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Mary Daly, associate professor of Theology at Boston College, tomorrow will become the first woman to present a sermon in Memorial Church. Daly will speak on the topic "After the Death of God and Father" at the 11 a.m. service...
...FIRE SERMON by Wright Morris. 155 pages. Harper...
...bizarre situations-Tom Sawyer as Easy Rider-and a grave Hawthornesque moral allegory. In the end there is a great fire, and symbols shoot all over the big Nebraska sky. Hence the title of the book, which comes from the Buddha, courtesy of T.S. Eliot. The original Fire Sermon, preached 2,500 years ago, consigned all the physical nature of man-birth and passion and death-to flames. The one that forms the central panel of The Waste Land tries to burn away the sordid sterility of casual modern sex. Wright Morris' bonfire is more modest. What goes...
...first that seems to be the nub of the sermon. The old machines don't crank, the old ways are as irrelevant as dead leaves; it is time to sweep them away and leave the world clean for a new generation like the boy Kermit who "brought so little to what he saw, he saw what was there...
...living at part-time jobs, especially teaching. He is currently at Princeton for a year. During the past decade he has been a creative-writing instructor at troubled San Francisco State, an excellent place to get acquainted with the kind of radical young whom he treats in Fire Sermon with ambiguous reserve...