CRITICS" CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS
trate, if not by example, the virtue of brevity, the weight of a few words. What will happen if the poem should r into another'~ }en. into yours, ~:ould be another lightening to enlighten---/...
...It is easy enough to wheel in the mechanisms of magic---charms and spells, sorcerers and dragons---it is another thing to make us believe in such a world...
...Loyalty, betrayal, deceit, political maneuver are the bread and butter of thoughtful espionage fictions--as of our lives...
...All are entrusted with "keeping the peace...
...Fortunately, in the last year or so, Mary Ann Caws, author of some excellent studies of the Dada and surrealist poets, has made a determined effort to rescue Char from the near-obscurity he has known in this country...
...He helps us see this rejection as an anti-theology of shame in which Nietzsche and Sartre are the supreme antitheologians...
...I honestly can't think of too many friends who couldn't benefit from Love and Play...
...even a poem "ought not to be fissionable," I say with Wilbur...
...Harvey Cox John Gardner calls his fellow novelist John Fowles the only author now...
...KEV~ CO~E is a Fordham student serving an internship at Commonweal...
...And, as it turns out, Greeley means play in all its frivolity, competition, and naughtiness...
...Most collections of letters, for example, were posthumous, and though their authors had known what was going on, the parents and friends who edited and arranged them didn't...
...It might be said with at least as much truthfulness, that the history of peoples without history is the history of their struggle against the State...
...Thus the striking conclusion of Society Against The State, by Pierre Clastres (Urizen Books, $12.95...
...Griffin have tackled a difficult task exceptionally well, given the fact that Char, again like Mallarrn6, is often dense and elliptical...
...In fact, if I gave the book to all my friends who are as shy as I can be over sbowin8 even fairly chaste signs of affection, and to all those who can understand sexual norms only as fettering, rather than humanizing, I could probably get the book at a substantial discount for volume...
...Mosher also knows how to mix comedy with moving remembrance, suspense with local lore, the authentic past with the tourist present...
...Cru died in 1949...
...Robert P h i l l i p s If I were to give one new book to a "Hterary" friend this Christmas, it would be James Atlas's Delmore Schwartz: The Life o/ an American Poet (New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, $15...
...The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. LeGuin (Bantam, $5.25) presents a world of realized magic...
...But there it stands, nonetheless, the unadorned proof of a wrestle and a waltz with the world...
...If peace, or even the semblance of peace, is to come to our troubled worlds, "small" and "great" alike, then Rothberg's Waltz says we must learn to step together-New from ORBIS Americans and Russians, men and women-~r we will all have to pay the piper...
...Daniel A. Degnan An hour and a half south of the New Jersey Turnpike, down U.S...
...power...
...The journey to modernity can be seen as the loss of names, the inability to summon any spirit at the core of the things and events...
...but bodies did not fall in masses, and the blood of the slain did not flow in sheets or streams, or erupt in fountains---though, Cru noted, poets and novelists had been saying so ever since Homer...
...Also must participate In regional, state and national meetings relevant to the Catholic Charities program...
...Cru was villified by militants and pacifists alike, the right and the left, for truth mutually unpleasing...
...Schneider delineates important differences between the Old and New Testamerit--contrasting the awe and reticence of the former before the holy with the new boldness of the latter...
...C l a s s i f i e d RATES: 70c a word, one time: Uc, three times: 63c, six times: 60c, twelve times...
...The arch-mage Sparrowhawk's power rests on a world view that we still dimly perceive and would wish to validate...
...Each poem in this book has its own separate pleasure for the reader, but perhaps the most compelling for us of the Judaeo-Christian tradition is called "Gladness of the Best," the "deftly braided song/ In which each separate voice/ seems to discover where it should belong...
...Liberation theology being the appropriate theology for the poor, Sr...
...A Pulitzer Prize winner, the holder of numerous fellowships and chairs, the translator (with Helen Bacon) of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, Hecht now publishes his third collection of verse, Millions of Strange Shadows by Anthony Hecht (Atheneum $7.95...
...This saga has much pathos and dishonor, too...
...I hope this book will be widely read for what it has to tell about the elusiveness of truth, but if it is, it surely will not provoke the controversy it raised in France nearly fifty years ago...
...complicated rhyme schemes alternate with elegant couplets or free verse...
...Nevertheless, this is a readable, fascinating and important study of a poet in our time, and one of the best books of the year...
...Marie Augusta suggests that the appropriate response for the non-poor is a theology of relinquishment, of diminishment, of "letting go...
...Brief though this book is, it is still wonderfully inclusive as it ranges over primitive, Classical and Judaic cultures...
...You will recognize the rank smell of a stable And the soft patience in a donkey's eyes, Telling you are welcome and at home...
...Gala outshines, outlanghs and outthinks any other novel I've read this year...
...The players include Ferdinand le Lesseps (builder of the Suez Canal), Jules Verne, Gustave Eiffel, Sen...
...The watermen work hard and dangerously, live in towns like Crisfield and Dominion, and bring their young sons out to fish with them when the weather is safe enough...
...I decided on a choice when I received my 34th thirdclass mail order gift catalogue of the month which--like many others---welcomed me to "the Magic World of Someplace or other...
...Affirming that "the Gospel mandates the poor to take what is theirs," and that "no right of ownership supersedes human need," she argues that "the church is called upon to support the poor asthey reach 9ut to take what is rightfully theirs...
...The parcels a me!rid weigh from 4 to 6 Ibs., but securely packed labeled as "Free Gifts of No Commercial Value" addressed to the SOCIAL SERVICE CENTRE and sent by Sudace Mall...
...was a slave to his culture and its a priori forms...
...no theoretical exercise in how to write the Novel either...
...In a style that blends sweeping historical trends with revealing details, McCullough portrays for our generation an era in which engineering and empire combined for heroic---though sometimes fruitless-achievement...
...In Remarque and Barbusse, to name the most familiar, Cru found virtually no documentary value, only, in the former, "something which bears too great a resemblance to a purely advertising statement...
...In other words, Gala celebrates our modern preoccupation with art about art imitating life: a celebration spangled with wit, robed in deepest frustration and melancholy, sequined with laughter that never, not for one syllable, steps out of the spotlight of West's inventive intelligence...
...Etc...
...But that is not always knowable...
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...In Barbusse he read descriptions of "a cold mass of dead bodies" in a trench and "a sheet of bright red blood" flowing across a battlefield...
...Such points are eyebrow combing, however...
...Classified payable with order...
...Hypnos Waking, an admirable collection by various translators, appeared in 1956, but it has been long out of print and virtually impossible to secure today (! speak from experience for I have searched high and low for a copy...
...West's celebration is our gala...
...The distinguished French ethnologist has made an extensive study of the Indians of the Americas...
...Still, Greeley coaches in his own way, and this is what really makes the book...
...Ronald Christ Although the words galaxy and gala have no etymological connection, Paul West has written a novel that joins them in a verbal festivity modeled on the Milky Way...
...Thomas LeClahDisappearances by Howard Frank Musher (Viking, $8.95), is a rare celebration of an endangered species, the good father...
...Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (Atlantic, Little Brown, $10.95, paper $2.95), by William W. Warner, is a book about the Bay (an incredibly beautiful and interesting marine environment with 4,000 miles of shoreline), Bay boats, fishing villages, blue crabs and, especially, the watermen...
...We all owe him a debt of gratitude...
...I almost think that Greeley is talking to the sexually insecure Studs Lonlgan whom the Good Father eulogizes a few hundred books back...
...Pierre...
...Naney Y. Holt[man 1977 was the year that, following Ibsen's Nora, I slammed the door on the doll's house of women novelists obsessed with the domestic arena, and turned to that big wide world out there where women, as welt as men, must painfully address the public questions shut out of dolls' houses...
...Thus, I can recommend no more intelligent way to prepare for the Senate's forthcoming debates on the Panama Canal treaties than a holiday excursion through this lively history of "the creation of the Panama Canal-1870-1914"--The Path Between The Seas by David McCullough (Simon and Schuster, $14.95...
...The poems are suoh entities that it is not easy to extract a brief quotation...
...The story swings from the jungles of Central America to the Left Bank of Paris, to Chicago, London, New Haven, Barbados, New York, and Washington--in a narrative of splendid and sordid detail...
...J. O. Puiol S.J...
...The intricacy of language comes across in the translation, but so does a clarity of image and the syntactical experimentation...
...Daniel Martin actually makes a philosophical case for the reinstatement of at least a modified "happy ending" to life and to history...
...It is a matter of structural diminishment...
...writing in the English language whose works might one day be considered classics...
...For the novels from the war, then in vogue, Cru had little use...
...Having that pleasant restriction, I could hardly recommend the most illuminating book I read during the year: Anthony Kenny, Wittgenstein, (Harvard, 1973...
...Bradshaw's old friend, Austrian security officer Hartmann...
...Basically, Greeley contends that we can fully appreciate sex only when we experience it in the context of human playfulness...
...He is also very good on the shamelessness of psychoanalysis (see his treatment of Freud's famous "Dora" case, for instance), and on the reasom for the rejection of our bond with the Other...
...Du T~moignage (Testimony), a greatly reduced version of Temoins brought out by Gallimard two years later...
...Along the way Atlas deals with Delmore's (no one caUed him Schwartz) friends, colleagues, and correspondents--among them R.P...
...Again, "this is a larger task than can be accomplished with private charity...
...A first novel, Disappearances may be overlooked...
...In addition to assessing all of Delmore's published poetry, fiction and criticism, in a manner which by-andCommonweal: 797 large seems fair, twenty-eight-year-old Atlas, whose first book this is, has read everything Delmore left in manuscript as well--including all the marginalia in all the books he was known to own...
...Perhaps these lines from "Exile: for Joseph Brodsky" will suggest his tone of voice...
...MARK T&YLOR teaches in the English Department at Manhattan College...
...The analysis is both tough-minded and specific: "Relinquishment refers not to symbolic private acts but to public initiatives in the form of debt moratoria and the release Of resources...
...His alternation of personal naivet~ and self-examination with his social and historical analysis are more involving of the reader than either would be alone...
...Or equivalent degree...
...One only hopes that readers will discover this challenging, but enormously rewarding volume...
...writing, religion, aging, sexuality and national character...
...Help Indian Centre "Fr...
...He writes, as alwaTs, from a democratic socialist perspective but as one seeking solutions capable of adoption by this country in its present capitalist form...
...To name a thing is only sensible if there lies deep down a core of spirit that can be called upon as we summon the person by invoking a proper name...
...Other modes of discourse were not necessarily more satisfactory than novels...
...and War Books: A 9 December 1977:798 Study in Historical Criticism, Cru's own translation of Du Tdmoignage only now published for the first time (San Diego State University Press, paperhack, $5.00...
...Moreover, Horace Gregory was not sole author of "his" History of American Poetry, 1900-1940, (It was co-authored by his wife, Marya Zaturenska...
...Light and serious themes intermingle...
...The strength of Ursula LeGuin's writing is to make us feel the spiritual struggle between a world to be summoned and a world of nameless power...
...BOOKS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Critics' Choices for Christmas R. MeAfee Brown In ,4 Socio-Theology of Letting Go: The Role o/ a First World Church Facing Third World Peoples, (Paulist Press, $3.95), Sister Marie Augusta Neal has produced one of the wisest and most demanding books of our time, a series of addresses whose cumulative impact touches our complacency with all the gentility of a battering ram...
...All Commonweal: 795 stumble...
...KIRKPATRICK SALE is the author of SDS and Power Shi]t (Random House...
...So, relax, explore and enjoy...
...Twelve words minimum...
...Kenny could only be a gracious gesture to one whose mind had already been darkened considerably by the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus...
...Martin's 1974), is a very careful, sensible, yet novel book in the analytic mode on that vast topic--but still, such a gift is more likely to be received as a New Year's task than a Christmas beneficence...
...the man holding that office was William Pearson Tolley, though the title was Chancellor, not President...
...Arthur Moore Michael Harrington is such a dependable fixture of the intellectual scene in the U.S...
...It is the only book I have read for years which I was genuinely sorry to finish...
...In that dimension it is more than fairy tale and fantasy...
...Direetor of $ o e l a l Se~iees The Diocese of Catholic Charities of Youngstown, Ohio is seeking a Director of Social Services with experience in social work and admlnhtraflon and an M.S,W...
...No moonbeam, star-struck daydream this...
...Leaving the doll's house to waltz with Rothberg is not easy (yes, I know he never promised me a rose garden), hut sitting out the dance in a split-level box with a two-car garage is an abdication of responsibility...
...Read and ponder it if you are willing to face a world in process of being turned upside down---and need help...
...Best of this year's spy stories was Charles McCarry's springtime The Secret Lovers, and now, in the winter of my discontent, comes Abraham Rothberg's The Great Waltz (Putnam, $8.95...
...Far from being the stuff of utopian dreams, in other words, anarchism may represent humankind's earliest and most enduring form of organization, albeit for relatively small and simpler societies...
...William Lanouette Historical drama and art always mean more to us when we know something about the period and people portrayed...
...No substitute for the spilled milk in the sky, the model is no more a literal replica than West's novel is his wish fulfilled...
...Everybody loses...
...The novelist 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CRITICS ROBERT McAFEE BROWN is a member of the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan...
...The notion of sex as play precludes Greeley's taking any "Ioy/lob of Sex" approach...
...Like Mallarm~, Char is very much of a poet's poet, and poetry, the creative act itself, is frequently the subject of his poems...
...John Fisher College in Rochester, New York...
...Mark Taylor Our real knowledge of combat in the Great War perforce depends upon primary sources, the accounts of its soldiers, but soon after the first books (memoirs, letters, novels, etc...
...Creating a small, make-shift model in a cellar, writing a novel making itself up with only a couple of characters and a limiting situation, the writer perpetually sees the entire astronomical and literary cosmos, a word whose Greek root means harmony...
...For Love and Play is best of all a pep talk for everyone anywhere on the continuum of sexual inter-action...
...he was "haunted by literary modes and methods, the desire to get effects, and otherwise obsessed by legends whose spell he had been unable to cast off...
...and the same is true for political drama...
...to others the notion that their commanders would order something so stupid was equally glorious...
...At still another "summit" conference, this time in Vienna, between Cassidy, the young American president, and Bolshakov, the aging Soviet premier, Rothberg's ronde trips up everyone: the novel's middle-aged protagonist, Secret-Service agent Bradshaw...
...Rothberg's new, intriguing novel counterpoints the treacheries implicit in our fidelities with the conflicting claims, private and public, sexual and political, of quiddity and allegiance...
...The sins of the fathers, the guilts of the sons who cannot redeem their fathers' ideals, the loss of sons and lovers who might be lifelines to the future, meld in this high-powered waltz where Le CongrJs danse, mais il ne marche pas...
...So, this is the first year that I can give Andrew Greeley's Love and Play (Seabury Press, $3.95), previously available only in hardcover...
...Not only has she produced, together with Jonathan Griffin, this fine edition of Char in English, Poems o/Rend Char (Princeton University Press, paper, $4.95), but she has also written two studies of the poet, one for Princeton, the other for the Twayne series, that are invaluable for an understanding of his work...
...Warner's unifying theme is not only the blue crab, but the crab's environment, the endangered Bay and the men who fish it...
...That's it...
...It is also a matter of not doing things for the poor, but empowerment of the poor, since "no people can speak another's truth...
...Marcus Hanna and Secretary of State John Hay...
...The blue crab is a remarkable species, a swift swimmer and savage b~ittler, but a tender mate, requiring the whole complicated ecology of the Bay for its life...
...Wild Bill" Bonhomme, a Huck Finn boy now a Fanlknerian lawyer...
...CENTRE, SEVA iqlKETAN, SIR J.J...
...We do not even begin to give a nod of approval to the world until we have ourselves tried our hand in somehow or other shaping its intractable atoms into something we can OK...
...Whether anyone can really penetrate the American national cocoon is still an open question, but this is one of our best social critics doing his damndest in the effort...
...Many of them speak an English pretty much unchanged from seventeenth century England...
...of Chicago Press...
...Ursula LeGuin's special gift is making magic real and important...
...Blackmur and James Laughlin, Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, John Berryman and Robert Lowell...
...He is the author of Hegel on Reason and History (U...
...Mosher remembers the other Vermonters---the Canuck adventurers, farmers, and monks who lived in cold woods with a crazy joy...
...that he tends to be rather taken for granted or, worse, praised for his personal character (the ,good old Mike" syndrome...
...request for used Christmas and Social Cards, to help him carry on social and charitable works for the uplift of humanity...
...The Bonhommes were for a time Goodmarts...
...To see the truth of war requires eyes which are new and fresh . . . . " Cru felt it a great personal advantage to have grown up an island near New Caledonia, to have known the sort of innocent childhood celebrated over a century earlier by Bernardin de St...
...And, of course, there's Teddy Roosevelt, behind his slapstick posturing a deeply human figure...
...RONALD DE EEO writes for The National Review, The Nation and other journals FATHER DANIEL A. DEGNAN, S.J.f is Academic Vice-President at Loyola College in Baltimore...
...JOHN P. SiSK teaches in the English Department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington...
...For box numbers add 60c par insertion...
...that archaic, or "primitive," societies--without writing and therefore "without history"--not only do not have a political state, or hierarchies, or powerful chieftains, but actually organize their society so as to prevent the emergence of one...
...But one doesn't have to be named LeClair to notice--and enjoy--and admire it...
...But there is an even better reason to read this book: it is fun and fascinating...
...Some of the watermen still dredge oysters from sailboats, Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and bugeyes...
...The world was there to be summoned by a name...
...Rothberg handles Bradshaw's expense of spirit, his drained belief in the verities by which he has lived, far better than does le Carr~ with his George Smiley, as tiresome as he is tired...
...Stay away from this book if you are unwilling to face change...
...TXOMAS LeCLAm teaches in the English Department at the University of Cincinnati...
...Mystery...
...Margaret Wimsatt Anthony Hecht's poetry belongs to a tradition not much practiced today in which the poet, acknowledging his forebears and his debt to the genius of the language, transmutes and transforms it to his own purposes, in gratitude, not rage...
...The arts and commerce both high and low lived in and through the invocation of these spirits...
...his Russian "Guards" counterpart, Archipenko...
...Richly illustrated with photos, exhaustive without being exhausting-unlike Unterecker's Hart Crane, for instancemAtlas's critical biography brings to life that largerthan-life author of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, who proclaimed himself "the poet of the Atlantic migration, that made America...
...HARVEY COX'S most recent book: is Turning East (Simon & Schuster...
...recalls the real wild Bill, his father "Quebec Bill," a 1930's Vermont jack of all trades, innocent outlaw, and eternal optimist...
...Since Delmore was a creative reader, the insights to be gained by the method are hardly marginal...
...Our rejection of shame, Professor Schneider believes, "is rooted in our faith commitment to reason, science, and self-realization" and expresses our misguided belief that human liberation demands an uncompromising stand against custom, tradition, and the communal involvement that, paradoxically, makes privacy and personhood possible...
...In a triple-timing cacophony of conspiracy and vengeance, all "are not so different from us as it would seem...
...He will also be grateful to receive reading material, stationery, light usable clothing, med;clnas for common aliments vitamins, etc...
...301, begins the country of the Chesapeake Bay watermen, on Maryland's Eastern Shore...
...Salary is negotiable...
...The play of sex is demanding, but also '*loose-grip," and hence sustainable only by the non-threatening-hess of a trustful relationship...
...Armies, he said, just did not attack in close ranks across no man's land...
...ARTRUR MOORE edits New World Outlook, missionary magazine of The United Methodist Church and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
...James Michener is reportedly writing a book on the Eastern Shore, but anyone who loves boats, the sea, history, men of work, pride and kindness, and who reads this book will know that William Warner (who works at the Smithsonian when not visiting the watermen) got there first...
...Magic is the proper Christmas offering--but it won't come mail-order on a Master Charge...
...Kevin Doyle The confines of my student budget permit me to give only paperbacks for Christmas...
...Professor Caws and Mr...
...The mixture of styles and approaches might easily have seemed fragmented and mutually exclusive, but it works...
...Centering on the Bonhommes' three-day adventure smuggling Canadian liquor into Vermont, the novel is also an unsentimental initiation and a meditation on the disappearance of this marvelous father, 9 December 1977:796 the family whose traditions he embodied, and a way of life that created mythic fathers...
...The old powers are still there, but they are now regarded as nameless, impersonal forces which master us and resist being called by name...
...aONALD CHRIST is Editor of Review, published by the Center for Inter-American Relations...
...It's a mighty tale, aptly told...
...Greeley reassures us convincingly that we all go into sex cold, and that initial awarkwardness is universal...
...With that crusading passion that many survivors of the War brought to the effort to find the truth and to get it down, and with the conviction that what was barely possible in the 1920s would, if the chance were not then seized, be impossible later on, Cru undertook the monumental labor of reading over 300 volumes of allegedly firsthand experiences, commenting extensively on each, and thereby extracting from masses of fallacies or distorted commentary a "sketch of the war according to a few good witnesses...
...DENNIS a. O'BRIEN is President of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania...
...What if anything is wrong with the book is the absence of a concerted attempt to be precise about the cause for and diagnosis of Delmore's mental disorder(s...
...WILLIAM J. LANOUETrE is covering the Panama treaties as a Staff Correspondent for National Journal...
...But our own little orders will not necessarily win a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, or a halo...
...ROBERT PHILLIPS'S Lewis Carroll study, Aspects o/Alice, has just been reissued as a Vintage paperback...
...with sub-plots of deception, avarice, betrayal, and catastrophic disease...
...the translation reminds us what they are...
...Responsibilities include supervising funding monitoring evaluating and giving technical assistance to the seven regional soclal service agencies within the six-county diocese...
...Piskor was Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs...
...It has "a passion for disharmony" as our own lives do, expressed by never forgetting the larger and smaller orders through which we glimpse that chaos...
...It requires a reader who is not afraid to listen to arguments about politics (Fowles is a socialist who reads Lukacs and Gram9 December 1977:794 sci), friendship, (the plot concerns a man and a woman who find each other again after twenty years apart), cinema vs...
...I'm not for split~mg them...
...Here---in The Vast Majority, A Journey to the World's Poor, (Simon and Schuster, $9.95)--is his eighth book to remind us how much more valuable than that he is...
...Daniel Martin is an unapologetically adult book in a sense quite opposite from those allegedly "adult" movies...
...MARGARET V~IMSATT lives in New Haven, Connecticut...
...That some of the witnesses were good he determined, first of all, by examining the official war records of all the authors to ascertain whether those who appeared to speak with authority of a given battle were in fact in it...
...power!--reign in espionage as in domestic life...
...Fantastic as it may seem to statebound Westerners who can imagine no other way that societies might work, Clastres proves that the general mode among Indian cultures--and, he would argue, archaic cultures elsewhere in the world--is, to put it in a word he shies from using, anarchistic, literally without a state...
...Ronald DeFeo For too many years the work of Ren~ Char, one of France's foremost contemporary poets, has been unavailable in English...
...Fowles's latest hook, Daniel Martin (Little, Brown, $12.95) i s a full-blown philosophical novel composed by a vastly thoughtful man who also writes extraordinarily well and can tell a story...
...began to appear in late 1915, Jean Norton Cm, who fought at Verdun and elsewhere, detected extraordinary inconsistencies and contradictions both among the various accounts and between most of them and his own experiences...
...to some the no- .4 tion that they did was glorious...
...Beacon, $9.95 )--about the personal, social, and religious significance of the sense of shame is intended to counter the absurdities and excesses that have resulted from our peculiar and immodest combination of secularism, narcissism, and honesty...
...Dennis J. O'Brien The purpose of this assemblage of opinion is presumably related to Christmas and to'giving gifts...
...The war novelist, moreover, tried to serve two opposed masters: art and truth...
...The book also requires a reader who has lived long enough to be intrigued by its central queryDwhat part does the past play in the present...
...In archaic and even classical cultures the world was full of gods, spirits, daimons, muses who dwelt in sea and air, in sex and science...
...Each parcel as far as possible will be acknowledged to the donor...
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...I agree...
...Kirkpatriek Sale "It is said that the history of peoples who have a history is the history of class struggle...
...This is not just a matter of simplifying individual life-styles (though it can include that...
...The old Viennese imperative, Beigen nicht brechen, is transmogrified into a plague of battle fatigue when, at the novel's end, Bradshaw wearily asks: "When did bending become breaking...
...Troubled by the publicity blitz and literary inadequacies of le Cart~'s bestseUing The Honourable Schoolboy, I began reexamining spy thrillers as yet another paradigm for our times...
...monthly in advahcn for more than three times...
...The secret of magic in Earthsea lies in names...
...One expects some errors of fact in such a large book, and one meets them: Frank Piskor of Syracuse is called "President of the University" where Delmore last taught...
...My poem may never shake a leaf off the National Laurel iree...
...Harrington's objective is no less than to penetrate the invisible shield that keeps the American public from coming to grips with the problems of the world's poor...
...Important as this work is as a contribution to anthropology, I think ultimately its greatest contribution will be to political philosophy, particularly f o r those exploring alternatives to modem giantism...
...NANCY YANES HOFFMAN is an assistant professor of English at St...
...This, Greeley says, is the most natural argument for the elements of permanency and commitment as conditions for genuine sex...
...Entrapped in our rituals of shamelessness, and driven as we are by our compulsion to strip aside all veils and violate all sanctuaries, we suffer from a collapse of the dialectic of covering and uncovering, so that we "value only disclosure, demythologizing, unmasking...
...Gardner's October Light and Delbanco's Possession have recently mined the granitic Yankee...
...To do this, he alternates social analysis and personal description of his own exposure to such countries as India and Tanzania...
...It is that, at any rate, which has made it such a forceful, I might even say haunting, work for me...
...Instead, both model and novelmreflexive metaphors for each other--are crafty meditations (complete with charts, drawings and analyses) on what a man can do---write, build, love--while watching himself do it at the same time...
...Reply to Director of Catholic Charities, 225 Elm Street, Youngstown, Ohio 44S03...
...The same claustrophobia, the same monomaniacal insistence on obedience, order, hierarchy-power...
...It is a matter of public policy...
...The world view of Earthsca is pre-modern, a world in which the powers of the earth could be summoned...
...The result of his industry was Tdmoins (Witnesses), a book of over 700 large pages, published in 1929...
...Keith Ward, The Concept of God (St...
...this sullen place Is terra deserta, Joseph, this is Egypt . . . . This is Egypt, Joseph, the old school of the soul...
...Rotbberg's thriller is a good read, as McCarry's is, as le Carr~'s misty murky prose is not...
...Commonweal: 799...
...A novelistic sequel to his autobiographical Words for a Deaf Daughter, Gala (Harper and Row, $8.95) is "the scenario of a wish-fulfillment," telling how Wight Deulius, a writer and amateur astronomer, brings his retarded daughters to the United States for a visit that they spend, along with Wight's poet companion, Pi, in building a model of the Milky Way...
...When it comes to these matters, Atlas shrugs...
...Though the Poems of Ren~ Char has been available for months now, it has received surprisingly little critical attention...
...Urizen Books, incidentally, the publisher of this book in the U.S., is a twoyear-old cooperative venture which shares its profits with its authors and is quite deserving of support...
...into yours, ~:ould be another lightening to enlighten---/ hope...
...Most folks probably have few friends so encumbered...
...This is a generous selection, ranging from 1927 to 1974, and includes pieces from the brilliant surrealist cycle Le Marteau sans Maitre (three poems of which Pierre Boulez used in his landmark composition of the same name...
...Dragons who speak in the old tongues know the true names of things, and the art of the mage Iies in the names which give power...
...of the SOCIAL SERVICE...
...In the second (and to my mind, best) of the volumes in the Trilogy, The Tombs of Atuan, the basic conflict is between the mage and the priestess of The Nameless Ones who dwell in eternal darkness...
...10016...
...Several years ago Grossman issued a translation of Char's wartime notebooks Feuillets d'Hypnos (Leaves of Hypnos) by Cid Corman, but that volume only represents a small part of the poet's work, and, alas, c~nnot be found at most bookshops and public libraries...
...John P. Sisk This little book--Shame, Exposure, and Privacy, by Carl D. Schneider...
Vol. 104 • December 1977 • No. 25
