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Like most analysts of Irish culture, Dr. Murphy (a Scot) assumes that Irish expression was shaped by nearly 800 years of English domination. "You get this very commonly in a defeated people where the new master never gets a straight answer," he said. "I would guess that doublespeak had something...
Diaspora is a big magazine--52 pages of expression. What this briskly trotting publication needs now, in the desert that still is the Harvard-Radcliffe literary scene, is oases--Diaspora ("a dispersion as of people of a common national culture into other countries") is crying out for reading.
ALTHOUGH BRADLEY'S realization that conceiving of life as "a business of muscular organization" is inadequate seems to have inspired him to write this book, he is incapable of viewing it in any other terms. He writes best of failure and disillusionment--when his expression and insight has the strength...
"You can't learn to die as though it were a skill. People die in the way they have lived. Death becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring to it only what you have brought to your life."
The author characterizes the present ministry as exuding "deep introspection and piety reminiscent of the traditional parish priest." Although a marked emphasis is placed on communal and individual spiritual expression, that "deep introspection" would more appropriately be labeled "meditative reflection." This reflection summons the individual to contemplate God's promise...