Pueblo Lifestyle
CHRISTIAN, SHIRLEY
Pueblo Lifestyle PUEBLO: MOUNTAIN, VILLAGE, DANCE, by Vincent Scully. The Viking Press. 398 pp. $19.95. SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN In the Pueblo towns of New Mexico and Arizona, American Indians...
...Gently and subtly, detail by detail, Bassani's short stories and novella create a moving, complex portrait of some Italian citizens during World War II...
...It makes them into a Pueblo people once a g a i n ." The Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, as another example, stand out against the Pueblo towns, but in most places the Pueblos have managed to subdue both the church's European architecture and its Christian beliefs to their own ritual and landscape...
...He achieves the difficult task of making his characters familiar and sympathetic without condescending to them or to the reader...
...Scully shows us the way the Pueblos' abodes and rituals today continue the link with their past, despite the intrusion of Spanish and Anglo cultures...
...As important to Scully's book as his words are the hundreds of pictures, many of them old photographs published for the first time...
...he discovers love, hate, humor, and fierce pride...
...This enchanting collection of short stories includes a poignant picture of a restless author and his family and several warm and funny tales of the Catholic clergy as they cope with each other, the laity, and the changing church...
...In the recognition that man's structures must relate to the land, the Yale art historian also finds some connection between the Aegean splendors and the disarmingly simple Pueblo architecture, which is so much a part of the earth that the untrained eye sometimes misses a pueblo on the horizon...
...As the dance begins, many are embarrassed and awkward, especially the young, but as the day goes on, Scully writes, they pick up the beat: "Their faces change: they become part of their bodies, like the faces of archaic Greek kouroi...
...Vincent Scully, in his new book, Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance, finds these Pueblo dancqs to b e the most profound works of art so far created on this continent, rivaled only by the Greek tragedies in their mixture of pity, terror, and joy...
...They reflect the mind's nervous life and the glances of others no longer...
...The inhabitants of South Street are winos, prostitutes, con men, drifters, black derelicts, forgotten or despised by the rest of the city...
...190 pp...
...Sometimes when the beautiful people tired of the ugliness surrounding them and tried to exit with grace, the furies still pursued them...
...In a tragicomedy sense, other Pueblo dancers imagine what it would have been like to b e Comanche, free of tilling the soil, able to ride around on horses, invade towns, and behave like madmen...
...Shirley Christian is aNew York journalist who is now writing a book about three Wyandot Indian sisters...
...Shouldn't we decide whether we want to continue moving farther from cohesion with nature, or whether, like the Pueblos, we want a lifestyle in peace with the earth...
...Some, h e predicts, are doomed to suburban sprawl...
...Before we let an unkind future overtake the Pueblos, shouldn't we look about us at the strips of car lots, discount centers, fast-food chains, and filling stations reaching out of our cities like parts of an octopus, sapping the urban centers and ruining the countryside...
...HOLLYWOOD, BABYLON, by Kenneth Anger (Straight Arrow Books...
...The underside of the dream factory was often a nightmare of drugs, sex without love, and violent death...
...Church bells may ring out and Come to Jesus resound through the plaza, but the Pueblos' ceremonial kiva chamber is functioning nearby, undergound as always...
...Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Velez tried to arrange a saintly, candlelit suicide reflecting her Catholic background...
...Most of the structures of Western civilization, he notes, ignore the existence of nature...
...587 pp...
...8.95...
...Whenhe writes, for instance, of t h e loosening of the close village fabric in San Juan, photos made in 1971 and about 1920 vividly show the change to separate houses...
...The letters surrounding the nomination struggle reflect Brandeis's resourceful, tough-minded approach to controversy, and they read as an apologia for his long record of militant involvement in public causes...
...Adlai Brown, an intellectual would-be poet, comes to South Street trying to find his racial identity...
...339 pp...
...Without indulging in moral overkill, underground filmmaker Anger paints an appalling yet admittedly fascinating portrait of Babylon in modern times...
...he writes with humor and love...
...Powers (Knopf...
...Still other dances poke fun at paleface Indian lovers, Christian prayers, the dances of neighboring pueblos...
...man celebrates his closeness to, and dependence on, the earth and deities...
...LOOK HOW THE FISH LIVE, by J.F...
...Scully does not dwell on what the future holds for the Pueblos and their living museums beyond his comment that the next decade will subject them to an unrelenting flood of t h e indulgences and diseases of industrial society...
...Bassani's sensitive collection of stories provides the attentive reader with a rare view ?f people in wartime and shows us that for the ordinary person, war and its beginnings are frighteningly close to our daily lives...
...Many failed in Hollywood, and many who succeeded were such quintessential newly rich that they couldn't handle success...
...In the Rio Grande town of Tesuque, outside Sante Fe, for example, most of the Pueblos have become city workers, but they still turn out for the corn dance...
...Santo Domingo's hunting dance of late February is this continent's most searching mystery play," writes Scully...
...193 pp...
...in full skins, they are shy deer, the prey of the hunter...
...14.95...
...Parts of the book are amusing, much of it is just pitiful...
...Bradley's novel is a richly satisfying blend of character, story, and atmosphere...
...This first novel by an extraordinarily talented young man is a rare treat...
...Lines of dancers coil through dusty plazas as the audience watches in a theater formed by open windows and tiered housing, the entire scene framed by the sun and the shadows and the distant sacred mountain...
...The Pueblos and the Navahos (whom Scully also explores) use their dances to express life's mysteries and uncertainties, fears, needs...
...Though affected by the alien cultures, the most highly developed Indian civilization of this continent has not succumbed to them...
...The title story is a thoughtful appraisal of the role of the predator, human and animal...
...SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN In the Pueblo towns of New Mexico and Arizona, American Indians still beat the earth to bring rain out of the sky and pay respectful tribute to the buffalo, the deer, the eagle...
...The pious will find abundant evidence in this book that the Hollywood stars whose glamour, fame, and money they have envied paid a heavy price for stardom...
...The fourth in a distinguished series covers a brief but highly crucial period in Brandeis's public career: his personal reaction and attitude toward the seamy, protracted maneuverings of those who opposed his nomination to the Supreme Court in 1916...
...Behind the scene of his public silence, Brandeis coordinated a determined effort to mobilize information and strategy for his supporters...
...As in most of his activities, Brandeis attracted passionate admirers and critics alike...
...Anti-Semitism and fascism are two of the threads in the fabric of daily life in Ferrara: working, vacationing, gossiping, falling in love...
...JUSTICE BRANDEIS, edited by Meivin I. Urofsky and David L. Levy...
...7.95...
...Their arms covered with eagle feathers, they imagine they can lift to the sky...
...The subsequent material surveys Brandeis's extensive commitment to Zionism during a time in which factional fights both in the United States and Europe sorely divided the movement...
...A superbly edited volume...
...Volume IV, 1916- 1921 (State University of New York Press...
...SOUTH STREET, by David Bradley (Grossman Publishers...
...This updated version of a book published in France in 1959 and previously available in the United States only in pirated editions reeks of decadence...
...some will hold out if possible, and some will never yield...
...Powers's stories are always worth waiting for...
...6.95...
...Instead she woke up vomiting from sleeping pills, stumbled into the bathroom and drowned in the toilet bowl...
...The communal action of the tribe, the rhythm of the planting, and t h e growth of the corn are, after all, what the corn dance is about...
...Wearing the whole heads of buffalos, they become a stomping herd, resigned to communal fate...
...305 pp...
...The idealistic egocentrism of the intelligent young is a recurring theme...
...THE SMELL OF HAY, by Giorgio Bassani (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...At Tesuque t h e alchemy of the dance makes that come alive again for individuals who are for the most part farmers no longer...
...Books Briefly LETTERS OF LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: MR...
...Humanity and nature are intertwined...
...20...
Vol. 39 • December 1975 • No. 12
