alice Ann Nordahl along the campaign trail, watching her develop as an adept and persuasive speaker...
...I hope there has been some sense to Laura's life and mine...
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...But the book is much more interesting and surprising as an unfinished portrait of a strange, affecting, sometimes hilarious, contradictory human being, very much a figure of the fifties...
...Since the 1930s, E.B...
...Something more than boxing was on his mind...
...Rocky Marelano EVERETT M. SKEHAN Houghton Mi~in...
...McCarthy's own memoir the problem surfaces: "If his [Eugene McCarthy's] vocation was to politics, and marriage was not a vocation, what was my vocation...
...Neither story is a carbon copy of the other, and Handy makes skillful comparisons along the way to highlight the distinctive aspects of American and Canadian religious events in their respective settings...
...But from the start the consensus incorporated too many illusions about the problem-solving potentials of economic expansion at home and military inte~ention abroad...
...As to the second, I am not so sure...
...Most of his notes and references in the present work are to volumes produced since 1960, thus combining the best of recent specialized monographs with his general chronological framework outlined The Roman Catholic Church was deeply a~ected by the reversals o/ the later sixties---the high hopes stimulated by Vatican H soon faded...
...it's also, like him, full of irony and wit...
...Half of his book, for example, covers the years 1963 through 1969...
...Audre Lorde and Carolyn Forche are both giRed poets endowed with clarity of inward vision and a willingness and power to project it with often devastating impact...
...It is not true that Daniel Berrigan cannot write a bad sentence...
...This work is highly recommended, but readers should recognize that it does not explicate as much as summarizr the central features of religious history on the continent...
...Loetscher to produce American Christianity: An Historical Interpretation with Representative Documents, 2 vols...
...As for these essays, some will be familiar...
...Laura Talbert, a widow in her sixties, has been both participant and spectator in Washington's social circles Commonweal: 759 through several administrations...
...Many who had been quite willing to re/orm the church were hardly prepared /or the decline o/ authority and the radical suggestions and actions that emerged...
...Public pressures on her private world have made Lorde a poet of diamondhard intensity...
...Almost twenty years ago the author collaborated with H.S...
...White, Harper & Row, $12.50...
...He made this record not only by his "heart" and his right but also, as Skehan shows, by almost fanatical and extremely ascetic training to the ends of his fingers...
...Besides, that, she is often confidential adviser, behind-the-scenes organizer, and sometimes speech writer...
...I guess they're not parables except in Auden's sense of parable-art...
...those trends are valued when they worked powerfully on a national scale...
...Barney Ross said Marciano was the hardest hitter and gamest heavyweight he'd seen since Dempsey...
...The last Chapter is a chorus of voices, deftly orchestrated...
...Within this set of priorities, Handy concentrates most often on the history of mainstream evangelical churches: Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist...
...In Mrs...
...Dwight Macdonald, Wilfrid Sheed, maybe one or two more...
...The chapter is written as a series of interior monologues, each delivered by the leading women of the novel...
...But despite his stinginess with actual money (another child of the Depression terrified of going broke), he still would go anywhere anytime to help friends or friends of friends in need...
...Unfortunately, Skehan's pen has a tendency to run purple when he is not describing a fight or quoting someone, which he does extensively and effectively...
...But familiar or not, old or older, the essays of the master can be read and reread...
...They will be quite new to most readers and thoroughly enjoyable to all...
...Since Lent comes more than once a year and Detroit is where you find it, I find it pays to come back to them time and again...
...He had begun to use this to good effect boxing for the Army at Fort Lewis, Washington, after service in the War...
...New York, 1960-63), a masterly study which has stood the test of time and the scr~iny of a thousand critical students...
...Circles is an absorbing first novel, and it is cleverly written...
...And almost everyone who met him went away with an increased sense of pride and self-importance.'" A funny thing to come from a man who certainly didn't always have the sense himself and who, as my father said, if he hit you once he'd kill you...
...Like most books of collected essays, this one tends to be a jumble, and White himself doesn't help in the sorting out when he datelines some essays and not others, and when he provides the book with no perfectly chronological sections...
...Sports biographies are for the fans, usually...
...She writes with a profound sense of the beauty and threat in the rhythms of the seasons and her own bodily needs...
...At the peak of his career, in 1956, after knocking out t h e contending Archie Moore some months before, Rocky abruptly and shrewdly retired...
...Although he always had great respect and affection, and pity and often help, for former boxers, a reporter once said that there never was a champion who had less respect for or interest in the fight business...
...And he had a bad back all his life...
...But while he insists that such a Left is essential not only for political sanity but for social progress, he gives no indication that a credible American Left is even possible...
...He hardly ever saw his old family and friends or his wife and daughter anymore...
...Each woman questions her own life and the lives of the women about her...
...Confident to the point of complacency about the perfectibility of American society, anxious to the point of paranoia about the threat of communism," the consensus reached its culmination in the presidential campaigns of 1960...
...An additional defense of the book's appearance is that it attempts to combine a study of ecclesiastical experience in both the United States and Canada within a single narrative...
...It presents in sober judgment, candid assessment and realistic outlook much of what the past tells us about our modern world...
...Berrigan says they were written to "lighten the mood" in a dreary Detroit Lententide...
...Catherine Elliott, her contemporary toasts her with warm thanks, and thinks "God, I hope I mean it...
...But there was another, and darker, element, which was that if Rocky ever felt insulted, or injured even without New from ORBIS UNIVERSAL GRACE: MYTH OR REALITY...
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...then the Nixon era begins...
...They are alive...
...These larger movements are almost always the leading items, and theology or doctrinal conflicts are not considered in their own right as much as they are mentioned occasionally to explain the direction of institutional change...
...Born of warinduced prosperity and the frustrations of world power, shaped in the confrontation between the Establishment Center and the McCarthyite Right, that consensus had been formulated by about 1955...
...Laura muses that perhaps as women change, as they move from the periphery, they will evolve other ways...
...Yet the grace with which Laura Talbert takes leave of her Washington life, and the "art" she has made of it are clearly sympathetic...
...9 enjoy the feeling that your parishioners are reading Catholic literature again...
...She tells us that the event did not take the course suggested in her novel, "but very well could have...
...Some, like "The Patience of Job in Detroit, Michigan," '~rhe Whale's Tale" and especially "Eve and the Bible Salesman" (the book's original working title) are marvelous short stories that would have had Flannery O'Connor slapping her peacocks with delight...
...I will be a shadow among shadows in the station's vaults...
...The future of ProtestantCatholic cooperation, English-French identities, black-white-red relations, even concerns for liturgical change, ecclesiastical reform, missionary outreach, civil justice and private virtue --all these must be understood in light of what has preceded their current status...
...He was at least two different people, inside and outside the ring...
...Jeff makes light of the women's rituals and gatherings until his coverage of the Senate Ladies Luncheon...
...The balanced insight she attains is hard-won, precarious...
...Nordahl...
...Whatever, we have here a further and very interesting contribution to the increas2'J November 1977:760 ingly voluble recovery of that decade full of secrets...
...White...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IN BRIEF A BOOK OF PARABLES, by Daniel Berrigan, Seabury, $7.95...
...The talented essayist can be read for the sheer beauty of the sentences, and there are few essayists around with the talent of E.B...
...All these denominations receive fair treatment, as do all ethnic and confessional divisions of the above-mentioned units plus separate groupings among Negroes, Indians and European sectarians...
...Over 2,600 pastors rely on U M P. Why not you...
...Audre Lorde is secure in the knowledge of her worth as person and poet...
...In "Story Books on a Kitchen Table," one of her strongest and most perfectly articulated poems, Lorde deals 25 November 1977:762 with the anguish at the center of her being---she is a black woman in a white culture...
...in the swi/t tempo o/ change, yesterday's novelty often became today's bore...
...It's the secret of the trade, and the trademark of E.B...
...It isn't enough for us anymore...
...Some of her most impressive poetry deals with sexual experience...
...For far too long have I had to endure the exaggerated claims of Fordham, Georgetown, Bonaventure, Holy Cross and that place in Indiana...
...He once carried my injured sister, who was a friend of his sisters, all the way home from the tennis courts next to his favorite ballfield in Brockton...
...It is a half life, even if beautifully lived...
...In Private Faces, Public Places, Abigail McCarthy's autobiography, she ponders the identity of a politician's wife: "The poitical side of her life is a career in relations...
...L~e Lorde, Carolyn Forche writes poetry of pellucid honesty...
...there's hardly a suburban garage sale where you don't run into a copy...
...And it is from Jeff's point of view that we first observe Mrs...
...In the scarcely metaphorical parlance of the fight game, he had tremendous heart...
...Brockton, midway between Boston and Cape Cod, was a multi-ethnic and often humming shoe-manufacturing city in Rocky's day...
...In the meantime everybody in the neighborhood (the heavily Italian Ward Two, where I myself grew up twelve years later) knew that Rocky had a wicked right when he was provoked...
...But more to the point, Handy has not remained in the same mind-set since then...
...He gives the lion's share, about 50 percent, to American events while the remainder, three chapters or 20 percent, concentrates on problems and achievements north o f the border...
...10.95 WALTER ARNOLD Amazing that this is the first biography of the great heavyweight champion of the fifties, who died in 1969...
...Several women figure in the novel, but the central voice of the narrative is that of a young television commentator, Jeff Streator...
...Unified Magazine Program 545 Island Road Ramsey, N.J...
...Think what Pittsburgh must be like...
...And Alice Ann Nordahl, who looks at Sarah, knowing that she could not find an answer for herself in Sarah's choices...
...the mystical union of all felons...
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...by Richard Cote A bold and successful attempt to move the understanding of grace into a new and exciting direction...
...He abominated the then boxing commissioner, James Norris, who was later charged with criminal involvement and removed, and his own manager, AI Weill, who was almost certainly cheating Rocky out of some of his gate money...
...To the Editors: Many thanks for the Raymond Schroth review of The Taster's Guide to Beer by Michael A. Weiner.'Any additional information on that happiest of pasttimes is a welcome addition to any library...
...The landscapes and people, not only of the Michigan farm of her childhood, but of New Mexico, British Columbia, and coastal Washington, provide images for her poetry...
...I hope I am not just imposing order on chaos with words...
...For this child, only two colors really count and in the stories she reads "white witches ruled...
...9 some became skeptical o/ the church and dri/ted away, others were disillusioned as old securities and disciplines were eroded, while still others were disappointed because the changes were not sweeping enough...
...AUDRE LORDE Norton, $7.95 Gathering The Tr/bes CAROLYN FORCHE Yale, $1.95 CLAIlgE iiAiiN Contemporary poetry has been influenced, inevitably, by Freud, Jung, and the psychoanalytic schools deriving from them...
...The book is, like the Book of Job, like Berrigan, "angry and scandalous...
...But the child aches to ask: Why I am here and will have to feel the way I die It was all over my face Grandma flipped kalacy rolls Dunked her hands in bowls of water Looked at me Wrung the rags into the stoop Kept it from me Whatever she saw...
...White is a very special writer: a stylist with the informality of a general-store keeper...
...The circular form of the novel returns us to Laura Talbert and to the farewel| party being given in her honor as she takes leave of Washington...
Vol. 104 • November 1977 • No. 24
