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...Qualifications: Desire to integrate faith and justice, commitment to ers into high relief: Malraux's elusiveness I hope Jack Deedy's Auden as Didymus the poor, skilled administrator, fundraiser...
...Correspondence, September 10], may I both of whom through different kinds of To the Editors: I was pleased to learn from observe that although Bishop Untener's violence were reduced to permanently "Who Was Didymus...
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...Robert Frost's rustic "act" about sibly as a topic for a symposium in your 15th: Search Committee P.O...
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...the essay also commented, in passup "empty...
...On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of gested into her stomach-suggests that (Continued on page 30) Doctrine...
...Nor does the tenden- "Hic et Ille" and "The Well of Narcissus," an executive director to begin in February, cy to throw the weakness of important writ- subsequently collected in The Dyer's Hand...
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...and on Microfiche from Bell & Howell, Wooster, Ohio reacted rightly against an exaggerated Jonathan Swift gave his viewpoint in 44691...
...To the Editors: Daniel Callahan's medi- But, in the end, his words will be helpful LAWRENCE RAGAN tation on death ["Cramming for Your only to nonbelievers...
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...An essay of mine in CommonNewman points out in his famous essay, casionally to vomit the food the tube in- weal (May 13, 1977), "Auden and W.B...
...she is forgiven for himself with middle-of-the-night-read- portraying Wilson as a patriarchical bully Name ings from Macaulay's History of England in her journals...
...I've seen many Latin To the Editors: Daniel Callahan writes eloMasses in the Chicago area, except that New York, N.Y...
...but his reference to the Anyone who has endured an IV might look his "Lecture Notes" since 1973 when Arians seems to show the opposite of quibble with the latter point, and Nancy Edward S. Skillin revealed the identity of what he intends it-to show, as Cardinal Cruzan's one spontaneous reaction-oc- Didymus...
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...As one commentator phrased it, the Deedy: Auden as Didymus...
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...Auden flowing excitement about ideas makes make vivid appearances in The Sixties, but him a conversation grabber...
...Classified payable sex and in evaluating people-makes him, into the study, Auden: A Carnival of Intell- with order...
...Wilson the honest atheist and drinking like a man of the 1920s also takes courage from the dying John Address ("Scotch" must be one of the most fre- XXIII and his tireless efforts to reform the quently used words in the book), he har- Catholic church...
...his old friend Waldo Frank "had no huBesides his commitment to evaluating mility before his medium, never in fact classics and his insistence on his own taught himself to write...
...p. 5, Skip Weisexercise of communal discernment try meaning of life...
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...We make Des- Rothco...
...Vatican II bor- Gulliver's Travels...
...Wilson balances them with hundreds of But just when you are about to lose pasmall discourses on Diderot, Balzac's tience with these high-horse pronouncemelodrama, Hungarian translations of ments, you come face-to-face with Shelley and Poe, Hebrew scholarship- Wilson's devotion to his mission and his in short the business of the heroic hu- standards...
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...Auden's 1942 columns in Commonanalogies limp...
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...ers on Auden's work have continued to overa tricky thing...
...Without reference Finals," July 16] reinforces a quarrel I have to Christ, death remains an absurdity with certain Catholic thinkers...
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...City, State, Zip rumphs his way through the culture of the At a dinner party in 1963, Wilson had With notification, as a gift, from: 1960s and what remains of his older mod- been thundering about the American ernist world...
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...p. 22, Karin "to penetrate the faith more deeply by ac- Willis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New versibly brain-dead people to live, we turn York...
...August 13] that map analogy may limp somewhat (all vegetative states...
...CORRESPONDENCE opinion, is right on target...
...Newman there is a time to live and a time to die...
...at least he put the em- that discontinuing the force-feeding that weal under the pen name, Didymus, are the phasis where it should be, on the whole- kept them alive was tantamount to mur- subject of a forthcoming monograph by Jack ness of the church, including the sensus der...
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...being as a soul trapped in a body absolutely Missa Latina en Anglais WEBSTER T. PATTERSON accurate...
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...One can also see what Wilson means Yeats," described these columns as Auden's when he finds Bui uel's film La Belle de attempt to formulate a Christian theory of CLASSIFIED Jour pornographic and Antonioni's Blow- literature...
...whining young people with their his wife Elena's comment on the scene, vague criticisms of the system, literary Wilson writes, "there'd be America any- City...
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...Auden himself used passages from Position Opening tion is sometimes mitigated by episodes the "Notes" in later essays, whose titles reof tenderness and old-fashioned gallantry, flect the doubleness of Didymus, such as The Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Midwest seeks it never goes away...
...But Wilson does Christmas pacing and nineteenth-century copiousness not need to agree with you to see what you is coming...
...of notation, there is the problem of a cul- have built in a life of writing or action...
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...what was left of her was doing more than Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Essentially what Newman said was quibbling...
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