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CORRESPONDENCE No.Dell P r i z e Milwaukee, Wise. To the Editors: Gene Bell [Nov. 5], for all his literary prowess (where does he get time to read all those books?) comes through to this...
...Almost inevitably, therefore, there were those--including, it seems, representatives of foreign governments at the inaugural--who would have preferred an inaugural address that eschewed tone for a more concrete statement of the means by which this administration will move towards the goals of the campaign speeches...
...While lamenting the culture's emphasis on unlimited technological progress as a major goal of human existence, and the subordination of all forms of consciousness to the desire to control, he also considers the usual traditional and counter-cultural religious rejections of this culture as a commitment, not to "transcendence as to another reality," but to "self expanding feeling...
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...Of course, inaugural addresses are not infallible indicators...
...To the Editors: If memory serves, the issues from my first subscription to Commonweal were read in the Army (Continued on page 94) NEWS & VIEWS: GG CORRESPONDENCE: G7 EDITORIAL: 6 7 WASRINGTON REPORT: To A t o l l To A r e s ! : Frank Getlein G8 AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL: Peter Steinlels 70 THE DEVJ[L, DEMONS & DOGMATISM: Ronald Modras 71 T I l E TASTE OF QUEBEC: Erazim Kohak 7G AFTER DALEY, WIlAT?: Ralph Whitehead, Jr...
...He had swum in the small brown river that curved around his tiny North Dakota home town, paddled a canoe 2,200 miles across the American continent, led a radical student movement at the University of Minnesota, ridden the rails as a Depression bum, covered the London blitz with Edward R. Murrow, married and fathered twins, parachuted out of a crashing plane into the Now Guinea jungle, witnessed the corruption of Chiang's China, and grown old quickly as he slogged through Italy, France and Germany in the final months of the war...
...To the Editors: If the musical "Syllabus of Errors" [Aug...
...Actually, he does not explicitly make suggestions for theological, ethical, or social reform, but he works hard and successfully to make us aware of the inner presence out of which the notion of God grows...
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...Louis Dupr~'s Transcendent Sel/hood is an honest meditation on the absolutely fundamental issue of selftranscendence and the correlative questions of freedom, God, and the sacred...
...The predictable howls of the "patriots" notwithstanding, the program is ungenerous towards hundreds of thousands most in need of generosity--the poor and undereducated, for Commonweal: 67 theologians--or even contemporary biblical scholarship--he was far from being a fundamentalist...
...O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 THE CARTER BEGINNING Jimmy Carter officially moved onto the stage of presidential history with an inaugural ceremony remarkably reflective of his character traits---deft touches of populism, strong strains of pietism, a comparative simplieitym and with an inaugural address which, for all its personalist and welcome Democratic-party tones, left some persons uncertain that they know yet the man elected 39th President of the United States...
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...29] discourages you, remember that the Mass in Latin is packing them in in all the concert halls of the world[ Berlioz' Requiem vies with Verdi's Requiem and Mozart's Requiem for top popularity...
...But since our culture is a bizarre mixture of radical doubt, romamic fideism, and, in the form of nuclear weaponry, technological terror, without being immodest we might expect that fundamental questions should occur to us more frequently than to past generations...
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...There is no denying that nuclear Commonweal welcomes letters on rubjectk treated in its pages...
...MICHAEL ZEIK NOT So WILD A D~AM by Eric Sevareid...
...Indeed, Dupr~ argues that, if we wish to preserve authentic meanings, we should consider the notion of the "sacred" only as a particular category of transcendence...
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...Here is serene Gene who puts down Bellow for ignoring the Vietnam war, and then puts down Vonnegut for high-priesting the "barren" intellects the anti-war movement spawned...
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...We look positively to this better acquaintanceship, although with a certain skepticism that the Carter of the presidency will be the miracle man of his political evolution and his promises, or the liberal of some popular persuasions...
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...Dupr~'s book, he tells us, is a critical reflection on our Christian tradition in the light of inner transcendence...
...To the Editors: I appreciated Thomas Day's article "A Syllabus of Musical Errors" [Aug...
...Roy Scheele 7 5 ; Felix Ste]anile 86 TRE MULTIFARIOUS IIORSES OF INSTRUC~rlON: Doris Grumbach 87 UPDIKE & GARDNER: DOWN FROM T I l E IIEIGIITS: Thomas LeClair 80 RO01~S: John Garvey, John Druska, Michael Zeik, Raymond A. Schroth, James R. Kelly O0 JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN ,DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE M. ROBERTSON, Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry FRANK GETLEIN: Washington BRIAN WICKER...
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...If you do, I hope you will come up with a more general test of referenda than concurrence of the outcome with the views of Commonwears editors...
...Yes, Mort Sahl, someone does listen, someone does care...
...His observation that literature owes a debt of gratitude to LBJ and Nixon for their bursts of realism gives the heretofore stiff ruminations a delightfully hysterical finish...
...At 32, at the close of the Second World War, Eric Scvareid seems to have experienced everything and forgotten nothing...
...There are the code words or phrases which convey to the true believer the desired picture while relieving the writer of the burden of actually doctrmenting the implied evil doing...
...And he must write volume two, before he becomes too wise and prudent to follow through on the just anger of his youth...
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...This is very funny, you see, Mort, because Gene says the counter-culture was made up of barren intellects while everyone knows it fashioned a creative, thoughtful (and fallible and fumbling) response not only to the war but also to the society and institutions that fostered such a war...
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...Anyone who attempts to deal with his ~hemes in his grab-bag (his word), glib (my word) scattershot reviewing of 31 (I counted) books, surely has in mind serving his reader a treat, helping his reader laugh at the grim seriousness that brings us together to balance fantasy and history...
...I remember Introits and parts of the proper sung to Psalm tones...
...You g0 on to question whether "nuclear power should be a matter of public referendums...
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...they do not lend themselves readily to specifics and hard guidelines...
...If, in the afternoon of his life and the evening of' his career, Eric Sevareid seems to cover too many points in his too-brief CBS-TV commentaries, perhaps it is because he really does have so many worthwhile things to say and wants to get them all in before he retires...
...There is the same substitution of innuendo for facts...
...I wonder if you would be making symmetrical disclaimers o f significance if the polls and referenda had been reversed...
...So, without compromising his fundamental humility, he wrote the story of his life, now reissued--one of the most beautifully written stories I have ever read--the struggle of an extremely sensitive, perceptive, compassionate and eloquent, yet private, young man to retain or reshape his beliefs in human dignity and the American dream in the face of a string of tragedies and disillusionments: dirty campus politics (he was unfairly muscled out of the newspaper editoship), the sad capitulation of France to Nazi Germany, the press's inability or unwillingness to tell the whole truth about the war, the terrible sight of young men's bodies broken and destroyed...
...Likewise, you find a Gallup poll showing that 71 percent of Americans approve nuclear power in principle as meaningless and merely reflective of the industry's propaganda...
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...This is a skepticism not dispelled, be it said, by the amnesty program announced his first full day in office...
...These measures were rejected by a two-to-one majority of some 12 million voters (including Californians last June...
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...At the summit of all the great Masses is Bach's B Minor Mass which changes the text slightly but remains in Latin...
...For him, justice, courage, and generosity were as far away from priggishness as was growth from decay...
...I think I understand the purity of Dupr~'s reasons for this posit i o n - h e doubts whether the usual "objectivist" opposition of sacred to profane can integrate the self and he is suspicious about the depth of much contemporary religious searching--and I know that the ineffable is approached by indirection, but I think a fuller discussion of the content and referent of transcendence would help the reader evaluate this posiiton...
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...The book is difficult but deserves to he read...
...It is 4 February 1977:9,1 from this perspective that I comment on your editorial of December 3rd, "A Nuclearized Future," You discount the significance of the unanimous outcome of nuclear initiative measures on the ballots of six states...
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...Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is composed around the Latin text and Leonard Bernstein's Mass actually takes off from the Latin text...
...To go through life selfish and ugly, meant going through life blunt and stupid, as well . . . . A good book for those interested in the more scholarly dimensions of C. S. Lewis's thought...
...In some of its finest passages Dream is a book about suffering: guilt that he, as a privileged celebrity, had suffered less than the boys caught up in the war...
...Fiction and myth were invaluable for the purpose...
...I was struck, though, by the letters to the editor [Oct...
...This is tenuous criticism, however...
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...I don't think I am reading too much into it to say that this is vintage Joe McCarthy...
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...I am more bothered, however, by the general tone of your editorial...
...Particularly our society, since it controls or at least affects the lives of so many other people, must learn to look inward before it again tramples too many innocents...
...Now the publishers must put this classic in paperback soon so a new generation of future journalists may share his experience...
...Among scholars of "tenderminded" topics Dupr6 is "tough-minded...
...a^M~ n. KELLY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPOIqDENCE (Continued from page 67) barracks at Los Alamos, New Mexico, back in 1944...
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