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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E To the Editor: James Hitchcock's piece on Newsweek in your October issue reminds me that bigotry is in the eyes of the beholder. Mr. Hitchcock cites numerous...
...Kind of scares you when you learn he is a professor of history...
...Meyerson inadvertently divided 1974 values by 1975 figures, that is by figures after twelve months of sharp rises in stock prices...
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...Woodward claims to have read, I also accorded that position to Daniel Berrigan (although his present theological positions seem to me far more dubious...
...For example, he cites a July 28, 1969 article reporting an editorial attack on the Pope by a Seattle columnist...
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...We do not, so far, have official figures for pension-fund holdings as of the end of 1975--at least I haven't seen any...
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...Drucker states, the 1974 value of pension-fund equity portfolios...
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...But (a) there is no doubt that they rose sharply as a result of the rise in market prices--though perhaps by less than the market since pension fund managers, as 38 The Alternative: An American Spectator November 1976 my book discusses, have so far not excelled as portfolio managers...
...Hitchcock's description of my Oct...
...If the attack on Pope Paul was merely a "crude caricature," why did Newsweek choose to give it national publicity...
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...I don't know why " Editor's note: In our biographical information accompanying James Hitchcock's article, we mistakenly reported The Decline and Fall o f Radical Catholicism (1971) as his most recent book...
...He does not understand complex issues, even when explained for the average reader of a mass newsmagazine...
...By the way, Hitchcock has got the name of Jane Whitmore (not "James") wrong-a chauvinist slip...
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...It also showed that nearly as many Catholics "rely on Protestant evangelist Billy Graham for religious direction as look to the authoritative teachings of the Pope...
...The editors must be furious at such intransigence, so characteristic of his pontificate...
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...When ! wrote the book, in late 1975, the 1975 figures were of course not available...
...In my 1971 book, which Mr...
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...My article contains numerous examples of Mr...
...It is difficult to credit the alleged note of anguish in Newsweek's coverage of the Catholic crisis, given the magazine's consistently negative and sniping tone towards the church and its leadership...
...Hitchcock has waited a long time, it seems, to strike back...
...For years he has enjoyed the almost weekly privilege of pillorying whomever he wills before a mass audience...
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...Of the dozens of examples in my article, Mr...
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...Woodward's claims about the Seattle incident are disingenuous...
...Hitchcock has never understood what that phrase means...
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...Hitchcock cites numerous articles of mine from Newsweek and in every case totally misrepresents both the tone and contents of those articles...
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...We also offered hope that out of this crisis American Catholicism would find a new sense of peoplehood--but Mr...
...I suspect he is miffed because we cited Dorothy Day and the Berrigans as pillars of spirituality and Christian Orthodoxy...
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...As for me, if 1 am to be labeled a "dissenting" Catholic, I'd like to know what I am dissenting from, other than Mr...
...Significantly, Newsweek headed the piece, "Defender of the Faith...
...And the hurt of private loss is clearly discernible in the personal responses that were part of the Newsu,eek survey...
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...The overall impression was that the free press had triumphed in the person of a possibly naughty but very amusing columnist...
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...The 1150 billion figure which I used to reach my calculation was not, as Mr...
...He doesn't tell Alternative readers that Newsweek labeled the column in question a "crude caricature" or that the piece was, if anything, a flattering portrait of a Catholic Bishop--Thomas A. Connolly, a former longshoreman--in action...
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...It is easier to mock Agnew than to answer the very valid questions he places before the American public...
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...For my figure of $150 billion as the value of pension-fund equity portfolios was not, as Mr...
...By the way, employer contributions to pension plans are not, as Mr...
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...Drucker himself supplied in the July 19, 1976 issue of Pensions and Investments, the pensionfund trade journal...
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...Rather it was an estimate of their value at the end of 1975, which Mr...
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...Just what national interests of America are served by an alliance with Zionism especially when Zionism is the mortal enemy of those Arab states supplying us with from 25% to 30% of our oil needs...
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...Archbishop Connolly was characterized as "a solid member of the Church's managerial elite," in obvious contrast to his humble origins...
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...Hitchcock's ignorance and sloppy "scholarship...
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...I reviewed that book years ago for the National Catholic Reporter and found it wanting in accuracy, analysis, balance, and, yes, historical sense...
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...Drucker is correct about the tax benefits of pension plans, but I am afraid I must stand by my assertion that he has overestimated the proportion of stock owned by pension funds...
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...As I mentioned in my review, however, even if Drucker has overestimated the importance of pension funds, he has performed an invaluable service in calling our attention to their remarkable, but littleremarked, growth...
...and (b) that during 1975 the non-institutional pension funds of employes, that is, those of the selfemployed (Keogh Plan Funds) and the Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA's) which were established by Congress in 1974 and took off in 1975, rose, by all accounts, very, very fast--how fast we again do not yet know...
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...Meyerson states, the value at the end of 1975, but-as my book says quite unequivocally--the value at the end of 1974 when, according to the SEC the total value of all listed securities was around 500 billion dollars...
...The Pope is now more than two years behind Newsweek's timetable for his demise...
...First temporary vows, then life vows much later if we're still Into it...
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...As the article made clear, "soul" is a sociological construct, the nuances of which obviously escape Mr...
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...Does the above sound like "evident satisfaction...
...H. sets some kind of record for errors in a single article and proves once more that man), professors cannot write proper English...
...His victims rarely have even the recourse of a letter to the editor...
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...A biographical note: The Decline and Fall of Radical Catholicism is not Hitchcock's most recent book* ; it was his first...
...Hitchcock replies: I will let the readers decide if I have represented the tone of Newsweek's religious coverage accurately...
...Since I was in Fourth Grade I have often been told that my percentage calculations leave a great deal to be desired--and usually for cause...
...Whitmore a favor by obscuring her authorship of one of the dirtiest pieces of journalism to have been published in recent years...
...There is no reason to believe, however, that the percentages were significantly different at the end of 1975 than they had been at the end of 1974...
...To the Editor: In his otherwise most perceptive review of my book The Unseen Revolution (October 1976) Adam Meyerson faults me for inability to do simple percentages, pointing out that I state the yalue of stocks owned by pension funds as $150 billion and then arrive at this representing 30% of all listed securities, whereas it should have been 20% since the total stock market value of all listed securities as of the end of 1975 was $718.3 billion...
...That survey, by the way, done for us by the Gallup Organization, showed among other things that "nine out of ten respondents were unable to name a single decision by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that they considered important to their lives...
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...My article about Newsweek appeared in a journal with only a small fraction of Newsweek's own circulation...
...He should have waited longer - - o r asked for help...
...I am happy that at least he does not try to defend Newsweek's malicious and tasteless speculation about Pope Paul's mental health and supposedly imminent death...
...The key paragraph: The "soul" of the U.S...
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...Woodward can find no significant error or example of distortion...
...4, 1971 cover story, "Has the Church Lost Its Soul?," would be enough to flunk a high school freshman...
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...To the Editor: Unlike Spiro Agnew my pockets aren't bulging with Saudi boodle, but like him I follow the Soviet party line in being concerned with the rights of the Palestinian people [See "Current Wisdom" October issue...
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Vol. 10 • November 1976 • No. 2
