Rice, Rivalry, and Politics
Jordan, Patrick
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...
...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...
...This is not a book for light reading, but one very much at the heart of contemporary theological discussion...
...Even the acrimonious rivalries of relief agencies (their acronyms demand a special glossary in the book) led rival political parties to tolerate their efforts...
...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...
...what matters," says Brown, "both metaphysically and religiously is the significance of existing, knowing, and having purposes...
...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...
...In a time stalked by disaster -- natural and human -- the urgency of their goal cannot be overstated...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...1 read Henri Nouwen's spiritual journal enthralled, virtually at one sitting...
...Nouwen RICE, RIVALRY, AND POLITICS" MANAGING CAMBODIAN RELIEF, by Linda Mason and Roger Brown...
...The authors learned that, "The most effective relief workers were not ~ose who knew the most about engineering, nutrition, or Southeast Asian agriculture...
...But that does not mean the attitudes or values used to justify non-abortifacient contraceptives have no philosophical connection to abortion-on-demand...
...PATRICK JORDAN I Correspondence (Continued from page 322) Some contraceptives are abortifacient...
...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...
...Eliot's Four Quartets...
...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...
...DAVID TOOLAN saved hundreds of thousands of lives...
...The agony of Kampuchea continues...
...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...
...The authors state they have written this book to "help make future relief efforts more efficient, far-sighted, and ultimately more effective...
...They use a variety of agency documentation and first-hand information to tell their story...
...Henri J.M...
...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...
...The seed rice program of 1980 succeeded that year in producing an adequate rice crop for Kampuchea...
...Robert McAfee Brown $12.95" At bookstores * Suggested consumer price i D[--~ HFIRPER & ROW SAN FRFINQSEO 1 June 1984:349...
...Notre Dame, $19.95, 218 pp...
...Many conscientious contracepting couples would not necessarily resort to abortion with an unexpected pregnancy...
...Three chapters then apply this revised theory of expressive, "depth" language to T.S...
...It is poignant in human and political terms...
...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...
...While there is something ashes-like and ominous in these pages, in the end there is hope...
...But it elucidates for all a faulted yet noble effort at human assistnace under catastrophic conditions...
Vol. 111 • June 1984 • No. 11
