Book review by Jennifer Rycenga Plonsey. Rockwell, John. All American music: composition in the late twentieth century. New York: Knopf, 1983.
Edwin Newman speaks about language. We have no hope of dealing with our problems except by chance unless we understand them, and we cannot understand them or one another unless we dig ourselves out from the jargon, the mush, the smog, the dull, pompous, boneless, gassy language under which we Americans have been burying ourselves. That may not seem to be as dramatic a challenge...
A meeting of scientists and lay people was organized by Paul Berg at Stanford in 1971 to discuss potential consequences of an experiment involving the structure of SV40 virus. That meeting led to a large public controversy which became highly charged with scientific and intellectual excitement, as well as emotional and "gut-level" fears. Questions were raised about who controls...
Religious discourse often seems to draw its life-blood from metaphor. Even the theologian is occasionally impelled to abandon literal speech in favor of the metaphorical mode. Metaphors may reveal both the actual and the possible aspects of things, as described in Max Black's famous essay on "Metaphor". The religious imagination will inevitably find for itself a language...
Don Coonley outlines the process of writing the play Windcrossing, a blend of fact and fiction about the inventor Gustave Whitehead and events in the early twentieth century when Whitehead may or may not have achieved flight.
The script of Windcrossing, a drama inspired by the life of Gustave Whitehead. The play is a blend of fact and fiction about the inventor who lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut and events in the early twentieth century when Whitehead may or may not have been the first to achieve flight.
Rollo May speaks about paradoxes. To confront our anxiety is a way of the renewal of our lives. We must confront our despair if we are to experience renewal in life. Out of the balance between one's freedom and one's nature comes not only health in its dynamic sense but there comes also creativity. May also speaks of the paradox of authentic love arising from the fact that we...
Book review by Thomas Hicks, professor of Psychology and Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University. Jourard, Sidney M. and Ted Landsman. Healthy Personality: an Approach from the Viewpoint of Humanistic Psychology. 4th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
Book Review by Grace Farrell Lee. Russell, Mariann. Melvin B. Tolson's Harlem gallery: a literary analysis. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.
Book review by Janet Krauss. Rinaldi, Nicholas. We Have Lost Our Fathers and Other Poems. Gainsville: University Presses of Florida, 1982.
Book review by Jacqueline Rinaldi of the autobiography of Czeslaw Milosz. Milosz, Czeslaw, Catherine S. Leach, translator. Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition. New York: Doubleday, 1981.
Professor Brodeur looks at the nature of cellular structures and drug molecular structures to understand how a drug has an effect on the human body or any other living organism. Donald Brodeur is Professor of Psychology at Sacred Heart University.
Rollo May speaks about paradoxes. To confront our anxiety is a way of the renewal of our lives. We must confront our despair if we are to experience renewal in life. Out of the balance between one's freedom and one's nature comes not only health in its dynamic sense but there comes also creativity. May also speaks of the paradox of authentic love arising from the fact that we...
The conversations transcribed here, held in New York City, Miami, and Annandale-on-Hudson, are excerpted from a longer collection, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Glimpses.
Edmund Wilson read widely and in a number of languages, acquiring a truly cosmopolitan perspective. Much of this article talks about Wilson's numerous works analyzing and interpreting the work of Henry James. Wilson is an ideal touchstone for either specialists or beginners in literature; an essay such as "The Ambiguity of Henry James" is one example where he has written about a...
Book review by Edward Malin. Shattuck, Roger. The Forbidden Experiment. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980. A mysterious boy emerged from a forest in southern France in early 1800. Although he was human in form and walked upright, his habits were those of a young male animal. Roger Shattuck offers an account of this fascinating episode in intellectual history. He examines...
Book review by Deborah K. DeCorso. Farb, Peter and George Armelagos. Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.
Book review by Edward Bordeau: Kaufmann, Walter Arnold. Discovering the mind: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel. New York: McGraw Hill, 1980.
William J. Fletcher succinctly describes the history of the building and destruction of Holy Cross Abbey in County Tipperary on the River Suir, as well as its restoration beginning in 1969.
Book review by Ann Graham Attora. Ciardi, John. A browser's dictionary and native's guide to the unknown American language. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.
Book review by Michelle Loris, Professor of English at Sacred Heart University. Hirsch, E. D., Jr. The philosophy of composition. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1977.
Book review by Michael L. Raposa, Professor of Religious Studies at Sacred Heart University. Almeder, Robert. The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: A Critical Introduction. New Jersey, Rowan and Littlefield, 1980.
The purpose of this article is to encourage the creation of an ongoing dialogue on the ethical aspects of professional life--which turn out to be, at present, the ethical aspects of public life in general. This paper, originally sponsored by Sacred Heart University's Center for Applied Ethics, was delivered at the University in the fall, 1981.
The conversations transcribed here, held in New York City, Miami, and Annandale-on-Hudson, are excerpted from a longer collection, Isaac Bashevis Singer: Glimpses.
Robin McAllister recounts his experiences during a Summer 1980 visit to the prehistoric Indian cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, Colorado. There he encountered inscriptions similar to writing, ancient petroglyphs, figures and symbols inscribed in the face of a sandstone cliff, left by the Anasazi before they abandoned their canyon homes around 1300 AD. Hopi Indians, who claimed the...