Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even if they have to import a Communist. Thus Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, the Harvard Divinity School and Jesuit-run St. Louis University were among the dozen institutions that played host to Roger Garaudy, the chief theoretician of the French Communist Party, while he was on a brief U.S. lecture tour this month. Last week officials of the Soviet embassy in Washington went out to Maryland's Woodstock Seminary for an evening of informal discussions with the Jesuit faculty and seminarians, including Father John Courtney Murray...
...policies to Moley were already implicit in the First New Deal. But for Moley the break was total. Not only did he turn Republican, but in a Newsweek magazine column, and in several books, he has continued to lick the wounds that his political philosophy suffered during that brief alliance. Much in this volume only echoes what Moley wrote in After Seven Years, an equally unhappy appraisal of the New Deal published...
...chairman of the American Fletcher Na tional Bank & Trust Co. of Indianapolis after his term as comptroller expired last month. Saxon scoffed at Clark's opinion as "superficial," forecast a new wave of litigation over branching laws, criticized the way the Government had defended his position. "The original brief prepared in our office was masterly," he said, "but it was emasculated by the Solicitor General's office. This case went down by default...
...What gives the letters an extra resonance is the frequency with which life prefigures art. Joyce's brief and platonic affair with a young Swiss woman, Martha Fleischmann, is replayed in some detail in the Bloom-Gerty McDowell episode in Ulysses. The few letters from Joyce's rakehell father have all the style and fresh idiom of Simon Dedalus in the book. And Molly Bloom's long, affirmative soliloquy comes to life in the letters of his wife, Nora-artless, rambling and totally innocent of punctuation, syntax or correct spelling...
Lapsed Daughter. As valuable as the letters themselves is the brief, brilliant introduction by Richard Ellmann, who has already written the best biography of Joyce. Though Joyce regarded himself as an exiled genius in revolt against the bourgeois world, Ellmann notes that he "could not live outside the environment of family affection, badly as he acts within it." He fought hard for the advancement of his son, Giorgio, who aspired to be a singer (he became a middling successful bass) and devoted years to tending his daughter, Lucia, when she lapsed into schizophrenia...