A Draft of Shadows
Condini, Nereo E.
final reflection offers a new model for sacramental .theology: a "celebration model in which the community manifests, symbolizes and makes present a.. (saving) reality-event." Worgul's book...
...the Australian Indian-Pacific train (relaxing, and Australia is undemanding...
...The opposition between air and stone, and nature and the city, is also opposition between law and the spirit of the law, thebody and its shadow:~ Ideas scatter, the ghosts remain: truth of the lived and suffered...
...Further, I would The bridge of negative A DRAFTOF SRUOWS Octavio Paz New Directions, $9.95, 186 pp...
...2 Returns from news agents: I,O25 G Total (sum of E and F should equal net press mn shown in A): 22,248...
...Derived from impressive colonial American ancestry, but with diminished family fortunes and a lackluster father, young Marquand was forced to forego a fancy prep school for the local public' high school, and didn't enter the right clubs at Harvard...
...Although I did, not every reader willfind each of Galbraith's recent thoughts and experiences of inordinate interest, such as his account of his stuck zipper in Australia...
...when, more and more secluded, you perfect your reality...
...By denying the worlds, that is, by stripping them of their illusory bodies, Paz makes them actual for a moment, celebrates the reality of their obscure anonymity, their dark secrecy of pain...
...I go back to my Scriptures: I have not been Don Quixote, I have never undone any wrong (though at times I've been stoned by shepherds) but I want, as he did, to die lucid, with eyes open, knowing that to die is to return, the soul, or what we call the soul, turned to transparency, at one with the three states of time and the five directions...
...Kathleen Casey Craig, Sewickley...
...Edward S. Skillin...
...Inc., New York...
...John Dean (predictable: willing young men accountable only to their presidential creators...
...Poetry is the means of this discovery...
...Here the author of such insightful and readable books as The Affluent Society and The New Industrial State treates his readers not to new information but to his own literate reactions to some recent controversies and books...
...He needed reassurance tttat he belonged, but he was never satisfied, always haunted by the feeling of being a poacher on his own turf...
...RONALODiLORENZO ANNALS OF AN ABIDINGLIBERAL,by John Kenneth Galbraith, Houghton Mifflin, $12.95, 384 pp...
...He explains again why economics cannot be, and never was, a non-political discipline...
...He deliberately painted himself into a corner, following advice from The Saturday Evening Post but telling friends he should know better, or denouncing The-Book-of-the-Month-Club as a middlebrow octopus but staying on its selection board for over fifteen years...
...C. Total paid circulation...
...2. Returns from news agents: 1,020...
...Richard Nixon (thoughtall evil disappeared if it had a precedent...
...Paz is no saint or prophet, nor does he claim to be...
...18,087...
...So, though unseen, they become visible, just as the ruins of an Aztec temple become visible again in memory's eye...
...Anthony Trollope (money need not destroy art...
...If I were to change anything, I would revise the subtitle to indicate the exploratory nature of the enterprise...
...Bernie Cornfeld (shows fools and their money can still be parted...
...NY 10016...
...None...
...B Paid Cireulatiou: I. Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and counter sales: 1.355 2. Mail suhecnptious: 17,384 C. Total paid circulation: 18,739...
...Clarity, to Paz's mind, rises when signs are erased and buildings fall...
...Neroo g. Condini IN THIS anthology of Octavio Paz's works published by New Directions, the impression we receive initially is that of a Mexican poet exposed for the first time to his European peers' influenceand s.ubmerged in a rhetorical roil of surrealist images smacking more of virtuosity than honesty.The poems mirror Paz's experiences as his country's ambassador to India and his subsequent trips to England, France, and the United States...
...Shaw would not have read this book...
...6 Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor: Publisher, Edward S. Skilhn, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...Estate of Otto L. Spaeth, 20 East 81st St . New York, NY 10028 8. Known bondholdeeL mortgagees and other security holders owmng or holding I per cent or mote of total amount OFbouds, mortgages or other securities...
...F. I. Office use, lefi over, unaccoented, spoiled after printing: 1.644...
...Pasado en claro, the masterful title of the book: Who will open my eyes to that other illusion--death...
...Incepted as an antithesis to history and time, it then struggles to unite being and non-being in a single moment of stasis: body and soul together in the timeless synthesis of the resurrection...
...He is mostly rational in the first 12 chapters dealing with economics and economists (his 1972 presidential address at the eighty-fifthannual meeting of the American Economic Association, "Power and the Useful Economist," is placed in an appendix...
...1 Title of publication: COMMONWEAL...
...Actual number OFcopies of a single issue pubhshed nearest to filing date:Total number copies printed (Net Press Ran): 22,300...
...In Brief MARQUAND: AN AMERICANLIFE, by Millicent Bell, Atlantic-Little, Brown, $17.95, 537pp...
...After a full life he died, Bell says, lonely and unhappy...
...Ann Arbor, M148106 U.S.A...
...But in them there is none of the drama faced by Paz on his return to Mexico...
...NY 10016...
...232 Madison Ave...
...As a matter of fact, they are the real ones...
...carrier or other means, sample complimentary and oth~'free copies: 840.'E...
...Adlal Stevenson (more amorous than erudite...
...He repeats that all analyses of economic activity which elide the problem of power and identify economic problems in terms of market imperfections must misconstrue the problem of stagflation, the coupling of inflation and unemployment: 9the large corporations, unions and numerous individuals have escaped Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (act of August 12, 1970: Section 3685, Title 39, United States Cede...
...Manipulating concepts from the Bhagavad-Gita and Saint John's Gospel he accentuates the importance of the word as an "island in a sea of perplexities'" and the stand of the poet as a bulwark against history and its concern with death and the past, instead of the mobile and religious uniqueness of the present...
...B. Paid Circulation: I. Sales through dealers and cartiers, street vendors and counter sales: 1,295~ 2. Mail subscriptions: 16,792...
...Location of known office ofpublination: 232 Medsiou Ave., New York, NY 10016 5. Location of the headquarters of general business offices of the publishers: 232 Madison Ave., New York...
...Total,distriitotion (sum of C and D): 19,579...
...San Ildefonso Nocturne") This intuition is stressed to obsession inlaterpoemswhere recorded sorrows--seen as shadows, flashes, echoes, and reflections--are more meaningful than the actual bodies...
...London, WCIR 4EJ England Name Institution Street City StateZip _ _ 10 October 1980:573 ing in his cell for the final light to materialize: a preparatory exercise for death, the realm of vanishings and total shadow from which the world of light will emerge in all its clarity...
...Often in Bell's account Chekhov's Trigorin from The Sea Gull comes to mind...
...men strive to create paradise on earth, mindless that gain is only inwardly secured...
...Was his heart in it...
...18 Bedford Row Dept...
...Maybe what happened was that the professional triumphed over the artist...
...the "global strategic mind" (uncontrollably drawn to any world map and, outside of Harvard classrooms, quite dangerous...
...Total (sum OFE and F should equal net pt-'-t~srun shown in A): 22,300 I certify that the statements made by me above are correct and complete...
...In the fifties, Rahner and Schillebeeckx may well have used a neo-chalcedonian model for their understanding that Jesus is "sacrament of God" (viz., that, as a divine person, the actions of Jesus have a divine power for grace), but I doubt that they would speak that way today...
...But the mind is lively, civilized, rational, and, the world offering such an obvious foil for such gifts, often witty...
...The near alliteration of John Kenneth Galbraith's title minors this not-qulte-a-book collection of essays on economics (about 40 percent of the book), political and business swindles, personal travels, novelists, and writing...
...Both point, rather, to the very experiences Worgul discusses: reconciliation, community, witness and apostolate as constitutive of the "Easter experience" and the on-going sacramental character of the church...
...Evelyn Waugh (raised nastiness to high art...
...University Microfilms International 300 North Zeeb Road Dept...
...If at all, the joyful paganism of the Indian experience is interesting because it anticipates the essential humanism of the poet, staunch enemy of the city of stone, and melancholylover of the passing garden of nature...
...D Free distribution by mail, carrier or other means, sample complimentary and other free copies: I.I 55 E. Total thstribution (sum of C and D): 19,242...
...Bell's account of Marquand's two marriages, each to pedigreed New Englanders and each loaded with ambivalent Marquand feelings, is rich in compassionate insight...
...Wfltshire, England...
...copies printed (Net Press Run): 22.248...
...Edward S. Sktllin, Publisher Commonweal:574...
...m~leas~se~mmeaddttionalinfo~"mati~n...
...D. Frte distribution by mall...
...In the city of cement, language is fragmentary...
...Paraphrasing the Eliot of The Four Quartets and Saint Augustine's view of memory and time, Paz intimates that between light and shadow, action and contemplation, time and myth, the poet raises his bridge of negative words...
...New York, NY 10016...
...2. Date of filing: Septemher 23, 1980 3 Frequency of issue: Biweekly, except monthly Chrlstmas-New Years and July and August...
...Clearly Marquand must have enjoyed his writing, but one reads sadly and in vain in Bell for a sense of Marquand's passion for literature, or of anythingbut a game, a gimmick, a business, or a deadline...
...Whether as an indignant protest at the infamy of the present with its "cannibal deities," or as the painful realization that cities are petrified forests withoutsoul, Paz's lament shapesre-think the christological foundations of sacramental theology as outlined in the theological section...
...William Pfaff, Paris...
...Even the language reneges on its former surrealist associations and gets closer and closer to the utterings of a Tao sage waitcolgmonHeol available in microform...
...Managing Editor, Peter Steinfels, 232 Madison Ave., NewYork, NY 10016 70wner(lfownedbyacoqloration, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the names and addresses of stockholdet,s owning or holding I per cent or more of total amount of stock): Commonweal Publishing Co...
...Alger Hiss (to have Nixon as an accuser does not by itself make one innocent...
...So much of theology today is exploratory precisely because of the fragmentation of modern culture and the church...
...In these chapters he advances, for those familiar with his work, no new theory or argument...
...Poetic language is the tool that allows us this interpenetration of the visible with the invisible, of time with eternity...
...With a rare understanding Millicent Bell shows why success hung so heavy on John P. Marquand...
...Among them: his FBI file (expensive and they spell his name wrong...
...11 Average number of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: A. Total no...
...writing (be brief...
...Most disturbing of all is the way Marquand's life situation Was mirrored in his art situation...
...money has left its mark on every forehead...
...the Taj Mahal (a marvelous tribute...
...Editor, James O'Gara, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
...In a good chapter entitled"Writing and Typing" Galbraith approvingly observes that George Bernard Shaw said that as he grew older he became less interested in theory and more interested in information...
...At this point Paz's poetry turns, for all it denials, blatantly metaphysical...
...Your introspection, your shadow, the knowledge of your self, becomes thus the real meaning of your body...
...Worgul's book is an impressive survey and synthesis of the impact of personality and social sciences on the understanding of sacramental language and activity...
...A. Annual Subscription Price: $20.4...
...They are charged, even humorous, forcedly brilliant...
...Walter Dower...
...words most of the poems composed between 1971 and 1976, from "Immemorial Landscape" and "Return," through "The PetrifyingPetrified," to the haunting "San Ildefonso Nocturne," in a whorl of imaginative complexity...
...The incessant motion from light to total darkness and then back to light displays a concern that is not only poetic...
...Years later, after enormous success as a writer, he would seek to lead 4th of July parades or speak at the opening of a new A&P...
...F 1 Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 2,038...
Vol. 107 • October 1980 • No. 18
