Ground Fog and Night:

...Norman Mailer's The Naked and the sian clipping file that fleshes (or puffs) It is a book where God is a losing Dead was a warning about the totalitarian out a large section of the book...

...No pirouettes, no somersaults, NEW No last indignity...

...Its irony and statement on the continuous state of dyleft above the fog...

...Maryknol l, NY 10545 McCarthy's best poems are the J 11 May 1979: 283 "The Diagonal Dark Path" counter- These poems confirm that McCarthy is a It may be that Good as Gold, which points these poems by vividly recreating poet, free of his earlier Yeatsian and has had a mixed reception, has arrived the fears and temptations of childhood...

...doubt he would pbt it this way-that our the Kissingerpersona has been presented if I am tired and dejected from a lives do belong to one another...

...his Complete Poems and Plays, Eliot WO so The first book in any language to trace systematically sandwiched his "Old Possum's Book of Lip° the roots of liberation theology in both the Old and New Testaments...

...The Book of Yeats" nier...

...his admiration for Gide in ond collection...

...come:' -GERALD H. ANDERSON...

...Write for complete catalog...

...indifference toward Christianity and the data...

...Thus Heller novels focus with unre- fore Something Happened has been fully 13 years after Catch 22 (1961) for Some- lenting concentration on the real terror, discussed, we must deal with Good as thing Happened (1974) to appear, that darkness, evil and absurdity of contem- Gold, another painful portrait of a bright Joseph Heller's very funny but slightly porary life and death, then pull us but almost empty man watching his soul different third novel, Good As Gold, has through the darkness to the brink of melt in his hands...

...before Something Happened has had time to sink in...

...Jung Young Lee's previous books include...

...English professor and middlewhy...

...Even the hesitate to propose reasons for early criti- foremost an artist...

...would be to simply wait, as did Howard The Principles of Change, and God Suffers for Us...

...off...

...It demonstrates with clarity and grace that questions of Nevertheless, in a slender volume of justice and peace are not merely illustrative in the able...

...The subCommonweal: 282 jects may all be natural, but his attitude weightier ones, those on the human con- The last shot from the brittle bow' is varies...

...lish articles and reviews that will flatter Commonweal: 284...

...But Heller has backed off half-way plain nerves or insomnia, I can al- odd lifespan in the public consciousness...

...to some degree his own share in the com- rity, self-respect, or genuine love...

...Lottman pro- efforts to write for the stage, on the conout despite countless obstacles, after all vide~,, for the writing of those essays, we troversy with Sartre, on the award of the that-the personality of Albert Camus can follow Camus striving to formulate a Nobel Prize, on the tragic death in 1960...

...Yeats, Robert Frost, the Irish poet Austin in Toledo, Ohio...

...philosophy that would exalt the life of the And then they will turn to the books The careful reader of this first biog- senses and at the same time justify politi- themselves, to the monologue of La raphy will wonder what is important, cal action...

...After all the facts Aardvark [Doubleday, 1970...

...Fuller Theological Seminary Paper $12.95 There is, of course, nothing wrong with a serious poet writing light verse...

...Several confront the Charon figure: "I carry you away many on the death of an old Plymouth Rock process of aging, such as "Courage at times / Before the mortician does his hen, one of the book's most memorable: Sixty": Job...

...Another reference...

...remains elusive and ambiguous...

...Many of the slight errors that have His biography does not reveal as morality of the bourgeoisie...

...as Bob Slocum kill himself?, we ask on appropriate challenge for a novelist of I get the willies when I see every page of Something Happened...

...terestedness in political matters and his the universe not being explicable, but But after the corrections of dates and constant preoccupation with justice...

...problem of what to include and what to McCarthy's wide reading of other con- Third, McCarthy celebrates-or discard...

...In his best and 1943, does not totally explain the There is no other biography of Camus, books, La Peste and La Chute, he writes character of Meursault: his concern for although every one of the many critical a controlled but highly charged emo- the physical side of his nature and his studies provides leading biographical tional prose...

...What were was writing his novel L' Etranger and his bert Camus created his own form of Camus's real feelings about Algeria as essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe, so meticul- humanism...

...ousness, even reverence, such as his overtly p"litical poem-"My Lai Con- Another, "Your Garbage Man," is a fine I meditation on fog: "No sign of God is versation, 'just mentioned...

...for perhaps only fiction, closed doors...

...that suburban WASP Slocum-with his frustrated petty dreams (to give a threeGOOD A% COLD And is there anyone who has been in minute speech at his nameless corporaJoseph Heller the army or air force who is not somehow tion's convention), his adolescent sexual Simon & Schuster, $12.95, 447 pp...

...And, in L. JOHN TOPEL, S.J...

...Deposit-No Return," equates AmeriDecapitated, she did not act Things about to break are stronger ca's view of old people stuck in nursing Like a chicken with its head cut still...

...The permanence of certain Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $8.95, 58 pp...

...so than his "Vietnam Statement" from McCarthy's garbage man is a modern the same high-purpose marks his poem the first collection...

...Eliot, THE WAY TO PEACE Auden and Roethke, to name three, were Liberation through the Bible equally accomplished in both...

...T77LES Like an English queen, she died...

...a "satire" of the military, but a "black weight popular intellectual on-the-make, In the office in which I work humor" warning about a murderous obsessed with a righteous hatred of there are five people of whom I am streak in the American character, just as Kissinger-a hatred stoked by a DosPasafraid...

...competitor with Sunday golf and whose fascist personalities in our culture who But Gold's real tension comes from Christ is merely an angry expletive, a would dominate the government after the fact that his own morality dangles book which sums up the spiritual empti- World War II, glare down from the Pen- barely a ledge above his enemy's...

...Even the form of his mood of the time, the war years of 1942 cal approval or disapproval...

...Three of mice, a Plymouth Rock hen, trees, have been ascertained and exposed, one that volume's best were "To Robert honey, tumbleweed and fog...

...Now, beafter we had waited so impatiently for 22...

...Paper $5.95 Moss, until the poet had a sufficient amount of light verse and then publish a At your bookstore separate volume...

...journalism is admirable...

...The latter poem, for In the specific case of a writer, and Clarke, Edith Sitwell, Marcel Marceau, some reason, is comprised largely of a especially a writer of Camus's eminence, and Marc Chagall...

...she hurdled the moon...

...homes with disposable glass bottles...

...The Way to Feace establishes once and Practical Cats" between "Four Quar- for all that every theology must be a liberation theology...

...To what degree can the pub- temporary poets, evidenced in his previ- elevates -certain natural beauties which lished writings of a. man explain and il- ous collection, Other Things and the move him: cows, lionesses, roaches, luminate his life story...

...Lines on THE THEOLOGY OF CHANGE "trivial tripe with alabaster endive" A Christian Concept of God in an come only a few pages after lines on the Eastern Perspective My Lai massacres, to the detriment of JUNG YOUNG LEE both poems...

...book, the clown keeps peering over the ORBIS BOOKS shoulder of the saint...

...In McCarthy's new or direct from the publisher...

...Few reviews at the time did justice to the horrifying possibility I wonder who's Kissinger now...

...Overseas Ministries Study Center Do not ask how This is what many of us have been waiting for, a combut when bit by a fly petent anthropologist and committed Christian who can she jumped so high help us understand the relationship between cultural forms and supracultural norms"-JACK ROGERS...

...light-to the edge of faith-with weak When Heller visited Fordham to talk to In one sense, we can never have and scarcely admirable protagonists students immediately after Something enough of Joseph Heller- we need him to (since Heller, the word hero applies less' Happened came out, his new book was articulate our common secret fears...

...fronted with what the same amoral milit- specifically in Bruce Gold, a Hellerish My hands may perspire, and my ary mind was wreaking in Vietnam, we 48-year-old Jewish, CUNY Brooklyn voice come out strange...

...ing, of all things, "Eaton's Corrabsable Camus occupied separate apartments in Among these poems are tributes to W. B. Bond" and the defunct Park Lane Hotel the same house...

...The Yeats, Frost, catalogue of books found in that hotel's the biographer is constantly facing the Clarke and 'Sitwell poems confirm Room 204...

...As a book, the forty-two A few poems praising man-made obwhose Paris apartment he lived for some poems reveal McCarthy's keen eye for jects seem representative of other of time (1 bis rue Vaneau...

...JOSEPH A. fifty-eight pages, it is disconcerting to TETLOW, S.J., America Paper $7.95 find McCarthy's darker statements shuffled in the midst of his lighter...

...the- problems in North Africa became more and more acute in the '50s...

...but are at the heart of its message...

...petitive madness and chronic anxiety of doesn't someone as emotionally maimed Kissinger as a fictional character is an American life...

...Camera," a soliloquy by that instrument he often saw at L'Isle-sur-Sorgue in the He celebrates, first, other individuals which holds Popes and potentates at its south, and in Paris on the'rue de who, through creative acts, have made call...

...I told him I hoped it who can read the paranoid utterances of tion), themselves on the brink of despair, Robert Slocum in Something Hap- who survive simply because they strug- would be about academic life...

...What were his real feelings about the con- McCarthy, the celebratory troversy with Sartre over L'Homme revolte (The Rebel), of all his books the one GROUND FOG AND MIGHT Lowell," "James Dickey," and "On the that comes closest to being an intellectual Eugene J. McCarthy Death of Vernon Watkins While Playing biography...

...Even at work, where Maybe because his paranoia has not at this stage, could capture that unfortuI am doing so well now, the sight of overwhelmed his last scrap of individual- nate blend of power-hunger, amorality, a closed door is sometimes enough ity...

...at the Democratic Convention in 1968...

...When he has and there rediscover the features and the seems to have little connection with those been able to ascertain them, he does not spirit of Albert Camus...

...Heller's stature...

...from that challenge and taken a more most smell the disaster mounting It was not until the late 1960s that universal one: the germ of Kissingerism invisibly and flooding out toward Catch-22 really caught on-when, con- within each of us and in himself, and me through the frosted glass panes...

...And maybe because the experience academic "brilliance," petty vanity and to make me dread that something of caring for Derek, his "secret" re- criminality that the Kissinger career horrible is behind it, something tarded child, has taught him -though I personifies-to say nothing of the way that is going to affect me adversely...

...For and less to characters in American fic- already under way...

...Some are treated with great seri- dition...

...by the media and absorbed by the public night of lies or booze or sex or just But the first two Heller novels have an mind...

...He was first and two studies of "absurdism...

...Surprisingly, there is only one truest...

...He ness of the 1970s so excruciatingly that it tagon windows on the Armies of the knows the corrupting tendency within .may be another decade before many cri- Night in October 1967 and order the himself, in every intellectual and jourtics adequately appreciate it and most Chicago police to club in the heads of nalist to be corrupted by the mere smell Americans can read it with sufficient de- what Tom Wicker called "our children" of power, to become a Kissinger, to pubtachment...

...come too soon...

...Foreword by Bernard Ramm Yet other poems are exceedingly light- Kraft's book is a pioneering effort, destined to be a weight, even silly: standard text in missionary anthropology for years to There once was a cow...

...he said pened's opening pages and not recognize gle to hang onto some last scrap of integ- that rather it would be about Kissinger...

...FROM OR81S On wings that had never known flight She flew, straight into the wood- CHRISTIANITY IN CULTURE pile A Study in Dynamic Biblical And there beat out slow death Theologizing in Cross-Cultural Perspective While her curdled voice ran out in CHARLES H. KRAFT blood...

...his strong friendship for the Italian best describes the poems in former is a poem which could be improved by anti-Fascist writer and critic Nicola Senator McCarthy's good-natured sec- eliminating its archaic inversions...

...by day rehearsal of encounters, voyages, early books: L'Envers et l'Endroit and Future students of Camus will use this work, seizures of serious illness, swim- Noces, opposes the beauty of the world biography as an encyclopedia for informing, soccer, amorous adventures, thea- with the sufferings of man...

...Lowellian influences...

...Lottman's study is most useful for new wants to return to the books themselves ously documented in this biography, readers today of Camus...

...Chute and to the stories in L'Exil et le what is relevant in this mass of biog- The exterior life of Camus, while he Royaume, in order to discover how Alraphical and historical data...

...his close com- the natural world and deep sympathy for McCarthy's concerns...

...tower stands / To tell of life / below...

...In the mation on the North African years, on the ter productions, writing projects carried background, which Mr...

...Tennis...

...The best is "The radeship with the poet Rene Char whom wide ranges of the human experience...

...A third memorable poem, "No "Broken things are powerful...

...One simple solution would Instead of simply rehashing traditional western Chrishave have been to make separate sections tian thought, The Theology of Change offers a fresh within the book, avoiding abrupt interpretation of the Christian faith (and especially our ideas about God) from a distinctly eastern frame of wrenches in subject and tone...

...liberated from the painful absurdity of fantasies, his continual marital infidelity, military memories because Heller has his meaningless well-paying job and his Raymond A. Schroth captured that absurdity, made us stare it disintegrating family-was the represenI T MAY SEEM ungrateful to suggest, in the face, and then mocked it in Catch- tative American of the 1970s...

...because of their lyrical almost semititles and references, after the almost day Another paradox, so evident in his two rhetorical prose...

...Why Well, yes and no...

...Less successful are poems celebratChanaleilles where for a while Char and beauty and order out of life's chaos...

...tets" and "Murder in the Cathedral...

...With the exception of the third affections, based on gratitude, gives us section of the Frost poem, which dethe best image of nobility in this writer's Robert Phillips velops an elaborate and unfortunate character: his devotion to two teachers in metaphor of Frost as a Model T, these are Algiers: Louis Germain and Jean Gre- 91 ELEBRATORY" IS THE WORD that successful poems...

...Chiaromonte...

...Only the red-eyed understatement are moving (though less ing, which begins the minute one is born...

...Today we crept into studies on Camus (some of clearly as his books the dominant remember these books not so much bewhich Camus himself allowed to persist) paradox of his life: his fundamental disin- cause of the theory they proclaim about have been corrected by Herbert Lottman...

...I wonder saw that, in spite of the laughs, it was not College...