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Et ceteras Ressourcement- This venerable magazine has been called "Commonwealth" and "Common Wheel," so it is always reassuring to come across our name in a venerable context. Herewith a recent...
...Waugh's mistake, Cameron wrote, "was to tie the august and mysterious to the local and the transient features of that dying culture which, as a satirical novelist, he anatomized with such brilliance...
...Now Cameron is gone himself...
...Charles Dickens, Chapter XXX, Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...
...Bob Sawyer...
...But at the same time, Cameron, like Waugh, decried the coarsening of Western culture and the seepage of that culture into the precincts of the sacred...
...A full-throated opponent of those preparing to fight nuclear war-and of those who supported them with moral argument-he scored Michael Novak and the school of "threatened-response" deterrence in his Nuclear Catholics and Other Essays (Eerdmans, 1989...
...Cameron's final appraisal of Waugh in these pages appeared in April 1966: "He was a passionate and remarkable man, and a novelist of classic achievement...
...Winkle gradually insinuated himself into the good graces of Mr...
...He was particularly well-versed at sorting out the complexities of sexuality and morality...
...Winkle and the young lady with the fur round her boots, would in all probability have proved a very unpleasant interruption to the hilarity of the party, had not the cheerfulness of Mr...
...Benjamin Allen, and even joined in a friendly conversation with Mr...
...Cameron was a worthy disciple of Newman, devoted to both the practice of virtue and the cultivation of the mind...
...for a just war...
...involvement in Vietnam, writing in Commonweal in June 1965: "I do not believe that the occasion, the purposes, and the methods of the war...
...Cameron shared the conviction of Ian Ker, one of Newman's biographers, that the central tension in Newman's life and thought had been between his conservatism and his liberalism...
...We are vastly richer for the passionate concerns and the gentlemanly comportment of his life...
...Thus, he was an early foe of U.S...
...Both felt that Newman had displayed a rare balance that included "deference to tradition and an openness to new developments...
...Pickwick, and the good humour of the host, been exerted to the very utmost for the common weal...
...And indeed the common weal prevailed: "Mr...
...Thus, Cameron, a supporter of Vatican II, would roundly criticize Evelyn Waugh for defending the dying Catholicism of the Counter-Reformation...
...May he rest in peace...
...In his later years he wrote often for the New York Review of Books...
...Writing in 1980 of a recent ICEL translation of the liturgical texts and of the New American Bible version of the Scriptures, Cameron observed that "the trivial and jargon-ridden pop culture in which we live is reflected in the poverty of such translations...
...Cameron displayed a keen wit tempered by well-wrought Christian tact, both in his writing and his teaching on both sides of the Atlantic...
...But we are surely the poorer for his passing...
...He was capable of generous appreciation-he admired the American people-but invariably maintained a prudent objectivity...
...can in any way be said to comply with the stringent conditions...
...He explained that the liberal education envisioned by Newman would be plainly discernible in the educated person's disposition and comportment, that "a certain grace and polish, and flexibility of mind" would shine forth...
...May he rest in peace...
...His knowledge of Christian theology and culture were richly historical, his style urbane...
...Herewith a recent citing: "The arrival of the two new visitors, and the consequent check upon Mr...
...R.I.P - J. M. Cameron (1910-95) will be remembered by readers of this journal as Commonweal's English correspondent during the turbulent 1960s, and as an occasional but commanding contributor thereafter...
...In fact, his first piece for Commonweal was a 1963 report on the Profumo Affair, and his last a 1989 review of two books on sexuality in America...
...who, enlivened with the brandy, and the breakfast, and the talking, gradually ripened into a state of extreme facetiousness, and related with much glee an agreeable anecdote, about the removal of a tumour on some gentleman's head: which he illustrated by means of the oyster-knife and a half-quarter loaf, to the great edification of the assembled company...
Vol. 123 • March 1996 • No. 5
