Christmas critics' choices
Donoghue, Denis & Hulbert, Ann & Russell, Robert John & Schulman, Grace & Conn, Joann Wolski & Williams, Peter W. & Elshtain, Jean Bethke & Lekachman, Robert & Copeland, Roger & Sullivan, William M.
Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Denis Donoghue DENIS DONOGHUE holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent book is Art without Mystery...
...It is this need which sociologist Richard Madsen richly meets in his theoretically powerful yet affecting meditation on the story of China's tumultuous recent past as seen from first-hand accounts of life in one rural community...
...Very few critics are working, these days, as close to the texture of poems as Wesling is: few have anything like his sensitivity to the movement, whether sway or drift, of modern poetry...
...It is my first choice among this year's publications...
...29 November 1985: 681 William M.Sullivan WILLIAM M. SUI uvan is associate professor of philosophy at LaSalle University...
...THREE of the four books on my list speak to my current preoccupation — obsession may be the better word — with men, women, and war...
...Its eight papers fall in two sections: the scientific status of various disciplines and theories...
...the beautiful maps;the words of Christ in red...
...It amounts to a transformation of our wage payment system from fixed hourly rates to sums that depend upon the productivity of new employees...
...From this Peacocke talks about our continuity with all of nature, about a God who creates through chance by improvising and exploring the possibilities in nature, and about a God who suffers with us so that the cross is not just a theme for our spiritual life but includes all of creation...
...Thus the new practical philosophy is able to see itself not as sanitized observation, but as involved, however critically, in an on-going conversation fhat is genuinely public...
...Berube mentions the parallel markets and items which are sold por la libre (i.e., outside of the libreta, the ration book), he doesn't give them enough emphasis...
...is a sampling of his unparalleled domestic portraiture...
...Their prescriptions for collective cultural re-integration and rededication are a bit on the vague side, but their attempt to demonstrate the semi-articulated confusion of American values is highly provocative...
...She is the author of Public Man, Private Woman (Princeton...
...Bible study Daniel A. Murray, S.T.L., S.S.L Chairman and Professor of Sacred Scripture St...
...To a certain extent, Boyers takes up where Irving Howe left off in his Politics and the Novel (1957), a magnificent book which continues to hold its influential bearing upon the question of politics and imagination...
...Macon Leary of Baltimore, a mild and inordinately methodical man who writes tourist guides for people who hate to travel, is happily shaken up by impetuous Muriel, an employee at the dog kennel where he boards his Welsh corgi, Edward (another memorable male...
...Never has a film seen by so few affected the lives of so many...
...For example, one author rediscovers the links between sexuality and spirituality in black culture...
...The book is dedicated to Ernan McMullin for his research, professional leadership, and teaching in philosophy...
...A third section situates feminist ethical claims within the field of ethics as a discipline...
...Yet another feat of monumental synthesis is Spiro Kostof s A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Oxford University Press, $45, 788 pp...
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...often describe such changes as "capitalistic" or "more" democratic...
...we had no free health care and no free education system...
...There is far too much bathos in the tale as Connell tells it for that...
...The St...
...Where, oh where, are the serious but nonspecialized books aimed at a broadbased, well-educated readership...
...But several of this year's authors have kindly equipped their main male characters with true dignity—a rare blend of rigidity and resilience...
...imports and made it necessary to obtain the almighty dollar by exporting some of Cubans' favorites, like coffee and lobster...
...I applaud Thomas Nelson Publishers for their interest and initiative in producing this Study Bible...
...One can buy as many cigarettes as he or she wants, there is no limit...
...Another highly ambitious and accessible investigation into the broad meaning of the American experience is Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (University of California Press, $16.95, 355 pp...
...monthly in advance for more than three times...
...Cubans also eat out a great deal...
...When you awake,/We will still be here...
...Nor do cigars and cigarettes...
...Finally, Ms...
...Recognizing the long political odds against his program, he still puts his money on America's capacity to rise to challenges...
...Founded to ransom slaves, our small community of men have grounded our lives and our work of liberation in fraternity, prayer, and the Bible for over 800 years...
...We need to narrow the enormous gap between the rewards of ordinary workers and top managers...
...The most exciting dance book of the year is probably Balanchine's Tchaikovsky by Solomon Volkov (Simon & Schuster, $19.95, 252 pp...
...Institute Director Wanted Boston College Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry Director Position Available: Duties: Primarily responsible for the direction and continuing development of a large institute offering 4 graduate degrees in religious education and pastoral ministry, as well as a program in continuing education...
...These qualities, as well as her close identification with the land, the farm, and natural life, enable her, in The Long Approach, to deal with subjects that are difficult at best, which she treats with directness, and with a stark bareness of utterance: nuclear war...
...I wouldn't like to get in the way of those sentences or try to hold them back for interrogation...
...Priesthood Desire Priesthood...
...It is a world whose members speak an intense, emotion-packed language of tragedy and fear...
...How simply, yet accurately, Carmody presents their central message...
...Peter W. Williams PETER W. WILLIAMS chairs the religion department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio...
...Quietly he tells about men, primarily— fathers, sons, suitors, husbands, soldiers —who lead outwardly unremarkable lives in the sedate, still segregated South between the world wars...
...The world of the victims...
...she gazes at a hard, ugly funeral in "Burial in Cypress Hills...
...Why must we continually choose between two equally undesirable extremes: the journalistic oversimplification of mass market coffee table books whose "text" is little more than a series of captions for the glossy photos, or the academic hyperspecialization of jargonized studies in which performances become pretexts for a cumbersome display of'' methodology...
...por la libre, $1.60 — but isn't that a good idea...
...His most recent book is Art without Mystery (Little, Brown...
...William M. Thompson's The Jesus Debate (Paulist Press, $12.95, 437 pp...
...Lodge subjects him to a globe-trotting ordeal of crossed paths, implausible predicaments, confused identities, and baffling coincidences to sink the heart of the most ardent suitor...
...Berube should be more careful and much more scientifically accurate in his statistical analysis of data...
...Send lists or call: Erasmus Books, 1027 E. Wayne, South Bend, IN 46617...
...Here the stories are engaging, the language refreshing, the theological interpretation of marital experience profound...
...Complementing this study is the late Warren Sussman's collection of essays published as History as Culture: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century (Pantheon, $12.95, paper, 321 pp...
...Their labor will contribute to a deeper knowledge and appreciation of Sacred Scripture...
...Yet most of them stumble on moments of moral sympathy and feel their lives expand, fearfully but also, as the narrator of one story explains, wonderfully...
...Commonweal: 686 " This Bible provides what any Catholic student of the Bible needs: the guidelines laid down by the Church and the insight of modern Catholic scholarship...
...On Thurow's wish list are coherent industrial policy, a value-added tax to encourage saving and discourage consumption, and an energy tax...
...Williams points out the need to reconnect ethics with reflection on social practice...
...So the poetry moves daringly but unpretentiously between past and present, memories and currencies of sentiment jostling one another within the strong propriety of the cadence...
...Instead, they too are models of religious experience which are analogical and which draw on scientific models of nature...
...According to Peacocke, science is not just a collection of facts but a structure composed of paradigms and models which, though analogical and incomplete, points to real entities in nature...
...joins feminist and biblical insights to offer practical, positive suggestions for the theology of marital love, marital work, parenting, and marital ministry...
...How sensitive or assertive am I?" too many poor protagonists have had to worry...
...W John Cardinal Krol Archbishop of Philadelphia HI find the study helps almost priceless...
...His books include What Is Dance...
...Throughout his fine work, Laurence Lieberman portrays an excited American traveler relentlessly seeking facts that will objectify his wonder of the exotic...
...when our "revolution" was 127 years old, we women still didn't have the vote...
...Prospective starting date: September 1986...
...population...
...IT HAS been a poetry-and-criticism year for me, mostly...
...Lieberman makes original use of syllabic stanzaic patterns that contain his plangent outcries, his recitals of prodigious facts...
...These men are not haughty or highfalutin...
...Anne Tyler's eccentric Southerner in The Accidental Tourist (Knopf, $16.95, 355 pp...
...Peacocke combines the themes of divine transcendence and immanence into a panentheistic vision of God "in whom we live and move and have our being...
...This is exactly what she isn't...
...Balanchine's collaborations with Stravinsky are usually cited as the centerpiece of his modernist period, whereas his equally impressive body of work set to scores by Tchaikovsky are generally regarded as an extended, nostalgic homage to the Russian Imperial classicism of his childhood...
...He then goes on to compare peaches and pears by stating that...
...14.95, 80 pp...
...The monthly Opina regularly publishes strongly critical articles on every aspect of daily life, from food to television...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 658) high by comparison since very few intermediate school students in the U.S...
...footnotes...
...In British novelist David Lodge's brisk and funny Small World (Macmillan, $15.95, 339 pp...
...It promptly sank, dragging an entire studio, United Artists, down with it...
...a rose is "the size of a perfectly manufactured crimson fingernail...
...One, in a powerful Commonweal: 682 poem entitled, "What Am I Doing Here...
...This prolific, perceptive theologian gives us, in jargon-free language, a five-step method for discerning the appropriate response to God's presence in our lives...
...theology is the theory and the Christian church is the community — an articulation which produces new insights into the contemporary religious situation...
...But Cubans spend so little on rent (a maximum 10 percent of income), medicine, education, transportation, clothing, that paying extra for a better diet is not really a hardship...
...With inquisitive fervor, she writes of the natural world and of city life: berries grow unexpectedly in a foul bog...
...T f f |H hings fall apart, the center cannot hold...
...But what, then, is or can be the contribution of ethical reflection to the actual practice of living well...
...In the title poem, it is a drowning man's final lucid moments that the speaker tries to recapture: I find it tempting to imagine what, when the blood roared, overflowing its cerebral sluiceway, and the iridescence of his last perception, charring, gave way to unreversed, irrevocable dark, the light out there was like . . . The Mural of Wakeful Sleep...
...Translated by M.J...
...Not all of them are listed KIA, but many are...
...But that knowledge does not make them helpless, which is their saving grace...
...to an unprecedented 96 percent of the population...
...Marty focuses on individual "pilgrims" in the development of America's religious communities and institutions, and focuses on individual biographies as illustrative of broader themes...
...Since the United States' educational system is unique in its openness, it is difficult to compare our system to meritocratic systems that are selective...
...For example, one essay works out a feminist approach to battered women...
...drop out, even in the poorest urban areas...
...packs a potent moral punch...
...The world of the warriors," Dyson writes, '' is the world I see when I go to Washington or to California to consult with military people about their technical problems...
...which is a highly successful attempt to place the history of our built environment into social and cultural perspective...
...Yeats, of course, wasn't talking about the publishing industry's treatment of the performing arts, but his words apply nonetheless...
...Over 30...
...The Long Approach...
...This theme of the interrelation between the self and cultural, institutional conditions recalls America's great public philosopher of this century, John Dewey...
...I'm not sure how dreadful a man Hemingway was, or whether he was a more thoroughgoing 29 November 1985: 677 monster than many other writers: in these considerations, there is no merit in measuring the precise degree of unpleasantness...
...ability to hold senior faculty rank in the Theology Dept...
...IN my own field of American religious history, where monographs are now turned out at a dizzying rate, the appearance of Martin Marty's Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (Little, Brown, $25, 5OOpp...
...Few Cubans rely on the libreta, even for the statistical four-fifths of their diet...
...Wolfhart Pannenberg is an internationally acclaimed Protestant theologian whose numerous books and articles span the domain of religious scholarship with characteristic attention to detail and precise control of the subject...
...Jones's conclusions are equally skewed...
...Notebooks, Jacques Maritain,312 pages, $13.89 post, paid, is a new companion to Raissa's Journal, 400 pages, also $13.89...
...We in the U.S...
...brings American Protestantism to the fore as the cultural matrix which formed American intellectual life, even as that life took on a secular character...
...Leech has a marvelous capacity to focus his comprehensive grasp of Scripture and spiritual classics upon a single unifying theme...
...Brass name plate engraved with up to 3 initials...
...proves the dependence of individual character, and even basic social decency, upon a complicated and fragile web of public dialogue...
...However, my purpose was not to add another political critique, but to look at social policy in Cuba according to independent scholars...
...Yet, this kind of investigation, while it turns to tradition for illumination, does so impelled by concern with developments in the world of the present...
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...Economists do occasionally write books in ordinary English worth attention...
...Macmillan, $16.30, $8.95, paper, 110 pp...
...How can Mr...
...But Balanchine makes it clear in these interviews that he has always considered Tchaikovsky a pioneering modernist, not a gossamer, moonlit romantic...
...Edith chooses to jilt her fiance on their wedding day because she doesn't love him rather than settle for a life of seemingly wedded respectability...
...I do have a few comments, however, based on a close association with Cuba: I have been visiting Cuba regularly since 1969 and in (he past year-and-ahalf have been there a dozen times, most recently for five weeks this summer...
...Ann Hulbert______ ANN HULBERT is a senior editor o/The New Republic...
...Candid, warm, open, startled by what he sees, unafraid to explore all he can, he is reminiscent of Henry James in his incessant desire for knowledge of new places and people...
...It is true that the traditional diet of Cubans has been altered, but this, from a nutritional point of view, is not necessarily bad: meat, coffee, rice, and beans, which he mentions as being in short supply, do not a nutritional diet make...
...Not only does Claude fail to "find himself," but he loses his serene little brother, who swills Coke, and his gentle father, who spouts Greek — two more singular males in Lemann's pantheon of anachronistic characters who lead lives of quaint, but dignified, desperation...
...In the title poem of his last book, "God's Measurements," he gazes at the statue of a Japanese god and exclaims, "Why do we so thrill at eye-guessed / estimates of measurements, measurements...
...Essential reading for anyone who hopes to survive the Reagan/Thatcher era of diminished public subsidies for the arts...
...Alfred A. Knopf...
...Stephen Bach's Final Cut (Morrow, $19.95, 432 pp...
...By humanizing all the participants, Connell sharpens our judgments on the follies and fates of some...
...Classified payable with order...
...In five areas of the West Indies, the voyager collects evidence for miracles that evade his inquiries: a procession of baptisms in Nassau Bay...
...To write like Koch, you have to have a lot of power and keep most of it in reserve...
...A very different book, Evan S. Connell's Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn (North Point Press, $20, $5 paper, 464 pp...
...I offer my gratitude to all the authors who have given their time, effort, and talent to this very worthy project...
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...If in some industries, wages should be reduced by a third, then > executive salaries ought to be slashed by two-thirds...
...But there is enough left to appease me...
...Incisive papers by Philip Quinn, Adolf Grunbaum, Nancy Cartwright and Henry Mendell, and Bas van Fraasen make this extraordinary book required reading for any who are seriously concerned with the philosophy of science and its implicit importance to interdisciplinary work...
...Jones tells us, but the compulsion to be respectable...
...questions regarding the ontology of scientific theories...
...Cigarettes on the ration book cost 200...
...This is an important book...
...To the Editors: Robert Jones's review of Hotel du Lac [September 20] was little short of vitriolic...
...and the forthcoming Cunningham's Legacy...
...This brief book, based on his 1983 Mendenhall lectures at DePauw Univeristy, is aimed at college and seminary students, and serves as an excellent introduction to Peacocke's work as a whole...
...And I'm sure he'd agree that if the phrase fits, share it...
...Robert John Russell ROBERT JOHN RUSSELL is assistant professor of theology and science at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and director of The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley...
...If one already knows the Ignatian rules for discernment and the theoretical work of Bernard Lonergan, one says, "Aha...
...Larry Laudan opposes both the relativism of the sociology of science and existing attempts at a realist interpretation, arguing instead for the logic of instrumentation to account for the success of science...
...They are indeed, and even before most of us realized it they were offering testimony in private that now becomes part of the public record of our most tragic war...
...Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, edited by Bernard Edelman (W.W...
...SANDRA LEVINSON Center for Cuban Studies The author replies: It is extremely risky business writing about Cuba from an independent frame of reference...
...Arthur Peacocke is an Anglican theologian and research biochemist whose many publications in the interaction of religion and science aim at bringing fundamental theological concerns together with the contemporary worldview of science...
...We must end hostile confrontations between labor and management...
...Ronald N. Giere's paper on the approach in which historical, logical, political, psychological, and sociological dimensions of science are all represented...
...I would specially recommend Arthur Peacocke's thought which seeks to bridge the fields of science, theology, and philosophy, and to work towards a new theology of nature...
...With characteristic fascination for dimensions, he exclaims:'' Size eludes / beholders of the whole wall at once...
...Another section notes the values and commitments to which the authors were led by shared reflection upon their experiences...
...Caring for Marriage by Denise Lardner Carmody (Paulist Press, $7.95, 182 pp...
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...Peter Taylor's sixth collection of stories, The Old Forest: And Other Stories (Doubleday, $16.95, 358 pp...
...Arthur Fine gives a careful analysis of realism in the thought of Albert Einstein...
...His readable, though unnecessarily prolix and repetitive The Zero-Sum Solution (Simon & Schuster, $18.95, 414 pp...
...Throughout her work, she has displayed a tough-minded, unsentimental compassion for the patient animals she knows well...
...Completed B.A...
...Nevertheless, Cuban and U.S...
...These fascinating essays represent three moments in the doing of feminist ethics...
...Thurow's model is Japanese...
...We are reminded of why we should not forget...
...His books include Greed Is Not Enough, and the forthcoming Visions & Nightmares: America after Reagan...
...As an academician Mr...
...Blanco, perhaps I was not strong enough in my condemnation of the Castro regime...
...I have just read it in galleys...
...Naipaul, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nadine Gordimer, Garcia Marquez, Alejo Carpentier, Graham Greene, Giinter Grass, George Steiner, Jorge Semprun, and Miguel Asturias...
...Brilliant analysis of the classical and contemporary christological debates enables Thompson to arrive at such an original liberationist clarity, focus, passion, and pastoral sensitivity that the book is a pleasure to read...
...the Cuban literacy campaign . . . raised the literacy rates from 76 percent...
...On some level, in some terrible way, we have become the fear that is around us...
...is surely the definitive study of the new Hollywood...
...A book in two parts, the first is a sequence of impressions of Africa, the second a flight of autobiography: both poems are winningly freewheeling, written so engagingly that you would easily make the mistake of thinking this kind of poetry an unarduous matter of throwing words in the air and watching them land in good order...
...One section analyzes the experiences which prompt moral reflection: distributing house and child care responsibilities, violence against women, etc...
...the chronology and the good word list.W Sister Margaret Marthaler, O.S.P...
...Originally published in 1973, Stargazer is the best book ever written about Andy Warhol and the voyeuristic gaze that constitutes the foundation of both his art and his life...
...He stresses, in addition, left-wing factionalism, Franklin Roosevelt's successful theft of socialist support, and repeated episodes of repression...
...I have selected four books for their breadth of approach and variety of technical levels...
...Kostof ranges from Stone Age caves to the AT&T Building, with splendid photographs and drawings accompanied by a text which is readable and fair-minded...
...Undone by ambition, he isn't quite a tragic figure...
...However, may I point out that my reading of the five-year study of food policy in Cuba entitled "No Free Lunch" was regarded by the chief author, Medea Benjamin, in a letter to me as " a good job in capturing the tone and flavor of our work.'' Parenthetically, the Center for Cuban Studies provides useful information about Cuban life...
...combines an alarmist diagnosis with a series of controversial and politically implausible therapies...
...Here Peacocke compares scientific and theological methods and draws on current physics and biology in describing God's relation to the world and the emergence of human beings...
...At the center of Nancy Lemann's comic first novel, Lives of the Saints (Knopf, $13.95, 144 pp...
...These six books achieve that goal...
...The concern here, as in his earlier books, is primarily pastoral: uniting theological work with the spiritual quest...
...What Lukas's almost excruciatingly nonjudgmental stance makes clear is this: white liberals, almost all of them (the Divers were a rare exception) suburbanites, including Judge Garrity, imposed a solution to racial segregation on two culturally and economically deprived communities who shared violent prejudices against each other...
...Stereotypical English spinsters never indulge in sexual liaisons, as Edith does...
...Eleven fine essays unite theory and practice...
...Clare Resource Center Little Falls, Minnesota MIt is an excellent addition for the study of the Bible for our Church...
...Martin Weitzman's The Share Economy: Conquering Stagflation (Harvard University, $ 15,167 pp...
...Nonsense...
...I (Cambridge University, $39.50, 360 pp...
...Except for Persse McGarrigle, a young Irish poet and lecturer whose quest requires him to keep a sharp eye out...
...Don DeLillo's White Noise (Viking, $16.95, 326 pp...
...He is especially good at weaving accounts of very disparate careers into gracefully unified chapters which capture the ethos of distinctive eras of religious and cultural life...
...This is true not only of comparisons with Communist countries, but with the selective Japanese and Western European systems as the "excellence" reports on education by the national commissions in recent years attest...
...I can't comment on every chapter of Boyers's book — he has read some of his authors far more systematically than I have — but where my reading coincides with his, I find his sense of political fiction extremely persuasive...
...THE BEST theology books aim to educate, challenge, inspire, and support...
...works to bring the disparate worlds of warriors and victims into a discursive relationship with one another...
...Freeman Dyson's Weapons and Hope (Harper and Row, $17.95, 340 pp...
...She is prepared to soldier on, a bleak future which no heroine of a romance novel is ever called upon to face...
...Here the focus is on God...
...Cooperation and worker participation are the clues to product quality...
...Judge Arthur Garrity, whose administrative takeover of the Boston school system started a cycle of white and black violence, emerges as neither a liberal hero nor a conservative villain...
...Robert Penn Warren's New and Selected Poems (Random House, $9.95,322 pp...
...Japanese corporate leaders earn about a third of their American counterparts...
...This turn of mind has certain distinguishing characteristics...
...The book is not about love, Mr...
...which covers the years in the mid-1970s when Britain's new and controversial home for The National Theatre was under construction on London's South Bank...
...is a life-long democratic socialist's meditation on Werner Sombart's 1906 question and book title Why Is There No Socialism in America ? Howe does not deny the continuing relevance of Sombart's explanation — the absence of a feudal tradition, the social ease between classes, and the relative abundance of roast beef and apple pie...
...The current return to a more integral and self-conscious social reflection might-be called a renewal of practical philosophy...
...Moll's descriptions of the various campuses sometimes verge on caricature, but his writing is lively and his suggestions eminently practical in these days of $15,000 per annum financial packages...
...THE relationships between science and religion span the gamut from conflict to a new rapproachment and cross fertilization...
...Attaches permanently to end of racket handle...
...It has evoked repeatedly favorable attention on the New York Times editorial page...
...Her passion for the ordinary is conveyed by her skillful use of the crowded line, reminiscent of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by her accumulation of detail, by her presentation of an animal ("Bertie Goes Hunting," for example), in one or two long, breathless sentences...
...This is a stunning collection of technical papers at the cutting edge of philosophy of science...
...No less intriguing than his subjects are his cadences...
...Edith Hope, despite her name, does not expect a happy ending...
...Experiencing God: Theology as Spirituality by Kenneth Leech (Harper & Row, $20.95, 500 pp...
...Unafraid of the major themes — love, history, America — he has always been adventurous in diction and form...
...ends with: "We are your sons, America,/And you cannot change that...
...We see events from many perspectives...
...Paradoxically, the poet's themes, in this book, are death and loss: she portrays her dead brother, to whom the book is dedicated, in "A Curfew...
...14.95, $8.95, paper, 110 pp...
...Real sacrifices were demanded of both communities for an abstract ideal of integration for which neither was prepared...
...In counterpoint, theologian George Lindbeck makes a radical application of the insight that theoretical discourse is rooted in the practical life of a community...
...Biblical Institute 21st Biblical Institute, Trinity College, Burlington, VT 05401, June 15-20, 1986...
...Like all of the other books cited here, this is a work which refuses compartmentalized treatment of its subject matter, and deals with architecture instead as an integral dimension of the broader human experience...
...Hence Peacocke talks about God in terms of continuous creation in time and space...
...The British have spent the best part of a century losing ground in world markets because they have failed to match the technological innovations of their American, German, and Japanese rivals...
...By Amy Clampitt...
...In particular he draws on human biology, psychology, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history to interpret two basic theological issues: the image of God in human beings, and sin...
...Write: Sister Miriam Ward...
...and now, as if with a flick of his wrist, he has come up with a new book, On the Edge (Elizabeth Sifton Books: Viking, $7.95, 112 pp...
...The authors include theologians who view science and the philosophy of science as critically important to theological research...
...on the contrary, [is] women and childrendominated...
...That world is overwhelmingly male-dominated...
...In her second book, following a brilliant performance in The Kingfisher, Amy Clampitt celebrates the current moment in its beauty and squalor...
...Thanks to the arrival 29 November 1985: 679 of this mettlesome woman in his tame routines, it dawns on Macon that life is full of opportunities to seize, not just inconveniences to navigate...
...is a young man who recalls the prodigal sons in Taylor's stories...
...Barbara Hilkert Andolsen, Christine E. Gudorf, and Mary D. Pellauer edit Women's Consciousness, Women's Conscience (Winston Seabury, $14.95, 310 pp...
...44 percent of blacks and 55 percent of Hispanics are either total, functional, or marginal readers...
...How to Make It Through the Day by John Carmody (Nashville, Tenn., The Upper Room, $5.95, 110 pp...
...WHAT THE LIGHT WAS LIKE...
...And he makes his case persuasively...
...Further, although Mr...
...For the mingled myth and reality of America as a land of opportunity is far too powerCommonweal: 678 ful to justify the fantasies in which Howe indulged as a youth of the possibility of a socialist America...
...Jones, Edith Hope, the heroine of Anita Brookner's novel, is "the stereotypical English spinster...
...outlines a process of Christian decision-making...
...Custer, neither demonized nor valorized, emerges as a strange bird indeed — a man of abundant charm, great flair, and reckless courage...
...I JfW N ORDER to reclaim our society," E. L. Doctorow wrote recently, "we need the words to find it:" While made in the context of a discussion about directions in current American fiction, Doctorow's observation could stand as an epigraph for much of the most significant new work in what were once called the moral sciences...
...Jeffrey Meyers's Hemingway: A Biography (Harper & Row, $27.50, 644 pp...
...As a librarian I especially appreciated the following features: well bound...
...Miss Brookner's novel rings true simply because it shows reality for what it is — a mixture of ambivalence and ambiguity...
...Fear is the preeminent motif of White Noise...
...Even if we assume that these figures can be trusted, they are not equivalent quantities and cannot be compared by any stretch of scientific guidelines...
...And, he adds, its style is "cool," technical, quantitative...
...is a big book, big enough to give a sense of the scale and reverberation of his achievement in poetry...
...Immense labor made this biography possible, but Meyers's sentences are so fully empowered that the labor is felt only as energy driving toward its chosen end...
...Standing in a Caribbean church, the poet-as-adventurer is transfixed by a mural that fills an entire wall, and sees enormous human figures whose faces are "luminous / with a light / that baffles the eye...
...There is also no mention of the fact that almost every Cuban eats lunch on the job or in the school, which is not "counted'' when considering the diet according to the ration book...
...The authors here continue the on-going theme of Bellah's work in humanistic sociology in trying to place the contemporary disarray of American society into both historical and empirical context through the analysis of extensive interviews conducted in a number of representative communities...
...Anthropology in Theological Perspective, by Wolfhart Pannenberg...
...You have blessed us by such a publication.** Sister Julie Noonan, C.S.J...
...It is, in fact, Amy Clampitt's knowledge of loss that generates her celebration of life...
...If unions accepted this analysis, they just might accept slightly lower wages in the short run in the hope of higher rewards in the future...
...Finally, the most stimulating book about the theater I've read this year is Peter Hall's Diaries (Harper & Row, $24, 414 pp...
...The lack of variety in the Cuban diet is, unfortunately, as much our fault as that of the Cubans...
...Charles Borromeo Seminary Philadelphia, Pennsylvania helps...
...scientists who deal with religion as it shapes contemporary worldviews and directs action towards nature and society...
...Salary: Negotiable according to qualifications...
...He is co-editor of the forthcoming three-volume Encyclopedia of Religion in America (Scribners...
...these focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition as problem and resource, and draw on the natural sciences, art, and spirituality to bring about holistic creation consciousness...
...Magi Books, Inc...
...philosophers of science whose work is critically important for comparing the formation, testing, and interpretation of scientific theory and religious doctrine...
...Grace Schulman grace schulman is poetry editor of The Nation and Director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street YM-YWHA...
...Berube says that rationing is unlikely to be scrapped in the near future, but Cuban officials are working now on a plan to phase out the libreta, and the word in Havana in August was that this time it is going to happen...
...Not all of these men wound up opposing the war, though many did...
...Thurow identifies himself as an "intellectual pessimist but an emotional optimist...
...a dwarf striding on tall posts decorated with bananas...
...In the same breath he quotes Jonathan Kozal's estimate that in the U.S...
...And in his new book, the questions increase...
...Faculty: Donald Senior, Carolyn Osiek, Roland Murphy, Bruce Metzger, Reginald Fuller, Joseph Cunneen...
...a silver cove in Maine recalls a Crivelli angel...
...By Maxine Kumin...
...In Anthropology in Theological Perspective, Pannenberg launches a critical appraisal of the natural, psychological, and social sciences as they affect the foundations of theology...
...Intimations of Reality: Critical Realism in Science and Religion, by Arthur Peacocke, University of Notre Dame, $4.95, 94 pp...
...630, six times...
...Roger Copeland ROGER COPELAND teaches at Oberlin College and has written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, The New Republic, and Partisan Review...
...Robert Lekachman ROBERT LEKACHMAN is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the City University of New York...
...Finally, I cannot resist including Richard Moll's The Public Ivys (Viking Penguin, $18.95, 289 pp...
...Cry of the Environment: Rebuilding the Christian Creation Tradition, edited by Philip N. Joranson and Ken Butigan...
...By Laurence Lieberman...
...Eyesight flits / from corner to corner...
...With British finesse Bernard Williams critically explores the resources of philosophical ethics in Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Harvard University, $17.50, 248 pp...
...No danger...
...The book includes a section on several institutes and centers at which further study may be pursued...
...Boston Schools of Law, Management, Nursing, Education and Social Work, as well as the College and Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences, an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer...
...He creates his own...
...It is Dyson's contention that unless these two worlds find some common meeting ground, however fragile and tentative, we will never have the "fruitful nuclear debate" we so desperately require...
...completes the three-part series Leech began in 1977 with Soul Friend...
...Kenneth Koch's Selected Poems 1950-1982 has just come into its paperback form (Random House, $9.95, 236 pp...
...an architect monk who, having built a monastery under vows of silence, proceeds to build some two dozen churches on various islands...
...From biology we learn that all life on earth shares a common link through the genetic code, that evolution proceeds by chance and mutation without apparent purpose, that pain and suffering are part of the evolution that produced humankind...
...According to Mr...
...of Theology, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167...
...Moreover, the central section of the book is a biographical homage to John Keats, in which the poet achieves a remarkably close identification with the dying man...
...Specify initials...
...I have much admired his work, and seize this occasion to praise it...
...Bill Axe, The Trinitarian Friars, P.O...
...Finally, one novel — and it isn't about war...
...The Palmer raids of the 1920s and the McCarthy ite extravaganza of the 1950s reiterated national willingness to assault radicals...
...the Biblical Cyclopedic Index was superb...
...Berube says that "Cubans lack the means to register their opinions...
...In the last two years there has been a radical change in this area: all newspapers and magazines now carry letters to the editor, letters which have resulted in investigative reporting into corruption, bad planning, poor housing construction, poor services...
...Having started from this premise it is not surprising that Mr...
...J. Anthony Lukas's humane exploration of the behavior of three Boston families during the busing crisis of the mid1970s, is the year's, probably the decade's, best book about how urban Americans work and live...
...senseless modern combat...
...As he has done in previous work, Pannenberg brings the results of this analysis into the general context of history in Commonweal: 680 which the formation of identity arises, and in which God works to bring about the eschatological future...
...DeLillo's central character, knowing he is growing a tumor from which he will die, offers, from his fear, a recognition that we no longer have alien Others to fear if we are honest with ourselves...
...Fiercely she praises common things with accuracy and clarity...
...Our scandalous twenty-five-year-old economic blockade has made it impossible for Cubans to supplement their diets with U.S...
...Dyson himself evokes both worlds compellingly...
...her deft tenth novel, has to venture further from home to see the world through other eyes...
...Her book, Women's Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development, will be published by Paulist in February, 1986...
...God is immanent to every event in the cosmic drama...
...This is not the place to look for intensive studies of theological and institutional development, but it is an eminently readable story, or collection of interwoven stories, which illuminate American religious history as thoroughly as can be done in a single volume...
...Here are some happy exceptions to that rule: serious books written in a lucid and lively style that will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike...
...Viking...
...ungoverned technological advances...
...Her most recent collection of poems is Hemispheres (Sheep Meadow Press...
...Gifts Perfect Gift for tennis enthusiast...
...On the contrary, most of them are in some fundamental way hapless, or at least they understand that they are at the mercy of luck...
...The revolution is still only twenty-seven years old...
...Still, for the curious, Weitzman's tract is an excellent example of the economic mind at work...
...A "wastrel youth" in New Orleans, Claude Collier is adrift— sometimes dreamily, sometimes wildly—in an Old Southern social landscape where butlers are loyal and children call their father "sir...
...In one of my favorite poems here, "The Reedbeds of Hackensack," she focuses on phragmites growing in the Hackensack River, asking: "Is there a poetry of the incorrigibly ugly...
...while formulated with philosophical precision, richly repay reading even for the non-specialist...
...Edward MacKinnon's analysis of the semantics of quantum theory includes a helpful overview of logistic and historicist approaches to interpreting science...
...Joann Wolski Conn JOANN WOLSKI CONN is associate professor of theology in the graduate program in pastoral counseling at Neumann College, Aston, Pa...
...re-issued this year in paperback with a dazzling new introduction by the author...
...In blaming unemployment on high wages, Weitzman conveniently ignores managerial incompetence, tlje notorious failures of industries like steel and auto to adopt advanced technologies, the scandalous overpayment of (incompetent managers, and the preference of major corporations for mergers and acquisitions over attention to the quality of their product, not to mention the record of auto companies and others in raising, instead of lowering, prices when consumerdemand flags...
...England now is poorer than Italy and may soon fall behind Spain...
...Qualifications: Knowledge of and commitment to the Pastoral and Ecumenical dimensions of the Catholic tradition of theology, education and ministry...
...It contains essays by twenty-three scholars, including theologians, scientists, teachers, ecologists, and artists...
...Science and Reality: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Science, edited by James T. Cushing, C. F. Delaney, and Gary M. Butting...
...Coleridge and Wordsworth (Bucknell University Press, $32.50,228 pp...
...33 Buckingham Dr...
...which includes my own Miami University with such other state-supported institutions as Berkeley, Chapel Hill, and William and Mary as lower-cost alternatives to the ' 'real Ivys'' in terms of educational quality and collegiate ambience...
...She is also book review editor of Horizons, the journal of the College Theology Society...
...Most of the men hail from the South, where old-fashioned dignity, as well as eccentricity, are not yet extinct...
...Westminster, $38.95, 552 pp...
...Lamanna underscores a dilemma in comparative educational research...
...O'Connell...
...Because it is only then that the world, as you have seen it through your own eyes, will begin to tell you things about yourself...
...I was fifty, but I had just discovered what it means to see the world through another man's eyes...
...Weitzman's MIT colleague, Lester Thurow, is a committed egalitarian and occasional adviser to Democratic presidential candidates...
...Something must be wrong with markets that enrich managers who are regularly outmatched by less wellrewarded foreign rivals...
...takes the reader on a rollicking historical ride replete with fascinating side-shows, vivid vignettes, stark scenarios of cruelty, chicanery, and often comical miscalculations tragic in their effects...
...is a book as diversely telling as its subject...
...To the Editors: Maurice Berube's article on Cuba ["Assessing a Revolution," September 6] is admirable for its reasonable tone — how seldom we see something written on Cuba which is not hysterical...
...COMMONWEAL, 232 Madison Ave., NYC 10016...
...of the University, with scholarly accomplishments in one of the fields of pastoral studies or in a field of theology intimately related to the life of the Church...
...Albany, N.Y...
...Not so...
...Deadline for submission of resume: January 1, 1986...
...Thanks to their burdensome self consciousness, they have often ended up looking silly...
...Order several $4.95 each plus $2.40 postage and handling...
...is a study of the relations between politics and fiction in Milan Kundera, V.S...
...good print...
...We risk the same fate unless we undertake a drastic restructuring of our economy...
...If I have a quarrel with the New and Selected Poems, it is because I find it too severe with the early poems...
...The underlying theme of this broad and generally non-technical anthology is an acknowledgment of the role of Judeo-Christian religion in the environmental crisis and a search to revision the biblical creation tradition such that nature and human nature are celebrated together...
...Letty M. Russell edits Feminist InCommonweal: 684 terpretation of the Bible (Westminster, $10.95, 166 pp...
...660, three times...
...University of Notre Dame, $11.95, 195 pp...
...best known in this country for his collaboration with Shostakovich on Testimony...
...TV programs voice loud criticisms — from "man-in-the-street" interviews to serials and soap operas which 29 November 1985: 685 reflect an often harsh reality...
...During the past year a number of books have appeared which point towards the positive contributions from one to the other...
...illiterates are from similar lowincome populations...
...is a welcome event for the reader who appreciates the melding of telling personal detail, broad synthetic sweep, and a command of the narrative art...
...Boston is a classic example of remedies imposed, at no cost to themselves, by good liberals on groups less privileged, less powerful, and less educated than themselves...
...Every item on the libreta is 'also sold por la libre and almost everyone shops in the parallel markets to supplement their diet where, indeed, the prices are higher...
...Maxine Kumin's poetry is, at its center, profoundly human...
...Jean Bethke Elshtain JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN, a political theorist who has studied at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
...Busing might indeed have promoted racial equality if poor blacks and poor whites had been assigned to excellent suburban schools, and the sons and daughters of prosperous middle-class families had been assigned to the miserable schools of Roxbury and South Boston...
...JOAN M. COOPER Maritcrin Classified RATES: 700 a word, one time...
...12208...
...Adults and children revel in disasters on the nightly news — that is, until the book's protagonists are themselves caught up in an "air-borne toxic incident" which destroys whatever immunization from poison, pollution, and evacuation middle-class professional families think they may have...
...Morality and Power in a Chinese Village (University of California, $24.50, 200 pp...
...During the carnage, thousands of young Americans tried to .come to grips with what the war was doing to them, to their country, and to the people they were there to "defend...
...The best prospect Howe can conjure up for socialists is for them to ally themselves with liberals and in effect to strengthen the left wing of the Democratic party...
...by Robert Bellah and associates...
...The new housing law which went into effect in January was the result of many years of complaint about inadequate housing — as a result of the new law, people may own their own homes, buy and sell, build onto their houses, etc...
...Similarly religious ideas, though they lead us to the sacred, need not themselves be treated as sacred and above critical rethinking...
...Fish, chicken, eggs, cheese, fruits and vegetables are not the traditional foods Cubans love, but are they not healthier...
...In presenting a "naturalistic, decision-theoretic" interpretation of the role of experiment in science, Giere attempts to capture the importance of the empirical as well as the realistic conceptuality of scientific theory...
...I miss "History" and several fairly early poems I came to love under Cleanth Brooks's fine guidance...
...a motley, malicious array of academics jet all over the world to literary conferences, where they deliver solipsistic papers and hardly see anything...
...Satisfaction guaranteed...
...Robert Boyers's Atrocity and Amnesia: The Political Novel Since 1945 (Oxford University Press, $29.95, 259 pp...
...Berube get away with comparing the literacy rate of the entire Cuban population, which includes a heterogeneous mix of all economic segments, with the supposed literacy rate of the poorest minorities of the U.S...
...Jerome E dition is certainly unique in both the quality and quantity of scholarly material which supplements the actual text.tt Sister Anta Dopkms Chairperson, Religious Studies Vitebro College LaCrosse, Wisconsin MI was truly delighted with it and found it hard to lay down...
...This book captures the spirit and vision of a theologian-scientist at the frontiers of thought...
...Characteristically, it's only when speaking of another artist, his musical muse Tchaikovsky, that Balanchine begins to speak unguardedly about himself...
...Koch is a superb craftsman: that is, you don't need to take any special notice of his craft, it exerts due pressure without adverting to itself as pressure...
...1-800-633-2252, Father Nigro, Gonzaga University, Spokane 99258...
...Mary Ann's Gifts, 13E Barbara Manor, Willington, CT 06279...
...In The Nature of Doctrine: Religiowund Theology in a Postliberal Age (Westminster, $9.95 paper, 180 pp...
...But Persse proves himself to be endlessly valiant — one more sturdy-souled man for this season...
...Heaven's Gate was originally budgeted at $7.5 million, but finally weighed in at $36 million...
...The horses skid, stiff-legged, correct position, break through the crust and stand around disconsolate lipping wisps of hay...
...Send resume" or write to: Robert J. Daly, S.J., Boston College, Dept...
...Eugene Debs and other socialist leaders were jailed during World War I because of their opposition to American participation in a "capitalist" conflict...
...Lukas has achieved the near-miracle of evoking sympathy for the under-educated, sometimes violent Irish Catholic McGoffs, for the even more beleaguered black Twymons, and the well-meaning, highly educated, securely elitist Divers...
...Religious Community Considering Religious Life...
...is a mercifully brief "solution" for unemployment...
...Times are tough...
...as resources for collective discussion and preaching as well as personal study and meditation...
...Getting Through," for example, contains these lines: Snow falls on the pregnant mares, is followed by a thaw, and then refreezes so that everywhere their hill upheaves into a glass 29 November 1985: 683 mountain...
...Norton, $13.95, 316 pp...
...Bear & Company, Sante Fe, NM, $11.95, 468 pp...
...Another very different sort of film book worth nothing is Stephen Koch's Star gazer (Marion Boyars, $11.95, 155 pp...
...portrays a world in which everyone is enmeshed in'' white noise," human sensibilities penetrated by incessantly operating TV sets, purring appliances, the never-ending hum of never-ending traffic on the near, but invisible, freeway...
...Connell's book fits no settled genre...
...But the new biography is splendid: and Meyers inspires, without seeming to make such a demand, every confidence...
...and especially in the last fifteen years or so, taking his second breath with Or Else: Poems 1968-1974, he has gained new masteries, opening upon new thresholds...
...And, here, more than in the previous two books, God is mother as well as father...
...In any case, and even if I disagreed with him more often than I do, I would still rush to welcome a critical book which works upon the understanding that fiction is not necessarily the reflexive thing we're often told it is: it is often an imaginative incarnation of issues which are indeed, in the world at large, matters of someone's life and someone's death...
...The sort of social self-reflection typical of practical philosophy is rooted, often explicitly, in ethical, political, religious, and aesthetic traditions which have shaped modern discourse about society...
...subject headings...
...The Vietnam Vets, or many in their ranks, continue to bear witness to the terrible events in which they themselves participated...
...What the Cubans say they are doing is building a "socialist democracy...
...is a major theological achievement...
...Historian Bruce Kuklich's Churchmen and Philosophers: From Jonathan Edwards to John Dewey (Yale University, $22.50, 311 pp...
...Volkov conducted thirty-three interviews with Balanchine during the last two years of the great choreographer's life and the resulting book is the next best thing to a full-fledged Balanchine autobiography...
...Irving Howe's Socialism and America (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $17.95, 225 pp...
...The two volumes of his papers, especially Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers, Vol...
...If the political climate improves and Democrats become receptive to new programs, Thurow offers them abundant policy nutrition...
...Subtitled "Dreams and Disaster in the Making of Heaven's Gate," Bach's book recounts a tempestuous saga of corporate folly and directorial ego run rampant...
...Thurow fears that we have begun to repeat the decline of England as a worldclass economy...
...Perhaps no Englishspeaking philosopher has contributed more than Charles Taylor toward the recovery of this viewpoint...
...she has portrayed men and women with generous regard, and also with an acute eye for common virtues and moral aspirations...
...If General Motors and smaller goliaths could incur declining labor costs as they hired more people, they would do so, reduce car prices, and sell more vehicles...
...We're all too familiar with the horror stories of the old Hollywood in which the masterwork of a Welles or a Von Stroheim is mutilated by some moronic mogul who possesses what used to be the producer's prerogative, final cut...
...But this is the story of what happens when that holiest of cinematic grails, final cut, is entrusted to a relatively inexperienced director like Michael Cimino, hailed prematurely for one flash-in-the-pan box office success, the grotesquely overrated Deerhunter...
...He is author of Reconstructing Public Philosophy (1982) and co-author, with Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, Anne Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (California, 1985...
...The value of this book lies in the diversity of its contributors, the scholarship of their arguments, and the common thread of hope and future which weaves throughout the book...
...It is a discovery you are lucky to make at any age, and one that is no less marvelous whether you make it at fifty or fifteen...
...Their conclusion is that many middle-class Americans are out of touch, at least at a conscious level, with the social dimensions of human values, and that American life is threatened by disintegration through a quest for individualistic achievement and fulfillment getting out of hand...
...Levinson, perhaps, has more firsthand knowledge of the Cuban system since the Revolution than any other American citizen...
...Funds would have flowed to those schools once middle-class families developed a compelling interest in them...
...good references...
...BY A WIDE margin, Common Ground (Knopf, $19.95, 659 pp...
...While others vie for the UNESCO Chair.of Literary Criticism, he's pursuing a gorgeous colleague named Angelica...
...Bursting with vivid, thumbnail sketches of Olivier, Richardson, Pinter, Beckett, and countless others, Hall's diaries are ultimately about the unavoidably "public" nature of the theater and the inextricable connection, both aesthetic and economic, between a healthy theater and the public sector...
...Meyers is a continuously vigorous writer, impatient of nonsense and cant, a sharp intelligence in full possession of his material...
...Although ostensibly a study of Warhol's films, the book is actually both an evocation and analysis of the detached, hedonistic coolness that pervaded the New York art world in the 1960s following the repudiation of abstract expressionism and the triumph of the pop art ethos...
...DOMENICA A. LAMANNA Free lunch in Cuba New York, N.Y...
...His luck is terrible...
...which deals from a number of perspectives with the metamorphosis of America from a production- to a consumption-oriented society...
...THE post-feminist era has been hard on men, in life and also in fiction...
...They release theological ideas in ways that stir the waters of prayer, teaching, spiritual direction, and pastoral ministry...
...MAURICE R. BERUBE A satisfying mixture Brooklyn, N.Y...
...the modem English...
...We must spend more money on public education so that Americans become as well-trained in science and mathematics as young Japanese...
...From physics we learn that the universe has a history of radical change, that the future is open, and that the emergence of life and humankind is 'deeply intertwined with the global character of the universe...
...One risks alienating both the political left and right...
...Some authors explain feminist consciousness and its implications for the interpretation of Scripture, others demonstrate its practical implications...
...It succeeds because the author writes beautifully of her rich full world that is in imminent danger...
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