Annals of an Abiding Liberal
Kelly, James R.
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....
...12], I find myself (inexpertly) on the side of probabilism...
...The voice occasionally speaks loudly...
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...When orthodox monetary and fiscal policy are used to arrest this upward thrust, it is production, not price that is curbed...
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...In Brief MARQUAND: AN AMERICANLIFE, by Millicent Bell, Atlantic-Little, Brown, $17.95, 537pp...
...Shaw would not have read this book...
...Sept...
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...And with the curtailment of production goes curtailment of employment...
...An Impertinent Proposal Christian organization devoted to religious freedom around the world, based in New York City, seeks full-time executive director...
...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...
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...6 Names and addresses of publisher, editor and managing editor: Publisher, Edward S. Skilhn, 232 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016...
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...But the mind is lively, civilized, rational, and, the world offering such an obvious foil for such gifts, often witty...
...Here he has the good taste to report only one personal disaster, that stuck zipper on the Indian-Pacific train...
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...That, I hope, is a thing of the past...
...To the Editors: Philip Kaufman has gracefully stated [Sept...
...His tone is that of the rational man of measured and pragmatic compassion trying to save capitalism from its myopic defenders...
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...Classified payable with order...
...the "global strategic mind" (uncontrollably drawn to any world map and, outside of Harvard classrooms, quite dangerous...
...the unheard melodies are often both sweeter and truer...
...the Australian Indian-Pacific train (relaxing, and Australia is undemanding...
...Frankfurt, Germany...
...monthly in advance for more than three times...
...The person who illustrated the article with a picture of a father nurturing his small child, knows what family reconstruction has got to look like...
...Support base small but growing...
...10 October 1980:575...
...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...
...F. I. Office use, lefi over, unaccoented, spoiled after printing: 1.644...
...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...
...In these chapters he advances, for those familiar with his work, no new theory or argument...
...Adlal Stevenson (more amorous than erudite...
...copies printed (Net Press Run): 22.248...
...Around the world on Air Force Bases, the people of God need Catholic priests...
...Miami, Florida...
...12] and clarified a position held by most Catholics, a position contrary to the letter of the law proclaimed in Humanae Vitae...
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...It is not consoling that even these modest proposals of sweet reasonability evoke such weak attention from those politicians and economists willing to guide our economic fates...
...I could only wish that he had given some space to the treatment (determined by historical circumstances) in Pascal's Provincial Letters...
...EGAN Classified r RATES: 70r a word, one time...
...Most disturbing of all is the way Marquand's life situation Was mirrored in his art situation...
...William Pfaff, Paris...
...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...
...Evelyn Waugh (raised nastiness to high art...
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...Athens, Greece...
...For solutions Galbraith suggests that fiscal policy be aimed at increasing the buying power of the poor and that government inaugurate a system of income and price restraints over those who have gained control of prices and of income independent of market restraints...
...Father Kaufman documents and deplores an occasional Vatican tendency to speak on moral issues with an air of certainty that is in fact far from certain, nay more, that is close to myopia...
...Anthony Trollope (money need not destroy art...
...None...
...Made with such energy, that if it is not met, the whole moral fabric of society will suffer, as it already is suffering...
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...John Dean (predictable: willing young men accountable only to their presidential creators...
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...Total,distriitotion (sum of C and D): 19,579...
...With all of which, the expression of my highest esteem to Fr...
...Nothing will come right with the fam, ily until there is full equality between men and women, in regard to work, in regard to love, and in regard to nurturing our children.ELI SAGAN Probably probabilist New York, N.Y...
...2. Date of filing: Septemher 23, 1980 3 Frequency of issue: Biweekly, except monthly Chrlstmas-New Years and July and August...
...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...
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...To the Editors: As Philip S. Kaufman presents it in his article "An Immoral Morality...
...2 Returns from news agents: I,O25 G Total (sum of E and F should equal net press mn shown in A): 22,248...
...Challenge guaranteed...
...Career Opportunity Osan, Korea...
...Was his heart in it...
...Maybe what happened was that the professional triumphed over the artist...
...Alphonsus Liguori, didn't he, alas!, codify what I admit to considering the confessional's morbid entry into the bedroom...
...Kathleen Casey Craig, Sewickley...
...For an academic (even part-time) Galbraith must have become a good party person, not at all personally intrusive...
...RONALODiLORENZO ANNALS OF AN ABIDINGLIBERAL,by John Kenneth Galbraith, Houghton Mifflin, $12.95, 384 pp...
...Edward S. Sktllin, Publisher Commonweal:574 the discipline of the market and gained power over their incomes...
...Bernie Cornfeld (shows fools and their money can still be parted...
...Edward S. Skillin...
...Inc., New York...
...TV Special on Disarmament The Public Interest Video Network seeks matching funds to produce a one-hour program for PBS on national security and stopping the nuclear arms race...
...With a rare understanding Millicent Bell shows why success hung so heavy on John P. Marquand...
...Primo Vivendi...
...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...
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...In the midst of hints of encircling gloom, the trick is to look beyond the trimming, to search for the core of the Christian message beyond the ecclesias-tical verbiage, to remain unblinking, courageous and faithful...
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...Alger Hiss (to have Nixon as an accuser does not by itself make one innocent...
...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...
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...He needed reassurance tttat he belonged, but he was never satisfied, always haunted by the feeling of being a poacher on his own turf...
...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...
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...The exercise of this power drives up prices...
...F 1 Office use, left over, unaccounted, spoiled after printing: 2,038...
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...Richard Nixon (thoughtall evil disappeared if it had a precedent...
...Until unemployment is very great, perhaps up in the recession range of 10 percent or more of the labor force, unemployment and inflation coexist...
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...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...
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...The Chaplaincy is an international ecumenical, inter-cultural parish ministry...
...Often in Bell's account Chekhov's Trigorin from The Sea Gull comes to mind...
...Among them: his FBI file (expensive and they spell his name wrong...
...the Taj Mahal (a marvelous tribute...
...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...
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...Bethke Elshtain rightfully asks for "real structural changes in American life," the specifics of those changes do not have to remain unmentioned...
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...The failure to respond fully to that great moral demand is deconstructing the family, and the deconstruction will stop only when that demand is either withdrawn (which, hopefully, it will not be) or satisfied.When Ms...
...Actual number OFcopies of a single issue pubhshed nearest to filing date:Total number copies printed (Net Press Ran): 22,300...
...12208...
...After a full life he died, Bell says, lonely and unhappy...
...C. Total paid circulation...
...He explains again why economics cannot be, and never was, a non-political discipline...
...But, in this collection Galbraith moves the reader on to lighter thoughts of art and swindles...
...18,087...
...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...
...As for St...
...A calm assurance prevails among the dissenting faithful...
...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...
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...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...
...Galbraith argues these theses in a style amiably ranging from mild irony to gentle sarcasm...
...KELLY mlI Correspondence I (Continued from page 546) way th~itit has never been made before...
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...Pasado en claro, the masterful title of the book: Who will open my eyes to that other illusion--death...
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...B. Paid Circulation: I. Sales through dealers and cartiers, street vendors and counter sales: 1,295~ 2. Mail subscriptions: 16,792...
Vol. 107 • October 1980 • No. 18
