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mannered and free of the ancient language of controversy, perceptive of the beliefs of others, and unusually clear--unusually, that is, for theologians, who sometimes seem to cultivate the...
...I could not escape the sense that the comments were delivered from comfortable armchairs (a difficulty which was acknowledged by several participants in the symposium...
...Even in South American Jungle Tales (now out of print in English), a collection of Kipling-like animal stories supposedly designed for children, there are graphic depictions of violence...
...This time the protagonist is the victim of an attack by a poisonous snake...
...but there is simply no doubt that Nazism considered the Jews as the worst of all evils, and the source of evil...
...It is easy to see why we reach for comparisons: in a strange way it is JOHN GARVEY is the author o/ Saints for Confused Times (Thomas More Press...
...Checks should be sent to THE CHOL-CHOL FOUNDATION, FRIENDSHIP STATION, Washington, D.C...
...But Louvinie had a rebellious soul, and one of 'her tales was so awful that it, perhaps deliberately, caused the favorite son to die of a heart attack...
...Soapoperatic chords sound through the book: a brief, coyly prophetic flashforward after the Judea High Class of '21 defaces Red Rock with its signature, or the hero Arley's clich6-ridden vision of his shining pastoral goal...
...The war was outrageous, but the comparisons were wrong, an example of the rhetorical overkill which blots out honest thinking in a passionate attempt to drag people to thought by the scruffs of their necks...
...And while it may be difficult to directly link Quiroga's work with that of any of today's writers (though we find a similar bluntness and compression in the stories of Dalton Trevisan and Juan Rulfo), his peculiar spirit is much in evidence...
...The representatives of the more "congregational" churches do not even see any use in a role of leadership...
...I n s t i t u t e s SACRED SCRIPTURE: Ninth Annual Institute, August 7-12, 1977...
...On the one hand there is this fog...
...Dawidowicz stresses the unprecedented nature of the mass murder undertaken by the Nazis, and the desperation of those who came slowly to realize that nothing in the history of law or human society could offer them any guidance on how to survive...
...From this point forward, Ms...
...The Foundation aims to estabI;sh an adequate credit program for the put...
...Green) has resuited in some splendid aphorisms...
...I have engaged in some of these myself, and they were worth all the trouble and expense they demanded...
...Must also have experience in a secondary administrative post...
...Meridian is black and Southern, hut her family, and especially the mother who resents and dislikes her, is almost Yankee in its shabby, self-enclosed middle-classness...
...Here the time scheme is more extended than that of "The Dead Man," but :the intensity and terror are just as strong...
...We ought to recognize that the Papacy is a postbiblical institution and that it is a product of history, often of the type of history summarized in the first volume reviewed here...
...June 19-24...
...Encouraged by them, she abandons son and husband, and goes off on a scholarship to Saxon College in Atlanta...
...But this may finally be the value of the book: It shows that there is something wrong with judgment done from safe places...
...Nothing selfish could be put down, nothing angry...
...T h e Triple Crown directions which they indicate...
...R e l i g i o u s Edueation REQUIRE MINISTER for retigious education...
...The survivors Rabinowitz interviewed share an understanding that their experience has marked them off from others, radically: "One learned that it was quite possible that he would be asked, straightforwardly or otherwise, by what means he had purchased his life...
...She could not watch the film clips, and neither could she turn her back on them: for whatever their political opinions, survivors .were always to be one in this: they were compelled to know the news of atrocity, and to believe it . . . . They could never quite attain to the onlooker's mentality, and they tended to respond viscerally to that most difficult of things to respond to: tragedy in the mass--Biafra and Bangladesh, massacre and famine...
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...In an important sense, neither Meri0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS FATHER JOHN L. MCKENZIE teaches theology at DePaul University in Chicago and is the author of Light on the Gospels (Thomas More...
...He manages to say numerous things of value before he is finished...
...not "love" as an idea, but love in a particular situation...
...It is a town in Mississippi...
...The rest of this brief, unsettling tale relates the thoughts going through the man's mind as he dies...
...This detailed history of the period from 1933-1945 shows the passage from pervasive anti-semitic prejudice, through anti-semitic legislation, to slaughter...
...Rabbits and squirrels ran off somewhere...
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...The crisp, unadorned language, the almost breathless pace of the narrative, match the tenseness of events...
...Without one's tongue in one's mouth . . . the singer in one's soul was lost forever, to grunt and snort through eternity like a pig...
...He finally reaches home, and a Masterson step-sister--but she has been blinded and can't see him...
...Alice Walker, who did finish her book, seems to suggest that epics are not what's called for...
...She is Jews is essential to any understanding of the period...
...Father Gaffey, who is currently researching the life of the late Bishop Francis C. Kelley, founder of the Catholic Church Extension Society, is a professionally trained historian in the tradition of his mentor, John Tracy Ellis...
...Some are of the opinion that t h e kind of biographical and institutional Church history that he and Ellis have specialized in is of limited value and ought to be replaced by in-depth studies of the Catholic collectivity in this country and its various ethnic strains...
...The ensuing struggle for control of the boat ranks with the river stories of Twain and Faulkner...
...shirtless in overalls, astride an old mule, he is telling an uncomprehending Time reporter about resistance, rebellion and the death of the cramped, political self...
...New York...
...The world has in fact found it easy to forget...
...Religious or lay may apply...
...In 1902, Quiroga accidentally killed a best friend with a pistol...
...WILLIAM V. SHANNON Personhood Books Chicago, Ill...
...The evil Dog Whitlock, now a sheriff, is mentioned but not seen...
...I hope we have learned that it is not...
...By comparision, Quiroga sometimes seems simple and blunt and too anecdotal...
...Mama used to say they were looking for the Ark...
...Rahner writes of the Christian Easter message: "I do not intend to speak of it in a way acceptable to all...
...Whitlock is a frightening creation, aimless rage personified...
...29 April 1977:286 credible by its socio-political and sociocritical commitment...
...that God is inconceivable to us and if we think he is not we do not know him...
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...They are quite correct in this fear...
...The first is Lucy Dawidowiez's The War Against the Jews (Bantam, $2.50...
...At other times, they are related briefly or merely hinted at, but are no less frightening or haunting because of the comparatively abrupt treatment...
...In "The Decapitated Chicken," one of Quiroga's most brutal tales of revenge, the author cuts away from a murder before it is completed, but a father's cry upon discovering the body of his daughter is enough to convey the horror and savagery of the act...
...1,700 students...
...The story of the camps and the ghettos is a harrowing one, and Dawidowicz's control in relating it is astonishing...
...Love should be sought first, and from love unity can proceed...
...On 60 Minutes a story about attempts to deport another Nazi war criminal featured a discussion with men and women in a bar near the man's home...
...That ultimhte black separatist - - a n individual outside his community --Jonoah is plagued by guilty nightmares...
...Meridian will wander the South in the '60s, leading marches, registering voters, organizing...
...mannered and free of the ancient language of controversy, perceptive of the beliefs of others, and unusually clear--unusually, that is, for theologians, who sometimes seem to cultivate the obscure for its own sake...
...God aint have to do that," he tells Papa Lem Masterson: He done took everything in this flood except me, and I aint forgettin it...
...Jubal Masterson, who has since become a Bob Moses-Meridian Hill self-abnegating organizer, may or may not be dead...
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...Camus and the South fit like fingers in a glove...
...Many of the tales in The Decapitated Chicken, which presents some of his very finest work in a superbly designed volume, concentrate on various acts of revenge, struggles with natur~ Commonweal: 285 savage quirks of fate...
...When she arrives at the oven in which her sister died in her place, she impulsively crawls into it to retrieve some ashes...
...For progressive, growing parish, Reston, Va...
...Walker's book, b u t - - a s Meridian Hill fades, and the story is taken over by the secondary black women whose tales and legends she collects-we enter, instead, the Movement's very heart...
...A man whose family perished remarries and finds that his second wife, under a veneer of gaiety and civility, cares for no one and considers his past a kind of embarrassment...
...GEORGE G. HIGGINS is Secretary for Research at the United States Catholic Conference in Washington...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IN BRIEF CHRISTIAN AT THE CROSSROADS, Karl Rahner, Seabury, $5.95...
...Their goal was to reveal evil as particular, concrete--to make it clear that the American war in Vietnam and the Nazi conquest of Europe finally had nothing to do with abstractions like "victory over the forces of darkness" but came down to napalmed children and death camps...
...In New Lives (Knopf, $8.95) Dorothy Rabinowitz writes about survivors of the holocaust who now live in the United States...
...The book is an important one...
...It is the place where Albert Camus wound up The Rebel: a hot, lazy region of the mindmsomething like his own French Algeria--a place where the body reigned, politics were in disrepute, and ideological murder was unthinkable...
...In fact, when Protestants say they can accept a Papacy which has a role of leadership and not of government, they do not realize that leadership is the one thing which the Papacy has most rarely shown...
...GORDON BURNSIDE is a regutar reviewer for the St...
...As much as its hero, perhaps because of him, Zane Kotker's A Certain Man wavers between preciosity and the practice of revelation...
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...on the other, people who make of the holocaust a metaphor...
...Bob Moses, its spiritual leader, first changed his name and then exiled himself to England because he was afraid that the press, by focusing on him, would screen out all those ordinary black voices he so desperately wanted heard...
...Rabinowitz writes with the precise eye of a novelist...
...Adrift in a johnboat, Jonoah takes aboard the Masterson family and, a little later, the poor white, Dog Whitlock...
...It makes us believe that we understand a situation...
...Maybe we could slip in a good word for sisterhood...
...I am sorry to report that most of the contributors see no modification of the Papacy which will make it acceptable to them...
...As for Vietnam, Sorensen was increasingly active from 1966 onward as a dove, serving as an adviser to Robert Kennedy's pro-peace candidacy in 1968 and as a leading supporter of the peace plank at the 1968 Democratic Convention...
...But the real suffering of real people should not become an easy metaphor...
...High Sehooi Prineipal NEEDED: PRINCIPAL for Catholic secondary school...
...This all seems to put the ball in the ecumenical game right into the Roman Catholic court...
...Lay or religious...
...The War Against the failure is the fate of most human endeavors, what matters is with what enterprise and in what spirit one fails...
...His tales are perhaps not as sophisticated or as complex as many of the tales we read now, but their strangeness is just as prominent...
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...he has never heard of the death camps...
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...I think it was clear from the beginning of the enthusiasm which was generated by John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council that civil conversations between divided Christians must proceed...
...in The Sunflower (Schocken, $7.50) he writes of something else: an experience he endured as a young man, when a nurse took him from a concentration camp work detail to the bedside of a dying Nazi, who asked Wiesenthal, as a Jew, to forgive .him for his part in the massacre of Jews...
...Rei[gious and lay faculty...
...This focused hatred, and the general indifference of the rest of the world, have left a n understandable suspicion among many Jews that Nazism was the flare-up of an evil which now lies waiting for another opportunity...
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...Epic novels require epic selves to write them, and it was away from mere selves that the Movement always meant to go...
...RONALD DE FEO writes for The National Review, The Nation and other journals...
...monthly in advance for more than three times...
...Like the best of Quiroga's tales it seems as unusual, imaginative and alive as the work being produced 'by fellow Latin Americans today...
...Or perhaps not...
...Flex schedule...
...So ends the one successful long fragment of Dumas's novel...
...Catholic readers will find this book an excellent exposition of Protestant theologies of church authority, a topic on which we Romans are generally misinformed...
...Unable to accept his fate, he climbs into a canoe and drifts down the Paran:i River, all .the while trying to convince himself that he will survive the fatal bite...
...daughters were sent to them to be made more "northern" and "nice...
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...We can never allow it to become an abstract thing...
...He asserts them and then reflects on their implications on the assumption that they are true...
...His superb craftsmanship and lively powers of invention are especially in evidence in "Anaconda," i.n which he effortlessly and convincingly tells the story of a snake community and human intruders from the snakes' point of view...
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...The river, indeed, is Dumas's most memorable character: And all the land seemed to sense a bad year...
...chase of these essentials...
...The poet Alice Walker was a Georgiaborn SNCC field worker, as is the heroine of her first novel, Meridian Hill...
...We are told that Jonoah leaves his adopted family to go north, where he becomes a sort of minstrel on the periphery of the Movement...
...I have no new criticisms of Romanism to add to those already uttered...
...In the same way, we learn surprisingly little about the outer shell of the Movement from Ms...
...The most dreadful aspect of the time was this fact of utter powerlessness in the face of evil, the knowledge that nothing could be done...
...By looking at evil's specific incarnations, and its effect on particular Commonweal: 283 lives, we can begin to understand the shallowness of the generalizations we are tempted to make about it...
...Sensations, emotions and conflicts are heightened...
...Pre-registration necessary...
...Recall Stokeley Carmichael a year earlier in rural Alabama...
...Meridian is of course torn between the school's guiding s p i r i t - - a n institutionalized version of 'her mother's--and her ongoing involvement in civil rights...
...they fear it in their own churches as well, but they believe that the Protestant church structure does not of itself tend to become a power structure...
...and often those who were asked these questions learned that such questioning was a pattern, best stored away with other strange responses they had encountered, each new one a proof to them that they and their experiences were utterly incomprehensible to all those who had not been part of it...
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...Robert Coles mentions somewhere the fact that great artists (his example was Dostoevski) manage to convey deeper psychological insight than psychologists themselves...
...Surely we need more of the latter, but why can't we continue to have the former as well...
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...The Decapitated Chicken and Other S t o r i e s HORACIO QUIROGA Trans...
...Dallas, Pennsylvania 18612...
...Many of the responses to Wiesenthars essay are good, and the nature of the symposium does not make the incident or the question any the less haunting...
...Three books can be of great help here...
...The objective there is "to develop the human dignity of the person--materially, physicaily and spiritually . . _9 The land is rich," but hoes, plows rakes and seeds are needed...
...Wrte: DIGNITY, 755 Boylston St., Room 413, Boston, Mass...
...Chol-Chol Foundation A TEAM OF FIVE is working to build up _9 rural community of poor Chileans and Mapuche Indtans some SO0 miles south of Santiago...
...Catholics often thought Protestantism was a religious vacuum...
...Quiroga's style is perfectly suited to his subject matter...
...Most of the stories in this volume end in death...
...People got a bit friendlier, and everybody knew it was because deep down inside no one wanted to move...
...his wife Mamada and little Jubal resist, and are thrown over29 April 1977:284 board...
...B. M. Ahern, Richard Clifford, Robert Karris...
...Jono~h gropes his way back down the river, is hunted by murderous whites, and crosses a hallucinatory burnt and bombed landscape that is more like Vietnam than Mississippi...
...Millions who were not Jews died under Hitler...
...For one thing, all of the characters are on the verge of disappearing...
...I don't mean to say that those who made the comparisons were dishonest...
...It is only fair to say that no church except the local church is described in the New Testament...
...She locates a solution~her personal "meridian," as it were--under The Sojourner, an ancient magnolia that stands in the center of the campus...
...In fact, suicides and fatal accidents seemed to have haunted him throughout his life...
...Experience required, salary negotiable...
...When Movement people sang about "overcoming," they had segrega - tion and racism only incidentally in mind...
...Henry Dumas, who grew up in Mississippi and Arkansas in the "40s and then went north to become a poet and black studies teacher, demonstrated this fact in a tragic way...
...then a terrible panic seizes her...
...A middle section, concerning Jonoah's youth with the Mastersons, is mostly notes: characters raised and abruptly dropped, memories shading off into dreams, snatches of sermons and poetry, a jumble...
...School legend has it that a slave nursemaid, Louvinie, once told wild, beguiling stories there to the white planters' children...
...Lili Masterson goes mad, and Jonoah, watching all this, learns how terrible, more terrible than a flood, the power of white skin can be...
...The black civil rights movement was profoundly anti-individualist, and therefore subversive of both dominant American culture and the novel as a literary form...
...There is a genuine Protestant fear that church unity may become a vehicle of power...
...As long as the church is administered by men, they believe "unity" (whatever it may mean) is a chimerical ideal...
...By the end of the book, and quite deliberately, she is little more than a wraith...
...But like Poe, Quiroga has the ability to thrust the reader into the heart of a story and hold him there...
...And in 1937, when the already severely d e - pressed Quiroga learned that he was suffering from terminal cancer, he brought his suffering and his life to an abrupt, perhaps merciful, end by swallowing poison...
...Ross Mackenzie and J. Robert Wright see more possibilities than the other contributors...
...The evils done in Vietnam--the misery and suffering of civilians, the attempt to destroy an environment through defoliation and schemes to render agricultural land infertile, terror weapons like napalm and fragmentation grenades-should not require comparison to reveal them as the evils they are...
...The book has some good things to say on faith, on truth, on prayer, on death...
...Louis Post Dispatch...
...In "Drifting," Quiroga again records the thoughts of a dying man...
...This is true of historical horror as well, and it is what makes New Lives so valuable: Dorothy Rabinowitz is able to move from the individual level to the level of history without oversimplification or falsehood...
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...by Margaret Sayers Peden U. o/ Texas Press, $8.95 RONALD DE FEO If there is one virtue, aside from sheer technical skill, that is shared by many of the best contemporary Latin American writers it is an ability to bring to their narratives an element of strangeness, to handle even prosaic material in such a way that the ordinary is transformed into the extraordinary, that commonplace reality takes on a mysterious and a mythic quality...
...The viciousness directed against the Jews by Nazism was unprecedented, even in the .terrible history of antisemitism...
...Write Sister Marlanna, COLLEGE MISERICORDIA...
...GEORGE G. HIGGINS OQQQOQOOQ CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 259) with the Nixon administration's activities in Cambodia and Chile...
...But through the novel, too, Kotker achieves passages that create the aura of Arley's ingenuous character, and make him genuinely likable...
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...The man is unable to believe what has happened, unable to accept such a tragedy occurring on his land, on a peaceful, ordinary day...
...Some will accept a role which can be called "leadership...
...Many of his stories, from those focusing on various animals and their struggle for survival to those centering on man against nature and on man against man, are set in this untamed region he knew so well...
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...A high school student tells me that we fought World War Two to stop "Hitler and his communists...
...Walker's novel takes a fictionally odd course...
...There is no way to demonstrate the dogmas of Christian faith, hence the author does not try...
...While its prose tires the mind because the writer has long since given up on the hard work of style, the effort of reading these literally tortured brief talks can be rewarding...
...To preserve some values they believe that unity of structure must be given a lower priority than Roman Catholicism has traditionally given it...
...The translator's skill (V...
...As interesting as the responses a~e, this aspect of the book bothers me...
...it deals with the allegations of Jewish compliance, and with the indifference of the rest of the world...
...They do not fear this only from the Papacy...
...300 North Zeeb Road 18 Bedford Row Ann Arbor, MI 48106 London...
...The book is radically skeptical in its admission of all that cannot be known in the religious realm_9 The author is a priest of the Roman church who can state that "the Church proclaims a message which always calls its empirical reality into question . . . . The sole hope of doing one's bit to remedy the Church's wretchedness lies in bearing the burden of its misery, of which each member is to some extent _9 . . guilty...
...It was the result of specific attitudes, political actions, personal acts of cowardice and compliance and compromise...
...If the role of the Pope is any more closely defined, they see the nose of the camel of the primacy of jurisdiction at the door of the tent...
...JOHN DRUSKA is a w r i t e r who currently teaches high school in Indianapolis...
...Death is simply an absurd intruder...
...Even the work of such socially and politically conscious writers as Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes seems to transcend its realistic foundations...
...Meridian COUlmonwPal...
...It is an aesthetic concept, excellence, the highest point of development...
...And, nigger, you better do the same...
...Perhaps this is because artists deal with specific things-not mercy or dread in the abstract, but the merciful or fearful human being...
...it was often not a choice at all, but a condition: whether they wished it or not, they would see what they might have wished not to see, and feel what it was most comfortable not to feel...
...Forget" was enough...
...Brown, Collins, MacKenzie, Mowry, Pritchard...
...Wiesenthal felt that he was unable to forgive offenses which were not committed against himself--how could he forgive the torment inflicted on others?--and left the room without forgiving the man...
...also credentials service...
...In the symbolic horror story, "The Yellow Pillow," we only discover the cause of the young bride's mysterious illness and death at the very end of the tale: a monstrous, parasitic animal, lodged in her pillow, has been draining .her blood...
...Another is the scene of Arley's ecumenical triumph during a summer assignment from seminary...
...None of the contributors is happy with the present state of church disunity, even those who seem to think that unity will be achieved only in the eschatological church...
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...She interviewed men and women of varying educational and economic backgrounds, people scattered throughout the country, who have in common the fact that they lost everything, and went on living...
...the term is vague, but I believe the authors mean to keep it vague...
...the book has unforgettable moments: a woman returns to Poland years after the war to visit Maidanek...
...GERARD S. SLOYAN A CERTAIN MAN by Zane Kotker, Knop[, $8.95...
...The harshness and brutality of jungle life, and the torment he experienced in his personal life are clearly reflected in his fiction...
...His intellectual brilliance, energy, and industry would have made him an alert and effective CIA director...
...Even a generalization about how violent the 20th century is locates us, makes us know that we are at home in a particular time...
...Yet Poe, though certainly no less obsessed and morbid than Quiroga, is a more ornate, introspective and cerebral writer...
...You are not a national great man, but you are a very humble pers o n . . . ' " JOHN DRUSKA CITIZEN OF No MEAN CITY: ARCHBISHOP PATRICK RIORDAN OF SAN FRANCISCO, By James P. Gagey, Consortium Books, Wilmington, NC...
...The readers most rewarded may be those who have given up on faith and theology...
...Sometimes the deaths are described at length, as those in the two tales mentioned and in "Sunstroke," another story about an absurd tragedy...
...It makes evil abstract, a concept to be laid like a grid over any situation in which there are victims, There is something drastically wrong with the notion that agonies can be compared...
...When this rise drops, I'm changin my religion, from a backslider to a nothin...
...Among them are his previously expressed view that the essence of being human is unfulfilled transcendentality...
...MAGGIE FISHER, RSCJ NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS Commonweal: 287...
...Thoughts flash by...
...At least twelve of the books advertised in the March 4 issue were written by women...
...The English journalist Godfrey Hodgson has written of the SNCC kids that they discovered something that, ironically enough, their white southern enemies had been the only group in the United States to acknowledge: that success is not the only test, that since, in the end, THE HOLOCAUST AS MEASURE JOHN GARVEY Critics of the war in Vietnam frequently compared the conduct of the United States to that of Nazi Germany...
...At least Kotker does convince us that what a friend writes to Arley near Man's end is, as well, her book's welcome revelation of the man: " 'If unselfishness is the core of religion~and I believe it is--then your .whole life expresses it and stands as a testimony to it...
...A Christian newspaper runs an editorial about efforts to deport an Orthodox bishop who is alleged to have participated in a slaughter of Jewish prisoners...
...One occurs when the eleven-year-old Arley, story collector and judge-undertaker's son growing into a storytelling minister, receives a diary for Christmas: "Words would hold time forever...
...In part, the strangeness of the tales can be attributed to both this laconic quality and a narrow, intense focus...
...She will have an affair with the SNCC leader Truman Held, will give him up to the Jewish Lynne, and finally take them back as her acolytes after their marriage founders on the shoals of black separatism...
...A good idea, but limited...
...that faith is the act of letmystery...
...Rays...
...Returning to the Kennedy administration, we should recall that it was Sorensen who drafted the American University speech in June, 1963, leading to the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and to the first major sale of grain to the Soviet Union in September, 1963...
...Mark's High School, Henderson Rd., Wilmington, Del...
...Quiroga has often been compared with Poe and did, in fact, acknowledge him as one of his masters...
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...And if God must persecute Whitlock, then Whitlock will do the same to his benefactors, simply because they are close to hand and black...
...Quiroga was, to say the least, a restless and trou~bled man, and his life, filled with deaths of various sorts, was as odd and tragic as were many of his tales...
...This complex book is of specific worth...
...This primitive and exotic tropical region, with its strange animal and plant life, its struggling laborers and ruthless exploiters, its wide variety of human outcasts and misfits, obviously appealed to him greatly for he would repeatedly abandon urban existence and security to return for a time to the crude jungle cottage he had built with his own hands...
...It eliminated automatically all those unprincipled, ambitious candidates who coveted the triple crown merely ]or the immense riches and power it conferred on its wearer...
...FATHER GERARD S. SLOYAN is p r o f e s s o r of religion at Temple University, Philadelphia...
...Unlike Kotker's first novel, Bodies in Motion, where we're able to penetrate, through minute details in a limited temporal scope, the psychospatial world of Sonya's exhausting daily trivia, Man calendars years of quickly-eclipsed episodes that shape Arley's life, an emblematic chronology that moves us but a hurried life, especially through its last decade, tfiat leaves much undeveloped and us often at a distance from its actors...
...Later, his seriously ill step-father shot himself to death...
...The surviving bits and pieces of that book ("arranged" here by Eugene B. Redmond for Random House) show it cracking up after a strong start because Dumas had lost his grip on his individualist hero...
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...But if Meridian is a failure as a n o v e l - l ~ d I think it is---it is also an extremely interesting historical document...
...I hate to quibble about an otherwise excellent study, but the publisher and his myopic proof reader ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting so many typographical errors find their way into the text...
...The technique is bound to put off the mentality used .to demonstration until it sees that surrender is at work and not a "well-tempered synthesis of all of life's disparate insights...
...at least twelve of them focus strongly on women...
...She decides to become Louvinie's lost tongue...
...The diary would have to be like an Indian's knotted string, tied to remind only him of what unspoken things were meant...
...For this Louvinie's tongue was cut out and buried beneath The Sojourner...
...It must be seen not only as a mass phenomenon, but as a horror which happened to particular men, women, and children...
...Papa Lem cowers helplessly at the tiller...
...The refusal haunted him, and the book is a question: what would you do...
...These will be the book's commanding figures--or rather would have been, if Dumas had found a way to keep them going...
...Co-educatlonal...
...Horacio Quiroga, a short story writer who was born in Salto, Uruguay in 1878 and died in Buenos Aires in 1937, was one of those authors who pointed the way to today's Latin American fiction...
...The last long section of the book is itself scattered and surreal, more obsession than narrative...
...Is this simply a paranoid reaction...
...Jonoah and the Green Stone HENRY DUMAS Random House, $7.95 Meridian ALICE WALKER Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $7.95 GORDON BURNSIDE The word "meridian" covers a number of meanings...
...Write: ADULT VOCATIONS Box 41H, Commonweal Commonweal: 281 forget now, awash in our own disgust with politics, that the early Movement was itself anti-political, that its one great want was to transcend the narrow political life...
...their objections are theological, and these must be addressed...
...It seems wrong to say from a position of relative calm that a man in Wiesenthal's extreme position was wrong to do what he did, or, for that matter, that he was right...
...The majority opinion did not even reach the usual shallow "forgive and forget" level...
...It is a geophysical concept, the great circle that connects the earth's two poles...
...There is something inappropriate about moving from the depth of such an agonizing decision to a seminar table...
...But these scenes are fragmentary and rather brittle, and this is so because what Meridian is really up to is jettisoning her personal attachments, her personal 'history, her self, in order to be the medium for generations of poor black women...
...consoling to be a b l e to say "this is like that...
...This is by way of saying that I, for one, learned much about American Catholicism by reading Gaffey's carefully researched biography of Archbishop Patrick Riordan who, in addition to his low-key but effective administration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco before and after the disastrous earthquake of 1906, played a significant role in national and international ecclesiastical affairs as a behind-the-scenes member of the Gibbons-Ireland-Spalding team of liberal U.S...
...Masters degree, administrative courses, and experience as h~gh school teacher required...
...Simon Wiesenthal is best known as a "Nazi hunter" and has written about his work...
...But it was foolish to think that all we had to do was to present the beauties of Roman Catholicism to Protestants and they would form lines to present their homage to the Roman Pontiff...
...dian nor Jonoah and the Green Stone are novels as we generally understand the term...
...but one must notice that Rome has shown no inclination whatever to move in the Perhaps the greatest blessing that was ever bestowed upon the Church o[ Rome was the loss o/ her temporal power...
...Sorensen was bitterly opposed as CIA director by certain hawkish elements precisely because he is a liberal and a man of peace...
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...Here, by con. & centrating on those few remaanmg m'mutes before the inescapable end, Quiroga makes them as important for us as they are for the victim...
...I ought to point out that the Protestant theologians who wrote these essays spend no time in rehearsing the corruptions of Romanism...
...Wiesentha.l's essay is followed by a symposium in which a number of people, Christians and Jews, jurists and theologians and writers, try to answer the question...
...Most Catholics do not know that Protestants oppose the Papacy to something, not to nothing...
...And because we come to like Arley, despite his scrupulous excesses, we expect more of Man--whether or not the book's elliptical surface is Kotker's attempt to find a narrative match for Arley's self-effacing life style...
...D i g n i t y DIGNITY, an organization of gay and concerned Catholics working for a more informed theology and pastoral approach to sexuality...
...The New Left of the 1960s began at Camus's idea of the meridian...
...We are also told that the Mastersons, who have remained in the Mississippi Delta to fight segregation directly, consider him a deserter...
...Insofar as the question is addressed to an audience which is braced for it, it is not a real question...
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...One should serve: "We can cope with the incomprehensibilities of life only if we do not try to master them with that philistine foolishness which often passes for brave lucid wisdom...
...In 1964---four years before his mysterious death at the hands of a New York subway cop--Dumas began work on Jonoah and the Green Stone, a vast novel of the South...
...The Dead Man" begins with the protagonist accidentally falling on the machete he has been using to cut bananas in a grove...
...Quiroga spent most of his time in Argentina, living in Buenos Aires and making trips to San Ignacio (in the northern jungle province of Misiones) near which he had purchased some land...
...Throughout "The Son" we are made to wonder along with the protagonist whither his young ting oneself go into the inconceivable and not surprisingly, on fatal accidents, son has met with death in the woods...
...The problem is that a failure to distinguish between one and the other has the opposite effect...
...SNCC itself was a great disappearing act...
...When can we expect an acknowledgment of 51 percent of the human race...
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...We ADULT VOCATIONS special program for men over twenty-one...
...But there was nothing you could do about it when the river rose . . . . When that river broke over the mud line and climbed up over the levee and headed toward the farms and town, there wasn't much even the Federal Government could do but obey the river and move...
...But it seems that the Roman See, if it wishes to be the representative of Christ (I do not like the word "vicar" to designate a role which was once filled by Alexander VI and Leo X), will have to think of what it can yield, what it can give, rather than what it must demand, what it must impose...
...We have, in short, a novel with a disappearing central character, and that is a contradiction in terms...
...Sic, thirteen times, Twelve words minimum...
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...Rahner thinks that the Church must make its love for others C l a s s i f i e d RATES: 60c a word, one time...
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...Nothing will happen ecumenically until the Roman See does something...
...It was not a choice of good over evil in the survivors that made them thus incapable of indifference...
...His father, the Argentine consul to Uruguay, was fatally wounded as a result of a shotgun accident at a family gathering...
...All extraneous matter is eliminated...
...they believe the local church as described in the New Testament has all the resources of leadership it needs...
...He should be forgiven, say the editors, and the fact that he has not repented of the crime or asked for forgiveness 29 April 1977:282 ~ a fact which makes forgiveness an extremely sloppy concept--does not seem to matter...
...In describing the reaction of a survivor of Belsen to My Lai she writes, "For many days after the story became known, the prospect of watching the news on television sent her from the living room in despair, just as, a moment later, the news drew her back in again...
...Jonoah, a seven-year-old boy, is orphaned by and takes his name from the Mississippi River flood of 1937...
...rescued from this state by the appearante of a band of free-spirited civil rights workers...
...But since written words belonged to God, he would have to be careful...
...WC1R 4EJ U.S,A England understands this to be the parable of the South...
...that would be to say nothing of value...
...It is impossible to know what Dumas might have made of his book if he had lived to complete it, but a reintegrated Jonoah--one able to stand with one foot in his community and one foot out--might conceivably have told a great Tolstoyan epic about his people in the 1960s...
...Listen to Bob Moses of SNCC preaching Camus to the Freedom Summer volunteers at Oxford, Ohio in 1964...
...It seems incredible that anyone acquainted with the scandalous intrigues, the simony, the unbridled display o/ human passions seething behind the closed doors o[ papal conclaves, should still uphold or wish to see restored a state o] things which caused, by the discredit it brought on the Roman Church, such a religious upheaval as the Re]ormation with its ensuing trail o[ bloodshed and persecutions...
...Now black girls' colleges in the early '60s were essentially finishing schools...
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...Other peoples have suffered genocide, ,but none so efficiently organized or so ecstatically undertaken...
...Made pregnant by her high school boyfriend, and engineered by her ,mother into marriage to him, Meridian is confused and unhappy to the point of autistic withdrawal...
...What that can be or will be only the Roman See can decide...
...Years later, one of the frequent quarrels between Quiroga and his first wife about the upbringing of their two children prompted the young woman to take a fatal dose of poison...
...it becomes too cool and detached, like an ethics exam...
Vol. 104 • April 1977 • No. 9
