Surviving with style:
Cox, Harvey
peers. Once at Fordham he called the Honors Program into his ...
...The title, of course, was one of her puns...
...Judy Collins, Corita's tank she splashed with her famous, colossal squiggly daubs...
...Ivan this month, Washington denied involvement...
...Now graduate and undergraduate faculties, and made Fordham acathey have undertaken the most serious mission of their lives: to demically respectable...
...But I hope somewhere little girls and boys are letting the flowers within come out, and some adults are remembering that even something as banal as Wonderbread can taste great if you know how to serve it up...
...Capitol...
...But the high point was Corita...
...Micki Myers, Corita's talented foundly sacramental and very, very "Catholic...
...When America columnist, English theologian Charles fast is directed not only at the governing but at the governed: Davis, rocked the church by leaving it in 1966, America Do not be silent they say...
...Except for Vietnam - where, as late interpret as acquiescence to the government's choice of policy, as 1968, America editorials referred to the "so-called" peace a silence they themselves knew and participated in too long in movement - it provided progressive leadership and lively the vietnam era...
...The mood was upbeat...
...believe that it is the people of the United States who are the But what leaps from these old Americas as I re-read them hope of peace in Central America, a people that surely must today is their concern for the young...
...It was the dough out of which she baked ously wanted to say and do something positive and affirming, the bread of life...
...the communications department at Loyola University of New...
...FATHER,' EDITOR, TEACHER T HE DAY Thurston Noble Davis, S.J., died in New York, September 17, 1986, I was telling college freshmen in New Orleans of his influence on me...
...sponsorship of the contras in Nicaragua...
...Corita Kent I think it is because Corita had a complex kind of-simplicity...
...The next time I do I know I'll feel a stab of sadness...
...They fast on France receiving his subjects under a tree - and groping for water only, looking to America...
...Corita did not survive her last' battle, but she lived - and died - with style...
...High When I see them I always smile...
...No matter how horrendous because it was so low profile, so unassuming, so matter-of- the traffic is on the Southeast Expressway, no matter how bad a fact...
...evening, but I remember Corita - small, fragile, earnest, speaking almost shyly about something which, at least on the surface seemed to have little to do with the bombing of Hanoi...
...The class For over a month, four U.S...
...For that I'll always be thankful...
...Few would argue that this complex, Harvard disciple of classicist Werner Jaeger mastered the common touch...
...That's who Corita was, a WHEN Corita Kent died here in Boston last month, the survivor with style...
...In 1965 Thurston brought not have forgotten the lessons of Vietnam...
...but Thurston Davis's America (1955-1968) was not a silence they hear across America, a silence they can only conservative magazine...
...She was an urban guerrilla with a paint brush...
...Breed," the "rebellious" sixties generation, their struggles with the faith, their alienation, and their commitment to change...
...Commonweal: 550...
...through me, I think, he hoped to hear the voices of students I knew and taught...
...She was a fighter who not only surURBAN GUERRILLA WITH PAINT BRUSH vived the scarring battles the Immaculate Heart Sisters lived through but did it with verve...
...For Corita "art" turbed and painfully shy little girl she had helped to lead out of did not belong under glass...
...Once at Fordham he called the Honors Program into his office and asked the bewildered group, "Well, boys, what's THE FAST & THE DEAD on your minds...
...luminous, the only, and the hope-filled...
...I have not driven by that tank since Corita died...
...In this sense Corita was proIt was a great evening...
...Their Street...
...war veterans -Charles Liteky,, mimics would imitate him "spontaneously" joining students George Mizo, Brian Willson, and Duncan Murphy - have at a cafeteria table - as if he were King-Saint Louis IX of been fasting on the steps of the U.S...
...I was a sort of of the bizarrely inappropriate structure they are splashed over...
...simply showed some slides and talked about a dis- day it has been, my spirits are always lifted...
...connections were shot religious liberty, contraception, divorce and remarriage, the down flying a C123 military transport over Nicarauga earlier Kennedy candidacy, poverty, liturgy, and ecumenism...
...Even as a high school student, I am told, he was "paternal" with his 24 October 1986: 549 Now I see how the journalist remained always the educator, her pain and withdrawal by teaching her how to draw a large always the dean...
...debate on the great controversies of the 1960s: racial justice, When four mercenaries with U.S...
...HARVEY COX (Harvy Cox teaches at Harvard Divinity School...
...The lighting signs and sales slogans and plastic containers was not, for her, was classical late-sixties...
...She reveled in the junk and Peace of Bread...
...first thing I thought of was a splendid evening we Corita Kent also won my heart because she had an urban shared sometime around 1970 which we called "A sensibility...
...as if we had set up the meeting...
...RAYMOND A. SCHROTH words, but it had to do with bringing out - into visibility and (Father Raymond A. Schroth, S.J., is associate professor in color and texture and light - the flower inside each of us...
...And they are questioning the guage...
...I forget the exact minds...
...friend, threw back her head and sang a couple of her best There they are, assertively antic, endlessly making gentle fun songs, including - as I recall - "Clouds...
...It was also the time pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the when the vague oriental wave had already crested and many superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the young people were looking to Christianity again...
...She mixed being serene with being high-strung...
...One does not have to be a faster to discern the money to Latin America and infuriated Richard Cardinal likely answers...
...Liteky, Mizo, Willson, and Murphy discussed his departure with sympathy and candor...
...Like a priest, a shaman, a magician, she could not just continue to say "no" to the war...
...She ended by saying something which, when I warmth, Thurston Davis was forever - symbolically - call- write it down now, sounds hopelessly trite...
...Above all, she had a certain SURVIVING WITH STYLE indefatigable resiliency...
...Meanwhile he filled the pages with editorials, articles, symposia, and letters about the "New Thurston Davis, S.J...
...For her they provided the endlessly fascinating material tion of life and a protest against the war in Vietnam...
...awaken the conscience of a nation, and to doit at a personal Fordham liberals had feared that Thurston's transfer to cost...
...Why is it that I forget almost everyting about the rest of that Orleans...
...try in two different wars: Murphy in World War II, from North Meanwhile, in his four years as dean, he started the Honors Africa to the freeing of the Belsen concentration camp, Liteky, Program and Junior Year Abroad, forced faculty to assign Mizo, and Willson in Vietnam for which Liteky received the outside readings, instituted three-hour exams, combined the Congressional Medal of Honor and Mizo a Purple Heart...
...WHAT'S ON YOUR MINDS...
...policy in Central America, Hartnett, S.J.'s anti-McCarthyism and make America more specifically U.S...
...Cushing, whom Thurston had cultivated as a benefactor of the The other four meanwhile continue to sit quietly on the steps new John LaFarge Institute and America House on West 56th of the Capitol, their faces set on that different mission...
...Of all her slogan posters, I think I like "Survival with Style" the best...
...Some of his pieces were "conservative" in tone They are protesting the $100 million approved by Congress - like the clever 1955 essay, reprinted in Time, deploring this summer for the contras, money that is likely to cause far Madison Avenue's "meretricious" corruption of the lanmore than four untimely deaths...
...was ordained...
...for her lively and playful art...
...America in 1953 was a move to mute editor Robert C. The four are protesting U.S...
...How were they Illich's "The Seamy Side of Charity" (January 21, 1967), borne hence, these four, capable of shattering the lives of lambasted the American church for sending its clergy and whole villages...
...She's gone now...
...Dan Berrigan was there, reading his poetry, a garland of Every time I drive to the Cape I go by the huge oil storage carnations and daisies around his neck...
...master of ceremonies...
...The world of young protegee, had done a lot of the preparation...
...People obvi- an empty wasteland...
...conservative...
...Whatever cool, lofty remoteness masked his sunflower...
...His most recent book is Religion in the Secular City, published by Simon & Schuster...
...We did...
...We handouts and throwaways and labels and ads that most people invited lots of people - many hundreds came - to a gathering experience merely as a suffocating wave of mind-deadening for song, poetry, art, and the sharing of bread, all as a celebra- trivia...
...She loved the city...
...They are asking us me on board as a summer editor and columnist even before I to speak now: for their lives, and the lives of many...
...She combined a childlike innocence with the kind of wisdom one finds more often among very old women...
...The four have shown gallan- something ordinary to say...
...Art meant transforming even the ugliest parts of the urban environment into testimonies of joy...
...Thirty-five years ago, with his prominent jaw, glossy, black hair, and sonorous, theatrically-modulated voice, he had stood before my freshman class at Fordham as our dean and exhorted us to "plunge in...
...But when she said ing young people into his office and asking, "What's on your it that night it was anything but ordinary...
...There are so many girders and stanchions and dreary warehouses and pipelines that still invite her magic touch...
Vol. 113 • October 1986 • No. 18
