Transfiguration

...This illustrates Brown's thesis: that the dialogue between the arts and metaphysical thought works both ways, is a constant to and fro: as Aquinas reflected on the metaphysical implications of the great I AM of Exodus 3, so Dante reflected on Aquinas and transfigured his meaning in the Comedia...

...When former Prime Minister Tanaka is convicted for accepting $2 million in bribes and when there is suspicion of other types of illegal acts -- one Wonders how much the economic professors can II REVIEWERS PHILLIP CORWIN, a poet and novelist, works for the United Nations...

...Among the other services of Brown's carefully crafted book -- which assays to articulate the relationship between poetry and religious reflection -- is the longoverdue retrieval of the vatic Whitehead, the philosopher whose speculative flights were rooted above all in the uncommon insights of parable, symbol, story, and myth...

...The third professorial offering comes from Michio Morishima of the London School of Economics...

...The agony of Kampuchea continues...

...DAVID TOOLAN saved hundreds of thousands of lives...

...While a chapter on the Information Technology Sector can get bogged down in rather excessive detail, the book ends strongly with discussions of "probable world scenarios...

...Japan, of course, is almost totally dependent on outside sources for oil and it is fascinating to read the details of Japan's "oil d!plomacy -- from initial panic to opportunism...

...1 read Henri Nouwen's spiritual journal enthralled, virtually at one sitting...

...Davidson is, on the whole, rather optimistic about the effects of what he sees asa t~versal of American industrial effort...

...in the early sixties Japanese "overseas" initiatives became more regional as Taiwan, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore became "hot" countries for Japanese industry...

...She is the author of Making News...

...MARGARET WIMSATT teaches English at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque...

...But it elucidates for all a faulted yet noble effort at human assistnace under catastrophic conditions...

...Even the acrimonious rivalries of relief agencies (their acronyms demand a special glossary in the book) led rival political parties to tolerate their efforts...

...what matters," says Brown, "both metaphysically and religiously is the significance of existing, knowing, and having purposes...

...University of North Carolina, $24, 230 pp...

...This is not a book for light reading, but one very much at the heart of contemporary theological discussion...

...In Brown's last chapter, this restored Whitehead, for whom understanding was always " a process of penetration, incomplete and partial," is employed to disabuse those theologians (like Schubert Ogden) who suffer the Cartesian dream that conceptualization can ever function as the criterion of meaning for either Scripture or human experience...

...Professor Morishima makes an important point on how the Japanese may not really, serve as a model for other nations...

...Eliot's Four Quartets...

...That choice is both Whitehead's strength and his weakness...

...Commonweal: 348 In the process of getting to this point, in effect a methodological essay on the limits and, more importantly, the inexhaustible sources of reason, Brown's first chapters criticize the New Critics ("a poem should not mean/But be"), and explicate the poetic ontology of Philip Wheelwright (which Brown revises a bit...

...FATHER DAVID TOOLAN, S,J., is assistant editor of Commonweal...

...But that work is for others to undertake...

...The world lives by its incarnation of God in itself...

...really tell us...

...and it is this significance, known through one's whole being and becoming as an embodied self, that is the core even of the cognitive meaning within the concept of incarnation...

...Robert McAfee Brown $12.95" At bookstores * Suggested consumer price i D[--~ HFIRPER & ROW SAN FRFINQSEO 1 June 1984:349...

...But the story is startling as well - - a picture of bureaucrats '~ bumbling, political rivalry, agency infighting, and individual greed, corruption, and insensitivity that is numbing...

...The story of the emergence of Japanese multinationals is interesting, particularly because of the way the Japanese took advantage of the economics of other nations...

...These chapters show us not only that symbol gives rise to thought, but that a whole history of conceptualization gives rise, in Eliot's poem, to freshfreighted metaphor and symbol...

...The authors state they have written this book to "help make future relief efforts more efficient, far-sighted, and ultimately more effective...

...Such words should be carefully weighed by Americans who suggest we might be able to use an American form of MITI...

...Many conscientious contracepting couples would not necessarily resort to abortion with an unexpected pregnancy...

...Similarly, you will never derive Whitehead's "sense" of that incarnation by which the world lives from the bare "fact" that things exist, or that we are able to know, or that there are causes...

...Few of them could fathom his system...

...they were those who could enlist the cooperation of the K h m e r . . . engaging the refugees in the planning and implementation of projects...

...It is poignant in human and political terms...

...Ozawa points out how in the mid-fifties Japanese companies began to establish brands in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina...

...One can only hope that such a competitive spirit continues to be tempered with "noneconomic values...

...labor force, etc...

...They use a variety of agency documentation and first-hand information to tell their story...

...PATRICK IORDAN was formerly one of the editors of The Catholic Worker in New York...

...Notre Dame, $19.95, 218 pp...

...But that does not mean the attitudes or values used to justify non-abortifacient contraceptives have no philosophical connection to abortion-on-demand...

...OAYE TUCHMAN, professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center C.U.N.Y., is presently VisitingProfessor of Feminist Studies and Sociology at Stanford University...

...In the New World, unfortunately, a worshipful host of Whiteheadian scholastics have spent inordinate time dissecting the great man's concepts, thus losing the poet and myth-maker in him -- and outwitting their own senses...

...PETER KOVLER formerly served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Commerce in the Carter administration...

...Unfortunately, however, Ozawa is most interesting in his presentation of Japan's response to the 1973 OPEC oil embargo...

...they thought he'd lost his senses in the New World...

...A more academic work comes from Terutomo Ozawa, an economics professor at Colorado State University...

...Although a more complete picture could include more investigation on the seedy side of industrial development, goodness knows, we don't need a foolish form of simplified muckraking...

...Thus once we as a society justify interventions into the generative process as "natural" or nor"IN LATIN AMERICA A VOICE CRIES OUT THAT WE NEED TO HEAR...

...The problem lies in the fact that those who support abortion, mass sterilization, genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization, and euthanasia employ many of the same values and logic that couples use to justify contraception...

...In a book titled Why Has Japan Succeeded...

...Ozawa has chosen the narrow but extremely important area of Japanese multinationals and what makes this book a bit more interesting than so many others is that it does not focus strictly on the American trade problem with its effects on the U.S...

...Less interesting for this reviewer is Ozawa's examination of the "theoretical considerations" behind Japan's multinationals...

...I I In brief Ill I TRANSFIGURATION: POETIC METAPHOR AND THE LANGUAGE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF by Frank Butch Brown...

...The authors learned that, "The most effective relief workers were not ~ose who knew the most about engineering, nutrition, or Southeast Asian agriculture...

...Henri J.M...

...However, the book's last "four chapters are informative, even if written in uninspiring prose...

...While there is something ashes-like and ominous in these pages, in the end there is hope...

...Even through those early days, Ozawa explains the concerted efforts by the Japanese to get Japan to the point of economic strength...

...The statement is Alfred North Whitehead's, if you will, by the poet in Whitehead who built a theoretic system which remythologized the clockwork cosmos favored by his former positivistic colleagues in England...

...IS1DORE SILVER teaches constitutional law and history at the John Jay College of Crimihal Justice in New York City...

...JO-ANN MORT, apoet who lives in New York, has had reviews and poetry published in Stand, Jewish Frontier, In These Times, and other journals...

...The seed rice program of 1980 succeeded that year in producing an adequate rice crop for Kampuchea...

...Mason and Brown were two young American relief workers participant in the Kampuchean relief effort of 1979-80, a massive, chaotic undertaking which Henri Nouwen's most important book since Genesee Diary: an illuminating, moving account of his recent sojourn in Bolivia and Peru, In iGracias!, a compelling look at a poor, volatile, yet spiritually rich world, Nouwen explores themes of faith, justice and gratitude to uncover honest hope for our troubled times...

...Western Technology and the Japanese Ethos, the author gives us an extensive look at the origins of the Japanese productivity zeitgeist...

...PATRICK JORDAN I Correspondence (Continued from page 322) Some contraceptives are abortifacient...

...Nouwen RICE, RIVALRY, AND POLITICS" MANAGING CAMBODIAN RELIEF, by Linda Mason and Roger Brown...

...Three chapters then apply this revised theory of expressive, "depth" language to T.S...

...It is almost an axiom today that the choice of a language (science, mathematics, logic, poetry, o r story) is the choice of a world, an ontology -- and Whitehead fans typically forget that his guiding choice was the language of the Romantic poets...

...Only ,one time in all these endeavors is there a brief mention of such practices as payoffs and other ugly but real problems...

...A study of relief efforts on the ThaiKampuchean border in 1979 and 1980, this book was written for management students of future emergency relief efforts...

...If there is one flaw in all three books, it is attributable to the academic approach...

...In a time stalked by disaster -- natural and human -- the urgency of their goal cannot be overstated...

...Neoscholastics did in Aquinas in the same way...

...MICHAEL ZEIK teaches in the history department at Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York...

...He persuasively argues at the very end of his book that "a policy which has been proved to be successful for Jap~an may turn out to be unusable in Britain andvice versa, because of the differences in their ethoses, in their ways of behavior of their people, and in all the other cultural characteristics which they have inherited from their respective pasts...