CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Roman Dinosaurs New York, N.Y. To the Editors: Although I am not a Roman Catholic I have always held a great deal of respect for that Church and John Tracy Ellis's "The Place...
...For that reason I expect that women will be ordained by the Roman Catholic Church much sooner than the rhetoric would lead one to think...
...And when we were still one...
...In the book mentioned, Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter & Vine, Wolfe surveys a large part of our contemporary carnival with scathing insights: the military mentality 'The Truest Sport," the new pornoviolence, the Me-Decade, hostage-taking as the Perfect Crime, many manners, customs and fads, including the burying of Solzhenitsyn by the media...
...PASCHAL BAUTE...
...Perhaps Wolfe avoids some themes (though he has done so less than anyone else in the range of his debunking) because he loves his life style too much...
...To the Editors: Although I am not a Roman Catholic I have always held a great deal of respect for that Church and John Tracy Ellis's "The Place of History" [Jan...
...Strong political action against family planning, abortion, birth control, etc., can backfire and undo so much good that has been done...
...We all have our dinosaurs...
...WILLIAM B. GRAY Ordinary Humbug Lexington, Ky...
...The work of the great and strong individuals cited by Monsignor Ellis is not always reflected by the Church, but one expects that when it is expedient the Church will move...
...Is that avoidance not the fault of us all...
...Yes, most writers remain poor and struggling, but Powers surely would not pretend that some are not pretentious, and despite his conclusion grants his points earlier...
...I remember that Gregory gave Augustine a lot of latitude when he arrived in England where there was already a brand of Christianity...
...THE REV...
...Have we not enough moral passion...
...But, there is another possibility and that is that if the hierarchy continues to try to impose its religious beliefs on secular society, the Roman Catholic Church will not endure...
...To the Editors: It is both amusing and sad to see one large talent chide another in the matter of sensibilities (Powers on Wolfe, 'The Lives of Writers," Mar...
...There are indigenous customs expressed through Roman Catholic liturgy and belief wherever one goes...
...One expects and hopes that Rome is flexible enough to prevail through the times we are always in...
...20] gives some confirmation to my feelings...
...On the other hand, I cannot but feel that Rome operates on a certain level of expediency from a bureaucratic point of view...
...His "distant amusing" Powers somewhat deplores is most attractive and revealing to our diverse moral consoiences...
...It is mostly our ordinary humbug that Wolfe exposes...
...3) because it usually ends up in a comparison of whose are more exquisite or relevant, looking more for pimples than for dimples: whose canvas is broader, whose strokes heavier or lighter, whose subjects more elect...
Vol. 105 • April 1978 • No. 8
