Fools Die
Druska, John
appear in the book; and Berg reveals Per- Street. Wolfe's emotionalism was gar- ten to do so because their privilege af- kins's gift for identifying talented writers gantuan, and endless...
...But if Puzo's sort of of an irreconcilable theological opposi- and perseverance not only of Mr...
...The laity were mounting the outdoor Index of American Periodical Verse, and Book Belfast, Northern Ireland Review Digest...
...Conversions at the University they can join the middle class...
...22] calls to Telegraph...
...We time to quarrel...
...I sym- boy's con to another establishment scam, best-sellers, but filmable ones...
...Wolfe parison with the more commercialized level his actors for him and punctuate his invaded not only Perkins's office at world of publishing today, that Perkins novel much as it does the TV news, Puzo Scribners, but also his home on East 49th was a man of towering integrity...
...One finishes the biography punishing their missteps with death...
...laymen and one woman speaking out- any article in any paper) it is a waste of Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but cannot be considered or returned unless accompanied by a doors in New York...
...Certainly the recent history of which ends all dispute...
...learning and genuine understanding...
...75 and 83: Liberation have found ourselves in the last ditch...
...deeply, and after Wolfe's death in 1938, lcrs he portrays as "degenerate Quite a bit of the anecdotal material Perkins seemed to lose interest in life, gamblers...
...3], but I object to her statement But the paper, with individual memwallowing in nostalgia...
...It may not ble and truly liberal role during the recent the whole country getting from Christ in satisfy the vertical mind's desire for inhis church all that we ourselves were stant individual perfection or martyr- crisis in the North...
...tified...
...Wolfe's emotionalism was gar- ten to do so because their privilege afkins's gift for identifying talented writers gantuan, and endless scenes were played fords them this privilege...
...But since the latter (That departure in spelling from the performance of his art today is reprehennetted him just $3500 and $3000, he was hero's magical namesake is about the ex- sible to the extent that it claims more and moved to- overcome his naivete about tent of symbolic subtlety here...
...book is a boon to those dissatisfied JOHN L. McKENZIE and/or worried over the often harmful effects of available contraceptives, as well as to those whose religions ban their Correspondence use...
...We another matter...
...Lilley fools deserve to die...
...the move...
...Thomas'.More was full editorial discretion to his local alive in Chicago as he was not in his own zoff wish for black people except that editors was so fully evident and jusChelsea...
...serves only one side of our community...
...tament...
...12.50, paper $6.95...
...Here S. and I I am not in the paper's employ: I am a of Israelite religion, Judaism and Chris- differ, and neither of us stands alone in retired schoolmaster, the institution tianity...
...48106...
...A. Schroth seriously misinformed him- News Service...
...church and saw them as peripheral...
...Society in Britain has chosen a good man Clifton, N.J 300 Na,ih Ze...
...corner of every city...
...explicitly refute Raymond Schroth's alwith it, we will not solve the problem of There was so much Catholic hope, such legations or implications that the paper 1) a surging vitality, so many Catholics on interracial justice...
...The his response to Jesus is abundantly clear...
...had thought we were in the front line...
...Top marks to editor John Sayers and assistant Martin Walgetting...
...Puzo-Merlyn the tion...
...ROBERT KAMBIC Director, Natural Family Planning For Complete Information (Continued from page 66) St...
...more, through his perpetuation of publishers-a notion "that (they) cared I admire Mario Puzo's perceptions of American pulp...
...Correspondence memory...
...And a bouquet to tertons, the more learned among us like more bread to go around...
...Nor can either of us estab- where I last served has as the motto under of the Old Testament and the New Tes- lish his position with that conviction its coat of arms "Quaerere verum...
...Paul shows almost no bited, satisfying) sex life must include a knowledge of "the historical Jesus," but natural method of contraception...
...Farmington Hills, Mich...
...Belfast 'Telegraph' Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index...
...tricks (stolen from classical tragedy and appear living and real, with the charm In Berg's biography, Perkins is often diluted through melodrama) of entrapand vulnerability that fascinated other eclipsed by the authors he devotedly ping most of his characters in their foibiographers...
...but if Jews cease to be Jews or Christians cease to be Christians...
...We talked happily of platforms in every headed "In Belfast No More Songs...
...22] had me [Dec...
...Second, as to the seeming disparagement of middle class, perhaps our 2) takes its orders in editorial policy from We knew where we were, we knew the financier who (quite true) owns it...
...It's paid pathize with his poor boy's sense of the off so handsomely that Puzo has con- unprivileged writer's struggle in com- Why toy with translations, when you con tinued his walk along the downward path mercialized and stratified America...
...The Godfather is not as good as telling of his hero Merlyn's adventures...
...I share his feelings that a lot of those indents of any race, color and national or world, the crooked world and the classy who've been set up to pass judgment on ethnic origin end without regard to sex or handicap...
...All this laced with plenty writers, to enshrine art for us, have got19 16 February 1979: 93 thank Anne Makletzoff for the golden short extract suffices to show this...
...This is not the same as the unity his position...
...Nor do I To the Editor: I would like to refer you believe that the late Adolf Hitler should and D. W. Odell [Correspondence, influence my judgment of a theological November 24] to a book which addresses problem which is far more ancient than the whole question of the interplay beHitler, and clearly outlives him...
...I'm more conwithout as yet seeing anything they had tween Wolfe and his cast-off but still cerned that it's bad Puzo...
...It has always had Puzo's alter ego Merlyn, one of the I am compelled to ask whether the book a readership in both parts of the commufew surviving stars in Fools Die, talks may not seek an irenicism which is impos- nity in the North and has regarded all six superciliously about fools dying, though sible...
...Commonweal: 66 equating him with his sold-out charac- ture...
...Its 150,000 readers are Unionists, not interested in The middle yeast criticism of the RUC...
...Second-class postage paid at New York, N.Y...
...helped to bring on the Civil War in Most Influential Irish Newspaper" The,, doctrine of the Mystical Body had America or, in terms of serf and aristocjust been rediscovered (Robert Hugh racy, that produced the Communist Re- award, announced by the Dublin fortnightly Hibernia...
...4) is staffed saw the defects of the institutional by cowards, not only moral but physical...
...all Jews agree, is that Jesus was not the have in their professional knapsacks but Messiah...
...Joseph Hospital WRITE 1977, "The Golden Pen of Freedom," awarded by the Newspaper Society of Britain...
...A York, 1978...
...3) where we wanted to go, the Faith was greatest failure is that we have not been able to export our idea of the middle class does not venture, in reporting or in the Faith, sin was sin, Jesus was the leader-writing, to criticize the governChrist, and Mary was his Mother...
...Shivanandan, "Her thesis is to state except in bland generalities what that a natural (i.e., rewarding, uninhihe represents...
...essence of the matter lies in the fact that lines about the French Revolution: the approving voices are no sycophants Bliss was in it that dawn to be First, I believe that the basic problem of British rule or Ulster Unionism, and in alive is fear, not hatred and indifference...
...Maklet- Roy Thompson, whose policy of leaving young Maritains...
...1968, "The Christ was the point, the center point...
...the IRA or the...
...I found myself "how oppressed I am to this day by the breathing the air of those years, filling hatred and indifference of middle class bers of its staff, has frequently received my lungs with it, living it...
...Harlem and Chicago [Dec...
...The Telegraph earned a fine mind a UPI interview last month with Commonweal: 94...
...I do not tween human sexuality and natural fammean to imply that S.'s work carries this ily planning...
...Jesus and Paul totally rejected the Law as praise...
...Yet Sayers in the 1960s...
...They But to be young was very heaven...
...We dreamed of and a peaceful evolution...
...and your writer Raymond Illustrations: Cover, pp...
...rapproachment which will lead to a But I do not believe it is quite fair to Back to natural more humane set of relations in the fu- maintain that National Socialism was the Lancaster, Pa...
...And learn the real thins to popular wisdom by penning a novel his bravado -in concocting Fools Die- BIBLICAL GREEK AND HEBREW he'd probably be the first to rank below the stunts he pulls to support a structure SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM The Godfather...
...offense we may concede that we know so Publishers Weekly (November 27) little of Jesus that it becomes impossible says of Ms...
...Sloyan attempts to show the continuity a principle of salvation...
...Ulster Defense Association (UDA) would bring a knock at the To the Editors: Anne Makletzoff s arti- To the Editors: I read with interest Mrs...
...As it is the section dealing with Wolfe, who with the impression, particularly in com- he lets death, with gratuitous regularity, became the son Perkins never had...
...Of Britain, yes...
...ethnic-outcast's uses, his demoralizing the preceding two...
...The prose throughout sounds as uni- seems stuck now going around in that old formly infelicitous, as profoundly super- revolving door of success, which leads to John Brushs ficial and pretentiously didactic, as the literature's bargain basement...
...The existence of a award the panel said, "This independent out only twenty years before) and there middle class really encourages freedom Unionist paper has followed an honourawas intoxication in it...
...drawing on p. 73 by John Findley So my nostalgia ends somberly, and self in facts about our local evening from "The Hog Book" (Doubleday/Dolphin, New one can't wallow in somberness...
...won't be hit over the head with and may Mario Puzo started his career trying to Marco Puzo even find interesting...
...Facts however are stamped, self-addressed envelope...
...This effort is written with profound reputation for liberalism under Jack ters...
...door or a bomb through the office wincle on early days in Friendship House in Makletzoff s article on Friendship House dow...
...I understand Puzo PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Die roughly sketches the interlocked his- more than I do some of the critics who've Priucuton, New Jersey 05540 tories of honchos in several familiar Puzo panned this book because of its trash ap- Princeton Theological Seminary admits worlds: "`the poor struggling genius peal...
...It he gets hemmed in a little himself by and Christians must be sought in the face has been distinguished by the courage death at the end...
...Humane relations between Jews counties as its area of distribution...
...Until we face this powerful emotion and deal the reasons that those voices give...
...he Putnam, $12.50, 572 PP...
...But I newspaper, the Belfast Telegraph...
...Jews have always been candid in but of those who write, print and distrinovelist, ego-tripping along, has been stating that the fundamental tenet of bute it, and thus carry on a tradition that writing a while already on borrowed Judaism, perhaps the only tenet on which newspapermen generally are expected to time...
...issue of a theological dispute...
...by It is, however, a point of difference came between Sayers and LilleyGerard S. Sloyan, Westminster, $4.95, between Christian theologians whether Eugene Wason-and earned similar 209 pp...
...And just in case Hollywood doesn't pick up an option on this Poor boy makes bad book, he's stacked it with subplots enough to stake some needy TV network FOOLS DIE of sex, some complicated ideas you to at least a lucrative mini-series...
...h Road 19 $edlo,d Row for its Golden Pen of Freedom award in To the Editors: Your editorial "MilitAnn A,Io,• Nil 4B'p6 London, WC1 R 4EJ L...A Ergland Mr...
...Microfilm from Vol...
...and an expose of Wallow in bliss Jersey City, N.J...
...Perhaps nowhere in the history of Die appears a shoddy offset job whose them share his belief in them...
...Anywhere else...
...there are plenty more: another editor IS CHRIST THE END OF THE LAW...
...If his above quote from the surviving kernel of middle-classifying of the novelist's art Ill HAVE written three novels," Mario a late great novelist's unfinished master- has been admirable in light of his turning Puzo said in The Godfather Pa- piece, which Puzo invents to instigate the Wasp-spun American dreams to an pers...
...Puzo's talents and conabout art" -and to capitalize on the bus- ethnic life (see The Fortunate Pilgrim science, reducing a calculated pooriness of writing not only publishable and The Godfather Papers...
...that this opposition can be resolved only Two examples are probably enough In brief for your readers,if this reaches them...
...levels the practice of his craft and art to arch craftiness...
...Both Jews and Christians agree less frequently are called on to use...
...We to third and fourth world nations...
...but hear the Irish New Right (to life) Times from Dublin: "The Newspaper CkP, F A. Oegi...
...The result has been the dichotomy between ment or the security forces...
...of Chicago had us thinking about New- VIRGINIA M. MITCHELL (Continued on page 94) man's Oxford Movement of a hundred Commonweal is indexed in Readers Guide to years earlier...
...dom...
...To direct his picaresque acdealing with Fitzgerald and Hemingway withdrawing more and more into his tions toward some semblance of an endseems hoary with age, and there are few work, and dying in 1947 of pneumonia, ing Puzo resorts to the old Hollywood new revelations about them, and yet they but actually of overwork and exhaustion...
...crash the top floors of literary fame...
...Washington, Pittsburgh, New Orleans...
...There are still two With the tone of this article (or indeed of Copyright © 1979 Commonweal Publishing Co...
...Roy Lilley, Editor of the Belfast ants and the Military" [Dec...
...FRANK SHEED He wrote: "The Telegraph is part of Lord Thompson's chain...
...They might rap (sometimes merely by meeting them, out, involving Perkins in a crossfire be- Fools Die as a bad novel...
...Ironically, however, it was compiling this package marks him a deand who most often engage the reader's through Wolfe that Perkins lived most generate novelist akin to those Vegas rolinterest...
...Shades of the awards for its merit, and however widely round in my head went Wordsworth's 1960s when it was fashionable to hate the or not the awarding body is known, the middle class...
...1, 1924, to platforms of the Catholic Evidence Guild current issues available through University Micin New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, To the Editors: I have only lately seen a rofilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...I am ready to HUGH C. FAY the relations between Jews and Gentiles admit that it has been difficult to keep the justifies any attempt to move towards a difference in views purely theological...
...Round and society" to the blacks...
...on the immense scale he's conceived- June 4 - July 27 Awkwardly narrated from multiple, reveals at least shadows of a real randomly juggled points-of-view, Fools novelist's daring...
...written), helping them to see the struc- hysterically clinging lover Aline Berns- Putnam's "First Impression" of Fools ture and form for their work, and making tein...
...In making the Benson's Christ in the Church had come volution in Russia...
...A more subtle threat, I Mary Shivanandan (Rawson, Wade think, is that out of a desire to avoid (Atheneum, dist...
...What do such people as Mrs...
...copy of your article of August 4th, Serials Data Program No.: ISSN 0010-3330...
...The book is Natural Sex by implication...
...slave and master, the same division that I quote from quite a long list...
...But it does offer more opportunites lace, who have obviously had to withWe felt like young Bellocs and Ches- to be yeast in the dough because there is stand a lot of pressure...
...But it is publishing has an editor given so much of print fades on some pages and, in the case Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Wolfe who himself for a gifted but chaotic young of odd letters, vanishes...
...literary world...
...To the extent that there is an served, but the essence of Maxwell Per- bles and/or the accidents of fortune, and emotional center in a work so objective, kins is felt...
...Puzo's role in have spacious prominence in the work, writer...
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