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Dick, Jack & Elshtqin, Jean Bethke & Riemer, Jack
a soldier desperately searching for his horse, a student .rushing to his death to prove he is, not a coward--thenA Time of Death becomes a poignant tribute to human dignity and perseverence. In...
...When everything else in their environment conspired to make them feel like animals, that" mall," those chips of wood, made them feel human...
...Powerholders need to be convinced that advancing knowledge is not a luxury...
...JACK DICK writes a regular book review column for the National Catholic Reporter...
...Above all, we need to tell truth to one another--in charity, of course...
...For all kind of pragmatic and economic reasons, research, particularly in the humanities, lives an increasingly tenuous life these days...
...Gaughan's prose is crisp...
...JAMES R. LANGFORD Director University of Notre Dame Press 6 July 1979:415 a soldier desperately searching for his horse, a student .rushing to his death to prove he is, not a coward--thenA Time of Death becomes a poignant tribute to human dignity and perseverence...
...Partisans on all sides of religious battles pile up words like dead bodies to muffle the sounds,of their enemies . . . . "What will rescue us from this empty, meaningless meaning...
...might argue, and these needs constitute a kind ofapriori birthright for every single human infant born into the world...
...In effect we have unplugged ourselves from our lifesupport systems...
...You don't know which to marvel at the more as you read it: the capacity for cruelty, the amount of sadism that human beings are evidently capable of inflicting, or the amount of resiliency, the capacity to endure and survive that human beings are evidently capable of revealing...
...But like all the survivors she lives from then on in two worlds...
...We took away religious symbols," he writes, .because we said they no longer communicate...
...FATHERJOHN JAY HUGHES, a priest of the diocese of M~nster, is Adjunct Professor of History at St...
...And in a spirit of Catholic brotherhood, the bishop even offers a list of saints and a litany for conservatiyes: "Saints Status Quo and,~3ood., Old-Days, take us back...
...Possibly discipfine, Precision, candor, honesty, hard work...
...John Courtney Murray liked to refer to himself as in "the radical middle...
...I think of that father who had escaped Europe in order to find some way to rescue his family, who had managed to obtain papers to America for them only to have them arrive a day after Hungary went to war against America, who somehow managed to obtain a second set of papers for them, this time for Israel, only to have them arrive four weeks after Hitler entered Hungary...
...and put.on lipstick...
...To the extent that a society meets the child's basic needs for nourishment and nurturance it sustains both the individual child's innate "birthright" as well as the moral, basis of its own continued existence...
...In each one a whole world comes together: life and death, horror and humanity, intermingle...
...Above all, we need to tell truth to one another--in charity, of course...
...To the Editors: Congratulations on the excellent article by Jack Miles, "The University Press and The American Mind" [May 25...
...I expected it to be another silly example of those books offering warm fuzzies in the name of relevant theology...
...To the extent that a society is neglectful of a child' s needs-- even, shockingly, systematically neglectful as a direct outgrowth of its public policies--it denies the birthright of the ir)dividual child and erodes the basis of the human community...
...JACK DICK EVERY CHILD'S BIRTHRIGHT: IN DEFENSE OF MOTHERING by Selma Fraiberg, Basic Books, $8.95, 162 pp...
...To the Editors: Congratulations on the excellent article by Jack Miles, "The University Press and The American Mind" [May 25...
...Another book about the holocaust...
...In effect we have unplugged ourselves from our lifesupport systems...
...DENNIS O'BRIEN President, Bucknell Univeristy University presses Notre Dame, Ind...
...I was suspicious about this book...
...it is an essential part of the human enterprise...
...Another book about the holocaust...
...Fraiberg writes powerfully and movingly of the damage we do to our young and of the public policies and private profits that help us to justify to ourselves why we, as a society, can do no better or are, in fact, doing quite well...
...Yet this book takes hold of you as you read it and it stays with you afterwards...
...JACK DICK writes a regular book review column for the National Catholic Reporter...
...Fragments of Isabella is a book that tells a story we have heard before, but it tells it with such poignancy and such depth, such a commitment to life and such a sense of responsibility to the future, that it deserves to be read and studied--and taken to heart...
...Norbert Gaughan's main point in Shepherd's Pie is that contemporary American Catholics are disconnected people...
...The presidency is apolitical post with all the syllables pronounced and politics is the art of the possible-- not the art of making do, but the art of working the complex urges for good that exist in our human world (even among some capitalists and some bureaucrats...
...She writes of how strange it felt for the first time, after her aunt had pleaded with her to begin to dress and act like all other Americans and had prodded her often, how strange it felt to look into a mirror...
...RABBI JAt:X m~ is the editor of Jewish Reflections on Death (Schocken...
...One is the mother stuffed into that railroad train on the way to Auschwitz with her children, unable to sit, unable to stand, yet speaking to them about hope, telling them to stay alive, promising them that out there, when it is all over there will he a world waiting for them, telling them that despite what they now see there is such a thing as humanity...
...In brief FRAGMENTS OF ISABeLLa,, A Memoir of Auschwitz, by Isabella Leitner, edited with an epilog~ce by Irving A. Leituer, Thomas Cromwell, $7.95, 128 pp...
...She lived only four more days, and yet that vision and that commitment to life that she imparted lived on in those children who heard her and took to heart her words...
...University presses may well play an important part in helping this happen...
...Saints Process and Procedure, show us how to organize...
...by Norbert Gaughan, The Thomas More Association, $8.95, 250 pp...
...We trotted out the manufactured symbols which con~municate even less, or convey only sterility, barrenness, alienation...
...Our children, in a society that prides itself on being "childoriented," are abused in large numbers either in their own homes, foster homes, or institutions...
...The book is made up of a series of brief snapshots...
...She writes of how strange it felt for the first time, after her aunt had pleaded with her to begin to dress and act like all other Americans and had prodded her often, how strange it felt to look into a mirror...
...Saints Input and Feedback, help us to communicate...
...And urging them to add to that humanity, to nourish it and increase it...
...In each one a whole world comes together: life and death, horror and humanity, intermingle...
...they are left to wither in overpopulated, overpriced and understaffed day-care centers or to linger in a twilight zone before television sets...
...RABBI JAt:X m~ is the editor of Jewish Reflections on Death (Schocken...
...ters on "'Child Care Industries Incorporated" and "Priorities for Children" condemn what now exists and suggest how we can do better...
...And in a spirit of Catholic brotherhood, the bishop even offers a list of saints and a litany for conservatiyes: "Saints Status Quo and,~3ood., Old-Days, take us back...
...might argue, and these needs constitute a kind ofapriori birthright for every single human infant born into the world...
...I know they aren't as chaste as some of the buzz words of the left or right but I like words like "tolerance," "balance," "prudence," "judiciousness," when discussing politics--if JetTy Brown or Phil Crane have those traits they are discussable as presidents...
...Shepherd's Pie is a Catholic banquet...
...For all kind of pragmatic and economic reasons, research, particularly in the humanities, lives an increasingly tenuous life these days...
...ters on "'Child Care Industries Incorporated" and "Priorities for Children" condemn what now exists and suggest how we can do better...
...If one evaluates a society by how it treats its very Old and its very young, America doesn't do very well...
...Saints Programmatic and Chart, demonstrate our lines of communication...
...Fragments of Isabella is a book that tells a story we have heard before, but it tells it with such poignancy and such depth, such a commitment to life and such a sense of responsibility to the future, that it deserves to be read and studied--and taken to heart...
...And one more image from this book will stay with me...
...His most recent book is The Vast Majority (Simon and Schuster...
...Louis University...
...JOSEPH A. PAGE is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center...
...For what can there possibly be left to say that hasn't already been said before...
...Shepherd's Pie is a Catholic banquet...
...Another attempt to speak about the unspeakable...
...Saints Programmatic and Chart, demonstrate our lines of communication...
...taking the child-centered point of view, Fmiberg amasses a compelling array of evidence'that the world's richest society subjects its children to the risk of an emotional impoverishment that damages or incapacitates them for work, love, and citizenship and does so systematically for its most disadvantaged members, haphazardly, for its.more privileged...
...When everything else in their environment conspired to make them feel like animals, that" mall," those chips of wood, made them feel human...
...it is an essential part of the human enterprise...
...JEAN BZI'i/KE ELSHTAIN is an associate professor of political science at the University of Mass~chasetts, Amherst...
...JAMES R. LANGFORD Director University of Notre Dame Press 6 July 1979:415...
...taking the child-centered point of view, Fmiberg amasses a compelling array of evidence'that the world's richest society subjects its children to the risk of an emotional impoverishment that damages or incapacitates them for work, love, and citizenship and does so systematically for its most disadvantaged members, haphazardly, for its.more privileged...
...Unfortunately," he writes, "some saints have dropped out of sight through the liturgical calendar revis i o n . . . In a helpful spirit we offer other possibilities...
...University presses too are at a crucial junction...
...And our children will continue to be our victims...
...Our children, in a society that prides itself on being "childoriented," are abused in large numbers either in their own homes, foster homes, or institutions...
...Louis University...
...Fraiberg points to a "sobering discovery," one that researchers in infant psychology and within a wide range of other disciplines agree upon, and that is "that the human qualities, of enduring love and commitment to love are forged during the first two years of life...
...I did not believe then (or now) that there is any simple fix, right or left, on our society...
...She lives in a society where dates and parties and luxuries are important and she lives in the knowledge that she once inhabited a world in which a crumb of bread or an ounce of kindness was important...
...JACK DICK EVERY CHILD'S BIRTHRIGHT: IN DEFENSE OF MOTHERING by Selma Fraiberg, Basic Books, $8.95, 162 pp...
...I suspect that research as a culture rallying point in our society will not take hold unless and until serious and engaging programs are launched to make lifelong learning more than a slogan...
...JOE NICHOLSON, author of Inside Cuba, toured revolutionized Cuba and received the Overseas Press Club's 1974 Citation for Excellence for foreign reporting...
...Fraiberg points to a "sobering discovery," one that researchers in infant psychology and within a wide range of other disciplines agree upon, and that is "that the human qualities, of enduring love and commitment to love are forged during the first two years of life...
...Norbert Gaughan, auxiliary bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, writes like Erma Bombeck, Edwin Newman and Isaiah the Prophet rolled into one-offering wit, perception and clarity...
...IVAN SANDERS teaches English at Suffolk Community College in Selden, New York...
...Their primary mission will always be to publish books of enduring merit...
...And urging them to add to that humanity, to nourish it and increase it...
...We trotted out the manufactured symbols which con~municate even less, or convey only sterility, barrenness, alienation...
...How strange it felt to move from the animal world back into human life again...
...JACK RIEMER SHEPHERD'S PIE...
...It must have been an excruciating book to write...
...Would that there could be a Hungarian edition--and a German one too...
...There are a couple of scenes that I think will stay with me for some time to come because of their simplicity, their purity, and their artlessness...
...In brief FRAGMENTS OF ISABeLLa,, A Memoir of Auschwitz, by Isabella Leitner, edited with an epilog~ce by Irving A. Leituer, Thomas Cromwell, $7.95, 128 pp...
...I know they aren't as chaste as some of the buzz words of the left or right but I like words like "tolerance," "balance," "prudence," "judiciousness," when discussing politics--if JetTy Brown or Phil Crane have those traits they are discussable as presidents...
...For what can there possibly be left to say that hasn't already been said before...
...If one evaluates a society by how it treats its very Old and its very young, America doesn't do very well...
...We took away religious symbols," he writes, .because we said they no longer communicate...
...Powerholders need to be convinced that advancing knowledge is not a luxury...
...Our "senior citizens-'" are denied meaning~l activity as citizens and those basic social services that wpuld enable them to end their days, to live out their lives, with dignity and decency...
...We are cut-off from history, langnage, art and symbol...
...There are certain fundamental human needs, she...
...Stevenson lost to the general (the knight in armor) who would fix it simply ("I will go to Korea...
...One finishes her book with a sense of anger that threatens to elide into despair for one knows the many ways in which policy makers and parents alike will deny and evade Fraiberg's testimony...
...The book is made up of a series of brief snapshots...
...I suspect that research as a culture rallying point in our society will not take hold unless and until serious and engaging programs are launched to make lifelong learning more than a slogan...
...But the role of the imiversity press of necessity has expanded to include thoughtful books which .directly apply research to the major issues of our time...
...Norbert Gaughan, auxiliary bishop of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, writes like Erma Bombeck, Edwin Newman and Isaiah the Prophet rolled into one-offering wit, perception and clarity...
...JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN . I Correspondence I that our task was "a long patient and costly struggle that mocked the pretensions of individual acumen and ingenuity...
...Another attempt to speak about the unspeakable...
...Isabella Leitner somehow survived the holocaust and somehow made her way to America and somehow rejoined the human race...
...One finishes her book with a sense of anger that threatens to elide into despair for one knows the many ways in which policy makers and parents alike will deny and evade Fraiberg's testimony...
...John Courtney Murray liked to refer to himself as in "the radical middle...
...There are a couple of scenes that I think will stay with me for some time to come because of their simplicity, their purity, and their artlessness...
...She lives in a society where dates and parties and luxuries are important and she lives in the knowledge that she once inhabited a world in which a crumb of bread or an ounce of kindness was important...
...if not, back to Munchkin land...
...Her chap...
...His most recent book is The Vast Majority (Simon and Schuster...
...He has ajoie de vivre and an ability to write satire without becoming cynical...
...Apostles James and John, 'Sons of Thunder' lash out bolts of lightning at those who would dare Commonweal: 414 to have Mass in any other way or language but the way God established in the Garden of Eden...
...I did not believe then (or now) that there is any simple fix, right or left, on our society...
...Saints Input and Feedback, help us to communicate...
...keep the two worlds together in her soul...
...And it is often hard to I REVIEWERS MIOtAEL HARRING'rON is Chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee...
...Norbert Gaughan's main point in Shepherd's Pie is that contemporary American Catholics are disconnected people...
...Apostles James and John, 'Sons of Thunder' lash out bolts of lightning at those who would dare Commonweal: 414 to have Mass in any other way or language but the way God established in the Garden of Eden...
...The paradox is that as the scope of university press publishing widens, financial support for many presses is dwindling...
...they are left to wither in overpopulated, overpriced and understaffed day-care centers or to linger in a twilight zone before television sets...
...It condemns the child to a half-life and passes against itself, if Fraiberg is correct, a kind of death sentence for without moral beings there can be no moral community...
...It condemns the child to a half-life and passes against itself, if Fraiberg is correct, a kind of death sentence for without moral beings there can be no moral community...
...It is not a pretty picture, all told, and Selma Fraiberg pulls no punches in painting it...
...Would that there could be a Hungarian edition--and a German one too...
...FATHERJOHN JAY HUGHES, a priest of the diocese of M~nster, is Adjunct Professor of History at St...
...Gaughan's prose is crisp...
...I expected it to be another silly example of those books offering warm fuzzies in the name of relevant theology...
...Yet this book takes hold of you as you read it and it stays with you afterwards...
...You don't know which to marvel at the more as you read it: the capacity for cruelty, the amount of sadism that human beings are evidently capable of inflicting, or the amount of resiliency, the capacity to endure and survive that human beings are evidently capable of revealing...
...I think of that father who had escaped Europe in order to find some way to rescue his family, who had managed to obtain papers to America for them only to have them arrive a day after Hungary went to war against America, who somehow managed to obtain a second set of papers for them, this time for Israel, only to have them arrive four weeks after Hitler entered Hungary...
...I was mistaken...
...Stevenson lost to the general (the knight in armor) who would fix it simply ("I will go to Korea...
...I was mistaken...
...How strange it felt to move from the animal world back into human life again...
...keep the two worlds together in her soul...
...It must have been an excruciating book to write...
...It is a painful book to read...
...There are certain fundamental human needs, she...
...Possibly discipfine, Precision, candor, honesty, hard work...
...I think of the brother, Philip, who was caged in a different section of Planet Auschwitz from his sisters and who somehow acquired a knife and found pieces of wood and carved messages to them, messages urging them to stay alive and to continue to believe in the sanity of humanity...
...I think of the brother, Philip, who was caged in a different section of Planet Auschwitz from his sisters and who somehow acquired a knife and found pieces of wood and carved messages to them, messages urging them to stay alive and to continue to believe in the sanity of humanity...
...Writing as a lobbyist for children...
...The paradox is that as the scope of university press publishing widens, financial support for many presses is dwindling...
...Our "senior citizens-'" are denied meaning~l activity as citizens and those basic social services that wpuld enable them to end their days, to live out their lives, with dignity and decency...
...Unfortunately," he writes, "some saints have dropped out of sight through the liturgical calendar revis i o n . . . In a helpful spirit we offer other possibilities...
...JOE NICHOLSON, author of Inside Cuba, toured revolutionized Cuba and received the Overseas Press Club's 1974 Citation for Excellence for foreign reporting...
...One approaches this new book with weariness and suspicion...
...DENNIS O'BRIEN President, Bucknell Univeristy University presses Notre Dame, Ind...
...Their primary mission will always be to publish books of enduring merit...
...if not, back to Munchkin land...
...One approaches this new book with weariness and suspicion...
...But the role of the imiversity press of necessity has expanded to include thoughtful books which .directly apply research to the major issues of our time...
...He has ajoie de vivre and an ability to write satire without becoming cynical...
...and put.on lipstick...
...Isabella Leitner somehow survived the holocaust and somehow made her way to America and somehow rejoined the human race...
...And one more image from this book will stay with me...
...She lived only four more days, and yet that vision and that commitment to life that she imparted lived on in those children who heard her and took to heart her words...
...JOSEPH A. PAGE is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center...
...And our children will continue to be our victims...
...by Norbert Gaughan, The Thomas More Association, $8.95, 250 pp...
...Her chap...
...To the extent that a society meets the child's basic needs for nourishment and nurturance it sustains both the individual child's innate "birthright" as well as the moral, basis of its own continued existence...
...But like all the survivors she lives from then on in two worlds...
...And it is often hard to I REVIEWERS MIOtAEL HARRING'rON is Chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee...
...The presidency is apolitical post with all the syllables pronounced and politics is the art of the possible-- not the art of making do, but the art of working the complex urges for good that exist in our human world (even among some capitalists and some bureaucrats...
...JACK RIEMER SHEPHERD'S PIE...
...I was suspicious about this book...
...Saints Process and Procedure, show us how to organize...
...JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN . I Correspondence I that our task was "a long patient and costly struggle that mocked the pretensions of individual acumen and ingenuity...
...It is not a pretty picture, all told, and Selma Fraiberg pulls no punches in painting it...
...We are cut-off from history, langnage, art and symbol...
...Partisans on all sides of religious battles pile up words like dead bodies to muffle the sounds,of their enemies . . . . "What will rescue us from this empty, meaningless meaning...
...University presses may well play an important part in helping this happen...
...IVAN SANDERS teaches English at Suffolk Community College in Selden, New York...
...University presses too are at a crucial junction...
...Fraiberg writes powerfully and movingly of the damage we do to our young and of the public policies and private profits that help us to justify to ourselves why we, as a society, can do no better or are, in fact, doing quite well...
...Writing as a lobbyist for children...
...One is the mother stuffed into that railroad train on the way to Auschwitz with her children, unable to sit, unable to stand, yet speaking to them about hope, telling them to stay alive, promising them that out there, when it is all over there will he a world waiting for them, telling them that despite what they now see there is such a thing as humanity...
...To the extent that a society is neglectful of a child' s needs-- even, shockingly, systematically neglectful as a direct outgrowth of its public policies--it denies the birthright of the ir)dividual child and erodes the basis of the human community...
...It is a painful book to read...
...JEAN BZI'i/KE ELSHTAIN is an associate professor of political science at the University of Mass~chasetts, Amherst...
Vol. 106 • July 1979 • No. 13
