Word: sheed
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Author Wilfrid Sheed, in the recently published Max Jamison, commented most appropriately when he said: "I am not against youth as such. They are wonderfully teachable. But that they should be teaching us; that we should invest them with oracular powers, read into their shrugs and moans some great gnostic wisdom-this is an American superstition so crass that one scarcely knows where to begin with...
Catholic publications have suffered most in recent months. Sheed and Ward, once among the most flourishing of Catholic book publishers, has retrenched to a skeleton staff and a spare list of new books. Commonweal, the most intellectual of U.S. Catholic weeklies, has appealed to its readers for funds to survive. Herder Correspondence, a scholarly international Roman Catholic monthly, died in June. Ave Maria, a brightly edited but faltering magazine, tried to keep 105 years of publication history alive by changing its name, content and format; but the replacement, A.D. 1970, expired two weeks ago after only 18 issues. And despite...
...have joined to launch a new "multimedia" mission magazine, New World Outlook, replete with poster-size foldouts and stapled-in phonograph records. The Roman Catholic Maryknoll fathers have announced a new line of "Third World" books about problems in underdeveloped countries, to be edited by Philip Scharper, formerly with Sheed and Ward...
...corrupted. He suspects that his employers pay him more for his jokes than his judgments. To ease his qualms, he holds on to a movie-reviewing job at Rearview, one of those little magazines where a pittance of salary permits a critic to take bracing cold showers of integrity. Sheed has been a triple-threat critic himself, in theater (for Commonweal), in films (for Esquire), and in books for several publications. He has put a lot of what he knows, and something of what he is, into this novel. Some novels purporting to be spiny character portrayals are merely leaning...
...botched his first marriage long ago. He is separated from his second wife, Helen, one of those eager Midwestern emigrees who dote on Eastern intellectuals. He honed her critical intelligence to a straight-razor edge, and then his Galatea cut him up. Sheed scarcely needs to imply that two first-rate critics in one house is a brief description of hell...