Page 6, 14th August 1987
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Testament To The Gang Of Four
Family Quartet by John Catlin (Hamish Hamilton, £12.95). VERA Brittain is posthumously much more famous than she was in her lifetime. Such is the power of television. Millions......
No Transformation Into Plaster Saint
Love Is The Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest (Marshall Pickering, £6.95). AUTHORS of lives of saints often feel it incumbent on them to contrast the dark side......
Soviet Union Remains An Emgma
• • Alexander Lieven, a former Controller of European Services at the BBC, profiles two attempts to unravel the mystery of Russia The Sixth Continent — Russia and Mikhail......
A Dog's Life In The Trenches
NOVELS Corporal Jack by Marjorie Quarton (Collins, £9.95). JACK, half retriever, half sheep-dog, is the hero of this book. The First World War finds him in France by the side of......
Errors To Avoid In Vowing Celibacy
Living The Vows by Robert McAllister MD, PhD (Harper & Row, £19.95). DR McAllister is an experienced psychiatrist, who for many years has specialised in counselling priests and......
Learning About The Laity
Probal: The Laity in Ireland edited by Sean Mac Reamoinn (Columbia Press, £5.00). IN April 1986 some 50 people from all over Ireland spent a day talking and listening and......
Prayerful Image Of Energy
Sr Wendy Beckett in her monthly meditation on contemplative art discusses Running Man by Elisabeth Frisk ALTHOUGH for years it meant her work was unappreciated, E F has never......