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...Marty, the Archbishop of Paris, wants to see Jesuits engaged in resolving the "metaphysical crisis" in modern society. "Jesuits are needed in the intellectual world," he says. "Alienation is their specialty." Some Jesuits want to discuss issues that are harder to nail down?a return, for instance, to more heroic poverty within the order, a goal Arrupe heartily favors...
...Carnegie Commission on Higher Education found that three-fifths of American colleges and universities were either in financial trouble or headed for it. Commission Chairman Clark Kerr declared it the "greatest crisis in the 330 years since the founding of Harvard." Since then, most institutions have made heroic attempts to control costs, and the efforts appear to have paid off. This week the commission will issue a follow-up study, which concludes that in general, colleges and universities have stopped their slide toward bankruptcy, though the depression in higher education has by no means ended...
...production builds steadily, reaching competence towards the end of the first act and threatening to surmount it for the rest of the evening. Nabel and Eichkern both sing well, and though his characterization isn't terribly heroic, her threat to shoot everybody on stage at the end (oh, dear!) is surprisingly solid. Bob Berger's choreography for the dream sequence, and Lindsay Davis's costumes for it -- a set of immaculate white robes for the solemn lookers-on, spotless black for the duellers -- is particularly effective...
...Come, Makers. Be makers of our own Age. Be obstreperous." It goes on, in a kind of heroic nautical language of personified abstractions ("Mediocrity," "Presence," "Vision,") to call poets passionately to action as artists and leaders of the age. Dey's analysis is that too many poets are bored, sloppy, uncommitted, dispassionate about their work, and unconscious of the role they might be playing in society as artists; his desperate advice is to re-establish old values...
THIS AND a few other rare moments of lucid, controlled, and articulate insight are promising. The closing passage of the book, in which the main and least heroic character stumbles across his authentic self in the role of the Jester, playing the Fool, is astonishingly effective and almost beautiful. But like so much else about this novel, even this is belated. Revelations in a puddle on the very last page don't exactly compensate for the foregoing wade through 400 pages of ankle-deep slush...