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Show 2 E Tbe Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, September 12, 1978 Death and life of Bishop Pike Death and Life of Bishop by William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, introduction by Diane Kennedy Pike. Illustrated. Poubleday & Co , Inc., 446 pp., $10. It is no secret that James A Pike was at times in his life an adulterer, an e loser at alcoholic, a heretic, a marriage, a frequenter of dubious seances and a public liar. His first wife went off with another man, his second wife locked him out of his official residence; his son and mistress committed suicide, and a daughter attemp-tee- d The Pike, two-tim- it A Mixed Bag Hew as also chaplain and chairman of the department of religion at Columbia University, dean of the Cathedral of St John the Divine and Episcopal Bishop of California His Sunday television show was for years a fixture on ABC He collaborated op. a book that came as close as any could to articulating the credo of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America, and he wrote numerous other popular books on religion .ssKr? ' I -- '' S? 4 He denounced Joseph R McCarthy from his pulpit when the junior senator from Wisconsin was riding high, he a church college refused a degree because it did not admit blacks in the 1950s, and he opposed the Vietnam war. Controversial Plus His name made the newspapers frequently with the tag controversial or even hotly controversial routinely attached Conservatives in his church detested him (one wrote him, when his son committed suicide, "Thank God, one less Pike), and radical religious thinkers found him shallow or doctri-nail- y complacent. His celebrity gathered to it a cloud of notoriety that put in the shadow some rather commonplace vtrtaes, considerable talents, both intellectual and pastoral, and perhaps even greatness of soul, if his admittedly friendly biographers, William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne, are to be believed. Welter of Crosscurrent Their biography Is actually a welter of crosscurrents part apologia, part spiritual brief, part act of homage and part ruthless act of candor. They concede that their friendship for Bishop Pike disquahf'es them from objectivity; further, they reject a conventional chronology, weaving their narrative around recurruig threads in Pikes life, and what they call the reduancies that marked his faith They begin with their subjects death in 1969, while wandering lost in the Judean desert, then jump about among the bizarre and tragic events of Pikes last years, especially the suicides of his son, Jim Jr , and his mistress, Maren Bergrud, which in volved him with a curious crew of spiritualists who exploited his fane at the same time as they exploited the credulousness arising out of Pikes guilt and bafflement over his sons death Considerable Detail Reporting these events in considers-hie detail, the authors also interweave interviews with friends, colleagues and Pikes mother, and make glancing references to the church controversies he was embroiled In and which resulted in his censure, his later anathematization and, ultimately, his resignation. or associa-tiona- l This Impressionistic not is, continuity smprisingly, confusing to the reader, and Implants an esthetic longing for a straightforward narrative in which events flow into their consequences. Still, there is much fasetnating reporting In this section, which casts new light on these not always flattering to Pike events Pierce the Cover For example, the authors pierce the veil of cover-u- p Pike hastily threw over the messy suicide of his mistress, Maren Bergrud (or former mistress and that was the problem). This Included tearing off part of the note she left Since they print the missing part of the note in their book, it is obvious that for what future use we Pike kept it can only speculate. Certainly, he told his third wife, Diane Kennedy Pike, the whole story, and when he talked about eventually writing his autobiography, he always mentioned that the title would be "Nothing to Hide In the last part of the book, the authors proceed somewhat more conventionally, as they assess James A Pike as a church figure and a Christian His chief service as churchman was a brilliant populanzer, apologist" who used his formidable public persona to draw attention to worthy beliefs As for Pike the Christian, at the end of his life he became more disillusioned with the church temporal and more obsessed with the idea of locating the historical Jesus " As the authors put it, As James A Pike became less and less religious, it can lie said that he became more and moie Christian In the Tumult In the tumult of their narrative, they omit to cite either works or expressions of faith as evidence for this assertion, but let it stand as the conviction of two friends In any case, Pikes search for the historical Jesus took him to the Judean wilderness, where he made his fm 1 y G S 4 -- 1 i ! J r. X- n tc- - "a Bishop James A. Pike Welter of Crosscurrent BEST SELLERS New York Timet Service seller fist bated on report from more hen ?V) bookstores m HO communities throughout the United States Weeks art not iiv consecutive FICTION Best nwf (Copyright) Tn o views of pro football life The Nightmare Season, by Arnold J. Man-del- l, M.D.; House, 216 pp Random , $7.95 Westchester Bull, by Sam Koperwas; Simon & Sihuster, 223 pp., $7 95. Docs professional foot-na- il represent the best tn American Me, as the National Football League once asked tn an essay contest Brain Chemistry Dr Arnold J. Mandell must have thought so when Gene Klein and Harland Svare, respectively the owner and coach of the San Diego Chargers, came to him and asked him to work part time with the team for the 1973 season Mandell was (and still is) a practicing psychiatrist, of the psychiatry department at the University of California at San Diego medical school, a re- searcher in brain psychopharmacoloev, and a football fan The San Diego Chargers were trying to turn a bad team into a good one overnight by trading for and dis"troublesome satisfied players and nursing them to victory A with understanding place for a good psychiat-lis- t w'as seen tn the mix Headed Downhill Naturally, things didnt quite work out as planned As Mandell San Diego was clearly headed downhill By the sixth the fans were literally threatening Coach S ares physical welfare, and Klein felt obliged to dismiss him And when the season was over, the leagues commissioner decided to pimsh the Charger for indulging drug abuse among its players, singling out as y I; - L j 'v- 't'I k 31 - Jur A j 2 td ,r- - m j? n; $7.95. The materia! is distinguished in that many of the books are in fine condition and outstanding childrens literature is difficult to find in such a state Among the sale items which range in estimated value from under $100 to as much as $5,000 are first editions of "Jane Eyre," In three volumes by Charlotte Bronte, dated London, 1847, one of the most difficult of all Victorian novels to nnd in acceptable condition (pst value $2 000); an important handwritten letter lengthy from Samuel Clemens dated Dec 24, 1868, signed Mark to his close friend Mrs Mary Mason Fairbanks, discussing his courtship of Olivia Langdon. (Est. value, $2,000); and a first edition presentation copy of The Moonstone," by Wilkie Collins, London, 1868, a rare landmark in the development of the detective novel (Autographed by Collins ) The sale also includes items of lesser rarity (but of commensurate desirability) The auction will begin Wednesday, Oct 6 at 2 p m John Burroughs Gentle, Brilliant Writer Harvest of a Quiet Eye Burroughs natural world Harvest Of A Quiet Eye: The Natural World of John Burroughs; compiled by Charles F. Davis; Tamarack Press. $,0 In this handsome book landscape photographer Charles F. Davis faithfully adherees to John Burroughs maxim that natures messages lie close at hand Most of his stunning color plates were shot within a radius of 100 miles of Chicago in the Cook County Forest Preserves, Starved Rock State Park and Illinois Beach State Park near Zion Davis deliberately did not identLfy the locations of his pictures, fearing that doing so would make them mere illustrations of Burroughs text Bur- - hordes of visitors who in time became an increasing burden to him. His solution was to build Slabside, a rustic retreat deeper in the woods and more than a mile from Riversby. An immensely popular writer in his day, his fame did not long survive him Davis believes his gentle voice was drowned out by the roar of the Jazz Age, the Depression and two World Wars He acknowledges that Burroughs discovered few new things and added few new facts to the sum or knowledge. But to the old, the common, the he brought new familiarity, new insight, new lustre " well-know- Gentle Voice Although Burroughs wrote dozens of books, Davis has shown great selectivity in choosing the text to accompany his photographs His words are as fresh as the day they were written and provide a needed antidote for our neivous, tense 20th Century Life. Jean Guarino, Chicago A Sun-Time- s. Walter Lippmann was probably the most influential journalist of this century. In the opinion of Theodoro Roosevelt, he was the most biiliant man of his age in all the United States His genius as a columnist was an ability to put a complicated and often troublesome world Into calm order end perspective. Lippmanns lucid and erudite columns were unmatched by any of his contemporaries. Presidents from Wilson to Nixon sought his counsel So did world leaders Including Nikita Napoleon and Talleyrand: The Khrushchev, who hosted Lippmann at Last Two Weeks, by Barbara his retreat at the Black Sea. Norman; Stein and Day, $10 Napoleons fall sparks rich, taut narrative More "Blood and Money," roug.is represented for Davis the laymans naturalist whose writing Thompson, Doubleday & guided him on a personal odyssey In search of his natural roots His goal was "to meet and know the earth and to become, if I can after so long away, fit company for it Catskills-Bor- n Born m the Catskills m 1837, the seienth of 10 children, Burroughs' a farmer so preoccupied father with wresting a living from the soil it was unlikely he ever read any of his sons writings With only six months of formal higher education. Burroughs w rote the essays and books that made d nature writer him America's and confidante of the mighty He was a school chum of Jay Gould and a friend of Thomas Edison He camped with Tcdy Roosevelt, accepted nn automobile from Henry Ford (but never was comfortable behind the wheel', championed Walt Whitman and allowed John Muir, a fellow naturalist and poet, to intrude on his solitude Riverby Along Hudson Burroughs built his own home, called Riverby, along the Hudson in West Park, N Y , where he cultivated choice table grapes assiduously and words somewhat less strenuously. This leisurely element in his life, reflected m his writings, attracted s best-love- by Thomas Co., Lie. 450 pp., $10 95. Here is a book that fulfills the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction," for the account of murder and n conspiracy involving some of the names in Houston, Texas, outdoes, in twists and turns, some of the best mystery fiction Centrally involved and responsible for all the labrlnthine paths the story takes the reader is the family of Ash Robinson and his daughter Joan. His wife plays only a minor part in the story Ash, a Texas oil millionaire, is fiercely protective of his daughter, who is a world-clas- s horsewoman, and a leader in the realms of Houston society. When she falls in love with an interning plastic surgeon, with lots of charm and little money, the old man subsidizes Dr. John Hills education until he establishes himself m a large home m an exclusive residential district and sets about remodeling and building an elaborate music room He also establishes a bachelor apartment and becomes involved with another woman The Hill household is troubled, and finally Joan Hill becomes ill, receives little or no treatment from her husband, and finally is taken to a small hospital best-know- r i 120 fast 3rd South like City Utah 84111 Phone (801) 3o3 2518 Salt A he sign'vi his unconditional surrender An accomplished story teller, Barbara Norman has managed to inject in this book a sense of excitement and suspence into the more or less familiar tale of Napoleons downfall In 1814 has Napoleou and Nemesis selected 48 portraits of the most intriguing and powerful personalities of Lippmanns time Fine Introductory Essay Harrison traces the development of Lippmanns ideas and his political philosophy in a fine introductory essay and in his annotations Lippmanns views moved from an idealistic socialism m his early career to a pessimistic conservatism Unhappily, except for de Gaulle and possibly Winston Churchill, the leaders of Lippmanns generation let him down," Harrison writes, and he was finally, dis.naliy, to say that the last great American President was James Fascinated by Napoleon and his nemesis, Tallejrand, Miss Norman spent nearly three years researching their renowned clash. Much of her work was done in French archives In addition, she consulted a vast array of letters, memoirs and diaries Not content with examining the written records, she followed the trail of Napoleons armies across the plains of Champagne, visiting the houses he used as his headquarters The result is a taut and dramat.c narrative that most readers will be unable to put down until the grim finale relationMuch Is made of the love-hat- e ship between the emperor and Tallejrand, his former minister and confidant And Talleyrand is blamed for inriguing against Napoleon In order to usher in the restoration of the Bourbons Madison. Often Prophetic Lippmann was often prophetic in his judgment of politicians In 1920 he described presidential nominee Warren Harding as without sap, commonplace and dull, weak and servile Sometimes he was off the mark In 1932 Lippmann wrote, Franklin D Roosevelt is no crusader He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entmechcd privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would like very much to be President." Tribute to Mencken He dismisses radical activists John Reed and Upton Sinclair, while praising more conventional dissenters WUliam Borah and J William Fulbnght Lippmanns tribute to H L. Mencken applies equally to pundits who attempt to style themselves In the A Wily Gambler Actually, the wily Talleyrand was a gambler who played on both sides Not until the enemy emperor, Tsar Alexander, was at the very gates of Pans did he place his bet on the winning side. Miss Norman claims it was Talleyrand who delivered Paris to the Allies on March 30, 1814 But from her own account it is plain that other factors contributed to Napoleon's defeat- tactical military errors, lack of communication between his armies, ignorance of the enemys whereabouts, general lassitude And Napoleons brother, Joseph, proved to a weak and ineffectual garrison commander, vacillating and uncertain - France Tired where she dies, from a cause unknown, Moreover, France was tired after slightly more than a days Parisians slept with their bags packed confinement Strangely impassive, as matters Ash, of course, believes his daughter reached a climax, they watched from was murdered by her husband, and sets their windows the passing of the jbout to force authorities to bring him empire, the hurred flight of Its to trial a reminder of a more recent officials And here begins a welter of investigaIn the face of the enemy exodus tions and accusations that reach Into Both at Fault the heart of Houston society, high and low, with autopsies, an exhumation, Napoleon and Talleyrand, although and a hit contract put out on Dr Hill each other, were both at fault, blaming Hill, who married his mistress, only far more than Talleyrand. short months after his wifes death, is Napoleon From his exile on the island of Elba, shot to death, and then the course of the If Napoleon disingenuously declared story is to find the gunman and those I had two men, Talleyrand hanged just who helped him and the person who and Fouche, 1 would still be on the bought the contract throne today True stones about family feuds and murders generally become boring, but Minister's Remark Thomas Thompsons yam is never that He has successfully limned the Talleyrands response was closer to Ah, ce pauvre Napoleon, major characters in this tragic tale the mark without losing the readers interest and instead of hanging me, he should have without losing the mam thread of the listened to me . , . Napoleons greatest story Recommended highly Elaine P. Halpe-riRoy traitor was himself Hudson. Chicago n, Sun-Time- s. The Theatre Is for everyone especially for you, the 1976-7- 7 season at TheUoj rPIONEER MEMORIAL freshman team I carried 30 times a game Records broke Then I was moved up to varsity fast and made headlines, the top Jew tn the state since Dylan Still, somethmg else drives Ace on Whatever, Koperwas has produced in "West Chester Bull" a cruel, stinging, block ol crackback a comedy WITH Three Marvelous Musicals to 110V. 6, 1976 OCT. SO ONLY $ I 1 Odot 300 Daily WEST 12 30 SIC 0 UTAH (X) CtowcSjfl Amo) &? J94 THE BIRDS THE MIRACLE WORKER Aristophanes II p. 401 NOhTH SLEUTH A SEASON OF GREAT ENTERTAINMENT WITH PROFESSIONAL ACTORS. DIRECTORS. AND CHOREOGRAPHERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. PERFORMING WITH THE PMT COMPANY, SKILLED STUDENTS AND LOCAL PERLORMERS. 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Westchester Bull," Ace, a running back from Brooklyn, doesn't sec any problem in his being a Jewish halfback "Touchdowns are in my blood, knockouts and excitement On Sylvesters Art & Frame ; Harrison classic. Lippmann A 1 t Portraits This collection, Public Persons by Lippmann, which has oeen skillfully edited and annotated by his lnend Gilbert A Harrison, is a book to be cherished Some of the pieces appeared in Lippmanns "Men of Destiny, published in 1927. But there are considerably more portraits In this volume than in that Blood, money good reading chemistry and Custom framing Art f xhtbits & Saks Lippmann mod "The manner can be parodied," he wrote, but the" effect is Steve ludicrous when it is imitated Neal, Knight News Service. Public Persons, by Walter Llpp-manLlveright Publishing Corp., fc 4 u ut.i.svx' i, lippmann essays on target A collection of several hundred rare first editions, autograph letters, bibliography and childrens books of the 19th and early 20th century will be auctioned next month at Sotheby Park Bnet galleries in New York In Minnesotas de- scribes it in "The Nightmare Season," by the third game they played chief culprit and banning from further contact with the NFL none other than Dr Arnold J Mandell last impulsive trip with his wife (who miraculously escaped) in a rented car equipped with a rudimentary map and two bottles of Coca Cola Tourists nr was he sick of the foolishness wilderness he had lived in Richard R. Lingeman, for so long New York Times. Public I tTHins Rare fiction reaches auction sale SEASON TICKETS ARF AVAILABLE SINGLE TICKETS GO ON SALE SEPTEMBER 20 1 hotel ond port' age of call V 581-696- 1 I ZZZ7 . |
