Master of topsy-turvydom
Braybrooke, Neville
body in unlikely ways, his arms and booted hands become for Vienna: Lusthaus with the aid, as the program says, of another person with whom he is carnally involved. I was Bach,...
...Cracow...
...On the occasions terton had one day visited their house and article that he sent to the Darlington when he came to see us, he appeared to drawn for him and his brothers a series of North Star, Chesteron described news- have all the time in the world to spare...
...What the Slade School of Art and there acNEVILLE BRAYBROOKE he particularly liked about Fleet Street quired the habit of a lifetime of always N Y FATHER Patrick Braybrooke was its pubs, where the liveliness and carrying colored crayons in his pockets...
...was at home, he worked write his pieces at home and then walk every day...
...This had hap- lished anonymously since the great ca- ing a political demonstration in the pened during the Boer War, and Cousin thedrals...
...quick sketches of knights, ladies with papers as "the largest work ever pub- His watch had been stolen, he said, durgolden hair, and dragons...
...In 1901, in an lightning drawings...
...As they look that the issue for the future was clear: "It It is a line which sums up Chesterton's down, they share the same vision of the is between light and darkness-and entire approach to religion...
...But as we had no politicians...
...There are few alterations in the clouds like hills, and all men hanging on Yet Chesterton at his best, like Shaw, manuscript...
...lived in Kensington, Chesterton would When G.K...
...I am the only person nearly a hundred pages in his Collected side down...
...congratulated her on this was sixty-two...
...Spirits he on an autobiography...
...with its painted cardboard figures...
...church in centuries...
...In one of his storm clouds were gathering and unrest He prays to the presence within Father Brown stories there is a scene was growing everywhere...
...But then, G.K...
...Yet, al- G. K. would say...
...GERALD WEALES G.K...
...abominated...
...He saw the landscape as it who understands him and I do not agree Poems, he completed in less than a really is, with stars like flowers, and the with him...
...In Europe, in 1936, the on the wild-eyed savage: topsy-turvy arrangement...
...We were hard up, and the Ches- in an ornamental pond, some even Where the dead stone god sits glar- tertons gave us furniture, including some caricaturing the profiles of statesmen and ing, that the worship is dead as heavy damask curtains...
...For the first time, words have entered a whole...
...I was Bach, Friesen, and Johann Strauss...
...that American theater is no longer simply a matter of plays in This sense of group endeavor reflects how much Clarke's work performance...
...Only a few years ago though he was to write poems and essays did I discover that this referred to his in praise of Fleet Street, he never actually book on Thomas Aquinas, which came worked there...
...He would start at 10:30 in the morning and carry on until 6:00 P.M...
...Then there was the mysterious pers...
...The division con- backdrop for his review of other events in cerns the interpretation and evaluation of Joseph A. Komonchak the life of the church last year, especially the council that occasioned the broadest the pope's visits to Holland, Belgium, and deepest changes in the Catholic zinger's "report" on the post-conciliar and Africa...
...In his book The "Most people either say that they agree books at tremendous speed...
...the mercy of God...
...And Paul Gallo's lighting design not only helps estabsuch a night club, but, knowingly or not, she has annexed an lish the changing moods, but becomes an active part of the old strip specialty number and turned it into a complex physi- proceedings when it provides a shadow picture to accompany cal image that fits the theme and texture of her piece as a the live image on stage...
...fears which preceded the council itself be worth reading that did not place it Hebblethwaite argues correctly that, and gave its first session the quality of against this context, a fault that certainly whether it was intended by the pope and high drama...
...the stone...
...body in unlikely ways, his arms and booted hands become for Vienna: Lusthaus with the aid, as the program says, of another person with whom he is carnally involved...
...Chesterton's book on He had the ability to gut a book very my grandmother: "At least you cannot Shaw has a particularly feeble beginning: fast and to dictate chapters of his own say I fell on my face...
...Naturalists had informed this question: went another, that of the topsy-turvy...
...As in the earlier piece, the reminded of an exotic dance that used to be popular in sleazy musicians wander in and out of the action, becoming part of night clubs, one in which the female dancer is both seducer and the stage pattern...
...Chesterton was proud of being a character whom nobody ever met called journalist, and mentions this several Tommy...
...He had the good idea to go and timorous evaluation of the postwith the full publication of Cardinal Rat- back to the Acta of the council to see conciliar period did appear to be setting Commonweal: 408...
...The set by Robert Israel is minimal, but it is seducee as one hand tries to protect the woman from the hand designed to emphasize that space is an active participant in any that presses to undress her...
...The Ballad Poet and the Lunatics, he wrote: "You with Bernard Shaw or that they do not of the White Horse," which runs to remember Saint Peter was crucified up- understand him...
...What makes Martha Clarke's piece so rewarding is enriched by the contribution of others...
...had the ability to look at things in a new Before me, I have a poem entitled Chesterton saw the sacred and the pro- light...
...Books: IMPORTANCE OF BEING FOCUSED ROM the moment that Pope John SYNOD EXTRAORDINARY what part Karol Wojtyla had played in it Paul II convoked an extraordinary THE INSIDE STORY and to give a very brief analysis of the session of the Synod of Bishops to OF THE ROME SYNOD book with which the future pope had incelebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Peter Hebblethwaite terpreted the council to the church in close of the Second Vatican Council, the Doubleday, $15.95, 146 pp...
...CHESTERTON 50 YEARS LATER Master of topsy-turvydom down with them to the DailyNews...
...I must get back to Tommy," times in his Autobiography...
...grandparents' house, he apologized to paradoxes limped...
...him that ditchwater was anything but Shall we say of the wild-eyed sav- Here are two examples, one from his life, dull...
...on the top of a Gothic tower...
...K. and his wife Frances built at What struck my father at the time, how- Beaconsfield in the 1920s, he used to ever, was the fact the Saint George was enjoy showing children his toy theater, dressed as an English soldier...
...fortnight...
...In his last broadcast for the BBC, "Idolatry," which he wrote when he was fane not running in parallel lines, but as he singled out the phrase "as dull as a schoolboy at Saint Paul's...
...It opens with rising and converging...
...At tea Later, when my father began his career parties afterwards one of his tricks was to as a literary journalist, Chesterton was to throw a bun in the air and catch it in his help him get reviewing on various pa- mouth...
...The poem ends with this comment carpets...
...Clarke may never have gone to dance...
...In the early days, when he out in 1933...
...There is, of grey walls beneath them and the land- everyone must choose his side...
...or NEVILLE BRAYBROOKE, British writ- so...
...the performers, the program here, as in Earthly Delights, Vienna: Lusthaus is still another reminder, if one is needed, indicates that the work was "Created with the Company...
...Once when great...
...told them that these pictures were in- At eighteen, Chesterton had gone to At Top Meadow, the house which G. tended as an allegory of world events...
...used to tell the story of how quality of the talk made them so different To amuse his friends, he would often do when he was a boy, G. K. Ches- from other London pubs...
...He No...
...The text, by Charles Mee, Jr., consists of disMuch of what I have written above suggests that Clarke is connected speeches - part anecdote, part confession - that the only begetter of Vienna: Lusthaus, but to be fair to her and sound as though they might have been lifted from case studies...
...on the back of an envelope he would he sat on a chair and broke it at my There were times, though, when the make notes for the next day's work...
...Now and again turning things upside down...
...With this notion ditchwater...
...Look through a microscope, he told age one from his books: his listeners, and you will find in it creawho crouches with gibber and When I was young we lived in Russell tures far more amusing than those found moan, Square...
...He was never to lose that 1890s, and he never bothered to replace G. K., as he was called by the family, romantic view of the press...
...said to pray...
...To his devoted him that has prompted the heart where the priest and the murderer meet secretary, Dorothy Collins, G.K...
...Hebblethwaite also uses the desynod became the focus of the debate that bate about the impact of the council as the now divides Catholics...
...A course, also the paradox of a poem called scape around them: "a topsy-turvydom month after his death the Spanish Civil "Idolatry" which turns out to be about of stone in mid-air" and "a glimpse of War broke out...
...After dinner he would relax with a er, editor, and critic, is presently at work cigar and a glass of wine...
...Anticipations of the church...
...Clarke piece...
...carpets and it was a top-floor flat, my Fifty years ago last month, Chesterton The answer that follows is an emphatic mother decided to use the curtains as died of heart failure at Beaconsfield...
...Sometimes he would read a 11 July 1986: 407 detective story, or look through the re- worship...
...delighted in great things small and small things view books on his table...
...And,.of course, the debate cannot be found in Peter Hebblethwaite's cardinal or not, the cardinal's negative about the council heated up considerably little book...
...Richard Peaslee, who is not simply its technical ingenuity, but the way in which an did the score for Earthly Delights, creates a gaily somber score aesthetic statement becomes a moral one...
...But it is the figure of Cardinal Ratsynod faithfully echoed the hopes and No interpretation of the synod would zinger which dominates the book...
Vol. 113 • July 1986 • No. 13
