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PERHAPS it is unfair ro review a single issue of the journal Daedalus in a collection of book reviews. A group of essays should not be treated on the same textual level as a novel or a work of non-fiction. But Daedalus, as its authors would have you believe, is no ordinary journal. In his preface to the fall 1976 edition, The Editor explains that the work is arranged thematically and integrated logically so as to provide the unity of a book-length treatise. Maybe it is that prefatory buildup which makes the 12 essays contained in this issue...
...book, Bonaparte, on his way to prison, Finds His Father and Recognizes Him--as every Irish hero since Telemachus and Daedalus has done. O'Coonassa has no trouble; he recognizes his father by his poverty, his fate (he is leaving the prison) and his name-Jams O'Donnell. But The Poor Mouth is as much pretence as plaint. In Gaelic putting on the poor mouth means complaining (according to the dictionary) and feigning suffering to get the advantage in a deal. O'Nolan's humour is as elusive and many-faceted as his name, but The Poor Mouth hides...
Clive said yesterday that he and G. W. Bowersock '57, chairman of the Classics Department, will attend another Gibbon bicentennial conference in Rome this January, The conference, which Bower-sock called "Clive's brainchild," will be sponsored by the magazine "Daedalus," and will include 20 scholars from the United States and Europe...
More than one critic recalls that it was Kissinger himself, in the spring 1966 issue of the quarterly magazine Daedalus, who wrote: "The statesman is suspicious of those who personalize foreign policy, for history teaches him the fragility of structures dependent upon individuals...
Bethell said that he thinks that because of its new format--color photography and expanded feature coverage--the Magazine would eventually find its audience in "the same people who read intellectual magazines, like Daedalus for example...