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Break a Shell. Teilhard's diary remained unpublished even longer, partly because his Jesuit colleagues were embarrassed about his ecclesiastical candor (e.g., a complaint about the church's "egoism, cultivated idleness, ridiculous self-satisfaction"). Only in 1971 did the Teilhard family agree to publication of the notebooks. The first of two volumes will appear in Paris next month. The intimate, unguarded diary, which fleshes out the previously released wartime essays and letters to his cousin, will be essential reading for Teilhard aficionados...
...couple of "major little problems" remain. "I'm an old-fashioned man," says Jimmy, blue eyes round with candor, his mouth pursed in unfamiliar primness. "My parents have been in love for 35 years, and I want to get married." His first marriage, to a dancer, ended in 1966, and he has a daughter, Tara, 10. But he wants more kids to play ball with. "Time's passing," he says moodily, and he knows that in one respect he is not moving with it. He is hung up on women's looks. "I want companionship, a woman...
Another lapse may or may not have its source in the fact that this is an authorized biography. The author's view of Thurber himself appears to strike a fair balance between necessary admiration and necessary candor. But Thurber's first wife Althea, a campus beauty at Ohio State during his years there, appears as an unpleasant caricature-by no coincidence closely resembling her ex-husband's caricature of the engulfing Thurber Woman. Second Wife Helen Thurber, who shared his life through his years of dimming eyesight and blindness (and who did the authorizing) is treated with...
...misanthrope in the sense that he hates mankind. He hates the web of social hypocrisy in which men and women entangle themselves. He hates everything that in Eliot's words is "as false as a smile and the shake of a hand." His insistence on absolute candor is blind, humorless and therefore funny. He is a moral prig who thinks of himself as the only honest man alive, and he wants the world to recognize it. He tells the truth till it hurts-others. Still, he raises an important question of principle. When does hypocrisy breed corruption...
McCloskey accomplished the task with such candor, clarity, diligence and wry humor that he became one of the truly rare Administration officials to emerge from the Viet Nam ordeal with his name not only intact but enhanced. When he left to become U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus in May 1973, McCloskey was given a dinner by the National Press Club. Peter Lisagor, the crusty Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, declared at the time: "It is just plain remarkable that a public affairs official could be so esteemed...