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NATALIE/NATALIA by Nicholas Mosley. 316 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...
...first meets M.P. Tony Greville late at night. He is skipping along the sidewalk, keeping to the pavement lines like a child. It is not quite the beginning one would expect from Mosley, the author of Impossible Object, a difficult novel which has become a kind of sacred object among aspiring writers. But matters are soon set straight. Says Tony. "The skipping was in my mind, the lines and squares in the universe...
...lived in a tough neighborhood that was periodically invaded by Oswald Mosley's fascist bullyboys. Pinter remembers that as an adolescent, he had to run a gauntlet of broken milk bottles thrust menacingly at him. Not surprisingly, the boy's imagination was permeated by the Nazi massacre of the Jews. The threatened knock at the door, with the certainty of horrible punishment for an uncommitted crime, was a sound of terror in his mind before he ever recorded it on the stage...
...Mosley comes from a pastoral background that may be particularly relevant to present-day conditions. One of Union's problems is how to react to its inner-city environment on the edge of Harlem. Mosley, as a young priest, successfully built up an inner-city parish in Cincinnati. Another growing problem is fundraising, a fact of life that...
...Mosley learned well as a bishop. But the gravest problem at Union is direction: younger faculty and bachelor-of-divinity students want less emphasis on studies, more on involvement in society. Postgraduate students, older faculty and directors want to concentrate on preserving Union's academic excellence. Whether that gap can be bridged successfully is doubtful, but Mosley seems more than willing to try. "The groups at Union fight hard for what they want," he says, "and they want contradictory things. But I rather like that sort of process, and I'm not unused...