American Catholic Arts and Fictions
Bankston, Carl L. III
pare the reader for all the subjects that lie "ride" with excruciating clarity. After- hide from the the world of playground within, but it suggests that motives and re- wards, the speaker...
...Paul Gurr...
...munculus-the "little man in the sperm...
...Open to laity, religious and clerFinally, to blame labor, or high wages, gy of all faiths...
...Unfortunately, the trade-off of poor worker morale resulting from declining the contract becomes the lesser of two evils...
...stifling conformity" that Giles finds in the Among Catholics, the principal stylistic works of Dreiser and Farrell may result division is between converts (such as less from a peculiarly Catholic sense of a Orestes Brownson, Allen Tate, Robert world linked by bonds of analogical similLowell, and Walker Percy) and "cradle itude than from the experiences of a newly Catholics...
...Similarly, the filmmakers John Thomas M. Martin Ford and Robert Altman display an ironic ambivalence toward the cultural myths Chair, Director of Graduate Programs of Puritan America and a concern with Department of Religious Studies community and ritual that stands in contrast to the idealistic individualism of the mainstream tradition...
...If any other) does not mean deriving one's but to give him his due, even if he advances Caterpillar agreed to the UAW's terms, personal identity from it or subordinating the claim from bad motives...
...As a social conservaconfessional Dream Songs...
...First, one occa- sages of nineteenth- century New England...
...Farm in rural West Virginia...
...For the necessary to turn to secularized theology latter, whether continuing believers or to explain why a child of the twentiethapostates, the influence of the church is century Chicago slums would have a difusually more subtle and subliminal...
...The iconographic arts of Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe reveal In Memoriam a Catholic origin in their rejection of romanticism, as well as in their-frequent, although irreverent treatment of Catholic subjects...
...The first stanza looks ahead imagines being a man...
...Variety of animals...
...on the ambiguous "took...
...through technology and the jobs it supports...
...pevastatrd Soma]ts...
...While he had previously cited American, Puritan mode of thought is University of Rochester...
...If gays and lesbians can carry out UAW overreaches military assignments as well as straight men, what happens to the male mystique Amarillo, Tex CORRESPONDENCE of macho superiority...
...means iii lire than just goodwill -il means as aggressive in defending their markets desperal c tar SiAt y I hnusand t nns [hat childrertcod arlultsw-I rice an, staring of fend every month, lace the horror rbath in the fart sell have a chance to see of starvation...
...Because 28: 26 February 1993 Commonweal the mundane is closed off from the sacred, renown differs from that of Steven worldly success or failure can become ab- Spielberg, who is Jewish...
...till it was my turn not to let him through...
...Home for about 25 men, in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsyl- screws on Father Curran and Archbishop women, children...
...o males to defend their own sense of selfworth...
...And, 18-27, Saint Mary's College, "Prayer: The nies in an industry accept the same union Lord, we do need some humor in the Carmelite Tradition...
...Probably not...
...June 28 shirt...
...call What is really at stake is an old labor ger of starvation...
...IC- RI:1 [1:1= SFRVIC'f=S }r~urgd7-vlonr'si:e-canmaneadtur, r. Giving Hope 16 A 1inrkI of .\~ed...
...Ckb workers mare !bars hnrrils-iagis• ee of tonlrol...
...Tens of thi eranrls dieeacFt mantle...
...I understand Caterpillar has invested billions in state-of-the-art manufacturing to prevent losing market share to Komatsu...
...Elani X1140 13allimnn•, MIarvland 2129&96)14 I ADDRESS tain on that practice...
...10-year-old Catholic Worker movement since serious efforts to de- who turned into a comedian...
...LINDA A. MORROW Apart from this, the reason I didn't focus To be "prolife" these days is to cherish on Komatsu is that it has simply faded a zygote...
...been undermined, including innocence er from the assault of the old guy's hatred: The image of impossibility takes its ve- and guilt...
...sibility...
...I am certain lowing for higher wages, than Komatsu' s. subscriber...
...work force is more productive, even al- hausen...
...and U.S...
...That's the crucial issue I facing the UAW, conveniently overlooked 1) I"" L J by Mr...
...Desires coucriminalize abortion arose in the 1960s...
...Somehow, I might add, Chrysler criminalize abortion...
...which a religious background can shape sionally feels that Giles is forcing partic- Finally, the author's insistence on the secular art in unconscious, unsystematic ular traits into a predetermined theoretical fundamental conservatism and antihuways is particularly good...
...Giles's fective way of finding unity in diversity, ferent perspective from that of the cosseted chapter on John Berryman and the way in it creates some problems...
...Commonweal 26 February 1993: 31...
...For example, Martin Scorsese's manism implicit in the analogical imagand divine grace run through all of early obsession with being financially ination leads him to underestimate the Berryman's work and Giles finds elabo- successful ( a goal one normally associ- energy for social reform that has played rate parallels between St...
...REV...
...The writer participated in a bridgeable chasms between spirit and son: "How would I ever say/ to anyone Catholic cultural tradition, Giles main- matter, between the visible and the inwho he was...
...But I have to run-Cardinal Ratzinger is ple or individual to live with the poor at the For example, I was a member of a the- faxing us our next editorial...
...istration deadline: May 1, 1993...
...The line jerks and surges with the traffic and MOVE OVER, MATHER with the quick shifts in emotion-the speaker feels "good solace" when the old guy gets by...
...REVIEWERS Catholic tradition in American literature By contrast, Giles argues, the dominant CHRISTOPHER LASCH teaches history at the and art...
...Shapiro handles the recre- tained, through his implicit assumptions visible...
...I wonbeen contributed to the ban-abortion der if he's heard the one about the zygote Opportunity...
...in short, human ploration of how Catholic culture in the that punishes them for what they are, not beings deserving of respect...
...Barthelme's Catholicism stance, as in the mystery of transubstanease" at his questions, and the drama of was not a philosophical system, but a tiation...
...Giles offers a descrip- spiritual state, replacing obedience to auOrleans, Louisiana...
...JOHN M. SCOTT Carmelite Forum members Kevin Culligan, Keith Egan, Constance FitzGerald, Kieran ment's insistence that it should be free to The writer is rector of the Episcopal Kavanaugh, Ernest Larkin, Vilma Seelaus, run the company without union interfer- Church at the University of Pennsylvania...
...No excellent living accommodations...
...After- hide from the the world of playground within, but it suggests that motives and re- wards, the speaker reflects: games, "red light, green light" and from sponses are not only recoverable but plu- A boy is nowhere the adult world of the car: ral...
...In the Thomist doctrine of anain the car might seem to onlookers "a proud a fascinating example of the logica entis, the universe is represented father...
...Rates: $150 tuition, $235 room The author replies: for the decline of American competitive- and board...
...CLASSIFIED I stand by my position that wages are To be "prochoice" does not mean one is not the central issue in this dispute...
...For a of Orestes Brownson as the first characlong time afterward/all I could think of/was Carl L. Bankston III teristically American Catholic writer, to the one time/he took me...
...Your involvement food sources...
...It is not is self-conscious and theoretical...
...Carlin ac- cles on the Caterpillar-UAW struggle but knowledges that institutionalism is not a none so onesided as Kevin Kelly's does concern for defending one's rights pro- good enough reason to reject women in "Labor's Metamorphosis" [January 15...
...single author, Giles now turns to an ex- separate, closed realms of meaning...
...1993 Seminar on Carmelite Spirituality, June gaining-the process whereby all compa- When will love triumph over hate...
...His most recent book Bartheleme as an example of how a so- frequently "allegorical...
...Scott mis- Sister Rose Anne Schultz, C.S.C., Center panies wages make up less than 15 percent characterizes Hughes's article as a "spoof' for Spirituality, Saint Mary's College, Notre of total costs...
...into an interconnected whole and leads to This article appears, in a much-edited an acceptance of imperfect, corrupt human form, in Giles's massive new book on the nature...
...U "making it my fault he had to lunge out/before me, that my brakes slammed, that I yelled back, asshole,/what' s the rush...
...It is also inaccurate to Dame, IN 46556-5001...
...they are difficulties, American Catholic Arts and the "individualistic spirit...
...No salary, no benefits, but vania in 1968-five years before the rul- Hunthausen...
...Many corporations that have acceded to the UAW's pattern bargaining have subsequently seen layoffs and declining growth...
...word for green...
...wage increases on to the consumer...
...Presenters include contract-have more to do with manage- meanwhile...
...tion of his subject that is both chronolog- thority with extreme voluntarism...
...And then it's farm as coordinator, administrator, counological study to recommend just that back to the dungeon to tighten the thumb selor...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...Following the wonder I've lost my sense of humor...
...companies like General Motors on bad imply that those, like Commonweal, who Summer Course product and marketing decisions, not the are opposed to Roe v. Wade want to reunions...
...To the Editors: I've read numerous arti(Continued from page 2) In his final paragraph, Mr...
...A million and a hall people are in dam To charge your contribution...
...has formed a continual undercurrent to the tween the two realms, each individual is CARL L. BANKSTON III, whose poetry has dominant American ideology of Puritanism forced to take responsibility for his own appeared in Commonweal, lives in New and romanticism...
...men, enable a comparison between the pro- compelled to make to the men of the to our peril and theirs, are nearly always ductivity of a Cat worker and that of a Vatican lest Cardinal Ratzinger bring estranged from them...
...spicuous duality of good and evil, who have Daniel Moynihan has argued that the only to exercise their own wills to remake American system of social stratification their society...
...John Welch...
...Labor unions, like companies, t-800-SEND-HOPE r ~wi have to change...
...in the "Protestant The fact that Catholicism became prevaEthic" wealth becomes the indisputable lent in the United States as a result of the symbol of the elect...
...Readers in the military-eight years with the Air issue are discussed in columns by David who once imagined that all Americans are Force-it taught me that the exclusion of R. Carlin and John Garvey, pages 8 and the direct intellectual descendants of uncloseted homosexuals from the military 9, respectively, an "Editor's Notebook," Cotton Mather, Emerson, and Whitman serves mainly to perpetuate self-serving page 4, and an article by George M. will discover the new world of a diverse myths cherished by white heterosexual Anderson, S.J., page 16...
...Those spared alive without _your help...
...companies are nearly impossi- Hughes's New Yorker essay [October 5, To the Editors: Like Sally Campbell [Corble to make, given the different benefits 1992] on "Whatizit"-a homunculus?- respondence, January 29], I too experioffered and the currency fluctuations...
...Farm and living buildings excellent...
...Despite the n an article in Commonweal in The concept of "analogy" is central to "claw-like" fingers, demonstrating the November 1991, Paul Giles de- Giles's interpretation of the Catholic sen"fuckyknuckle," a secret pitch, the man scribed Donald Barthelme as...
...that kind of in- Gays and women are not "the enemy," vantage with a firm that is fighting them for market share across their product line...
...practice...
...Frankly, I'm exhausted...
...The Visitation," for instance, narrates else more boy-like To try to think it, in three stanzas the speaker's experience than in the way he say it, was to look of gridlock...
...Scott is right about the tedious lack of Worker Wanted To the Editors: Nothing really new has humor surrounding the question...
...they would be at a competitive disadone's human rights to it...
...Since all physical things mirror the awaiting selection for the transforming "lurking irrational shadow" of "radical an- divine, analogy knits the world together tihumanism...
...Most observers believe Cat's Father Curran and Archbishop Hunt- gal son's good brother demanding a feast...
...agriculturr:nirl trole...
...by the bullets arc at the mercy of famine :Hake a generoas roatribufiaa and ter served if other large corporations were as draught an d war c ornbine to wipe :,: i i makr a difference...
...DENNIS O'BRIEN is president of the Uni- amination of the context itself by placing Mundane events can have only a figuraversity of Rochester...
...Social idealism be- "new immigration" between the Civil War comes the faith of those faced with a con- and World War I poses a second problem...
...along ethnic and religious lines is best unGiles argues that even Catholics and derstood as a result of the entry of differProtestants who have abandoned their ent groups at different points in the nation's faiths retain their characteristic sensibili- historical development...
...SUZANNE KEEN is an assistant professor and artists in a community of culture that Because there are no intermediaries beof English at Yale University...
...Two thuusnnd CA 011 rin1...
...types of Catholicism, and the appearance goes along with a child molester...
...KEVIN KELLY year-with an "irrational" concern for to Fri...
...down some vast avenue, into the jammed intersection, at the "old My boyhood ended through an infinity of red lights guy, honking, honking," and "the tight knot there, that day, with nothing and not know any they were trying to untie/by tying tighter, else to take its place...
...Blame the misfortunes of and a good laugh...
...I a spoof upon the lumpy schmoo-like enced a stunning moment when I realized should know...
...There is no "idealism" in this ation of the playground scene, the boys' about the nature of man, society, and the manner of thinking, since the analogical fascination with Rich in his gold Sting Ray, world and through his choices of allusions imagination finds the ideal in earthly subtheir giggling "high-pitched ignorant/ un- and metaphors...
...Of to take that essay apart so seriously ["Fe- less politically correct and therefore more course the company made such compar- tal Positions," December 4] was poor challenging and enlightening conclusion: isons impossible by refusing to release sportsmanship at best, and, at its worst, Women, for better or worse, always have its "unit labor cost" data, which would yet another apology Commonweal seems access to these functions and feelings...
...vide proof positive of a radically individ- the priesthood or gays in the military, but Not once does he mention Komatsu, ualist and anti-institutional spirit...
...The death rate is rlaggerioO that s a lifetime...
...tomorrow...
...Opening musical celebration by ence...
...Even in favor of abortion as the first option for Carmelite Seminar Caterpillar's executives largely agree with women...
...8 u t has virtually collapsed the naum,'v rcumr- we eat, ant keep these slanging victims wages...
...JIM McCREA Quentin Anderson called the American If I may speak of my own experience From the editors: Other aspects of this doctrine of "the imperial self...
...are risking their man lives iv bring !nail ican firms compete and pay benchmark Fighting among numerous ill iIitarv factirmi and medical supp I its to r 1 hr Snmal is...
...heritage...
...One won- ed as an exemplar of Catholic values, while and cinema, as well as literature, is im- ders how Scorsese's lust for wealth and the leftist sympathies of Dreiser, Farrell, portant for the author's principal thesis that a secularized version of theological style permeates much modem thought and expression...
...Thus, the "gloomy, ties as matters of style and metaphor...
...Is that distinguishable from a hoas a competitor...
...Michael Kirwan, c/o Frank Andrews, 2004 national political (and religious) polar- PAUL BAUMANN Homewood Rd., Annapolis, MD 21402...
...Cat's complaints about pattern bar- rational war, and who is being victimized...
...For women to demand Komatsu worker, the true test of com- down papal wrath upon you-shades of priesthood for themselves is like the prodipetitiveness...
...And right nns..lorSomalis...
...the New Haven Railway (Beacon...
...that the priest at the altar was doing the things Caterpillar's claim that it was at a cost For Associate Editor Paul Baumann that women do, but my insight led to a much disadvantage vis-d-vis Komatsu...
...In most com- Simply put, I think the Rev...
...For all of these stitutionalism needs a healthy infusion of not even for bishops and generals...
...Nevertheless, while interpreting the work of University of Dayton individual artists as variations of an un- Dayton, OH 45469-1480 derlying, a priori typology may be an efCommonweal 26 February 1993: 29 and others are glossed over...
...The concepts of "analogy" and "alle- 1940-1992 gory" provide Giles with an intriguing basis for constructing ideal types of the Protestant and Catholic mentalities...
...For brochure/information contact: ness is simply ridiculous...
...bad" motive...
...Augustine's ates with the Weberian Protestant Ethic ) an important part in American Catholic Confessions and Berryman's intensely is taken as the outsider Catholic immi- intellectual life...
...219) 284-4636...
...Yet like "The Sweepers," this Catholic literary sensibility at as a series of intercessionary links between poem is preoccupied with the difficulty of work," despite Barthelme's "avowed ag- heaven and earth, so that there are no unidentifying father, son, teacher, pupil, les- nosticism...
...Ideas of guilt mold...
...He moves gradually the fascination, curiosity, envy, pride, Paul Giles from nineteenth-century American stereoshame, and memory of a young boy who Cambridge University Press, $65, 547 pp...
...the phrasing of his admission adds new Caterpillar's prime competitor, which In my view, supporting an institution injury: "If your enemy advances a legiti- signed a less costly labor agreement than (whether the military, the priesthood, or mate claim on you, you have no choice the UAW demanded of Caterpillar...
...For Information: Summer zygotes ignores both the moral arguments Course, Atonement Friars, 138 Waverly and the physical facts surrounding the Place, New York, NY 10014-3845...
...I write as a friend and longtime we don't need it, and men do...
...Equating opposition Summer Course in Ecumenism: "Intromanaged to make money in 1992 under to current abortion practice-which in- duction to the Ecumenical Movement" presented by the Atonement Friars at the a "pattern" contract, while GM lost its cludes 100,000 late-term abortions each Centro Pro Unione, Rome, Mon...
...I tried for months to prove Olympic mascot for 1996...
...Now I had no name The most primary oppositions have Foreknowledge does not spare the speak- for what I was...
...InterSpin, lin F:mer reisev Fund NAME national competition has closed the curI'.(1...
...Kelly JOHN MARMADUKE 30: 26 February 1993 Commonweal The author replies: ization of the last decade, in which re- Let priests be womanly criminalization is the goal, I found it Wage comparisons between Japanese a refreshing laugh to read Robert Bay Shore, N.Y...
...Who is being protected in this irthis...
...And claimUnited States has created a consistent, for doing anything "contrary to good order ing what you believe is your due is not a though complex, alternative to what and discipline...
...July 16...
...By far the most harrowing of the poems in this volume, "The Lesson," reconstructs AMERICAN CATHOLIC ARTS AND FICTIONS ical and thematic...
...solute in its own sphere...
...grant's desire for social acceptance and as tive, the minor writer George V. Higgins The argument that the Catholic cultur- evidence of an innately conservative be- (The Friends of Eddie Coyle) is presental legacy includes the arts of photography lief in "playing by the rules...
...Gays and les- your sisters and brothers, mothers and faFictions is an ambitious and insightful ex- bians are simply right to protest a policy thers, friends, neighbors...
...It makes little sense to bargain for a structure that reduces competitiveness and jobs...
...Pattern bargaining is a relI awl to help stop the suffering, ar a ic of the days when large corporations were Yes a Nerve s mecontrebulion of.• '°_Nl 0`- Other cozy with their unions and could pass C 111101...
...Only with high-tech investment can AmerEvery dry in Somalia is a ilrlag night- Your support is a Lifeline...
...The poem contemporary novelists Mary Gordon and opens with understated menace, balanced Robert Stone...
...He is author of God and a variety of Catholic writers, filmmakers, tive and arbitrary relation to divine truth...
...RegPoor sport issue...
...American workers would be betmy...
...Reply to: ing in Roe v. Wade...
...For the former, Catholicism arrived industrial working class...
...our Lord knew this...
...The Puritan sepis The True and Only Heaven: Progress and cial context is expressed in the work of a aration of God from the world created two Its Critics (Norton...
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