Critics' choices for Christmas:
McDermott, Alice & Moses, Wilson J. & Clifford, Nicholas & Ellsberg, Peggy & Marty, Martin E. & Dionne, E.J. Jr. & Thomas, Christopher & Dowling, Regina Plunkett
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...Other pieces are reUniversity of Cambridge tecture (Harper- views of important buildings and trends, Faculty of Divinity...
...In these, the baby named Fantasy and Adventure and Horror, bies, especially if they find has sprouted some blond hair and looks and each character and each story spring themselves born into a household of read- to be about two or three years old...
...Consultant, Instructor in Liturgy There is no authority without responDecember 19 Maureen O'Connor sibility...
...Reading, after Often, when I recommend writers to stu- Regina Plunkett Dowling, the former chapall, is what got me into this profession in dents they return the favor and this year lain of Saint Joseph College in West the first place and so it seems only natu- my students directed me to Bernard Hartford, Connecticut, is currently a gradral that I turn, and return, to good books Cooper's lovely collection of autobio- uate student in the Department of Religious whenever I need to be reminded just what graphical essays, Maps to Anywhere Studies at Yale University...
...Commonweal 3 December 1993: 25 ly coming to realize, though not always of China to generalize about a huge admit, that something terribly wrong country of more than a billion people...
...Like Tate, Sundquist does much history in this century through three gento undermine older class-based cliches erations of women in her family: her concerning black American culture...
...Isaac sees Hannah Arendt and Albert and the pages are actually made of paper: Camus as laying the basis for a democrat- these are for the more mature baby...
...299 Elizabeth St., NY, NY 10012-2806...
...Hall is one of our more nofree time I take refuge in picture books...
...such efforts is his very good accounting depths in small scenes and in sustained narrative...
...For years now, I've Edward P. Jones's Lost in the City been slowly working my way through Alice McDermott is the author of three nov- (HarperPerennial, $10, 250 pp...
...JOSEPH P. BREEN IND: A, C, and F trains: Use Jay Street/Borough Hall Stop Editor's note: According to the Nashville IRT: #2 and #3 trains: Use Hoyt Street/Fulton Mall Stop Tennessean [October 121, Father Breen's #4 and #5 trains: Use Court Street/Borough Hall Stop letter prompted disciplinary action by BMT: M, N, and R trains: Use Lawrence Street Stop (Bridge Street Exit) Bishop Edward Kmiec of Nashville...
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...A many faiths speak for themselves, in color, (Oxford, $35, 312 pp...
...this year you might ry of black culture, as it is taught in many urbanite, finds herself with her husband think of placing there, and opening regu- universities, is dominated by a scatologon an inherited farm in western South larly, Courtney Milne, The Sacred Earth ical tradition of street-corner jesting, prison Dakota, near where the world ends, or (Abrams, $49.50, 244 pp...
...His bicycle is overly outamong other publications...
...Rightly or wrong- these problems for their children...
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...True child of r The first complete THE - Transcendentalism and the Greek Revival translation and that he was, Lincoln sought to root America DEAD SEA in an idea, and for better and worse such interpretation of idealism has continued to rule American SCROLLS fifty key documents life and government, justifying every- UNCOVERED thing from the Civil War to the Gulf War withheld for over and from free silver to health-care re- It form...
...And it pirants to the priesthood is lower and lowly, many believe that celibacy as a sacri- goes almost without saying that the har- ering...
...At Produced by the Society of Biblical Lit- When we give or suggest books for Christhome, we have blessed them for their erature under the editorship of Wayne mas reading, therefore, a welcome opmeatloaf recipe (Nancy's Spicy Meatloaf Meeks, the commentary is the work of portunity comes to review the year as it with Beer, page 260...
...The cere enthusiasm for the culture of that disparages nuclear "family values" editors (Susan J. Rosowski, Charles W. African-Americans...
...the common temptation of using her and human attempts to rebuild what has Rybczynski is the best kind of academbrief acquaintance with a small corner been destroyed...
...universities, who expressed a sin- forceful corrective to the anti-historicism (University of Nebraska, $45, 391 pp...
...Tintin Robert Royal comic books have been entertaining French kids for many decades...
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...I also enjoyed Susan Pepper Rob- Sure, she is feigning incover in 1991, the book consists of two bins's One Way Home (Random House, terest in other sports marvelous short novels, Reading Turgenev $17, 175 pp...
...Joseph is sunk in will examine the four books of the Catechism on successive days a dream, receiving the angel's warning to through major presentations, workshops, panel discussions and forums...
...had done to my next morning...
...Deadline: December 6,1993...
...and Barbara EsstWilliam Trevor's Two Lives (Penguin, man's lyrical first novel The Other Anna ave mercy on the base$10, 375 pp...
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...How can such a refusal Inauguration Speaker: Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B...
...Several Institute of Theology deal with housing, his recurring preoccuCambridge, England Christopher Thomas teaches in the De- pation and a subject which, he notes, department of Art History at the University serves more attention than it generally gets A space for Catholic women of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada...
...Lewis, run through the word- $4.95 each), are perennial favorites among disappeared from the booksellers' shelves, processor of a social scientist who writes well...
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...She records her life and her as a historian, a model of what literary impressions there in a beautifully written biography should be, skillfully and symwork that, among other things, captures pathetically integrating Percy's religious the essence of what it is to be a foreign- and philosophical ideas into his literary for the Weekend (1991) he used a similar er, and therefore an exotic-wondered at, work...
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...He wears a crash helmet The Oxenbury board books have been everywhere...
...self so dazed by the steady torrent of aca- Catholic readers can welcome this boun- First, Donald Hall's Life Work (Beacon, demic prose, that in my rare moments of tiful harvest of Protestant exegesis...
...Those strong Catholic families Richard is able to ride his bike home with And unlike the past, when we thought of from which we would like our priests to no helmet (this is a dubious lesson to the isolated priest as the pastor of a small come do not encourage their children to teach young readers), and he is fearless church in a rural community, nowadays be open to religious vocations...
...Tate provides a provides a hospice for her spirit, but she fresh, provocative reading of black women's also engages town people who know _ writing, and reveals a great deal about the nothing of her poetry and turns their en- aspirations of stable working-class black counters into fodder for her spiritual re- Wilson ]. Moses people during the nadir of the segregation flection, and ours...
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...To the Editors: Oh, how painfully we learn the lesson of history: that evil lurks in the hearts of men (and women...
...Chang's Wild Swans: Three Mosaic (Fawcett, $10, 245 pp...
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...so often ignored in attempts to define Inaugurated in 1991 in honor of the Reverend Paul E. McKeever, moral theologian black American values...
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...refuse participation in the priesthood to will- 215 1EFFF.RSON AVE...
...laugh, a sound that we wish we could store Renowned theologian Richard John in a bottle, because its music breaks our Neuhaus opens this hook with a challenging heart with its brief beauty...
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...t was hard to believe that the world needed yet another book on "A picture of the ideological turmoil...
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...used to conceptions of diversity and mul- aatje's The English Patient (Knopf, $21, All of Rybczynski's recent books have ticulturalism...
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...If you need a gift for a hesitant reader between the ages of six and fifteen, I would Democracy, Capitalism, and recommend the Tintin (Little, Brown, & Catholic Social Teaching Co., 21 volumes, $7.95 each) series...
...There are Edited by George Weigel & twenty-one of these classy French comic books, translated into good English...
...She ing my students to for years to come...
...You will lhtrough the insightful and thoughtbe happy to see the child who receives provoking commentaries of ten distinguished this gift-a book at once sophisticated and Catholic writers, Building the Free Society innocent, witty and pure-howling with hilarity at the outrageous adventures and critically examines a century of Catholic hysterical captions...
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...Commonweal 3 December 1993: 27 Jeffrey C. Isaac's Arendt, Camus, and him...
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...Recording talks with her 307 pp...
...If you Kathleen Norris, whose Dakota (Ticknor have seasons and retreats, you might take and Fields, $19.95, 192 pp...
...Tate tivity-Cather is taken seriously by French is a feminist, and by no means does she offer critics, specialists in gendered genres, and recently conversed with an agree- patriarchalism as the solution to the probneopostdeconstructuralists alike...
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...Finally, like so many others, I approach in writing about the weekend as admired, distrusted-in a country little have been haunted by Michael Ond- a time of rest and refreshment...
...If the confronting of these Sunday, December 5, 1993 at 4 o'clock issues is postponed much longer, it is possible that one day we might open up the Other Speakers at Advent Vespers priesthood and congratulate ourselves for November 28 Camille d'Arienzo, R.S.M...
...Tate demonstrates that late nineteenthWhile still on the prairies, I must make Wilson J. Moses is a professor of history century African-American women, living another stop, this time at the door of Willa at Pennsylvania State University, Uni- in the aftermath of slavery, emulated, withCather, whose editions I collect...
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...and being munity flees the North Pole, because they Eater (Otto Penzler Books, $20, 273 pp...
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...James Q. Wilson's The garden, a blimp, a tremendous jumble of Moral Sense (Free Press, $22.95, 313 pp...
...make the common interesting and unex- Graves's Portland Building, which caused pectedly profound...
...Du Bois invited such an interpre- of thousands of intellectuals from pub- a career diplomat who would become tation of his life when he gave his 1940 lic life, teaching, and writing, through the U.S...
...forms of white middle-class culture, with- than the specialist...
...The pictures are still in the same simModern Rebellion (Yale University Press, ply adorable Oxenbury style...
...who might really live among and get to effectively in the world and somehow Jekyll and he meets Frankenstein...
...Sheed's ruestories, written over four decades, are all ful affection for his younger self, togethmarked by Price's careful structure and er with his vital portraits of players and beautifully measured voice...
...ambassador to China, leaving just biography the title, Dusk of Dawn: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution weeks before the bloody events of June Autobiography of a Race Concept...
...her mother, a Communist acemerging cultural code throughout Nicholas R. Clifford teaches Chinese his- tivist...
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...bleak prairie landscape, one that I know New Age argot to which authors of many Claudia Tate, author of Domestic Allefrom childhood, and, like so many oth- books such as this are tempted to turn...
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...I can't think raised in holy secular innocence in Calif22: 3 December 1993 Commonweal ornia asked me, "So, you're a Catholic- ning, private reading, sermon-writing, and does that mean you don't drink...
...hangs from cliffs and wades through jun- The ancient monastic ideal that has When I was a boy every Catholic famgles, and encounters many characters and been imposed upon our diocesan priests ily hoped (the mothers prayed) for a scenes from well-known stories...
...the pastor of a large city parish may find wrongly, many of them believe celibacy The Pagemaster is graced with such himself similarly isolated...
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...his public statements" on the question of The Church of St...
...and the excellent Reagan's the subject of the Kennedys without being phies of ideas, Robert Booth Fowler's magAmerica: Innocents at Home (1987...
...0 foreword on Christians as "resident aliens" of any earthly city, setting the tone for the compelling essays that follow...
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...iar with China will not feel lost, and white middle-class dance steps, with satir- Chang, who now lives in England, writes ical overtones...
...Her writing has ap- ing this book over and over, with its per- of earthquakes to the risk of mercury in peared in the New York Times Magazine, fect progression of plot and its concise canned tunafish...
...Nothing could be more important Studies within the Cambridge author of Looking after the past neoconservative decade, Theological Federation...
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...Thus, in his view, the most in- the interdependence of black and white the care Cather gave it...
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...Although he is a pro- such a stir in the early eighties and introExplore the riches of Cambridge fessor of architecture (formerly at McGill duced "postmodernism" to the public...
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...For Sundquist the cake- If hree books about China lead touchingly about a revolution that turned walk symbolizes the ability of black folk off, all of them written for on and destroyed many of the very peoto gracefully and humorously assume the the general reader rather ple who had given their lives to it...
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