Correspondence
Correspondence 'Chariots' misfire Brooklyn, N.Y. To the Editors: I'm not a film reviewer but if I were and I saw a French film, I shouldn't take pot shots at France and Frenchmen. I should keep...
...The book is not simply about sociobiol-ogy but, I hope, about us all...
...To the Editors: I was astounded that Roger M. Williams's "analysis" of the Atlanta mayorality race [Dec...
...Moreover, if I criticized the title I should make certain I knew what it meant...
...JULIAN BOND The State Senate Jewish Atlantans Brooklyn, N.Y...
...To the Editors: The very sensitive discussion by Abigail McCarthy of Mother Teresa [Sept...
...PETER J. HENRIOT, S.J...
...The main thrust of Fighting for Life is not to expiate on sociobiology...
...University Professor of Humanities Professor of Humanities in Psychiatry Saint Louis University New publisher New York, NY To the Editors: In your issue of de-cember 4, it was stated that Christ: The Experience Of Jesus As Lord by Edward Schillebeeckx is published by the Sea-bury Press...
...That it "did" for everyone, while insuring that the city's black majority got its share of service, contracts and patronage, made Maynard Jackson "great" in most black Atlantan's eyes...
...Incidentally, Blake's poem is a plea for a more just society in England which in fact is the case today with the much maligned welfare state, unlike this country where the rich get richer and the poor poorer...
...The perception by white Jewish voters of the Young record on Israel was surely a factor in the outpouring of Atlanta's Jewish community in favor of Sidney Marcus...
...The publisher of this book as well as the other major works of Schillebeeckx is, in fact, The Crossroad Publishing Company...
...McCarthy notes, ample proof of the need of other ways...
...Westerbeck didn't, being more engrossed in expressing his sociological opinions-that the acting in the film is superb...
...The book looks into the ways in which shifting agonistic structures register in today's spectator sports, politics, business life, and Christian life and liturgy, coming finally to examine the role of contest in developing the deep and articulate interiorization of consciousness that (Continued on page 95) Correspondence (Continued from page 66) marks the modern world...
...4] failed to mention, let alone discuss, Andrew Young's record as UN ambassador and his various initiatives to the P.L.O...
...JOAN M. COOPER Black Atlantans Atlanta, Ga...
...This book is intended as a contribution to our unfinished business...
...Among the other titles by Schillebeeckx available from Crossroad are these: Ministry, Jesus: An Experiment In Christology and Interim Report on the Books Jesus & Christ...
...Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness concludes with these words: "Discovering what we are and acknowledging what we are has never been easy for human beings...
...It undertakes to draw out of now readily available biological and psychological data, as well as out of human experience that we all share, some new explanations of significant features in human life related in often surprising ways to contest (which is not identical with aggression...
...As she so rightly emphasizes, the role of this servant of the poor is to build up the just and loving community in one particular and much-needed fashion...
...Frankly the sportsmanship of "the last flowers of Victorian England" is somewhat more to my taste than the footballers high on drugs and prone to inflict permanent bodily injury on their opponents, which passes for American sport today...
...Director, Center of Concern Contest & context Saint Louis, Mo...
...The example of Barbara Ward's structural efforts to address the roots of poverty is, as Ms...
...It is always an ongoing project...
...What does it mean...
...Arthur L. Caplan gives the book a friendly but, necessarily, rather Procrustean treatment to fit it into a thematic mold which will accommodate the other three books he concurrently reviews...
...To the Editors: Maynard Jackson's "do for blacks" attitude ["Clouds over Atlanta," by Roger M. Williams, Dec...
...By the way, let me assure your readers-since Mr...
...But this edification is not helped when people acclaim that one way as the only way or the best way...
...It does, moreover, note that human consciousness can by no means be reduced to biology, although on the other hand, our mental activity is more circumstantially related to biology than we have heretofore imagined...
...To the Editors: In reviewing my Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness in the October 9 Commonweal...
...The book does use material from sociobiology as well as from what, with explicit caution, I call "noobiology" (the study of the biological underpinnings of mental, activity...
...Apparently, this fact which would have required analysis did not fit into Mr...
...Westerbeck missed the point of the movie...
...It treats such matters as the relationship of combat to sexual identity, and especially to male insecurity, as well as reasons for the final effective demise in the 1960's of the agonistic structures (disputations, debates, teaching by thesis method, spelling bees) which had always governed academic life in the West from antiquity...
...A newly established publisher of religious, academic and general interest books, Crossroad is located at 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y...
...4] did cause many Atlantans to rate his two terms as mediocre, particularly those Atlanta whites who believed for the last eight years that city government should have "done" for them...
...But the book undertakes far more than an assessment of sociobiology...
...REV...
...4] starts his article - "It's such a pretentious title...
...W's "misunderstandings") for Harold Abrahams he surely would have recognized Blake's poem Jerusalem . .. "Oh clouds unfold...
...Williams's simple "black/ white" view of the Atlanta political scene...
...10022...
...ROBERT J. MILLER Mother Teresa Washington, D.C...
...Bring me my chariot of fire...
...I should keep to the matter at hand...
...It's no wonder then that Mr...
...reviewing Chariots of Fire [Dec...
...FRANKLIN DENNIS Publicity Director...
...WALTER J. ONG, S.J...
...25] was a great contribution...
...REV...
...Colin Westerbeck, Jr...
...If Mr...
...Westerbeck had listened to the hymn sung at the closing of the film during the memorial service (not funeral - another of Mr...
Vol. 109 • February 1982 • No. 3
