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...book is written in the present tense, an irritating literary affectation as a rule. Here the device becomes a knob opening a door to the trancelike continuum of childhood-particularly that of the magic child Huia, with her ancestral talisman, a carved greenstone, and the grace of an imagination that has been touched by the best in two worlds. Sylvia Ashton-Warner does other things easily that most current writers would not attempt to contrive. Huia watches a fight between a brown-skin Maori and a white boy. They are not fighting for status, or out of racial bitterness...
Rhythmically Davidson tries to take his music beyond the urgency of time, by refusing to impose a metrical structure. The lack of any kind of beat, the sliding-along impression of some of the music, does emphasize the linear continuum (not-spatially-divided) idea of time. But rhythms are often used as a basis for improvisation. Sometimes it is merely the rhythmical imitation of the opening statement that connects the otherwise contrasting chorus to the rest of the piece. And sometimes interesting rhythms serve as counter-subjects in their own right...
Some reasons for their enthusiasm are argued in the latest issue of Continuum, a lively, intellectual quarterly sponsored by Saint Xavier College in Chicago. The 244-page issue is devoted to analyses of Lonergan's work, including articles by English Jesuit Frederick Copleston, historian of philosophy, and by two of the nation's most theologically astute Catholic laymen: Continuum's Editor Justus George Lawler and Michael Novak of Harvard. Lonergan contributed a typically abstruse essay on "cognitional structure...
...name.-As for the country's oldest newspaper, daily or weekly, that title, too, lies beyond doubt. In 1837, a 73-year-old Hartford weekly named the Connecticut Courant put forth a daily edition called the Hartford Courant. Thus the U.S.'s oldest newspaper describes an ancestorless continuum that is a straight line two centuries long...
...Kingdom, and President of the Falange. Franco inaugurated a year of memorial celebrations--"Twenty-Five Years of Peace"--earlier this month with a service at the Holy Cross Basilica, a multi-million dollar monument to the war dead. The service will be followed by a year-long continuum of fairs, parades, dances, and patriotic exhibitions. "As tragic as were the dead," commented the government's Director-General of Information at the ceremony, "at least today we have unity...