Undesirable Alien

Christ, Ronald

volution in the Revolution?!" A little Jesus, East and...

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...While there, he encounters wanted to do was take me along for a the curiously reversed and dispersed HERE ARE TWO more biographies of walk...
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...Why can't they stay at A LIFE OF CHRIST stuff of Burgess went down easily, too home, instead of coming here to Shusaku Endo easily...
...introduction, development, crisis, deNot that Jesus has to be dealt with carved flute...
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...But for sure it pace slow, the history interesting, the straightforward passages flatly and exwill still be around and cherished when tone reverent, as would befit a man who pertly stating the world of the novel...
...self-consciously aware of itself as story, Endo's quiet, unassuming bookment and education I, of course, could more, even, than the gossipy interest of not begin with such flippancy...
...He published could show me a Herod suffering from UNDESIRABLE ALIEN, by Regis Debray, two stories, The Border and Young Man gout, a Jesus who married only to have translated by Rosemary Sheed, Viking, in the Know, and their translation in 1968 his wife die and a Mary who was con- $9.95, 235 pp...
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...tour without our ever being reminded, for tial ally at least in their belief that Chris- Uses imaginary news as a tool in illustrattianity concerns something more than the ing social and theological issues...
...ered from their surprise, I believe those (Continued from page 546) Puritan forebears-given their present Newspaper guide the public realm...
...Checks should be sent to learned to do so well recently, to debate serves reading by interested liturgists...
...Thank good- fragments of our so uncommon life, to quietly, as if his story is to be told ac- ness Jesus, in his real life, opened out of try to get the pieces into a straight line: companied by a simple tune on a hand- town...
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...the personalities of the candidates and on treatment of liturgy and liturgical pracwhat is alleged to be a merely pragmatic tices...
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...As they are caught up in the Commonweal: 574 excitement of an authentic thriller rial ground when the very Pope of Rome dramatizing a revolutionary question in says a Mass on Boston Common...
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...I'd wanted Caribbean to join the revolutionary to be swept away and all my friend Endo Paul Wilkes movement...
...they came to grief none the less...
...Nine Silence in church mercy convoys have reached the stricken amalgam" and then disintegrate into factionalism...
...What I believe we need is to learn relevantly-oriented liturgists will find in how to argue these issues with some this article food for thought...
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...Published struction weapons (that their use is a monthly for creative play...
...Once back with Endo I felt I was in the A comparable attempt at forcing a company of a good, old friend, a baker of perspective on experience through ficMAN OF NAZARETH substantial whole wheat loaves...
...I quickly flagged...
...Curiously, Thibaud believes that "the debate itself" and not some foreordained our time, the chief representative in the whole world...
...The sweet "They're making a close study of Re- rians...
...which sold 300,000 copies in Japan-is trying to figure out whether Frank's adSo, I started with Endo and found the not going to sell anything like that in ventures were really Debray's-are the America, I wouldn't think...
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...And from the West, An- nouement...
...round...
...But he also seems strangely re- Thomas Professor of Divinity Because of the threat of "mass starvaticent to allow that debate to make Harv4rd University tion" there, Catholic Relief Services seeks explicit reference to religious groundings to expand its aid in food and medicines to lest it produce Some "politico-religious Cambodians at the Thailand border...
...In their world there was order tianity really has little or nothing to say than three times...
...The traditionally-oriented and the Health Center basis...
...But Burgess seems like the kind of Undesirable Alien, inevitably, as Dethe story of Jesus is to marshal a support- fellow who, if he were trying to illustrate bray's attempt to order his own experithe "new freedom" of women religious ing cast of grotesqueries, set the whole ence...
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...Thus, in addition to the narthony Burgess who obviously feels facts soooo solemnly, nor for that fact, accu- rative of undercover struggle, we read are springboards and the only way to tell rately...
...As if by making something what really comes across in the bookFaced with these two books and being common and ordinary, he can make it more than the chi-chi format of a story old-school Catholic by both tempera- strikingly apparent...
...The Lake Orion, Mich...
...BOX very explicit teaching about mass deGod...
...Additional funds are urgently needed "by CRS for its Southeast Asian opposite one, however, is that we will To the Editors: The article by J. Patrick Refugee Fund to "help save as many lives continue to do what we Americans have Dobel on liturgical silence [Aug...
...spiracies of the oil companies or cruel RONALD CHRIST abandonment of New England factory Married Priests towns by corporations rushing toward the CORPUS-National Association Reless unionized Sun Belt...
...Eleven as to what had exactly happened and who much a part of the reality and mythology years later, Debray is still a better esthis person was growing inside her...
...of making the revolution in Latin sayist and polemicist than storyteller...
...Road 23/303, Ranchi 834008, India (Airthe sod of the nearby King's Chapel bu- mail: 310...
...Give us India...
...Hey, do you terizing cliches ("The fact of the matter who thought he could make a whole meal know what they're doing up there in the is that in our day history has become too of a ice cream sundae gopped high with Sierra...
...But then, slowly it dawned on me with America that he cannot resist referring to Yet readers will look past Frank's characthe creeping awareness of a little boy them in this his first novel...
...Surely the danger is there...
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...A little Jesus, East and West later the same character adds, "Christ, I wish these tinpot philosophers would .leave us in peace...
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...by Helen R. Lane is far superior to that of fused all the way through her pregnancy Regis Debray's earlier writings are so the novel by Rosemary Sheed...
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...They provide the only medical help like poison for decades now, sensing that more Dr...
...is trying to tell his people, the Japanese, Burgess publishes his next dozen "The underground has its own of a man they know as little about as we excesses-which shouldn't take him too aristocracy-an aristocracy of very long...
...In other words, not only the personal, ways we interact there is a danger that in seeking to avoid with each other...
...evangelize the Indians...
...1122 should be sent to Sister Paula churning that will take place in the graves 250 or 300 words naturally have a better De Block, Ursuhne Provincialate, Kanke of those Puritan divines who lie beneath chance of being published...
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...In brief mediately caught up in the fancy foot- Despite the book's jacket, this is not work of a much more talented writer who Debray's "first fiction...
...Good absence-and the highest title of all is intentions, my friend, but...
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...asks one of his characters, serious a matter to be left to the histothick, creamy butterscotch...
...bureaucracy of the insurgents, takes part the most written-about man in his- Burgess's book is the stepchild of his in some deadly shoot-outs and falls in tory...

Vol. 106 • October 1979 • No. 18


 
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