News & Views
EWS & VIEWS The Shunning Ga~ne There's no reverence due the cloth at West Point for the chaplain who dares question the military establishment's rules and regulations. The treatment...
...Underrated: Jung...
...JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Overrated: George Orweil...
...JOHN DEEDY 18 Februray 1977:98...
...Also, says The Economist, "it is a fair question whether a united church would be any more attractive to those outside it than the present separated churches...
...EBIC HOBSBAWM Underrated: A n a t o I _9 France, Jean Giraudoux, Italo CalvinG...
...If all knowledge of the AV is lost, much of classic English literature will be incomprehensible and English prose style is doomed...
...He recently donated his papers---rich in U.S., Vatican and UN historical interest--to Marquette University...
...Overrated: Freud...
...British writer, E.M...
...9 . . The most underrated British writer continues to be Ford Madox Ford...
...a l l ) : The Forty Days o/ Musa Dogh by Franz Werfel...
...almost any contemporary United States novelist who gets into college syllabuses...
...Quote of the Week The New Republic's consoling thought in its editorial farewell to the era of Republican misrule: "'Berating Nixon is always a pleasure...
...The most underrated book is the Authorized Version of the Bible, once the founda...
...Overrated (if still rated at a l l ) : The Song o/Bernadette by Franz Werfel...
...It remains to be seen therefore "whether, if the shepherds take the path towards a common fold, the sheep will follow...
...I would also like to mention O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra which was as good as Fitzgerald...
...He's at Collegeville still...
...al~h...
...R~.at|ng the Rm~d To mark its 75th anniversary, The Times Literary Supplement of London asked a number of writers, scholars and artists to nominate the most underrated and overrated books, or authors, of the past 75 years...
...Beware Optimism Elsewhere in this issue, Peter Hebblethwaite cautions against Canterbury caps and Roman birettas being cast too soon and ecstatically into the air over the Anglican-Roman Catholic draft proposal for reunion_9 A similar caution comes from the prestigious British journal, The Economist...
...Ligutti is 81...
...Father Godfrey Diekmann of Worship magazine and St...
...The Economist speaks of "some" Catholics and Anglicans who "are uneasy at the thought of a new monolith based on diluted doctrine and worship...
...D_9 ENRIGHT Underrated (or not rated at...
...REBECCA WEST Overrated: Tolstoy for his Anna Karenina, which appears to be sheer nonsense...
...m~l --Keeping up with old friends: Msgr...
...He's being honored for his work as "writer, scholar, teacher and advisor, and his editorial encouragement and dissemination of the achievement of others...
...Young girls in love for the first time in their lives do not go to their first ball in a state of lust which would have done credit to the heartier class of hussar . . . . CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD For what has been made of them rather than for what they were...
...Thereafter, during Mass officers would walk down the chapel aisle at communion...
...Forster...
...John's University, Collegeville: He will be 69 come April 7, and was recently named to receive the Berekah Award, highest honor of the North American Academy of Liturgy...
...Luigi Liguttl of the National Rural Life Conference: He's alive and well and living in Rome...
...tion is like a rock...
...German writer, Hermann Hesse...
...A . J . P . TAYLOR Overrated: Arnold Toynbee's Study o/History, which is neither History nor a study but a vast miscellany of information, much like Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy though not So funny...
...DAVID HOCKNEY Overrated: the Bible...
...The most underrated American is Conrad :Aiken...
...time, take their place in front of the chaplain--and turn away without receiving...
...having his memory to kick around will be a source of satisfaction to liberals for many years to come...
...Overrated: Andr~ Gide, Erza Pound...
...Msgr...
...In a time of shifting political judgments and uncertain moral values, Nixon's reputa...
...Some of the more interesting entries: ANTHONY BURGESS The most overrated French writer is Andr6 Gide...
...tion of English prose, now never read in schools and rarely, I believe, in churches...
...During the time of tension, the priest criticized West Point openly...
...Underrated: Ring Lardner, who wrote brilliantly on the United States and was ignored because he was a former sports writer...
...The treatment dealt one "impolitic" priest-chaplain was revealed in the Worcester, Mass., Evening Gazette by Arthur Lincoln, the defense lawyer whose Army career came to an end when he helped prepare the cases for cadets involved in last year's cheating scandal...
...ROB DYLAN Overrated and underrated: the Bible...
...In another 75 yeats (perhaps much less) SolZhenitsyn, Iris Murdock, Kurt Vonnegut and Saul Bellow will he seen to have been excessively esteemed...
Vol. 104 • February 1977 • No. 4
