Pioneered in 1935 by the prominent Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz, the procedure was accomplished with a thin cutting instrument called a "leucotome" which was inserted into the brain through holes drilled in the skull. It was as though he were saying, especially at the painful junctures of his life, "I love you dearly, Lord, but if you do this to me one more time, I'll knock your block off" These words are mine, but they typify the sort of lifelong love-hate relationship with the Creator that is-at least in Wakefield's case-the beginning of mysticism. Readers who have not experienced conversion of any sort may find Wakefield's jiggered path a movement from the dazzling to the drizzling, from the cutting edge to the dull edge. That he should return to it later is as inevitable as his finding that it was now truly a lost world. In still another essay, he considers babies, about whom he is not overly fond: on their instinctive aggressiveness "rapacious consumers) coupled with extreme helplessness, on the fiction of the angelic child compared to the reality of bed wetting, on the enormous chasm between the unbridled savagery of the infant and civilized behavior. TO THE MOUNTAINTOP by William Roger Witherspoon (Doubleday: $24. 95, until Jan. Elson, who wrote Volumes One (1923-1941) and Two (1941-1960) of the official corporate history of Time Inc, quite clearly had the livelier time.
Diana Brown sends an unbelieving young English woman, Marigold Wilder, to Korea as a missionary in an act of penance. English and Bible study go hand in hand to the pulpit for a priesthood of all believers obliged to preach and proselytize"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32. In 1974, Stephen Dunn's first collection of poems, "Looking for Holes in the Ceiling" was published, and he attracted much positive attention as an imaginative writer of witty, tight, surprising surrealist imagist poems. Albert Einstein regards us today from familiar posters, wobbling along on his bicycle or sticking out his tongue. At the time of his death in December, 1983, Paul de Man had become America's arch-deacon of deconstruction.
The irony of all these wondrous monuments to wealth, power and grandeur, however, cannot be lost on modern sensibilities. Einstein in America: The Scientist's Conscience in the Age of Hitler and Hiroshima, Jamie Sayen (Crown "Thoroughly researched and elegantly written. It is the wide spectrum of female humanity and ability in this book that makes it an especially valuable addition to the growing popular library on the accomplishments and work lives of women. He paints a vivid picture of the early settlement around Cape Town, where his first relatives set foot.
Regional military conflicts-changing with each new attack-and books-usually documents of record-seem an unlikely pair. For example, much is made of his overseeing of Ultra, the British system of breaking German codes during World War II and intercepting most of their enemy's wireless transmissions. Small pox came ashore with the dirty washing and decimated the indigenous Khoikhoi. Sillitoe has great sureness of touch with his environment here, even in passing glances at the decaying industrial landscape: "A pebble dash of ice and snow covered the old lime kilns near the canal, bricks scattered like pieces of thrown-away cake. well, there was no end, only the final victory over Nazi Germany (an enemy being fought, in part, for its deeds of racial persecution) that returned 130,000 black GIs and the problem to the United States A convenient curtain No pain, no need to examine Time would heal all, even those times that weal all.
Michael Meyer, the highly acclaimed author of "Ibsen" has written a biography of Strindberg that is tightly researched and relentlessly probing. His street beggar, with a beard and mustache resembling stitches and a dark, gaping mouth opening like a tear in paper, is inspired and highly expressive. Though her argument is often redundant and the prose cliche-ridden, Hewlett's style is intensely personal; her facts persuasive; the case histories familiar and convincing. Wetherell, has been published for winning the Drue Heize Literature Prize, the fifth volume of short stories to be so honored One understands the judges' decision. What is destructive about the stereotype is that it distracts us from the infinite other truths of women's experience and ingenuity-truths which have been zealously suppressed by the men commanding so many of our institutions and the very record of our social and technological development. They also have been buffeted by social and political winds; they swim in the wake of Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx; they are familiar with the rhetorics of advertising and nuclear threat, the rebirth of feminism.
It is best regarded, perhaps, as a literary travelogue, in the style of Stevenson or Nerval, or one of those dashing wanderers of the 1920s who recited Byron as the sun sank beneath the battlements of Chillon. No issue touching Israel's establishment has been more subject to conflicting claims than the origins of what came to be known as the Arab refugee problem. "Limiting herself to the years between 1830 and 1980, (Elaine) Showalter investigates biography, letters and the fine and lively arts, as well as actual case histories, creating a concise history of psychiatry from a feminist standpoint" (Elaine Kendall. Powers have devised a kind of pilgrimage through the European Theater of Operations, with well-documented and well-described stops at the places where the war was fought and won: London and the Battle of Britain, the Normandy Invasion, the break-out across France, the ill-fated flanking maneuver in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge, the crossing of the Rhine and the defeat of Nazi Germany. "Their Maginot Line in the sky cannot provide Mutual Assured Survival.
I am convinced that there are certain kinds of suffering that are relieved only by poetry, whether the reading or the writing of it, or both. Bill Moyers, in his superb TV documentary "The Secret Government" aired last fall, made the case for the second; namely, that the American empire is a threat to constitutional democracy at home. While the questions seem simple, the answers are complex and often no final answer is in. Of about 183 above-ground nuclear bomb blasts, 28 laid down a deadly swath of radioactive fallout over the "sparsely populated" areas to the east, with heaviest exposures in southwestern Utah and adjacent parts of Nevada and Arizona. It had got into forest products and suburban weeklies. Robert T. Two less common end-of-empire themes, more unsettling in their implications, have also received persuasive exposition In "The Culture of Terrorism" MIT Prof.
The assault of the title, actually the assassination of a Nazi collaborator, occurs very early in the book. Their translation of Cisneros' "At Night the Cats" is a generous and altogether praiseworthy enrichment of Anglo-American letters. But "Mothers of Invention" reveals just as much interest in the homely butter mold maker-and the ingenious currency counterfeiter and the zany designer of a "self-cleaning house-as in the Nobel laureate physicist. Two less common end-of-empire themes, more unsettling in their implications, have also received persuasive exposition In "The Culture of Terrorism" MIT Prof.
"The Education of Mingo" chronicles an elderly farmer's misguided attempts to acculturate his newly purchased African slave. On balance, however, this chapter does offer some interesting insights into how one large company works. Consumer advocate, author "Unsafe at Any Speed) and general purpose consciousness-raiser Ralph Nader has teamed up with William Taylor, a former feature writer for the Hartford Advocate, to give us in "The Big Boys" an up-close and personal view of nine major business leaders-seven of them CEOs of large companies. If only the author had chosen the third person, or some other distancing device to transform what reads like thinly disguised autobiography into a better designed, more emotionally effective work of fiction. . As far as the director was concerned, Gucwa's "job was to feed the animal, to clean her enclosure and yard, to teach her tricks, to put on performances, and to oversee rides for a paying public, not to explore her intelligence or expressive desires" Gucwa was ordered to work "with pad and pencil only during his own time-coffee breaks and lunch breaks, for example" At this point, a reporter, James Ehmann from the Syracuse Post-Standard happened by, to write a story on the expansion of the zoo. On balance, however, this chapter does offer some interesting insights into how one large company works. Consumer advocate, author "Unsafe at Any Speed) and general purpose consciousness-raiser Ralph Nader has teamed up with William Taylor, a former feature writer for the Hartford Advocate, to give us in "The Big Boys" an up-close and personal view of nine major business leaders-seven of them CEOs of large companies. Knopf Is Her Publisher The book spans the middle years of Dovie's childhood and from the opening scene with Dovie and her mother on the beach, the mother assumes the bulk of the novel.
Yet Mellers whizzes through these, for he has political and religious theories that he wants to use Dylan to vindicate. As it happens, her chief dream is to be a country and Western songwriter. This first novel established him as a best-selling author and an embittered champion of police rights. Even discounting for rhetorical excesses, it is an impressive saga of faith, perseverance and triumph over great odds. The authors, with the advantage of numerous interviews with the artist, have written the first comprehensive account of his life. The second page treats the lives destroyed at My Song, My Lay, in which the images of broken flowers become subtly the broken bodies of children"Flora delicate as the throats of the young, stalks snapped/Like wind-pipes" The concluding section is for the conservationists, a diatribe, deserved, for Man, whose "hand silenced great orchestras of trees, branded for slaughter/The lavish hills"I find very moving "A Poem for Students of Greece" and another, "On the Death of My Student, the Poet Serafin" It must be noted that the violent images that I persist in mentioning, are almost always extraordinarily good writing. The left-leaning reverend puts push behind his perceptions, prays with his feet in peace marches, is visibly anti-missile on Greenham Common, tangles with his laggard church, vents his displeasure to The Times (London And all sway forward.
Barrett traces the seeds of this destruction of modern consciousness to the turn of mind symbolized by Descartes: the disembodiment of the subjective "I" and its progressive alienation from the objective "world" His sketch of this historical development is a masterfully succinct exposition of themes dominant in western philosophy in the last 300 years But this style of writing has its dangers. "Sons and Lovers" remains a "remote clinical record" because Burgess' own mother died in the influenza epidemic after World War I, making the Oedipus complex only a "matter of academic interest" to him. With a third edition just under way when Janson died in 1982, his son Anthony Janson was asked to carry on his father's legacy and complete the project. Will they be assimilated into the opposing camps of new-wave Realism and Relativism, or will they embrace Rorty's ecumenical doctrine of philosophical edification? In John Deely's opinion, these questions betray a narrow, unhistorical and ethnocentric vision of the new philosophical reality.
"Unter den Geschwistern im Gemuet" "Among the siblings in the mind) is interpreted by Mitchell as "among the deities hidden in our heart" Even a less complicated line such as "Voller Apfel, Birne und Banane" (plump apple, pear and banana) is changed by adding a couple of other fruits: "Plump apple, smooth banana, melon, peach" Mitchell's introduction, however, is well written, and he is absolutely right when he describes Rilke's writing of the sonnets as "the most astonishing burst of inspiration in the history of literature. Amos digs up a whole underground tangle of references involving, appropriately, John le Carre. She also takes part in the social life of Seoul's European and American community, made up largely of diplomats and a few businessmen and their wives To no one's surprise, Mark Banning arrives on the scene. And the early diary entries show Colville as something of a Munich man. Her niche is a bit larger than that assigned Kurt Vonnegut or John Barth, the latter "admired more in (U. S) academic circles" for an "inventiveness and wit. Before long, intensifying frustrations cause her to eat voraciously and have an affair. And yet, although he credits himself with a great sense of humor throughout the expedition, the wry wit in "New York to Nome" takes a handful of decades to ripen.
He gets a rewarding sexual partner, and wider experience of the world. Denied a respectable, stable life, he merges with the chaos of the street. For Pete's sake and your own get The Long Journey Home by Michael Gilbert (Harper & Row: $13. 95-his 26th novel, but the first of them I've read. (That's why) in 'Fire From the Mountain' I am talking about my emotions, not ideology"When you go into the mountains as we did, it's a violent, even traumatic change. There, generations of social and commercial stagnation have brought on a very different life. They have, nevertheless, staked out personal territory on this volatile map of late 20th-Century consciousness.
You could see where the oven doors had been" He knows all the dog breeds of his neighborhoods, and he knows exactly what passes for haute cuisine in Eileen's suburb (wine with the pot roast, cream on the dessert. The sub-plot involving plodding Deputy Inspector Burden and his pregnant wife, Jenny, enhance the main story, as do details of Wexford's own domestic life. No economist assigned the task of reviewing it could possibly meet a deadline. At the end of the war, one Arai son-in-law actually delivered the disk recording of the Japanese emperor's surrender speech from the imperial palace to the broadcasting center on a bicycle My favorite personality among the younger members of Mrs Reischauer's family is Kojiro Matsukata. I bring it up because it raises a crucial point skirted in Margaret Drabble's otherwise judiciously comprehensive and beautifully compiled fifth edition of "The Oxford Companion to English Literature" published last fall to universal and well-merited acclaim. Originally dedicated, Gilbert said, "to Avital and her husband in the hope that they would be 'swiftly reuinted' " the biography now will be dedicated to a group of other Soviet Jews still imprisoned in that country AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE.