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...

The one saving grace of Kundera’snbook is that it is not pretentious andnthat he at least makes a sincere effortnto examine issues and paradoxes thatnothers may find interesting. The samencannot be said for W. M. Spackman’s AnPresence with Secrets. Spackman’snnovel reads like a Barbara Cartlandndimestore romance, yet it is dottednwith foreign phrases, literary allusionsnto exceedingly...

responds. “I do not know why.”nWe have an answer.nHard-nosed analysts and experiencednpolicy-makers refuse to draw the unavoidablenconclusion from incontrovertiblenevidence because this conclusionnseems incompatible with their assessmentnof current Soviet leaders as rationalnhuman beings. Miss Sterling’s conclusionndoes not appear to make senseneven from the Soviets’ own point ofnview. Are the Soviets backing internationalnterrorism in order to bring...

of 1956 and 1968.nEast Germany, outwardly the mostnloyal and docile of all the satellites, isnparticularly unreliable. Here is a countrynwhose inhabitants refer to the currencynof neighboring West Germany asnWirkliches GeW—Real Money. “Whatnis that in real money.”” they ask whennthe price of some scarce and costly itemnis quoted in East German marks. It isnoften claimed that...

sion to bring terrorism to Europe wasnmade in 1968. The date is significant.nIt was a year in wiiich it was easy to findnrecruits for terrorist gangs on the universityncampuses, among naive and disorientednmiddle- and upper-class youth.nIt was also the year in which the Sovietnempire faced one of its recurrent crises:nthe threatened defection of Czechoslovakia,nwhere even...

belongs to Mrs. Schlafly—the ability ton”take life’s lemons and make lemonade.”n:o make the best of things, not in a passive,nresigned sense but in an almost aggressivenfashion. Where a feministnwould sit. Victorian fashion, and bewailnlife’s cruelty, Phyllis Schlafly turns disadvantageninto asset. Of her working/ncollege stint, she comments:n… the most wonderful two years ofnmy life—a unique experience.nI...

How to Be Selective with Ideas?nMary McCarthy: Ideas and thenNovel; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich;nNew York.nby Stephen L. Tannernrle had a mind so fine that no ideancould violate it.” This reference to HenrynJames by T. S. Eliot is offered bynMary McCarthy as a countermotto fornthis transcription of the NorthcliffenLectures she delivered last year at UniversitynCollege. London. Her...

stitute formal or aesthetic values forncultural values. In other words, the formalisticncharacter of modern fiction,nthe impulse toward “pure art.” whichnMcCarthy finds so repellent, is closelynrelated to a divorce between literary andncultural values.nW. J. Harvey treats the same phenomenonnin Character and the Novelnwhen he discusses the individual’s sensenof insecurity when his relation to hisnworld is no...

What Faulkner’s Life Was All AboutnDavid Minter: William Faulkner:nHis Life and Work; The Johns HopkinsnUniversity Press; Baltimore.nby Earl HiltonnWne’s first reaction to yet anothernbook about Faulkner is likely to ben”Why?” But as one reads Minter’s booknseveral points become evident. He writesnwith clarity and even grace. He largelynavoids those convoluted sentences intonwhich literary critics seem to...

suggestion to explain the apparent sudden.nbreatcthrough in his Yoknapatawphannovels. His concept of poetry,nstressing finish and perfection, was restrictive.nBut oral stories were nevernfinished or definitive. Each teller wasnexpected to make his own changes andnadditions, and they offered Faulkner thensame freedom. Perhaps, too, hearingnand telling such stories had as much tondo with his emphasis upon the tellernand...

Pedlar Without CustomersnMadelon Bedell: The Akotts, Biographynof a Family; Clarkson N. Potter;nNew York.nby Robert C. SteensmanHmerson called him “the most extraordinarynman and highest genius of thentime” and “a God-made priest,” whilenThoreau saw him as “a King of Men .. .none of the last of the philosophers.”nBut Bronson Alcott perhaps describednhimself best as a “Pedlar …...

With its roots in New England Puritanism.nEuropean phiilosophy and Orientalnmysticism, transcendentalism was,nas Van Wyck Brooks put it. a floweringnof New England, a view of life whichnrejected both rationalism and traditionalnChristianity in favor of an intuitive perceptionnof God and nature which was tonvitalize American art and literature innthe middle third of the 19th century andnreaffirm the...

of male prowess and female incompentence. and by unwritten rules that encouragenmen to be seemingly callous,naggressive tycoons and women to benapparently silly, seductive sirens.nGrowing Up Free is both thoroughnand exhaustive, and sometimes thoroughlynexhausting. The exhaustion resultsnnot only from the size of the book,nits unabating feminist fervor and thenblind absolutism of the author’s, pronouncements,nbut also from...

must also realize that the refusal toninculcate values along with sexual informationnimplies a judgment: that studentsncan make of this information whatnthey will. Such a procedure is not onlynpedagogically unsound but also unwisenand immoral. In no other subject is anstudent given the facts or the materialsnfor an experiment without any “judgmental”ninstructions as to how theynshould be...

Wodehouse that all other Britishnhumor falls slightly flat. In anynevent, it is a tale of three Englishngentlemen who decide to rent anboat and row up the Thames forna short vacation. Their misadventuresnare amusing, and theirnvarious fantasies about themselvesnand their respective abilitiesncertainly need little psycho-nDope, Inc.nPatrick Anderson: High InnAmerica; Viking Press; NewnYork.nThis mind-boggling report onnNORML (The...

In Pulitzer Prize’s TraditionnJ. C. Louis and Harvey Z.nYazijian: The Cola Wars;nEverest House Publishers; NewnYork.nby Gavin D. ArbucklenJournalists are different fromnother proiessionai writers in thatnno one really expects them tonknow what they are talkingnabout. Newspapers remain infested,nyear after year, by economicnjournalists who thinknhigh interest rates are inflationary,nby business journalists whonhave difficulty understandingnbasic accounting principles, andnby...

f^ jo^^ .-df^ .v^^ „p(^”_t»o« „-•= ^0^* _j^ ‘n ” »^””^,»-^i^°*-«*”’r’n^ U**^I*^’T”^^»’^CJ’^-n ,.–s-‘-.t„»-‘;-^’:x..n’iS-^^^S^.’S^.”,^n”‘^^^f^'””n^^^„,nMost Businessmen Havena Fairly Accurate Readingnof Their Competition.nHow About Their Opposition?nThe magazines and activist groupsnwhich moid and manipulate publicnopinion toward anticapitaUst goals arennow big business. Their impact innrecent years has grown more potent throughna network of multinational support groups. Thenlast election has given...

SCREEN TnLet’s Hope for More Indiana JonesesnRaiders of the Lost Ark; Written bynLawrence Kasdan: Directed by StevennSpielberg; Produced by GeorgenLucas; Paramount Pictures.nMel Brooks’ History of the World;nWritten and directed by Mel Brooks;n20th Century-Fox.nby Eric ShapearonUnwittingly (or perhaps not) Raiders,nthe current ultimate in pulp entertainmentnand suspense, makes a statementnabout modern history which wouldnbe refreshing and amusing...

RecordsnMUSICnby Robert R. ReiliynBohuslav Martinu’s music is undergoingna recording renaissance, thanksnmainly to Supraphon. the Czech recordncompany whose discs are generallynavailable in the larger classical outletsnin major American cities. Supraphonnhas recently issued a newly recorded setnof Martinu’s six symphonies (played bynthe Czech Philharmonic Orchestranunder conductor Vaclav Neumann!.nRCA Gold Seal has also reissued a performancenof the Symphony...