A fan inflamed:
Bell, Robert H.
bated by administration inaction, had left GOP flanks ex- repairing some of the consequences of six. years of Reaganism posed. will...
...Are you a role-model...
...The point is essential, versities...
...And what do you have to offer...
...strong de- like, piecemeal way...
...Who withheld Communion from the torturous TANGO ARGENTINA Argentine juntas of yesterday...
...But don't count on Democrats to stand united against interven- "You must have left Boston that year...
...In the U.S., admin- our last hope was Dave Henderson...
...Easy...
...And when you get to the shriveled husk of a soul...
...religion as a means of social control...
...Only a broad agenda or confrontations of the sixties and seventies, and ignores the vision can provide the context in which citizens are willing to extent to which Americans have always given homage to a common set of vague goals, with serious political differences turning on the ranking of such goals and the means to achieve them...
...kids how much more exciting Blake and Byron are., Tell "What can I offer...
...Not the possible collapse of Reaganomics (which seem premised that any of this would interest you, you've changed so on an almost endless extension of an expansion that is already much - and not for the better...
...Nonetheless, there is one sense in which the Democrats A FAN INFLAMED can be fairly charged with practicing their own brand of Rea- WITH THE RED SOX IN AUTUMN ganism...
...I'll read Derrida and teach my "What can I do...
...Great things are promised - prosperity, world power, balanced budgets, old-fashioned social stability, even the elimination of nuclear weapons...
...Show the anything to claiin your soul...
...But the price tag is hidden...
...I was stymied by the mystique Weinberger's Pentagon spending will certainly be reined in...
...t M Too late I remembered, "When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon...
...Perhaps it's have thoroughly acquiesced to the main terms of Reaganism best for the Democrats to go about these tasks in a workman- cutting government "waste...
...21 November 1986: 613 needed to purchase TV time and sophisticated polling, a Catholic congressmen to uphold the civil ban on divorce...
...Or maybe the task will be best performed from had to spend $3 million, or five times as much, by 1984, and outside the sphere of everyday politics - by statements, for even more in '86 - one can learn this: (1) huge political war instance, like the Catholic bishops' pastoral on the economy...
...The conventional observation is that the the Red Sox were on the verge of losing the series, four Democrats lack an "agenda" or a "vision" of their own...
...of the pinstripes...
...support among many Democrats, especially Southerners...
...Indeed, there is always the danger that a presi- abandon us...
...exaggerates the Democrats' power...
...But qualified conservatives will still find "What times we had...
...I'll be going, and...
...And is divorce the primary issue...
...press written consent...
...tina...
...I don't need to barter better poet before he converted to Christianity...
...I've of him...
...When we speak of the way people sense, in practice and even at times in some religious sanction for their various should or should not behave, at the pertheory: how are you going to keep them points of view...
...I asked, as lie nderson stepped out of rules say you can't sell anybody else's...
...them real men don't like Eliot...
...A set of connections between Our attachment to our ideas fills emobut for many Christians - not only Christianity, morality, and law can be tional needs which often have nothing to politicians aiming at re-election and found on the left-wing side of church do with the ideas themselves, and we are people who want to prove their morality politics as well...
...3) there is defibig loser...
...dies...
...watch your language, I carne ety and to the Supreme Court of the Meese school of selective because I never forget an old friend...
...Amid that long, dark night after the Red Sox had thrown away the World Series, I realized he had kept his bargain - and retained the right to torment me in this r world as well as the next...
...How about requiring that half of But is withholding the Eucharist from congressmen the proper all contributions go into a lottery jackpot, for which everyone way for the church to exert moral leadership in a democracy...
...I am also unsure in many cases life...
...I don't know many people who believe themselves to BLAKE once wrote that if Chris- power and influence within political sys- be anything other than absolutely right on tianity is morality, then Socrates is tems...
...I'll do talk business, and we don't have much time...
...That's passd...
...There is no denying about what the varieties of law available ing views are concerned, both parties that religion has been used as a form of in the United States ought to do about any cannot be right - one must be right, and social control...
...He disappeared...
...the savior...
...above a certain threshold father of two, a homeowner, a teacher of the liberal John Milton, do it my way...
...so has the denial of tenure in uni- any point which matters deeply to them...
...the party's comeback, it will quickly be apparent just how He materialised instantly, hardly changed except for tugged between liberal and conservative impulses the party the tinted glasses and a shorter hair style...
...This criticism a broad agenda or vision can give America the kind of strong misses the mark...
...I had an to international politics where secrecy and presidential pres- unusual opportunity in real estate, so 1 headed for the tige give him wider latitude...
...He old bores in Heaven and insufficiently impressed by my nearly spat the word...
...around the room, and from the nether regions I heard.a distant voice...
...You could, as it were, ease my way into the souls of your "I like this critic Derrida," he said...
...Just Commonweal: 612 look at the price tag and pay up...
...chests may be most effective preemptively, that is, by scaring off otherwise viable opponents...
...The games to one...
...This is to their neighbors - the idea that Chris- There is a stream of connections be- especially true of ideas involving rporaltianity is not primarily about morality tween religion and morality, and I don't ity, and in our times morality and poliwould be baffling...
...But making tics, or morality and law, are frequently dismisser of religion speaks easily about too little of it really isn't our problem intertwined...
...Who denies it to the brutal One million Argentines have obtained divorces in Uruguay Pinochet next door...
...constructionism...
...Someone should put together the problems of cians: the excommunication of those who supported Hitler big spending and low voter turnout, plus the success at the (unfortunately lifted as he approached power) comes to mind...
...On the TV screen, Dave Henderson took a sweeping swing, knocking the ball over the wall for a two-run homer...
...The ''What can I do...
...money never is...
...traditional values - and are merely claiming to be able The other side of that argument, of course, is that only such to carry out the program more effectively...
...You're much too soft on those humanist tradition...
...How could you tions overseas...
...I lit a candle and murmured the old incantation...
...flow long can a grown man carry on the way we as though they were in charge...
...polls of state lottery schemes...
...Never, you teach...
...But given the sharp three years...
...Still, the lop-sided campaign chests nitely a law of diminishing returns...
...recently lost some ground with undergraduates...
...who votes will be eligible...
...fense...
...Besides noting the incredible sums now involved - the who will offer Americans these alternative images of the senatorial candidate who spent $600,000 in 1976 would have nation's future...
...all into non-deviant behavior and cramming for law "You wanna win tonight...
...Joseph Biden heading the Judiciary Committee, may rule out "'Thank God you've come," I said earnestly...
...It's not just what you teach, it's how you "The soul of my precious daughter...
...Your average secular want to make too little of it...
...sunbelt," he said...
...The president has been the apostle of painlessness...
...Do we have a deal...
...After the euphoria of fhfr ad aliare diaboli, in nomine Bostoniae fanatienruin...
...ROBER f H, BELL (Robert H. Bell teaches English at William...
...But you could do something for me...
...Don't worry, I'm not committed to the The president is a master at shifting responsibility, and given California Angels...
...With two out in the ninth, trailing by a run, complaint is true but it is also misleading...
...Finally, the call for a distinctive Democratic agenda "'Maybe, but you've really marred badly: married, a suggests that there is not even now plenty to be done...
...great times...
...ads, PAC contributions, and overall spending...
...years of Reaganism posed...
...don't 'took back...
...Too much emphasis on form and style and moral fiend...
...he nodded his head...
...discoveries...
...What worries me' here is the capacity we all have for astonishing depths of A DANGEROUS EQUATION self-deception...
...I asked desperately...
...A few years of role-modeling twentieth century, don't hype that wimp Eliot...
...It is infused with a nostalgia for the fierce sense of purpose that justifies sacrifice...
...Not quite...
...threshold many Democrats managed to reach, more is better Deputies in the lower house who voted for the bill last August but not much better...
...these days, when people who are against It is easy to see why morality, includYour average right-wing Christian tends pornography and nuclear war and racism ing social morality, matters so much to to agree with this simple-minded non- in South Africa and abortion all claim us...
...he winked...
...College, airs his hamor on National Public Radio, and is a frequent contributor to Commonweal...
...And where some absolutely conflicthell, or, worse, law...
...soul without ex- the box and security guards prepared to ring the stadium...
...By now, we In Argentina, according to the bishops, it is the "duty" of should have learned the answers...
...OK, OK," I said...
...Even if it doesn't always Likewise, with Democratic Senator Sam Nunn leading the work out," he added modestly, "Remember the '7th Armed Forces Committee, the worst excesses of Caspar playoff with the Yankees...
...in danger when we deny this...
...Even the lob- Granted, there may be exceptional issues which merit the byists who manage PACs are grumbling that they're being heavy hand of the hierarchy in direct intervention with polititaken for a ride...
...dent hemmed in on domestic initiatives will shift his energies ''What can l tell you...
...Remember me...
...lackluster and will soon approach twice the average duration '"Hey I'm forty years old," I protested...
...for the Angels' celebration...
...Life means change...
...They're "Ot please, anything but that...
...I am against all of the of what we think matters most in human sheep) unless you threaten them with above...
...What about the Catholic "duty" to oppose the abusive ruling minorities of Latin America...
...Cute little devil...
...2) it is necessary for the party and not just the individual candidates to have funds available, MONEY so money can be shifted to close races in the last weeks...
...Not a lesson the Democrats have finally learned...
...I implored...
...Great tricks...
...will give the Democrats a full plate-redressing the impact on Some observers have gone so far as to suggest that if the poor, containing the deficit, pressing for an intelligent, Reaganism without Reagan won't work for Republicans, it is measured defense policy, encouraging the administration to working just fine for Democrats...
...Dave more on Milton as a member of the devil's party without Henderson took strike two...
...Catholics over abortion and other next year, is now stalled in Congress, thanks to the misplaced moral-political issues, the kind of questions posed by the influence of the Argentine Catholic bishops...
...speeches...
...istrations may have "agendas...
...That bill, which may still reach the Senate floor conflicts among U.S...
...Well, it's an idea...
...Well, if you: insist on teaching that pious claptrap by "Fine...
...finally, that what we think of as religion Of several minds: John Garvey and what we think of as morality have relatively little to do with one another...
...I didn't invite you here to insult me, I invited you to "I can change that," I quickly agreed...
...I believe th:s game will work out to your satisfaction, even if the other team is called the Angels...
...boards...
...no tax increases...
...I got tired of the winters...
...For the time being, however, it that the Republicans had accumulated did not guarantee vicwill not be the political parties but the presidential candidates tory...
...A deal, eh...
...He was a can't redeem the life you've led...
...Reagan's may now be "What can I tell you, old pat...
...IntroThis is especially true of the Democrats...
...lie chuckled...
...The Democrats, having tried a kind of cheerless, scolding honesty FELT like hell...
...Not yet...
...So has politics...
...Argentinian action will continue to be raised here...
...1 thought l remains...
...That "That's better,'' he said...
...He cast his eyes on the photographs of my-daughter- "No problem...
...More than Argentine Catholics want to because divorce is not legal in the infant democracy of Argen- know...
...students that there is no possibility of meaning anything...
...He danced around the bases, I jumped...
...176 to 36) are said to have failed in "their duty as Catholics," Indeed, big spending appears to have been unrewarding and are now liable to have Communion denied them unless enough to lend new life to reform proposals, like limits on TV they make a "public retraction of the sin...
...political parties, which re- Strike One' main broad coalitions of often conflicting interests, do not...
...Read sonic more students...
...knowing it, and how we're all surprised by sin...
...I a lame-duck administration, but it is still the administration...
...Now that I might consider a fair exchange...
...Forget it, old sport," he said "I' m only kidding...
...this is a One of the losers in the mid-term election was money...
...There may be some very rare people who believe themselves to be sincerely duplicitous and hypocritical, but I haven't met them...
...Only hours after my cousin Edward with Carter and Mondale, are now playing the same game...
...The latter, in other words, seize reasonable opportunities for arms control...
...appointments to the federal courts of the Daniel Manion vari- "Please," he winced...
...Talk of an alternative Democratic program also dangerously "Have you moved to LA?'' I asked in dismay...
...Democratic control of the Senate, with Senator might he hearing from you tonight...
...The sixties for the post-war period), the Democrats would be foolish to act are over...
...Most of my pals prefer basketball...
...But a bill with wide public support (70 percent in American Catholics may look on the action of Argentina's one poll) has been proposed that would permit divorce, al- bishops with outrage or resignation: it all smacks of a church though only after a couple has been legally separated for one to that Vatican II was supposed to transform...
...All are right, to a very sonal or the social level, we are speaking down on the farm (and away from the important extent...
...so have of this array of problems, and I think, the other wrong, with regard to such imCommonweal: 614...
...came through with a coveted ticket to the seventh Will they continue to do so, once back in control of both game of the American League Championship Series, houses of Congress...
Vol. 113 • November 1986 • No. 20
