NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS The Com/es Page Garry Trudeau has put a lot ~of bite back into the comics page through his Doonesbury strip. Doanesbury has even won a Pulitzer. Stil.l the comics page is not...
...So it bailed out...
...Dawson died in 1970 at age 80...
...World War H. You didn't criticize the leadership in 1943...
...The D a~son acquisition thus makes St...
...4) Because men are too emotional to be priests...
...Thomas More College in Saskatoon has acquired the working library of Christopher Dawson, noted historian and author, and frequen...
...New times...
...Christopher Dawson St...
...I wasn't going to condemn [More] with that fate," said James B. Adler, publisher, instead he merged [More] into the Columbia Journalism Review...
...Thomas More College, 1437 College Drive, Saskateen, Saskatchewan S7N DW6, Canada...
...The footnote tells how: "Gray attacked the wasteful expenditure of tax money and, in "the absence of Warbucks (away at war), ran Sophocles Spangle against a pompous Mayor George Gull and his pushy wife, Gnomy, who advocated walking for those without cars instead of gas rationing for those, like herself, with cars...
...t Common,weal comributor in the yeats 1932-61...
...Men Pt4ests...
...Subscribers will have 30 days in which to settle for CJR or receive a subscription reba...
...It wasn't so long ago tha,t the magazine was losing $150,000 a year...
...The college also took out an option on Dawson's papers, manuscripts and letters, to be exercised once an official biography has been written...
...But its fate could have been worse...
...new sophistication...
...2) Because no really manly man wants to settle disputes otherwise than by fighting about them...
...It was all too evident that Gull was Roosevelt in disguise: 'My dear friends and neighbors of, 'Gooneyville...
...Last year it made $29.91 profit, partly because of a program aozelerating endowments...
...low registration...
...Remember those Mitchell strips...
...The problems: cash flow...
...Inquiries about the Dawson collection ,should be directed to Father Ian Boyd at St...
...And, of course, it is removed from direct political impact, though Doonesbury did ruffle political feathers on occasion during the Watergate period...
...But it was either that or jeopardize several priority projects by taking a deficit on Liturgical Week...
...That must tickle Spire Agnew, wherever he is...
...From page 1 of the July 23 Twin Circle: "Rosary helps jogger keep pace...
...The cover sets the tone...
...The latest reminder comes by way of the pages of-would you believe?--Theelegy Today, and,a lengthy article by Kenneth S. Barker entitled "Annie, Warbucks, and Harold Gray's Gospel...
...Then, Max Thurian, the monk of Taiz~, canceled out and the committee was unable to find a comparable speaker on short notice...
...Columbia lournalism Review is a more going publication...
...The college is already famous for its Chesterton materials, and for the past four years has been home for the Chesterton Review, a semi-annual journal promoting a critical interest in the life and work of the poet, journalist, novelist and controversialist...
...But in the course of the piece there is a fascinating footnote about Gray being forced to interrupt a story in mid-action because of reaction to some reflections on the possessors of power or influence...
...It was a hard decision to cancel, said Sister Mary Collins, OSB, president of the board of directors of the Liturgical Conference...
...The cash flow deiayed the mailing of promotional materials...
...Don't snicker at that $29.91...
...Today, I wish to speak briefly, as befits his record, of this Sophocles Spangle, this pipsqueak storekeeper who has the audacity to aspire to an office of sacred trust[ He sobs of taxes, of what he calls my extravagance...
...The time was 1943...
...an independent publisher who warned to turn [More] into a "gossip magazine about journalists," somewhat like People magazine...
...The article has to do largely with Gray's social philosophy and his attitude towards religion...
...The 4500-volume library was purchased for an undisclosed sum from Dr...
...Odds and Ends --A headline for Ca:holic history...
...No More [More] [More], the independent journal for journalists, is gone, and it will be missed by a lot of people...
...I,t needed 800 just to break even, and was going to fall short of that number...
...Their conduct at football matches, in the army, at political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appool to force and violence renders them unfit to represent Jesus...
...Dawson's family in England...
...Would he, would YOU, rather have the JAPS?'" Gray's was potent stuff...
...There was an offer from...
...Movement Pamphlet 34 of the Student Christian Movement of Britain and Ireland examines the effects of male domination in the Church...
...To wit: _9 "(1 ) Because man's place is in the army...
...6) If the Church is the Bride of Christ, and bishops are as husbands to the Church, all priests should be female...
...Adler said he incurred a loss of more than $300,000 trying to save [More...
...Stil.l the comics page is not the cultural phenom' that it used to be...
...Thomas More College an intellectual center for .two of England's outstanding Catholic convertauthors...
...Gray broke-off the story, though not without first getting in a few digs at President Roosevelt's try for a fourth term...
...But not more so than some of Trudeau's satire...
...The materials thus reached prospective participants too late for them to make plans...
...Yesterday, I 'spoke of the past 12 trying years, through which I have given my all in your servi.ce...
...No Ltturffleal Week The 33rd annual Liturgical Week, slated this month for Boston, was canceled...
...The Conference was aiming for an attendance of 1000 or more...
...a crucial speaker's cancellation...
...We've come a long way since 1943...
...Doesfft that blister yaI JOHN DEEDY 18 August 1978:514...
...I was never much of a comics-page reader, so I'm constantly surprised when I'm told how potent the comics page could be in the past...
...5) Because some men are so handsome they will distract women worshippers...
...Come to think of it, Trudeau seems to have more trouble when he satirizes New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin than when he goes after the national leadership...
...It features a box setting out six reasons why the Movement opposes the ordination of men...
...3) Women would not respect men dressed in skirts...
...Yet Trudean's story lines survive, including those that feature the White House itself...
Vol. 105 • August 1978 • No. 16
