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...pattern and design, after all, not morality. Or, on another front: a writer must use material, however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through the states of his mind; Susan and Fenwick, his alter egos...
...center is "not a grand plan by Harvard to change principals in some way." Roland S. Barth, senior lecturer at the Education School and director of the Principal's Center said yesterday. Instead, he said, the center is a place where principals will meet colleagues and exchange "effective school practices" with "Harvard faculty, students, and other educators...
...Although Barth said he expects "about 100" area educators to participate in the center's programs this year, several principals at the reception yesterday said the $100 membership fee might discourage them from joining. Barth said the fee was necessary to supplement the center's $90,000 first-year budget, which pays for the services of a small staff of researchers, the maintenance of a resource library, and honoraria for seminar leaders...
...Letters 1961-1968 (Eerdmans; 382 pages; $18.95). Written late in his life, the 325 letters are full of typical Barthian barbs directed at the Allies' policy of rearming the West German "empire" and "the rabid mob of anti-Communists." Among the aging theologian's enthusiasms: Mozart (Barth proposed him for beatification), American Civil War battles, and the contemporary U.S., which he visited for the first and only time at age 75 ("a fantastic affair...
Publicly, Barth kept berating the West for its nuclear buildup and its cold war mentality. But privately, as the book reveals for the first time, he wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...