in general be seen as “the knowledgenclass’s” justification for maintainingnitself in a position of authority in thenmedia, the government and academe.nThis fact particularly annoys Green:nThus Kristol stands history on itsnhead with a vengeance—but not withoutnpurpose. What he has done, innsum, is to attribute the destructivenelement of capitalist development. . .nto an allegedly adversary class of...

wherever they are: united, charitable,nhospitable,” part of “a timeless community”nwithout geographical boundaries.nYet these aspects of Judaism lednPaltiel Kossover away from Judaism,nfor he saw the suffering of the poor andnwanted to relieve it. Jewish messianismnfascinated him; it also prepared him forncommunism. Fortune intervened in thenshape of a fellow student, “a master atnthe seduction and corruption of...

writes about himself years later.nIt is easy to forget in Moscow. Paltielnmarried the woman who would givenhim his only son, and he stayed in Stalin’snRussia, ally of the new Israel, afternthe war. Wiesel depicts neither evil nornstupidity here—simply life, ordinarynlife with its conveniences and compromises,novercoming memory.nStalin, however, preferred extraordinarynlife for his subjects. The Party linenchanged,...

ress” is never explained, and the readernwill find that omission unfortunate.nrl/llen Willis cannot be accused ofnleaving dead prose on the page. Hernwords sparkle with the vibrancy of onenarguing wholeheartedly for her cause.nOnly after reading this prose does onenfully understand that the message isndeathly.nMs. Willis engages in an intellectualnembrace with vulgar Marxism. She isnaware of material...

Wanna Be MorenCATHOLIC?nWithout being less evangelical?nThat’s what thenNew Oxford Review isnabout. Is your personalnrelationship withn^ Jesus Christ thenmost important aspectnof your life?nDo you put a premiumnon evangelismnand adheringnto NewnTestament morality?nDo younshun empty ritual? Do you believe in thenpower of the Holy Spirit to transform lives?nif so, you’re with us.nBut are you bored by evangelical routinesnand...

tions that give rise to political movements,nthey deny the possibility of thendiscussion of ideas necessary for politicalnphilosophy. The general directionsnof “progress” and “reaction” are givens,ndefined for them by “history.” Theirnbooks serve as reportage of movementnalong the continuum. When they transcendnthe torpor of this reportage, theynact as agents of the Zeitgeist among us.nPolitical philosophy, in contrast,...

dently eschewing atomic holcx:aust fornthe more languid destructions of obesitynand tooth decay. “Phoebe knew onlynone thing, which was that those . . .npeople wouldn’t endorse a product madenby Synthetic Technologies Corporation,nand she’d have to cancel the campaign.”nIt is curious that Gloria Steinem isnportrayed as concerned with the naturalnorder against encroaching technology.nDoes she think that suction...

Liberal Decadence & Third World FanaticismnShiva Naipaul: Journey to Nowhere;nSimon & Schuster; NewnYork.nby Henry L. Mason IIIni his is a book about Jonestown, andnanyone who thinks that Jonestown isnan unpromising subject for culturalnanalysis had better think again: in Naipaul’snhands the story of the Guyanansuicides becomes a grisly example ofnthe intellectual cancer caused by leftwingn”thought.” Naipaul...

equal justice and equal opportunity,nand the sharing of one’s earthly possessionsnfor the common benefit of alln— these are the elements of the radicalnfaith which Dr. Jones and his congregationnhave translated into action.nTheir success has inspired and hasnchallenged church and communitynleaders throughout California andnthe United States; they have shownnconclusively that Christian socialismnis a viable alternative to...

California culture:nOne comes across Sears, Roebucktypencatalogues catering exclusivelynto seekers of the exotic. . . . You can,nthrough the Accelerated PersonalnGrowth Program (forty dollars fornone and a half hours), achieve rapidnpersonal transformation and growthnin self-awareness and self-integration.n… Actualism (no price supplied) willnactualize your untapped potential forncreative self-expression and enablenyou to communicate joyfully with allnforms of life...

Charlie’s Angels’ CatholicismnAndrew M. Greeley: The CardinalnSins; Warner Books; New York.nby Philip F. LawlernxVbout a year ago, with their bestsellingnnovel The Spike, Arnaud denBorchgrave and Robert Moss added annunhealthy new genre to the Americannliterary scene: the ideological thriller.nWithin weeks of the book’s publication,nMoss and de Borchgrave had becomensteady performers on the talk-show circuit,nbringing their political...

pied with the relations between the leadingnmale and female characters. CardinalnDonahue compiles a whole cataloguenof sexual liaisons, including at leastnthree attempted rapes (one of which isnsuccessful), two homosexual affairs andnone illegitimate child. Father Brennan,nmeanwhile, sticks to the letter of thenlaw. But that does not deter him fromnsempiternal fantasizing about his ownnteen-age sweetheart. At last his...

Mystery Fiction and the Spirits of CitiesnMartin Cruz Smith: Gorky Park;nRandom House; New York.nJorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-nCasares: Six Problems for Don IsidronParodi; E. P. Button; New York.nby Mary Ellen FoxnMany famous sleuths in the detectivenfiction of our century have beennassociated with cities. Not only is ancity the terrain in which they operate,nbut also...

istic vision of several decades past hasnbecome today’s reality), but an averagenreader has no difficulty recognizingnin Gorky Park the ring of truth, authenticity,nreality. Even the ideologicallynindifferent can be converted when spiritnbecomes flesh. In Notebooks of a Dilettante,nLeopold Tyrmand wrote:nIf I have to explain what communismnis to an average American, I deliberatelynuse a technical metaphor to...

role in the events he describes) givesna concise but thorough account of supply-sidentheory and practice.nAlthough it is a radical departurenfrom conventional economic wisdom,nthe supply-side doctrine has eminentlynrespectable roots. In effect it is Say’snlaw rediscovered. Jean-Baptiste Say, thengreat 19th-century French economist,nheld that government ought to encouragenproduction instead of consumption,nsince the former not only created thengoods and...

bankruptcy of the Keynesian positionnwas at last exposed. Unemploymentnsoared to 8.5 million while the governmentnran up the largest deficit sincenWorld Vv^ar II-$45 billion. This wasnthe very coincidence that Keynes hadnpronounced impossible.nIt was at this point that a certain formernfootball player, then a Congressmannfrom New York, developed anninterest in economic issues. Jack Kempnbecame a catalyst. Assisted...

Modish BoredomnGore Vidal: Creation; RandomnHouse; New York.nby Joseph SchwartznK^reation is set in the 5th centurynB.C., the age of Persia, Darius, Xerxes,nthe Buddha, Confucius, Herodotus andnPericles. The narrator, Cyrus Spitaraa,nbrought up in the Persian court and befriendednby Xerxes, is made an ambassadornand journeys to India, Cathay andnGreece. He has two questions on hisnmind. How did creation...

himself is a chilling, even dangerousnfigure.” Confucius comes closest tonmaking a convert of him; “of all thenmen I have known, he was the wisest.”nUnlike Socrates he answered questions,nspeaking of what was and of what shouldnbe, offering “a very clear idea of whatnconstitutes goodness in the humannscale.”nI think that for all practical purposes,nthe Confucians are atheists....

Ultimately, there is neither straightnline or circle. But to understand hownthings are, one must advance beyondnthe present childlike phases of humannexistence. Gods and devils must benabandoned along with those notionsnof good and evil which have relevancento day-to-day life but mean nothing tonthat material unity which contains allnthings and makes them one. Matter isnall. All is...

Odors of the Recent PastnEvan Hunter: Love, Dad; CrownnPublishers; New York.nDavid Bradley: The ChaneysvillenIncident; Harper & Row; New York.nby Gary S. VasilashnWh en the late 1960’s and earlyn70’s come to mind, the vision of thenstudent as would-be urban guerrilla,nrock musician, dope smoker, dropout,netc., is in the vanguard; few things innthat period were as colorful. Student,nof...

Most Businessmen Havena Fairly Accurate Readingnof Their Competition.nHow About Their Opposition?nThe magazines and activist groupsnwhich mold and manipulate publicnopinion toward anticapitalist goals arennow big business. Their impact innrecent years has grown more potent throughna network of multinational support groups. Thenlast election has given this activity a vibrant new impetus,nwith funds and memberships on the increase....

And what’s not indicated is the factnthat Evan Hunter is a.k.a. Ed McBain,nprolific pen of the “87th Precinct Series.”nIgnoring the McBain books.nHunter’s most widely known work isnThe Blackboard Jungle (1954), thensteamy story of a New York City voc-ednhigh school.nIn Love, Dad, Hunter brings thingsnmore up to date (he even nostalgicallynrefers to the filmed version of...

There was a great deal of hashish innAmsterdam. The kids called it hashnas though it were as innocuous as andish of chopped meat and potatoesnserved over the counter of a greasynspoon restaurant.nAnd perhaps it was. Marijuana or itsnvarious derivatives was the least concernnof anyone in Amsterdam.nAnd it’s of little concern to the novelist;nindeed, it’s presented...

Chaneysville Incident, a professor ofnhistory, carefully details his thoroughninvestigation. The novel is the historynbook that culminates his research. It isna laudatory scheme, and the prose stylenis workmanlike.nHowever, while reading the novel, Infelt like a person who accidentally entersna room wherein people are vilifyingnhim. John Washington is black—I’mnnot—and John Washington is a racist.nNaturally, since The ChaneysvillenIncident...

of regaining momentum in our own affairs,nor realigning reality with the illusionsnthat mark our present condition.nAn Outside Chance is ostensibly ancollection of 18 essays on sport in thengreat outdoors—fully half of these essaysnrelate a variety of angling adventures,nand the others include tales ofnmotorbike-riding, cow-roping, trailhorseriding,nsailing, hunting and golf.nBut McGuane’s low-keyed celebrationnof man against nature curiously...

cles. The decline of outdcxjr sport innthis sense is but an early warning signalnthat having things done for us is not thenroad to autonomy.nJ. he tyranny of a different kind ofntechnique, cultural amnesia, is representednin Orville Schell’s journalisticnaccount of the recent opening of Chinanto Western capitalism, “Watch Out fornthe Foreign Guests/’]ust as an uncheckednreliance on...

choices become constrained. The tricknis to keep things swirUng from the outsidenso the inner sources of meaningnneed never be faced—the ultimate commercialnheaven. Not all outer forms, ofncourse, are to be condemned; rather, itnis our powerless relationship with themnthat needs examining, a relationshipnthat binds us helplessly in its grip evennwhen we wish to alter our course...

ConradiananRoger Tennant: Joseph Conrad:nA Biography; Atheneum;nNew York.nFew writers have probed then”lightless depths” of human existencenmore sagaciously thannJoseph Conrad, that self-proclaimed—albeitnsomewhat ironically—“Pole,nCatholic, andnGentleman” who borrowed thenEnglish language and repaid hisndebt with a body of writing thatnany nation would be proud tonclaim. In such books as LordnJim, The Nigger of the Narcissusnand Under Western Eyes,nConrad altered man...

IN FOCUSnDivine PropagandanJohn Paul Pritchard: A LiterarynApproach to the NewnTestament; University of OklahomanPress; Norman, Oklahoma.nDr. Pritchard, a professor ofnEnghsh at the University of Oklahoma,nseeks to introduce andnilluminate the New Testamentnfor college students in a muchneedednwork, given the Biblicalnilliteracy of this generation. Hisnapproach is a curious mixture ofnreverent belief and negativenskepticism. Since he assumesnthat the Bible’s...

SCREENnArthur the Bedbug, Tepid Corpses & Other StoriesnArthur; Written and directed bynSteve Gordon; Orion Pictures.nBody Heat; Written and directed bynLawrence Kasdan; A Ladd CompanynRelease (through Warner Brothers).nby Eric ShapearonNothing better exempHfies the finalndemise of the Hollywood film culturenthan the failure of a trifle. A trifle of anmovie may rise to an unexpected statusnprovided it possesses...

Anew game is in town, and the town seemsnentranced by the unHmited thrills it holdsnfor the wealthy and the influential. If it isnever mass marketed (which, of course, will not benfor a while), it will be entitled “The Joy of Carnage.”nThe rules are simple: if you are famous, powerful,nbored, jaded, cynical, fashionable, adequately moneyednand notably...

SCREENncontinued from page 44nmovie-makers’ sense of intellectual andnartistic tact. The very outcome of thenmystery is sloppy—in contrast to thencustomary logical neatness of the noirnmystery thrillers of the past, whosencraftsmen would have considered itnbeneath their dignity to leave the mainndenouement floating in a.haze of dubiousnmetaphysics.nClash of the Titans; Written by BeverleynCross; Directed by DesmondnDavis; United Artists.nThe...

1 always benefit from readingnThe Rockford Papers which seem to me toninclude some of the best conservative writingsnof recent times”n—Peregrine WorsthornenAssociate Editor, Sunday TelegraphnThe Rockford PapersnTo subscribe to The Rockford Papers, fill out and mail the attached business reply card.nnn Add to Favorites

nel Hampton always played their musicnand stubbornly refused to refresh it ornamend it according to the demands ofnnewness, progress, trendiness. For generations,ntheir music preserved thatneternal freshness which is beyond innovations,ntrends, new horizons—and itnstill does, even on the oldest and mustiestnrecords. DnA Piano DuonRalph Sutton & Jay McShann: ThenLast of the Whorehouse Piano Players;nChaz Jazz Records;...

It is certainly in America’s paramountninterest to develop an internal consensusnon foreign policy. All those Middle Eastnexperts who write endless “evenhanded”ndiatribes — which inevitably endnup condemning Israel and reminding thenpublic that we need Arab oil—smuglyndismiss the fact that there has been annear-unanimous support for Israel innthis country for more than 30 years.nWhen they intimate that...

as long as it exists, it’s a powerful emotionalnbuffer between Islam and what thenMoslem ideologies might like to do to thenWest, and the United States in particular.nAs long as we have leverage—Israel—nthe Arabs must ask favors of us insteadnof musing about what they can inflictnupon us. The truth is that as long as Israelnrefuses to...

the cultural trends that encourage or advocatenthe overthrowing of what manynliberal propagandists call the “incestntaboo.” His is a passionate and devastatingndiatribe against incest as a moralnand behavioral transgression, whatevernits explanation. Moreover, short ofnusing the word “sin” (which wouldnprobably make the editors of VV thrownup and its printers faint), Mr. Schjeldahlnelaborates on the notion of evil....

Among the uncounted victims of the cuhural purges ofnthe 1960’s were a pair of likable tots so familiar to mostnAmericans that they seemed almost part of the family: Dicknand Jane. For nearly four decades the principal charactersnin the popular grade-school readers published by Scott Foresman.nDick and Jane were hustled off to a literary re-educationncamp shortly...

we accept la clean home, etc.i is an important one. Childrennrespect books in the first grade, and if voti put it in the hook.n:t i;ives it a stamp or approval (Emphasis added).nWith unsettling candor and self-confidence, this author revealsnthe simplistic psychological assumptions and sense ofnmoral purpose which have motivated the modern bourgeoisie.nrVs ideologues have always...

OPINIONS & VIEWSnThe Civil War as Seen by a KangaroonThomas Keneaily: Confederates;nHarper & Row; New York.nby Otto J. ScottnJrersons who enjoy spaghetti westernsnwill positively revel in Confederates.nThis Civil War novel, like its cinematicnprototypes, teems with dirty, foulmouthednmen masquerading as 19thcenturynSouthern farm boys and theirncollege-trained officers. The movementnof the plot is repeatedly held in abeyancenby intermittent...

to create an illusion of depth and complexitynin what is essentially a childishlynsimple story. Historical trappings arenprovided by the appearance of a figurennamed “Tom Jackson.” who is supposednto represent Stonewall Jackson, one ofnthe two authentic military geniuses producednby the Confederacy. Mr. Keneally’snmethod of “humanizing” GeneralnJackson appears when one of his aides,nfollowing his leader at a...

maniacs and criminals of all degrees isncertainly apt to be even stronger amongnthe young of other nations, who are alreadynprepared to believe the worst ofnthe United States.nMr . Keneallv has done us no favornwith Confederates. That it is enthusiasticallynwelcomed in London is notngood news. The image of Americans asnsadistic monsters has already been radiatednfor too...

of calculated play-acting. A society thatnhas lost or is losing its roots necessarilynseeks such sensationalism in order tonachieve what Eric Gill called “the subhumanncondition of irresponsibility.”nThe silly passions of that brightnyoung set he caught in their poses werennever interesting in and of themselves.nWaugh knew from the beginning thatnthe silly passions and the silly peoplenwere signs...

itself part of the definition of a majornwriter. For the past one hundred yearsnsuch writers have been repelled by secularnmodernism and its celebration ofnthe Empiric Economic Man. The Individualnlet loose. To hold firmly to ansense of the real, writers were forcednto be. consciously or otherwise, antiprogressive,nantiliberal. even reactionary.nLionel Trilling, who held impeccablenliberal credentials, wrote, withnastonishment....

even though catastrophe was aroundnevery corner. He anticipated all but one:nhe could not have known how VaticannII would knock “the guts out of me.”nIt was a fine trial, and perhaps a necessarynone. lest he give more emphasisnto the nonessentials than they deserved,nHe clung to his faith doggedly if withoutnjoy. Perhaps the absence of joy wouldnhave...

ever; no matter what its politics.” Thenartist must be a Gypsy, “an outlyer”:nhe owes no allegiance to any government.n”I’m no goddamned patriot nornwill I swing to left or right.” A writerncan be “class conscious only if his talentnis limited. If he has enough talent allnclasses are his province.” It is importantnto remember that at this...

not inhibited by government. The natural,ninnocent man. the Jeffersoniannideal, lived in harmony with nature,nfree from social constraints. ‘In whateverntime I had been born I could haventaken care of myself if I were not killed.”nPerhaps that place still existed in thenforest or along a stream or in the mountains—therenyou feel free. There thenwine was better and...

about man’s troubled fate is their centralnconcern. The vitality, or degree, ofnan author’s moralism is reflected innthe strength of the solutions he proposesnfor life’s seemingly hopeless struggles.nThus Hannah seems the least ”moralistic”nof the three authors in that henproposes no solutions—in fact, he denlights in challenging the reader himselfnto design a solution for the decay andnchaos...

What do The Lincoln Review, Saturday Review,nContinuity, Education, Harper’s,nThe American Journal of Jurisprudence, Renascence,nModern Age, Interpretation, The Cultural Watchdog,nPolicy Review and Manufacturing Engineeringnhave in common?nTheir editors contribute to Chronicles of Culture.”’nSome of our most frequent contributors are editors of a variety ofnrespected publications. They bring to our pages their views on a culturenthey have made...

To fall into dissolution is easv; it’s easiernstill to blame one’s fall on the naturenof the world. In “Babylon Revisited.”nFitzgerald recognized what Ray.nand Hannah, apparently do not, thatnthe one inestimable and irreplaceablenquality for each individual life and eachngeneration is character. In the absencenof character, there is only the moralndissolution, aimlessness and frustratednviolence Ray describes and...