ice. When the Party at last appeared tonhim to be the instrument of a foreignntyranny, Wolfe abandoned it even at thenrisk of his life and transferred his supportnto rival radical groups which werenthen still fighting the communists forncontrol of the far left.nJosephson, by contrast, dabbled innpolitics as he did in adultery and learning.nSpending most of...

W(t Sartm0uttj EemeuinP.O. Box 343nHanover, N.H. 03755nVery impressive.nA significant development.nThe Dartmouth Review.n4iian^emo me ttniiune laceBBttn®I980 TheDartmaulh Rtumn All Rights Reseroedn—Ronald Reagannhave followed with interest the trend ofn-George WillnThe Dartmouth Review is a vibrant, joyful, provocative challenge to thenregnant but brittle liberalism for which American colleges are renowned.nIt is serious, in the best sense of the...

mean that 129,000 are charging theirnclients for what amounts to injuringntheir cases. Mr. Cohn beHeves that thennumber of incompetents is even highernthan half of all the lawyers in practice.nBeing a top-notch lawyer himself, Mr.nCohn refuses to use fuzzy examples ornto water his arguments by makingnsweeping societal observations. Hisnview of human nature, as befits a courtroomnlawyer,...

is a perfect blind behind which a writernwho doesn’t understand his charactersnor the world, and therefore has nothingnof interest to reveal about them, cannhide. Because sex is an expression ofnthe inner passions of the soul a character’snsex acts are assumed to be significantnin themselves—to reveal somethingnimportant about the character. Actually,nin the hands of our mindless...

two clearly illustrates what is missingnin Agee and writers like him. Agee:nIt is painful for me to write aboutnStefan’s very sad childhood in any detailnbecause I contributed to it, bothnactively and by default, out of jealousynand out of a need to dominate. I excludednhim from my games with mynfriends, insisting that he was toonyoung for...

4^v6d •- J ‘lass *nhelp for-. luum Mexico ag. “‘«*nThe factot it “^ „ot ecoiiomicnSalvadoran governmertan. ., n ^Pnior editor 0/ thenPaul Gottfried, a senm ^^jynconsen^ati^c f Jjtnge on thenModem Age. «« “” -o^jfy in the con-nSe 0/ the Moral Mgnty^ p,,„,ieiesnof culture, a pubwa ^^^.n;U institute, Bocfc/or ,nSe-‘sss^^fcroSnEs^^^S-‘SS’npersonal hopes of couni ^^^nNot well-honed logic...

The Frolics of Psyche & IntellectnGuy Davenport: Eclogues; NorthnPoint Press; San Francisco.nGuy Davenport: The Geography ofnthe Imagination; North Point Press;nSan Francisco.nby Maura DalynOome critics have called Guy Davenportnthe last of the Modernists—groupingnhim with the most illustrious writersnof our century (Joyce, Eliot andnPound among others). Davenport’s recentnpublication, The Geography ofnthe Imagination, a delightful series ofnrefined, scholarly...

port’s proclivity for changing verbs intonnouns and his obsessive preoccupationnwith homosexuality. Neither the repeatednallusions to genitalia and theirnrespective sizes and uses, nor the plethoranof terms which Davenport findsnto describe them, particularly in “OnnSome Lines of Virgil,” seem to have anynparticular relevance to the stories innwhich they appear. In fact, most of thensexual relations which Davenport...

then one must also abandon the doctrinairenconclusion that acceptancenof homosexuality represents a declinenin Christian morality simply becausenit departs from such a position. Onenmust begin to examine whether tolerationnof gay sexuality in fact accompaniesnmoral decadence within thenChristian community and is associatednwith the abandonment of Christiannethics in general, or whether it is simplynpart of a softening of...

were the only species to demonstratenhomosexual desires and behavior, thisnwould hardly be grounds for categorizingnthem as ‘unnatural.’ Most of the behaviornwhich human societies most admirenis unique to humans: this is indeednthe main reason it is respected. No onenimagines that human society ‘naturally’nresists literacy because it is unknownnamong other animals.”*nWithout an accurate understanding ofnCatholic morality, Mr....

ual” implication, preferably illicit, wherenthose of sound mind know it is not. G. K.nChesterton encountered this on an afternoonnouting with someone who saw anphallic symbol in church steeples. I recallnbeing taught by some woebegonenpsychologist that when athletes slap eachnother on the butt they are expressing theirnhomosexuality. Victims of such thoughtnpatterns have a favorite story in...

Mr. Boswell’s errors and muddlednthinking about Catholic morality leadnhim to list various “condemnations”nwithout making essential distinctions.nFor example, we read: “Lending at interest,nsexual intercourse during thenmenstrual period, jewelry or dyed fabrics,nshaving, regular bathing, wearingnwigs, serving in the civil government ornarmy, performing manual labor on feastndays, eating kosher food, practicing circumcision—allnwere condemned absolutelynby various fathers of the...

Claire, a Wasp crusader for the rightsnof man, are all suffering from whatnthreatens to be a terminal inability tongrow up and a concomitant incapacitynto love. But Sophie does not seem tonspeak for herself alone when she saysn”Have I been in love? That’s been thendisaster of my life.” Indeed, she seemsnto speak for a whole chorus...

ing at home were going mad from beingntoo much in the world.nThe ritual that Edmund invents andnadheres to throughout his life is onenthat centers on devotion to the householdngods, as it were. From the timenthat he is an adolescent, he returns tonNantucket in the summers and watchesnthe ferry unload, trying to pick the mostnperfect family....

wage and investment levels would be setnby local political authorities. Thus thenproduction of goods and services wouldnbe severely discouraged under a plannrequiring producers to pay off all sortsnof racial minorities, the poor and thenenvironmentally affected. This plannwould subject producers to severe criminalnsanctions for any violation of safety,nhealth and consumer-protection standards,nand then dispose of any residualnprofit...

ers, who also remain unidentified. Hisncomparison of international rates ofngrowth and taxation is completely pointless;nhe flounders about in a morass ofnrandomly selected statistics without thenassistance of either the theory or thenevidence which more extensive referencento the academic sources wouldnhave provided. This aversion to evidencenis all the more peculiar in that ansubstantial proportion of the publicfinancenliterature...

is that most Islamic countries remainnbarbaric and backward in the middle ofnthe 20th century. And, contrary tonpopular enlightened sentiment (bestndemonstrated by the United Nations),nthis has not been caused by the West.nIn fact, anyone with a shred of intellectualnhonesty realizes that whatever dengree of modern civilization has been attainednin these countries has come fromnoutside.nThe meager development...

What better example of this is therenthan the garish homes of oil-rich sheiks?nThrough it all, the people remainnpoor, with very little real hope for thenfuture. Yet failure does not weaken thenfaith. On the contrary, failure is portrayednas its strength, confirming thenwidespread belief that the West succeedsnmaterially because it is unspiritual andnmaterialistic, while the Islamic peoplenfail...

Of Human CommonplacesnSally George: Frog Salad; CharlesnScribner’s Sons; New York.nFaith Sullivan: Repent, Lanny Merkel;nMcGraw-Hill; New York.nRob Forman Dew: Dale Loves Sophiento Death; Farrar, Straus & Giroux;nNew York.nby Barbara WordennA he characters in all three of thesennovels have fixations on their pasts;nthey differ radically in what they choosento do with their obsessions in order tonenrich the...

callousness, shallowness, and ineptnessnof both characters and existences. Ms.nGeorge obviously perceives humor innthe cheapest sexual symbolism and findsncrude genital obsessions subtly amusing.ntjy comparison, Dale Loves Sophiento Death emerges aS’ the story of realnliving, breathing, bleeding people. Asnthe novel opens, the wife of a New Englandncollege professor still tends to seenlife in terms of the graffiti...

cheap seats) it takes to sell tickets.nAnother industrial city, Hollywood,nis suffering, too. Or so claims DavidnThomson in Overexposures: The Crisisnin American Filmmaking. Economicsnare at the bottom of the illness. Thomsonnperforms a valuable service with hisnexploratory surgery of the L.A.-basednfilm industry when he details the costsnof making a Hollywood feature. Thomsonnuses the example of what it...

NEXT in The Rockford PapersnKURT VONNEGUTnor TRUTHS of a SLEAZO PAPERBACKnIs Kurt Vonnegut a great writer or a great fabrication?nA young critic, Gary Vasilash, sets the record straight.nHis expose leads off our new series on “The MonumentalnLiterature of Dwarfs” — a series which will try to undonwhat the liberal culture has done to contemporarynAmerican literature.nVasilash...

making money, to say nothing of thenfact that Mailer constantly laments hisnlack of lucre. Sex, gambling, blood—nthese are the things that Thomson indicatesnToback has on his mind, and thenfilming of them is presented as an honorablenexercise which Toback should benpermitted, without the restrictions ofnminor things like money worries. Andnif he desires to cook swill, we...

COMMENDABLESnWistful MemoriesnMark Girouard: The Returnnto Camelot: Chivalry and thenEnglish Gentleman; Yale UniversitynPress; New Haven.nIn 1790, with the “sophisters,neconomists, and calculators”nholding sway in revolutionarynFrance, Edmund Burke lamentednthat “the age of chivalry is gone.”nFor once, Burke’s powers of discernmentnfailed him, for as MarknGirouard notes in The Return tonCamelot, when Burke uttered hisnrequiescat over the grave, chivalrynhad already...

seus or Achilles, possessing specialnpowers which are couplednwith deeply human frailties. Asnsuch, he is a great trapper andnpathfinder not only of pelts andnroutes but also of matters to donwith those men and women whonlived in the great wilderness thatnis no more.nOne evening several years agonBill Hotchkiss pulled off thenroad at the top of BeckwourthnPass in...

S( Ki:i nO, What a Lovely Revolution! or Springtime for LeninnMan of Iron; Written and directed by Andrzej Wajda; United Artists Classics.nReds; Written by Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths; Directed by WarrennBeatty; Paramount Pictures.nby Eric ShapearonMan of Iron is both flawed and monumental, deficient and outstanding, disorderlynand memorable. Its script is uneven and often sloppy,...

through alterations within the existingnsociahst system. Can we reaHsticallynexpect the characters in Man of Ironnto extol the glories of free-marketncapitalism?nThe rejection of communist totalitarianism,nnot the adoption of capitalism,nis the crucial issue at stake innPoland. The Polish workers know this:nthey have pitched their fight in the realmnof the spirit, not in the arena of competingneconomic systems....

Man of Ironncontinued from page 40nof Soviet literature is structured on an”boy-meets-tractor” pattern. Certainlyna few magnificent works of drama andnliterature have originated in the socialistnphilosophy—one recalls And QuietnFlows the Don or, in the movies,nPatomkin, The magnitude of Man ofnIron is that it is the first socialist-realistnmovie to carry a clear, fierce, unequivocalnand fully intentional antisocialistnmessage....

erupted among the Russians who sawnthe movie. Yet Zhivago, even in itsnWestern version, at least succeeded innconveying Boris Pasternak’s knowledgenand sense of evil, which exuded evennfrom the cosmeticized Hollywood renditionnof the revolution. Reds, in whichncomrade Zinoviev looks like an Englishnbookie from the 1930’s, and revolutionarynsoldiers, with a change of costume,ncould fit into a production of...

foolish.” It seems to us, however, thatnanyone who was instrumental in erectingneither Auschwitz or Kolyma ultimatelynamounts to the same historicalnand moral worth.nTo the left-liberal critics who populatenthe cultural sections of the media.nReds is an El Dorado of cherished, ifnspecious, homilies: revolution is God’sngift (dragged through the mud by careeristsnand bureaucrats); those who dreamnof social paradises...

equaled relaxation and po^(er.nLike Kenton, Basic had an ability tonhear greatness in young, relatively unknownnplayers and, like Kenton’s, hisnband was a hothouse for new talent.nForemost among his proteges was LesternYoung, the tenor saxophonist whoncarried jazz improvisation a step beyondnLouis Armstrong and ColemannHawkins. Dance’s chapter on Youngnmakes one understand why he needednthe loose power of Basic’s...

has little surface attraction; it is starknand demanding. It reminds one of modernnScandinavian music, but without itsnlyrical relief. “In my work there has alwaysnbeen some evidence of violence,”nsays Mennin, “and the element of contrast.nHere they come out with a vengeance.”nA fair description of a turbulent,nhighly dramatic work. This is also anresurrected recording (from 1967), originallynmade...

reading it:n—Is Mr. Hammer a decent and wellintentionednAmerican, or is he anninfluential rat to whom the notionnof allegiance to moral principlenis meaningless?n—Whom does Mr. Hammer serve:nAmerica, the communists or justnhimself?nMany of Mr. Hammer’s supporters,nadmirers or analysts might conclude,nwith skeptical sagacity, that these questionsnare beside the point, that life isnruled by ambivalence, that a true citizennof...

any strategic designs on the PersiannGulf region, and that he would ordernthe withdrawal of some Soviet unitsnin Afghanistan as soon as the armsntraffic across the Pakistan border tonAfghan rebels was ended. (Emphasisnadded)nIn essence, this says that the solutionnin Afghanistan of which Mr. Hammernwould be fond, which he would considernhis contribution to world peace,nwould be for...

God keep you safe from fire and steel and contemporarynliterature. …n— Leon BloynThe old aphorism that one picture is worth a thousandnwords sometimes reaches a level of startling profundity. Anphotographer at the Jewish Museum’s Robert Rauschenbergnretrospective in 1963 captured a scene that transforms thenaphorism into manifest truth. An elegantly coiffured womannin an exquisite mink coat...

-v: ‘p-nown way will relegate himself to obscurity; the literary tastenmakers are too smart to ignore a Saul Bellow—besides, evennthe daftest of critics occasionally snares a stray insight.nThe real problems lie elsewhere. The Liberal Culture ignoresnor derides writers of exceptional talent who cannot commandnthe recognition that a Bellow does. Andrew Lytle, for example,nhas, over the...

OPINIONS & VIEWSnThings He Believed InnThe Eisenhower Diaries; Edited bynRobert H. Ferrell; W. W. Norton &nCo.; New York.nby Allan C. CarlsonnAcademicians of any orthodox persuasionnhave always been uncomfortablenwith the legacy of Dwight Eisenhower.nWhen his second Presidentialnterm came to an end in early 1961, theynjoyfully dismissed him as an intellectualnlightweight, a mere West Point graduate,nan aging...

“My entire life has been given to thisnone thing, my country and my profession.”nTwelve years later, he cited “mynfamily” and “America” as “the only realnpassions of my life.” Countless referencesnto “duty” and “responsibility” fillnthe diaries.nJrrior to the end of World War II,nit is true, Eisenhower evidences no wellthought-outnor articulated political philosophy.nBy early 1953, though, he...

tempt to dismantle the New Deal, butnneither did he substantially add to it;nhe was later appalled by the Great Societynexperiments of the Johnson administration.nIn the last published diarynentry, dated March 1967, Ike describednRichard Nixon as “one of the ablest men”nhe knew, a man for whom he held “greatnaffection.”nJiisenhower presided over The AmericannDecade, an era characterized...

historical role of Tosca, the individualnacting alone, will in the future be playednby the discontented masses in theirngreat number.nllowever foolish and irresponsible,nRyan speaks for a sizable contingent ofnAmerican intellectuals whose passionnfor equality is, in Tocqueville’s taemorablenwords, “ardent, insatiable, eternal,nand invincible.” It is this passion thatndetermines the contradictory charaaernof so much of their writing. Proponentsnof “sharing”...

what would it mean to be liked by thenAmerican humorist? What would thenwords “I love you” mean if he who spokenthem truly loved everyone equally? Hownshould we ever know w-hat it means tonsing well if some of us, Pavarotti andnFreni for instance, did not sound veryndifferent than others? If every singernpossessed precisely the same talent,...

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style can be an effective one, providednthe author is skilled enough to evoke ‘nthe proper emotion. But Irving is nonThomas Maiiory. For all the destructionnand mutilation, grief does not existnhere.nWhen John’s grandfather, Iowa Bob,ndies in his arms of fright (second onlynto suicide as the most common causenof death in this novel), John silentlyneulogizes him: “as...

formed a striking contrast with the situationnthirty years before,” as thoughnthe 1950’s were one of the sterlingnperiods of Western -history. In fact,neven then some perceptive persons foresawnsome of the disasters that havenrecently come to pass. Although Handlinnrecognizes that the consensus behindnthese policies was mu^h morenfragile than it seemed, he still regardsnthe Truman policies as successful,...

These qualities, whether good or bad,ndon’t really explain our present discontents.nTo refine his analysis of thesenphenomena he should read the Chroniclesnof Culture editorials.nMore importantly, our present socialnsituation cannot accurately be describednas one of permissiveness, despite thenfondness of many conservatives for thisnsuperficial notion. It is true that manynnormal aspects of traditional social disciplinenare breaking down. Rising...

SUPPORT THEnPOLISH POPEnThat’s what the New Oxford Review isnabout. We strongly support the PolishnPope’s valiant efforts to protect Polandnfrom the Soviet imperialists and to enhancensocial justice, both in Poland andnthroughout the world. Moreover, we unabashedlynchampion the Pope in his’nstruggle to save Christian orthodoxy fromnHans Kung and all the other questionablentheologians who have had a field...

Thomas Jefferson: ConservativenDumas Malone: The Sage of Monticellon(Volume Six of Jefferson andnHis Time); Little, Brown & Co.;nBoston.nby Clyde WilsonnIn 1809 Thomas Jefferson yieldednup the Presidency and crossed into Virginia.nIn the 17 active years remainingnto him he never left it. The first volumenof Malone’s masterpiece, published inn1948, -was Jefferson the Virginian. Thensixth and last is The...

Jefferson the agrarian liberal. But unfortunatelynwhat Parrington discoverednwas an imaginary combination ofnFrench philosophe and midwesternnpopulist, not the planter of AlbemarlenCounty. Parrington, Claude Bowers andna host of other worthies soon turnednJefferson into the patron saint of Wilsonism,nthe New Deal and what currentlynpasses for liberalism.nThus, by a strange piling-up ofnironies, the intellectual descendants ofnJefferson’s opponents converted himninto...

meant, example. He gives no comfortnto those who want to impose democracynon others, but much comfort to thosenwho want to defend American democracynfrom any and all enemies. Jefferson,nit is true, mistrusted the clergy. In thisnrespect he was typical of his generation.nBut Jefferson the citizen, as opposed tonJefferson the philosopher, lived withinnthe church. Religion and piety...

Most Businessmen Havena Fairly Accurate Readingnof Their Competition.nHow About Their Opposition?nThe magazines and activist groupsnwhich mold and manipulate publicn; opinion toward anticapitalist goals arennow big business. Their impact inn’ recent 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...