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...COLLECTED STORIES OF ELIZABETH BOWEN Knopf; 784 pages...
Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) belongs among these masters. Her skill as a short-story writer attracted some notice during her lifetime, but she was better known as the author of novels, particularly The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949). The most recent volume of her stories published in the U.S. appeared more than 20 years ago, so her reputation in this field had to be taken on faith or hunted down in libraries. No longer. The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen assembles 79 stories, the complete record of four decades of work. It offers...
...Western New England cakewalk featured pins by Brian Baer at 150, and by Phills. Against B.C., Phills notched his third fall of the weekend and was joined by Alex Montgomery (158), Tony Cimmarusti (167), and Joe Bowen...
...servants: some have the training to keep the church alive spiritually, some are organizers. The church should employ the intellectual as a technician. Professional Black theologians are now transmitting bourgeois values to perpetuate class divisions in the church," he says, adding hierarchies are not appropriate in a Christian church. Bowen concurs, "The church in not an institutional structure. It is a body of believers in Christ." In the final analysis, both Miller and group members agree that the role of the Black intellectual in the church is to interpret and safeguard its Black history and tradition from academics who diminish...
Clearly the idea of revolution does not dominate the discussions of the Seymour Society members. Instead, it continues, in its first year, to focus on the inward processes of Christianity. People may try to handle problems solely on the basis of a mental and emotional self-examination, but Bowen says, "it always seems to come back down to personal transformation, accepting Christ as one's personal Savior. Unless there is a mechanism for doing that which the Bible clearly offers, unless there is an underlying principle to which you can be committed, you're getting nowhere...