In play after play, Horton Foote, who died in March at the age of ninety-two, made the quotidian extraordinary. He wrote more than sixty plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Open dialogue I want to congratulate you on Archbishop Rembert Weakland's January 11 article ("The Liturgy as Battlefield"). I really like the fact that he and...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Luther as landlord? Though I am happy to renew my subscription to Commonweal, I want you to know that your proposed office move to 475 Riverside Drive [headquarters...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Leon's corner Couple of mild malapropisms in your editorial on Buchanan ("Bully in the Pulpit/' March 8): 'To say that Buchanan is a throwback is to belabor the...
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Blaming the pope I respond to your editorial, "Respon-sum dubium" [December 1,1995], in the light of a moving passage from Paul's letter to the Colossians, heard...
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STAGE TWO FOOTES FORWARD HORTON & HALLIE: SIGNATURE EVENTS The Signature Theatre Company, which functions very far Off-Broadway in the very small Kampo Cultural Center, nonetheless thinks big,...
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siders it may have looked like any other Near Eastern marriage, but its dynamics were radically altered. Mary may have baked the bread and darned the cloaks while he planed and sawed, but her...
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CORRESPONDENCE The overly critical New York, N.Y. To the Editors: Having read the comments in the September 22 issue on Paul Dinter's article ["Standing in the Way of Worship," June 16], I find...
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PRAYER WHEN? HOW? WHY? MEAD CAIGHEAD QA&IEL MULHQLLAN SITOABA GREZlffl HARRISON MARIAN BUHBCHART FRANK MAGQHIAROLA HOTH M. AMES As we begin the observance of Lent this yuai, wo arc reminded not...
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HORTON FOOTE'S MANY ROADS HOME
AN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT & HIS CHARACTERS
MARIAN BURKHART
I realized that Horton Foote is quite probably America's greatest playwright when, after seeing both Lily Dale...
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AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS
THE CATHOLIC LEGACY & ABORTION
READERS RESPOND TO THE MAGUIRE-BURTCHAELL DEBATE
Who's left out?
Dayton, Ohio
To the Editors: In "The Catholic Legacy and Abortion; A Debate"...
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IN DEFENSE OF WOODY ALLEN Beauty in a world of schlock MARIAN BURKHART Everything has its uses, even negative reviews of movies we love. If none existed, we might never get round to figuring...
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