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...CLOCKWORK ORANGE (184 pp.)-Anthony Burgess-Norton...
...Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess has written what looks like a nasty little shocker but is really that rare thing in English letters-a philosophical novel. The point may be overlooked because the hero, a teen-age monster, tells all about everything in nadsat, a weird argot that seems to be all his own. Nadsat is neither gibberish nor a Joycean exercise. It serves to put Alex where he belongs-half in and half out of the human race...
Among industrialists, such company chairmen as Frederic Donner (General Motors), Roger Blough (U.S. Steel), Joseph Block (Inland Steel), Carter Burgess (American Machine & Foundry), Charles Percy (Bell & Howell), such presidents as Edgar Kaiser (Kaiser Industries), J. Paul Austin (Coca-Cola), Thomas Jones (Northrop...
...Burgess takes his election as an assignment to make his church face up more directly to race-relations problems. He believes that progress in civil rights for the Negro has been "miraculous," but that "of all the institutions, the church has been the least able to adjust to the change in racial atmosphere." The reason: "The church is too much white middleclass, and reflects too much the conservatism of this social and economic group. There is fear that the church might take too rad ical a stand...
...Bishop Burgess will continue to command the efforts of his diocese-which comprises roughly the eastern half of Massachusetts-to meet the new religious needs of inner Boston. He wants to expand the church's chaplaincy services to universities in the Boston area, and thinks that the church should develop a pro gram of chaplains for industry to bridge the gap between religion and the workingman. "The church," he says, "should try to make religion relevant to the needs of all kinds of people. The church is not a sect organized around a particular doc trine or Biblical text...