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SQUARE'S PROGRESS by Wilfrid Sheed. 309 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Irony is the keynote to this droll, dry novel. In it Author Sheed, book editor and drama critic for Commonweal, continues the dissection of contemporary life that he began in The Hack. The book is overlong, as though Author Sheed feared that the reader would not easily take his point; and only its protagonist comes vividly to life. But in its cool compassion and amused impatience with self-deceit, it is a perceptive guidebook through the wilds of a modern marriage...
...specific answer. Unbaptized innocents go to limbo (from the Latin word for "hem" or "border"), a fringe of hell where they spend eternity in a state of natural happiness. Published this week is a lively survey of the still unfinished debate over this theological issue, called Limbo: Unsettled Question (Sheed & Ward; $3.95). The author, the Rev. George J. Dyer, is a professor of patristic theology at St. Mary of the Lake Seminary near Chicago...
...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who realizes, with horror, that he is losing his sincerity and developing writer's cramp in the smug swamps of suburbia...
...HACK, by Wilfrid Sheed. A kind of Miss Lonelyhearts in reverse, the hero is a successful writer of sentimental pap for Catholic publications, who begins to lose his sincerity in the smugger swamps of suburbia...