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CORRESPONDENCE Chesterton Rochester, N.Y. To the Editors: George Bernard Shaw called Chesterton a "colossal genius." Paul Claudel praised his "triumphant common sense" and his "joyous...
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...Because Jeffrey Meyers's review of Margaret Canovan's book is so unbelievably bad, a refutation of it is in order...
...Eleanor Fitzgibbons, IHM 232 UNIVERSITYPRESS BOOKS: CrltLes' Sei~etioam: Jack Miles, Mark Naison, Vivian Mercier, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Rosemary H. Balsam, John Ahern, Victor Ferkiss, Michael Kammen 341 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front Cover: Adapted/rom booklet About Government by Channing L. Bete, Co., and distributed by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee...
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...The problem with limited crises such as Ireland's is that parties in a position to contribute to a settlement of contentions--in this instance Washington and members of the European community of nations---tend to look to more urgent crisis points, where the threat to international peace is more immediate, the stakes larger...
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...After all, haven't there been Troubles of one sort or another in Ireland for 400 years, for 60 years, for 10 years, depending on the length of one's historical perspective...
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...The parables, the jokes, and the paradoxes play an essential part in this, and are not merely frivolities decorating an essentially independent argument...
...As often as not they are the most innocent of victims: women in department stores, children at play, men at their leisure--Protestants and Catholics...
...This is simply false, both in relation to (Continued on page 349)NEWS ~ VIEWS: 322CORRESIPONDENCEz 323 EDITORIAL:323 WASHINGTONREPORT:CrookBooks: Vol...
...The tragedy is compounded by the fact that often they die as a result of bombs Commonweal: 323...
...For the tragedy is that injustices exist and people continue to die--more than 1,900 alone since 1969 and the Bogside riots...
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...This last is a particularly cynical attitude, and unfortunately not an uncommon one...
...Paul Claudel praised his "triumphant common sense" and his "joyous acclaim of the splendour and powers of the soul...
...Father Ronald Knox called him "one of the very greatest men of his time...
...Pope Pins XI called Chesterton a devoted son of the Holy Church and a gifted defender of the Faith...
...Now your reviewer [March 17] Calls him simplistic, incoherent, silly, prejudiced, banal, unrealistic, and ineffective...
...The Middle East, for instance...
...0 0 0 0 00000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PEACE FOR IRELAND If there is any small mitigating detail to the Troubles in Ireland, it is that the crisis there, if not absolutely self-contained, is not open-ended in the manner of crises in some other parts of the world...
...If the Irish insist on fighting, well let them...
...on page 48 she explains that GKC's writings give the impression not so much of logically developed arguments but of a particular way of seeing the human condition and showing it to others...
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...Meyers states that Chesterton's populism was based on an "impractical social ideal of a self-governing peasant nation which would recreate his vision (inherited from William Morris)of the Merrie England that had been destroyed by Protestant capitalism...
...But on page 21, Canovan states explicitly that "Very often . . . his paradoxical statemerits really do bring out a neglected truth...
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...No East-West ideology is at issue, at least not in substantive degree...
...Canovan concedes that GKC's thoughts are "conveyed by tedious paradox...
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...It's a "luxury" crisis in a sense...
...When being awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the University of Notre Dame, he was referred to as a "defender of the Christian tradition, whose keen mind, right heart, and versatile literary genius have been valiantly devoted to eternal truth, goodness and beauty, in literature and in life...
...page 329: A Legal Guide to Self Defense~Liberation News Service JAMES O'GARA: EditorJOHN DEEDY:Manag/eg |d/tar RAYMOND A. SOHROTH: Associate EditorANNE M. ROBERTSON: Edfter/of As~Peof COLIN L. WESTERBIECE, JR.: MoviesJOHN FANDEL:Pantry FRANK GETLEIN: Wasklngfee BRIAN WICKER: Groat Jrifo|nALAIH WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAE: RameDESMOND FISHER: Dub/In EDWARD S. SEILLIH: Pob//skerRUTH E. TAYLOR: Advert/oh E Mamlger Sta#: LINDA F. KAYLER, PAMELA J. FITZGERALD, HARRIETTIE BALSKY COMMONWEAL 232 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK...
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...The Troubles could go on for as many years into the future as they extend back into the past, or they could be settled tomorrow in any of several ways, and the world would continue in its orbit with no particular reordering of national, political or economic alignments...
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Vol. 105 • May 1978 • No. 11
