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...young people of today are reviving interest in his works. Despite Miss Duffy's review in TIME, this great pioneer in literature will have his "place in the sun." TEDI DREISER LANGDON Atlanta...
...Langdon is a grandniece of Dreiser...
This section of the book is good, gossipy reading. There are vivid cameos of Mack Sennett trying to spy on his writers; of Harry Langdon, the baby-faced vaudevillian, suddenly famous and going to pieces; and of Harry Cohn, the libidinous vulgarian who ran Columbia Pictures. It is the latter part of the book, when Capra returns to Hollywood from Army Signal Corps duty during World War II, that makes The Name Above the Title such a poignant reminiscence...
Many of the names were celebrated: English Philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, smoking her trademark cigar, Radical Poet Kenneth Rexroth, Expatriate Catholic Theologian Charles Davis, Biblical Scholar John L. McKenzie, Protestant Theologian Langdon Gilkey, U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy. As McCarthy said of the assemblage, which included mathematicians and scientists as well as theologians and philosophers: "You would have to spend ten years going around the world to find all these people...
Chicago Divinity School's Langdon Gilkey conceded that Lonergan's theological method has an "uneasy relationship" to his scientific method, but he applauded Lonergan's overall thought. "He has imbibed the empirical, the hypothetical the tentative," said Gilkey. "Yet within it he has a structure that breaks the back of relativism." Gilkey agrees with Boston College Philosopher David Rasmussen that, for Catholicism, Lonergan may be the liberating force that Friedrich Schleiermacher was for 19th century Protestantism. But for liberal Protestants, Gilkey notes, Lonergan could provide something of a brake to excessive subjectivism...