A Time of Death:
Sanders, Ivan
cutting down the patient's rights in mal- should not obscure the realities of the tained scrutiny that facilitates the kind of practice cases. medical-negligence...
...her children, unable to sit, unable to toured revolutionized Cuba and received the "Saints Process and Procedure, stand, yet speaking to them about hope, Overseas Press Club's 1974 Citation for Ex- show us how to organize...
...66c, three much a paean to Serbian fortitude as a Though he doesn't huddle in the times...
...Experience in law seizes the perfect psychological moment now over Austria-Hungary, we Serbs enforcement and some experience in corto mount an attack on the enemy...
...that resonate with meaning Austrian counterpart as easily as he can Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...All kinds of feelings belong to upon them...
...and that commitment to life that she im- column for the National Catholic Reporter...
...For what can like animals, that "mail," those chips of JACK RIEMER there possibly be left to say that hasn't wood, made them feel human...
...hood, the bishop even offers a list of And urging them to add to that humanity, RABBI JACK RIEMER is the editor of Jewish saints and a litany for conservatives: to nourish it and increase it...
...by medical treatment...
...Send powerful neighbor and abandoned by her doesn't fight for victory and glory, but contributions to Amnesty International allies...
...There are a MICHAEL HARRINGTON is Chairman of the becoming cynical...
...When General Misic is asked to knows for what it must die...
...monologue here...
...Apostles James and John, `Sons parted lived on in those children who JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN is an associate pro- of Thunder' lash heard her and took to heart her words...
...one ure the release of 13,000 prisoners...
...He cones to the realization answer is both simple and outraging: the Yugoslav reader has no choice but to that war is inevitable, eternal, andinsurance industry manufactured the accept this appraisal, even if he feels that clearly echoing Tolstoy's theories as ex"crisis" and then exploited it to the hilt measured against classic war novels pounded in the final chapters of War and in order to recoup serious investment los- Dobrica Cosid's massive work, a shor- Peace-believes that "statesmen could ses the companies incurred in the stock tened version of an even vaster cycle of decide questions relating to the progress, market...
...The merchants will fleece us peasants FOR FORMER RELIGIOUS (men and He rejects "the strategy of maps and staff twice as much as they used to...
...entrance into religious life, and for decringes when his officers use impersonal When the peasants are made to talk too' layed or late-blooming religious vocamilitary jargon or hackneyed journalistic much likepeasants...
...But as a federal study has proved, domness is missing...
...medical-negligence dilemma...
...couple of scenes that I think will stay writes, "some saints have dropped out of His most recent book is The Vast Majority with me for some time to come because (Simon and Schuster...
...A report by Tolstoy in Serbia the Rand Corporation, published last June in the prestigious New England A TQIE OF DEATH War and Peace, though Cosid invites Journal of Medicine, verifies this de- comparison, not only by making pointed bunking of the complaint that malprac- Dobrica Cosic references to the Russian masterpiece, tice claims have reached a disproportion- Translated by Muriel Heppel but by reaching conclusions about war ate level...
...But when WRITE: Fr...
...went to war against America, who some- Americans and had prodded her often, how managed to obtain a second set of how strange it felt to look into a mirror...
...And one more image from this book SHEPHERD'S PIE, by Norbert Gaughan, Yet this book takes hold of you as you will stay with me...
...I been an excruciating book to write...
...Today the nation faces a "products claims or excessive awards...
...becomes a poignant tribute to have them arrive a day after Hungary her to begin to dress and act like all other human dignity And perseverence...
...sight through the liturgical calendar reviof their simplicity, their purity, and their sion...
...The victor will of war are concentrated in comprehensi- Spokane, Wash...
...Perhaps it is because A Time of The flimflammery provoking the out- scribed scenes...
...defeating the Classified is too sophisticated an artist to exploit Austro-Hungarian Empire...
...The The author may have had War and the fate or survival of a nation...
...Lecture-discussion dates now available take over as Commander of the First The Serbian people may have been for Fall 1979-Spring 1980...
...percentage of patients harmed by faulty care bring claims against the doctors responsible for their suffering...
...Armand Nigro, S.J., small country over a powerful one, is the immense destruction and dislocation VILLA MARIA E. 418 Mission Ave...
...Louis University...
...It must have how made her way to America and I was suspicious about this book...
...Saints Status Quo and 'Goodonly four more days, and yet that vision JACK DICK writes a regular book review Old-Days, take us back...
...to deliver a final, decisive blow, while own name and their own grave...
...Saints Programmatic and Chart, them that out there, when it is all over JOSEPH A. PAGE is a professor at the demonstrate our lines of comthere will be a world waiting for them, Georgetown University Law Center...
...is a painful book to read...
...But expected it to be another silly example of don't know which to marvel at the more like all the survivors she lives from then those books offering warm fuzzies in the as you read it: the capacity for cruelty, on in two worlds...
...manity...
...fighting for its life does he findd the Combat imprisonment and torture of politNevertheless, as a historical novel A strength to spur his men on...
...if anything it highis why he is made the leader of a collaps- lights them...
...People will fight for their 10023...
...papers for them, this time for Israel, only and put...
...have at last become a real nation in the rections...
...The Austrians are preparing sheepfolds...
...same rhetoric and the same proposed solAs The Malpractitioners vividly There is a broader issue, however, that utions...
...63c, six times...
...War does not obliterate N.Y...
...But because he is a brilliant of a student battalion have difficulty ad- CORPUS-National Association Restrategist and an uncommonly sensitive justing to their plebeian comrades' ways, signed/Married Priests...
...military "malpractice insurance, in the year of vival during World War One, hardly leaders could defend or conquer lands or the industry's `crisis,' was on the whole, qualifies as a masterpiece...
...For Cosid, as for Tolstoy, war on the aggregate undercompensated for Ivan Sanders becomes a metaphor for the human conthe amount of economic loss inflicted dition...
...There are no citizens groups bill...
...He can identify with his than three times...
...Thus, some companies require thing like that from War and Peace...
...are evidently capable of inflicting, or the important and she lives in the knowledge Norbert Gaughan, auxiliary bishop of amount of resiliency, the capacity to en- that she once inhabited a world in which a Greensburg, Pennsylvania, writes like dure and survive that human beings are crumb of bread or an ounce of kindness Erma Bombeck, Edwin Newman and evidently capable of revealing...
...the balance...
...Isabella Leitner some- The Thomas More Association, $8.95, read it and it stays with you afterwards...
...wood and carved messages to them, mes- such a sense of responsibility to the fuAnother book about the holocaust...
...A peasant Stoltz, 1142 Afford Ave., Birmingham, Al...
...I was misthe amount of sadism that human beings where dates and parties and luxuries are taken...
...Army, he stoically agrees and braces united in their resolve to repel the enemy, Stephen J. Kelleher, Sacred Heart himself for the worst...
...perhaps that class distinctions...
...The exact reverse is true...
...telling them that despite what they now tvAN SANDERS teaches English at Suffolk And in a spirit of Catholic brothersee there is such a thing as humanity...
...And it is often hard to Isaiah the Prophet rolled into oneThe book is made up of a series of brief offering wit, perception and clarity...
...weariness and suspicion...
...There is too much emulates Tolstoy, even if what he writes about 40 percent of these incidents never crucial dialogue and -revealing interior "doesn't come out 100 percent, it's still lead to claims by patients...
...10019...
...Saints Input and Feedback, help road train on the way to Auschwitz with JOE NICHOLSON, author of Inside Cuba, us to communicate...
...Such an the Serbian army, running out of provi- army can do everything, but only when it Divorced Catholics sions, shells, men, is down to drafting is fighting for survival, when it sees...
...She lived Reflections on Death (Schocken...
...You somehow rejoined the human race...
...VILLA MARIA provides a year-long opphrases about the war...
...Unfortunately," he Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee...
...bound to be short-lived...
...At the larded with cliches and stock responses, spiritual direction, in cooperation with a end he is convinced that Serbia's victory the reader wearies of the novel, and of the JESUIT UNIVERSITY...
...ACCORDING to a Yugoslav-born war," says the tenacious and compasTherefore, what is one to make of the American critic, A Time of Death sionate General Misic who succeeds in controversy over premium costs...
...Pain and Profit stresses that novels about Serbia's struggle for sur- liberty, and rights of a people...
...fessor of political science at the University of out bolts of lightning at those who I think of that father who had escaped Masspchusetts, Amherst...
...cities...
...We are a ical prisoners...
...The non- onslaught...
...Ac- "can already be considered to be the best rallying his army after the Austrian cording to the books under review, the novel in Serbian literature...
...But neither of them could decide a profitable line for the industry...
...over mighty Austria, the triumph of any author's compulsion to tell all...
...Patients corporation chicanery that made a profitNow that the dust has settled and the are indeed sustaining injuries or worse, able "crisis" out of medical malpractice...
...snapshots...
...In each one a whole world REVIEWERS Gaughan's prose is crisp...
...He has a joie de comes together: life and death, horror vivre and an ability to write satire without and humanity, intermingle...
...Box 2649, man, an intellectual as .well as a man of while they, seasoned veterans though Chicago, 60690...
...Something by which a man can be bloated by the technique of assign- hears the screams of men hit by shrapnel, and a nation survived and endured, even ing monetary values to non-existent and exclaims: "I don't remember any- though a time of death prevailed claims...
...No, this authors give examples of how insurers Peace in mind all along...
...Isaac Bashevis Singer is probaclaims and carry them on their books as tative types, but Tolstoy's willed ran- bly right in saying that when' a" wfftbr losses...
...I think of the brother, Philip, who was Fragments of Isabella is a book that FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA, A "Memoir of caged in a different section of Planet Au- tells a story we have heard before, but it Auschwitz, by Isabella Leitner, edited schwitz from his sisters and who some- tells it with such poignancy and such with, an epilogue by Irving A. Leitner, how acquired a knife and found pieces of depth, such a commitment to life and Thomas Cromwell, $7.95, 128 pp...
...Our of- women) who seriously consider reofficers, and of history books," and ficers will get promotions and medals...
...The wanted to communicate the reality of war power that lay below the surface of all Malpractitioners provides further sup- even more graphically than Tolstoy visible facts, and above all measurable port to this charge, demonstrating losses did-in one battle scene a student soldier strength...
...only for the Serbian reader...
...The insur- practitioners and Pain and Profits will medical negligence prove that but a small ance industry enjoys a freedom from sus- hopefully have a spill-over effect...
...Moreover, tice, and how to provide just and liability crisis," complete with soaring the cure being peddled to state legislators adequate compensation for those harmed liability premiums, institutional ads, the did not deal with the real problems...
...speakable...
...Classified payable study of a people in mortal danger-there trenches, Misic is well aware of the ter- with order...
...diocese of Munster, is Adjunct Professor of possibilities...
...Contact Msgr...
...that are remarkably close to Tolstoy's addition, those who sue and recover are views...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 the novel...
...Essentially a loner dents are portrayed as disillusioned portunity for serious discernment with and a brooder, Misic becomes a super- idealists...
...He abhors destrucmay vaguely sense the reverberations, tion, and only because he knows Serbia is Amnesty International but he can not be moved by them...
...too many neatly de- good...
...Of course, it may be un- Death is such a perfect example of nacry over malpractice insurance costs fair to compare every realist war novel to tional literature that its significance Commonweal: 412 wanes when read in translation, in a dif- the law of this world...
...would dare Commonweal: 414...
...human life again...
...How strange it felt to to have them arrive four weeks after Hit- move from the animal world back into In brief ler entered Hungary...
...In late 1914 Serbia's fate hangs in for homes and children, meadows and USA, 2112 Broadway, New York N.Y...
...facts have been winnowed from the legitimate disputes over claims continue Government officials seem unable or rhetoric, the "crisis" begins to take on to arise and physicians have real con- unwilling to dig out the true facts and' aspects of the proverbial three-dollar cerns about the way society resolves figures...
...independent-minded Misic...
...Vengeance nationalist feelings-the book is not so awaits us, inescapable vengeance...
...An Situation Wanted he is determined to defend the mountain officer, who in civilian life is a professor, YOUNG WOMAN with Bachelor's degree ridge where his army is deployed, orders rejoices in his country's good fortune, in Social Welfare and Master's degree in a tactical retreat only when its positions and proudly proclaims: "After our vic- Criminal Justice desires teaching position become totallx untenable, and later tories over Turkey and Bulgaria, and with Catholic college...
...In Harcourt, Brace, $10.95, 437 pp...
...action, he achieves the impossible...
...It how survived the holocaust and some- 250 pp...
...She lives in a society name of relevant theology...
...sages urging them to stay alive and to ture, that it deserves to be read and Another attempt to speak about the un- continue to believe in the sanity of hu- studied-and taken to heart...
...horse, a student .rushing to his death to cue his family, who had managed to She writes of how strange it felt for the prove he is, not a coward-thenA Time of obtain papers to America for them only to first time, after her aunt had pleaded with Death...
...Both books attempt to monitoring insurers...
...telling them to stay alive, promising cellence for foreign reporting...
...Can Serbia have ferent cultural milieu...
...For example, the members Married Priests ing army...
...munication...
...was important...
...The High Com- but they did not share the same dreams or Church, 457 West 51st Street, New York, mand is not particularly fond of the the same futures...
...monthly in advance for more are a great many names, places, dates in rors of war...
...In a helpful spirit we offer other FATHER JOHN JAY HUGHES, a priest of the artlessness...
...It, too, paints a broad for not measuring up to a supreme masinsurers then put dollar figures on these canvas and fills it with a host of represen- terpiece...
...6 July 1979: 413 a soldier desperately searching for his Europe in order to find some way to res- keep the two worlds together in her soul...
...For him war is not so many clever on like it used to making us pay taxes...
...One is the mother stuffed into that rail- History at St...
...The outsider with his foot soldiers...
...The lessons taught by The Malpoints out, statistics on the incidence of emerges from these books...
...Send applications to: Cathy Like all leaders, Misic takes calculated historical sense of the word...
...and REMARRIAGE AND EUCHARIST students...
...doctors to report every incident that but the novel lacks Tolstoy's luminous As we said, a novel cannot be faulted might conceivably result in a claim...
...already been said before...
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...when conversations between daily Mass and prayer, religious commuoptimist when others despair and a skep- generals and junior officers are inter- nity living, theological renewal and tical observer when others exult...
...Community College in Selden, New York...
...but he is genuinely concerned about his different light: "The government will go men...
...Religious Life stratagems but a desperate human drama...
...throughout the world...
...Even though Cosic any hope of peace, after...
...99202 be savagely punished for transgressing ble tragedies-a father mourning his son, 509-327-1440...
...While malpractice insurance pre- these conflicts...
...If we pay no heed to miums did skyrocket, the causes of these grapple with the bona fide problems of history, we shall be condemned to repeat increases had little to do with unjustified how to reduce the incidence of malprac- it...
...The and urgent realism...
...they are, defer to the new recruits beAgainst the advice of his fellow officers, cause of the novices' social position...
...Join Amnesty International, Time of Death documents convincingly peasant army, that means a defensive which in the 60s and 70s has helped secthe ordeal of a small nation overrun by a army," he tells one of his officers...
...risks, and is tough and ruthless at times, soldier views the same victory in quite a 35226...
...when too 'many stu- tions (including previously married...
...When everything else in their Would that there could be a Hungarian One approaches this new book with environment conspired to make them feel edition-and a German one too...
...on lipstick...
...he may have was decided by some other force, some set their rates by manipulating data...
Vol. 106 • July 1979 • No. 13
