Excess: Eros and Culture
Toolan, David
WESTON SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Cambridl[e, Massachusetts 1922-1986 A National Jesuit Theolosical Center Announces a New Prolp'am in Spirituality There will be 3 Core Courses in Biblical...
...DENNIS P. McCANN is the author (with Charles Strain) of Polity and Praxis: A Program for American Practical Theology...
...Singer's final interviews with the "oilies" hint that with indestructible Okiesmo they are shaking off their creditors' committees and praying for that blessed day when the air forces of Iran and Iraq take out each other's oil fields...
...Full portraits are also drawn of numerous "oilies," all of whom it seems had substantial contacts with Republican politicians and Las Vegas entertainers...
...If Lytle had scrutinized Patterson's practices he would have seen collateral and loan balances shuffled from one borrower's account to another to meet whatever inquiries were coming from upstream lenders...
...Many countries enacted legislation or applied more subtle, but nevertheless effective, pressure to achieve these objectives...
...The Spirituality Concentration can be done within the Master of Theological Studies (M.T.S...
...This includes UCIL's chairman of the board and managing director -- both of whom are Indian nationals...
...Union Carbide India Limited began to manufacture methyl isocyanate, a compound known as _MIC, in India because, unless it promised to do so the government of India threatelted to cease issuing import licenses for the A Summer Tradition...
...The style is elegant, precise essay, very French...
...It's proof that iconoclasm can be a delight -- and deconstruction beautiful...
...At its peak Lytle's portfolio contained over one billion dollars in loans bought through Continental's shopping center correspondent in Oklahoma City...
...Weston School of Theolo~ 3 Phillips Place Cambridlio, MA 02138 (617) 492-1960 Contact Father Devine for information about any of our other degrees and programs this, Penn Square and Continental were acting more like loan brokers and venture' capitalists than conservative commercial bankers...
...Continental continued to teeter from after-shocks following Penn Square's collapse, and in July, 1984 the F.D.I.C...
...In Brief EXCESS: EROS AND CULTURE, by Alphonso Lingis...
...Blame lies on all those in the chain of authority starting with the bank's chairman Roger Anderson who decreed that Continental should lend at a par with the two American giants, Bank of America and Citibank...
...When that or some other event sets off the next oil boom, the regulators had better be ready...
...Theology of the Spiritual life...
...Anderson was pushed into retirement a year and a half after the Penn Square crash, but glided to his fall on a golden parachute worth $550 thousand a year...
...degree or the Master of Theology (Th.M...
...As an end point on the responsibility issue, Union Carbide initially reported in March 1985 that its investigation suggested a deliberate act was possible...
...office" (by which I assume he means Union Carbide Corporation) "has complete authority to control technical operations in its overseas plants...
...Glixon also asserts that the "U.S...
...A decade ago, multinationals were being soundly criticized for failing to accommodate the aspirations of host countries, which included permitting local share ownership, staffing to the extent possible with local nationals and supplying raw materials on a local basis (thereby conserving foreign exchange and promoting local employmen0...
...DANIEL MORRISSEY i$ an associate professor at the University of Tulsa School of Law...
...Stories abound of how he would meet clients wearing Mickey Mouse ears and entertain them with food fights in ritzy restaurants...
...Offering quality theological and ministerial education since 1857, Saint John's University continues this tradition in its 1986 summer graduate program, June 23 -August !" Courses and workshops include: Carl Peter: Christian Anthropology Margaret O'Gara: Ecumenism: Christian Theologies in Dialog Godfrey Diekmann, OSB: Patristic Theology Emmanuel Cutrone: Rites of Reconciliation Rites of Christian Marriage Thomas J. Talley: The Liturgical Year Gail Ramshaw-Schmidt: The Language of the Liturgy Shawn Madigan, CSJ: American Spiritualities Michael O'ConneU and Michael Cowai~: Introduction to Pastoral Hermaneutics (July 7-18) Alvin Rueter: Making Good Preaching Better (June 23-June 27) Evelyn Woodward, RSJ: Theology of Pastoral Ministry Doris Murphy: Models for Parish Catechesis: Adults and Families (July 7-18) Christiane Brusselmans and Staff: Rites of Christian Initiation of Children (June 15- 20) Scripture and History Study in Jerusalem Financial Aid Available For complete summer catalog contact: Assistant Dean for Students School of Theology Room 103 Saint John's University Collegeville, MN 56321 (612) 363- 2102 14 February 1986:93...
...and the philosophical method which Coleridge envisioned as the systematic use of imagination, a penetration into image, figure, and event -- which in this case defamiliarizes the familiar by exploring the limits of boundless eros in cultures which do not figure things the way we do...
...The statement reflects a complete lack of understanding of some fundamental international business principles...
...The epilogue has been written by bankruptcy lawyers...
...Singer well notes, however, that nagging questions remain about the competency of those charged with superintending Penn Square's affairs...
...had to infuse the bank with a billion dollars of new capital, virtually taking over Continental to prevent further damage to even larger interconnected banks...
...Ultimately the federal government did pay the price in the person of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the proper name of the F.D.I.C...
...But this is a traveling tailor who also reweaves, as he goes, a coat of many colors., D.T...
...Further investigations (although hamREVIEWERS DAVID J. O'BRIEN teaches history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts...
...Singer also introduces us to Patterson's boss, Bill P. "Beep" Jennings, the bank's chairman and principal stockholder, another affable Oklahoman who liked to think big and disregarded all advice to reign in Patterson...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 66) The result...
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...pered by the refusal of the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation .to permit 'interviews of Union Carbide India Limited personnel on duty at the plant on the night of the incident) have confirmed that possibility...
...We believe more strongly than ever, that a deliberate act is the only plausible explanation of how water would enter that system in the volume required to trigger the chemical reaction that occurred...
...When the energy business fell into decline during the first half of 1982, Penn Square's hydrocarbonated bubble burst...
...whose identity so rightly concerned my first breakfast companions in Tulsa...
...federal litigation...
...Multinationals, Union Carbide included, reviewed their overseas investments and attempted to respond...
...Union Carbide Corporation now owns 50.9 percent of the stock of Union Carbide India Limited and is represented by five of the elevenmember board of directors...
...State University of New York, $9.95 paper, 163 pp...
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...Union Carbide India Limited employs over 9,000 people, not one of whom is an American...
...More truly perfidious than these playful practitioners of Okiesmo were the Continental bankers who should have known better...
...The middle-level Continental official whom Patterson cultivated was John Lytie...
...A little history is in order...
...The pivotal person in this mad money-merchantizing was Bill "Monkeybrains" Patterson, a man in his early thirties who ran Penn Square's oil and gas lending division like an OU fraternity rush...
...Although, as this is written, we have been informed that the Indian Red Cross and American Red Cross have finally worked out an accord permitting the Indian organization to accept a $5 million contribution made by Union Carbide at the suggestion of the judge in the U.S...
...Why did Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell give the bank a clean opinion three months before it was closed...
...J. Frank Devine, SJ...
...Prepare yourself for a trip in style into the erotic foundations of culture -through Lingis's first-person accounts of journeys to the bottom of the sea, to East Africa, medieval Khajuraho in India, to Commonweal: 92Bali fire-walks, to New Guinea, and Sri Lanka...
...Lingis, professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University, though obviously familiar with Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault, is his own master, I am tempted to say a ludic "little tailor" killing giants who have spoken on this topic -- Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, and L6viStrauss -- like so many flies...
...India was a case in point...
...When more cautious bank officers questioned one of those transactions, he brushed them off with his favorite phrase: "Hey, that's a done deal...
...The remaining 49.1 percent of stock is owned by some 27,000 Indian stockholders, including financial institutions which are owned in turn by the government of India...
...WESTON SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Cambridl[e, Massachusetts 1922-1986 A National Jesuit Theolosical Center Announces a New Prolp'am in Spirituality There will be 3 Core Courses in Biblical Spirituality...
...Singer aptly calls this "Musical Lending...
...Patterson stretched or ignored prudent lending standards and neglected necessary paperwork, often getting his borrowers to sign blank promissory notes...
...Were federal examiners too lenient in giving Penn Square time to work out its problems...
...He made enticing deals with Patterson on the understanding that the paperwork would follow, yet rarely checked when it didn't...
...Foremost in this group was the suave Robert A. Hefner III, tireless promoter of the myth that the deep gas in the Anadarko Basin held the key to the salvation of the planet...
...He was arrested and, except for a $1 million contribution to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund (which was not accepted until about two months later), virtually all other offers of aid (all of an ex g~'atia nature) have been rebuffed...
Vol. 113 • February 1986 • No. 3
