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Australia's Refugee Policy ' i I I I ' boo~ offer! The Elements of Style STWILLIAM . By William Strunk Jr & E.B . White RUNKJR. Last month a boxer pup called Becky ate a large chunk of that pocket classic of lucid instruction, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style. The dog belonged to our columnist, Brian Matthews (see page 33). N ext issue we expect Becky to write E.s.WHITE her first column for Eurel<a Street. While waiting for that, why don't you write in for a copy of this most elegant, efficient and amiable of language handbooks? Strunk and White reads like the ideal style guide for the speeches you wish an American president would make. And even with appendices it is still smaller than a Football Record. You could insinuate it into board meetings, book clubs, classrooms or courtrooms without marring the line of your jeans. Or you could read it in bed, to give your brain delight and your wrists a rest from those large-format paperbacks destined to have an afterlife as doorstoppers. Thanks to Readings Books and Music, Eurel<a Street has 10 copies of The Elements of STYLE Style, fourth edition, to give away. Just put your name and address on the back of an envelope and send to: Eureka Street July- FOURTH EDITION August 2002 Book Offer, PO Box 553, mgs• Richmond VIC 3 121 . See page 8 for winners FOREWORD BY ROGER ANGELL of the May 2002 Book Offer. -- T l1 e -------------- MELB() RNE STREEI ----------- - UNml "Someti mes you j ust need to sing Blessed present Assurance and hit a tambourine." Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Wales and Australia's Refugee Policy possible next Archbishop of Canterbury Facts, needs and limits "We all have to cope with evil, whether Speakers: we can expla in it adequately or not. And the Christian faith provides a much more Frank Brennan SJ and Mark Raper SJ successful framework fo r coping with ev il W it h responses from an expert panel than any other framework of beli ef l know." Chaired by Geraldine Doogue Dr Behan McCullagh, La Trobe University, St Stephan's Church on the challenge of evil 254 Hyatt s Road Rooty Hill NSW Tuesday 16th July - 7:30-9:30pm The Melbourne Anglican ALL WELCOME 1998 winner of the Gutenberg Awa rd fo r Excellence in Reli gious Communicati on Enquiries Mention this ad for a free sample copy of TMA Uniya (02) 9356 3888 or Phone: (03) 9653 4221 Fr Brendan Kelly at Loyola College (02) 9832 4455 or email: [email protected]. com.au <)> O:s: ' > CCl EUREKA STREE I:s:)> :~ NZ zm cO :S:" "'"'mC "'"'cr-C::: ~ n :;)> -<" :b.> c;;; ClY' c_. ~I Nm o> O;>J "'-< V> )> z COMMENT 0 -< 4 Morag Fra ser Prospects I 5 Andrew Hamilton One step forward, 0r another step back 0 Cl -< SNAPS HOT 6 Soccer, condign caricatures, Vatican II COVER STORY step, gongs and a joke. 28 Th e man who rea ds th e signs Artist George Gittoes' take on war is a challenge both to complacency and to LETTERS cynicism , as Michele M. Gierck Publisher Andrew Hami lton 51 discovered when she interviewed the Editor Morag Fra ser 10 N eville Hicks, Warren Featherstone Ass istant editor Kate Manton man whose work blurs the distinction Graphic designer Siob han Jackson between art and life. General manager Mark Dowell Marketing Kirsty Grant THE MONTH'S TRAFFI C Advertising representative Ken Head 1 1 Peter Browne Country matters Subscription manager Wendy Marl owe BOOKS Editorial, production and administration 1 2 Edmund Campion In m emoriam ass ista nts Juli ette Hughes, Paul Fyfe 51, 13 Sybil Nolan Mixed marriage 42 Th e short I ist Geraldine Battersby, Ben Hider, Susannah 15 Barry York Hons and rebels Reviews of The Clash of Fundamental­ Buckley, Kate Hird, Steven Conte, Mrs Irene isms; Lighting the Way: Reconciliation Hunter 16 Michael McGirr Writers' m eet Contributing editors Adelai de: Greg 1 7 Geoffrey Milne Dramatic moves Stories; Understanding Pow er: The O'Kell y 51, Perth : Dean Moore, Syd ney: 18 Moira Rayner Media blanks Indispensable Chomsky and Tourn ey to Edmund Campion & Gera rd Windsor, the Inner Mountain: In the Desert with Queensland : Peter Pi erce United Kingdom Denis Minns 01' St Antony. j es uit Editorial Board Peter L' Est range 51, COLUMNS 43 Th e man who kn ew too much Andrew Bul len 51, Andrew Hamilton 51 Peter Steele 51, Bill Uren 51 7 Ca pital Letter Brett Evans reviews Don Watson's Patrons Eureka Street gratefully Ta ck Waterford Coming to light recollections of his time as speech­ ack nowledges the support of writer to Paul Keating. C. and A. Ca rter; the trustees of th e es tate 8 Summa Th eologiae of Miss M. Condon; W.P. & M.W. Gurry Andrew Hamilton and Ray Cassin 45 Ca pital chaps Eureka Street magazi ne, t55N 1036-1758, A dialogue Brian Toohey reviews Rich Kids, Paul Australia Post Print Post approved Barry's account of the One.Tel fiasco. pp349181 /00314, is published ten times a 13 Archimedes year by Eureka St reet Magazine Pt y Ltd , Tim Thwaites Gould's gold 46 Graceful poss ibilities 300 Victoria Street Ri chmond VIC 3121 33 By the W ay Peter C. Gaughwin reviews George PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121 Vaillant's Ageing Well. Tel: 03 9427 731 1 Fax: 03 9428 4450 Brian Matthews Refining Rebecca email: eureka®jespub.jesuit.org.au 50 States of eq uilibrium http://www .eurekastreet.com.a u/ 54 Watching Brief Res ponsibi lity for editorial content is Tuliette Hughes Monsters are us Philip Harvey looks at the poetry of accepted by Andrew Hamilton 51, Geoff Page and James Charlton. 300 Victori a Street, Ri chmond Printed by Doran Printing 46 Industrial Drive, Braeside VIC 3195. FEATURES © Je suit Publica tions 2002 POETRY 20 What's right for Europe? Unsolicited man usc ripts w ill be retu rn ed 48 & 5 1 Alex Skovron The Man and the on ly if accompanied by a stamped, From Madrid, Anthony Ham reports on Map, Heaven Refuses se lf-addressed envelope. Requests fo r the shifting political landscape. permi ss ion to reprint material from the magazi ne should be addressed in writing 23 Sights set on peace to the editor. Can Sri Lanka finally negotiate its way FLASH IN THE PAN out of civil war? Ton Greenaway Th is month: 52 Reviews of the films Last Orders; Cover: Th e Captured Gun, 1986 painting reports from the troubled island. by George Gittoes. Oil on ca nvas . Italian for Beginners; Spider-Man; Cover design by Siobhan Jackson. 32 Global rules I Am Sam; The Hard Word and The Ph otograph p4 by )on Greenaway. Peter Davis shoots a mini-essay in Devil's Ba ckbone. Graphics pp6, 21-22, 34, 37, 38, 46, 50 Mexico. by Siobhan Jackson . Cartoons pp11 , 14, 16, 19 by Dea n 34 Swerving to happiness Moore. Peter Steele analyses the language of SPECIFIC LEVITY Photographs and artwork pp28-3 1 by George Gittoes. love in the poetry of Peter Porter. 55 Toan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMEN T : l MORAG FRASER Prospects L GOveRNMeNT TAN<, p<etmed below, m,ring conflict, Sri Lanka's move is a sign of peaceful against a cruciform sky, is now sinking into what was possibility. once its field of violent operation, the Elephant Pass So too are some of the analyses of the Israeli­ causeway in Sri Lanka. The tank was put out of action Palestinian conflict that you can read in the United when troops of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam States' serious press. The New Yorl< Review of Bool<s (L TTE) overran the Sri Lankan army base in April has, during the past weeks, carried much sane and 2000. incisive commentary-a world away from the inflam­ matory rhetoric of US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. When thinking people write cogently and fairly- and publicly- about an issue so close to their own hearts and interests it must, eventually, filter into policy. Or so one has to hope. Other signs: a world away from N ablus and Colombo, on the island of Bougainville, abandoned tanks are now rapidly being incorporated into the jungle. Orchids flourish in their turrets and vines twine through their treads, binding them to the earth that will, in time, absorb them. On Bougainville, peace came when the people, the women particularly, acknowledged that they could no longer waste the lives of their children in war. What price victory if it destroys the hopes of the generation who inherit it? This month's cover story focuses on the artist, George Gittoes, who has m ade war his business- but not in the usual way. N o m ercenary outfit is likely to employ him. Gittoes goes to where the troubles are Now, after a ceasefire and the signing of a and records the lives of the people who endure and M emorandum of Understanding, and with peace survive-or don't survive. His work is testimony: in negotiations in prospect, there is some chance that it drawings, diaries, paintings and on film. N ot for will be left to rot into irrelevance in the tropical air. Gittoes the quick in and out and some footage for the For the first time in decades, Sri Lankans-Sinhalese evening news. He spends his time. One overwhelm ­ and Tamils-can now regularly do the things we take ing impression his work generates is of grotesque, fo r granted: go home, trade, grow their own food, travel tragic absurdity.
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