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Confession Is Good for the Soul … and a Lot of Other Things

Confession Is Good for the Soul … and a Lot of Other Things

AN OLD FRIEND IN NEW CLOTHES

Regular readers of this column will know that I've often touted Reflex (by Borland International), calling it an excellent choice for those wanting the number crunching capabilities of a spreadsheet and the data handling capabilities of a database manager. I liked it because it was cheap (normally available at discount for about $100), fast (all data are held in RAM), and did cross‐tabulations—something not featured on programs of this price. There were lots of other things I liked as well, including its ease of use by beginners and occasional users.

Visual: 2. Some roles and rules

Performance + InstructionVolume 28, Issue 7 p. 45-48 Series Visual: 2. Some roles and rules William Deterline, William Deterline 562 Kendall Avenue, #31, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Bill Deterline writes these little bios for his articles (unless you don't like them, in which case somebody else writes them), and feels that since his picture was on Part 1 of this series, you needn't be burdened further. He's a Past President and past lots of other things (no, not that). He has seven kids who think he's pretty nifty. What else could you possibly want to know?Search for more papers by this author William Deterline, William Deterline 562 Kendall Avenue, #31, Palo Alto, CA 94306 Bill Deterline writes these little bios for his articles (unless you don't like them, in which case somebody else writes them), and feels that since his picture was on Part 1 of this series, you needn't be burdened further. He's a Past President and past lots of other things (no, not that). He has seven kids who think he's pretty nifty. What else could you possibly want to know?Search for more papers by this author First published: August 1989 https://doi.org/10.1002/pfi.4170280713 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume28, Issue7August 1989Pages 45-48 RelatedInformation

Anticipatory Fiction: Bread and Wine and Liberation Theology

Anticipatory Fiction:Bread and Wine and Liberation Theology Tom Moylan (bio) I The grounds of my hope are very complex because I'm a Christian and a whole lot of other things. Or at least I subscribe to that discourse in which God is a significant signifying term. I also subscribe to Gramsci's optimism of the will. Yet as long as you are part of the struggle, pure hope becomes abstract because the actual historical process produces tremendous setbacks and certain small gains. -Cornell West1 After a little while he continued, "I too, in the dregs of my afflictions, have asked myself: Where is God and why has he abandoned us? Certainly the loudspeakers and bells announcing the new slaughter were not God. Nor were the cannon shots and the bombing of the Ethiopian villages of which we read every day [End Page 103] in the newspapers. But if one poor man gets up in the middle of the night and writes on the walls of the village with a piece of charcoal or varnish, 'Down with the War,' the presence of God is undoubtedly behind that man. How can one not recognize the divine light in his scorn of danger and in his love for the so-called enemies?" -Ignazio Silone2 The Anguish Expressed by Ignazio Silone in Bread and Wine grows out of what Ernst Bloch called "the darkness of the lived moment" of fascism (12) as well as Silone's bitter disillusionment with the social agency that sought to destroy fascism, the Italian Communist Party.3 Yet, along with the darkness and disillusion, his novel also grasps the slim hope that humanity could still find effective ways to oppose domination and fight for justice and freedom. This anticipatory vision, however, has generally been effaced by readings of the novel that stress the pessimism of the situation rather than the optimism of the characters' activities. At least since the author's turn to a one-dimensional anticommunism in the 1950s-expressed in his contribution to The God That Failed and in a revision of Bread and Wine that sought to remove its painful specificity and to assert a transhistorical individual integrity in a hopeless world-his 1936 novel has usually been appropriated by commentators, religious and secular, who see in it the confirmation of their own rejection of revolutionary praxis and their reformist accommodation with postwar capitalist life. A careful rereading of even the revised edition of Bread and Wine, however, reveals that this account of repression and resistance is not yet the document of compensation that Silone and others tried to make of it in the 1950s. On the contrary, Silone's novel is a meditation on human commitment that rejects a religion and a politics based on abstract master discourses. Indeed, it is a narrative that approaches the synthesis of historical materialism and religious thought developed by liberation theologians who have been working among the poor and the exploited of Latin America since the 1960s. That these themes are addressed more by oblique statements of existential doubt and revealing silences should not surprise us, for Silone was still working out of, and against, the hegemonic orthodoxies of Roman Catholicism and Comintern communism during a time that prevented the conceptual breakthroughs achieved by a worldly Catholicism and a critical Marxism in the decades after the Second World War. And yet an early version of that vision of historical openness and revolutionary commitment within the religious public sphere [End Page 104] can be found in Bread and Wine. Indeed, the pain and uncertainty through which the new problematic of religious and political counter-hegemonic action is presented in Silone's classic novel perhaps provides a better starting place for an examination of the praxis of liberation theology than that theory's own more confident and militant documents.4 The radical hope that suffuses Silone's novel not only rises out of the author's involvement in the antifascist struggle-even after his expulsion from me Italian Communist Party in 1931-but also rises out of his willingness to learn from the peasantry of the Abruzzi, the mountainous region of central Italy that was his home...

Dispute over safe use of sludge intensifies

Perhaps it is impossible to consider without becoming emotional an issue such as whether or not society's methods of disposing of its wastes are poisoning the environment. On such topics philosophies clash, tempers flare, and suddenly scientists are arguing with one another in public forums in a way they ordinarily would shun. Just such a confrontation seems under way now. The topic is sewage sludge and whether it can be applied safely to farmland as a soil supplement. So far, the battle is joined most sharply at Cornell University, but other scientists are involved as well. The disposal of sludge—the solid residue that is left after wastewater is treated to remove environmental contaminants—is a growing problem as more and more communities are required to install water treatment plants, and as ocean dumping, once a common disposal method for coastal cities, has largely been banned. Sludge contains, along with a lot of other things, nitrogen, phosphorus, ...

President-elect's message: internationalization of the international association for dental research.

conveyance to us for transportation to the annual IADR meetings. It was old and drafty but we appreciated having the use of it. Anyway, I owe a very large debt of gratitude to such great friends as jack Hein, Wah Leung, Emmett Costich, and Dave Mitchell who kept me alive through those early meetings and also supplied me with the scholarly stimulus so typical to the Rochester group. I still remember the time Dave Mitchell handed me a glass of Pluto Water at the IADR meeting at French Lick Springs, which proved to be a new cure for the flu and a lot of other things.

A Note on Innovation and Air Traffic Growth

unique between levels of educational development and years of school completed. The relationship may differ from individual to individual, from country to country, and even from region to region within the United States. That is certainly a weakness of national calculations such as I made. It does not follow, however, that there are no averages of school years which are reasonably good predictors of levels of general educational development. The common practice of describing job qualifications in terms of education completed is, at least in part I believe, recognition of such an average relationship. Rather than describing my approach as circular as Ross does, I would call it partial. In calculating requirements I did not take into account the interdependence among types and levels of education and skills, either the complementarities or the substitution possibilities. I would agree with Ross that the requirements for, say, medical orderlies depend on the number of M.D.s and nurses available and the proportions in which it is decided, somehow, that they should work together. All I could claim to have done is to have estimated in some detail the situation for the United States at a certain time. I wouldn't recommend it for any other country nor would I even claim that it is an optimal situation for the United States. In this respect I might go even further than Ross and say, for example, that the . . skills, abilities, etc., required in a first-grade teacher . . . , are not similar everywhere, but depend on the educational objectives of the first grade and the educational system as a whole, the social structure, the resources available, and a lot of other things. All such factors should be taken into account when considering skill requirements for first-grade teachers or other personnel. I don't really believe in fixed proportions in the inputs of educated personnel into an economy and did not intend the percentages which I calculated to be taken as such. Partly for this reason I have refrained from making projections of future educational requirements for the United States with the percentages which I calculated. If this is done, the calculations should be made taking into account the changes which are desired and which are likely to occur. Economic criteria are not the only, nor perhaps even the most important criteria for education, but they were what I was concerned with.

HYCAR for Color—and a lot of other things

HYCAR for Color—and a lot of other things

THE COMPOSITION OF SOME SO-CALLED SYNTHETICS AND "ETHICAL" NOSTRUMS.

One fine morning, some weeks ago, a young lady, an actress by profession, came to consult me about an obstinate headache. have used everything you can think of, she said. have used antikamnia, Kohler's headache powders,—'s migraine tablets, orangeine, Hegeman's headache wafers and a lot of other things. At first they used to relieve me, but now they don't do me any good. The self-drugging young woman enumerated five different articles which she had used; different articles in name, but identically the same so far as composition is concerned. Everyone of those articles consists of acetanilid, sodium bicarbonate and a little caffein. Finding a malarial history, I prescribid quinin and ergotin, and her headaches promptly vanished. About two weeks later a young practitioner approached me at the close of a medical meeting with the following words : Doctor, I wish you would recommend me something good for dysmenorrhea.