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THIS OLD HOUSE Katharine Byrne The yard when we moved here was a tangle of phlox and ferns, a garden reluctantly abandoned by the old woman who lived here before us. Like neighbors who turn up...

Blueberry hill (August 2001)

THE LAST WORD BLUEBERRY HILL Katharine Byrne We did not own a car, but I traveled each summer by Greyhound bus from our drab two-flat on the far south side of Chicago to Uncle Harry's farm...

Comfort me with ivy (June 2000)

THE LAST WO COMFORT ME WITH IVY Katharine...

THE LAST WORD (May 1999)

THE EUCHARIST AS PUZZLE fh« Eucharist In the West History and Theology Edward f. Kilmartin, $./. 1'urHc BojL. Thi- Z..' $41."5 42.'K' Jareslav Pelikan y favorite illustration of...

Mrs. Clayton's gift (March 1999)

Katharine Byrne MRS. CLAYTON'S GIFT There'll always be an Irish... M y mother used to visit old Mrs. Clayton often, and because she felt more comfortable with something to hang onto, even the...

Spare me the details (January 1998)

SPARE ME THE DETAILS Katharine Byrne veryone knows the penguin s t o r y - - t h e one about the c h i l d who t h o u g h t he would like to know more about penguins. He approached the...

Sounds of summer In the days before TV and boom boxes, city neighborhoods had to make their own noise And they did (July 1996)

SOUNDS OF SUMMER Katharine Byrne I am not now remembering bird songs at dawn or the lapping of waves against a shore or the rustle of leaves in sunlight, but the sounds we listened to in a city of...

NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EQUAL (May 1996)

NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EOUAL Orwell & his animals at fifty Katharine Byrne Although he was a respected novelist and journalist in England during the '30s and early '40s, George Orwell (1903-50)...

Taking umbrage: (January 1995)

THE LAST WORD Taking umbrage KATHARINE BYRNE Daisy and I were walking around the block one spring day when we saw Mrs. Wesley standing near her mailbox, riffling through the day's offerings, not...

Count on Mom: (April 1993)

$575 for all charitable contributions in 1991. Thus the total do- Florence couldn't remember the plot of even one show, only nations of 18 million Catholic households in 1991...

The Perkins lady/man! (May 1992)

WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR? THE PERKINS LADY/MAN! THE PERSUASIVENESS OF GUILT offering housewives something to buy, someone was at home to hear the doorbell. Willing to open the door; open as...

Mrs. George Orwell (May 1991)

them correctly, this is what many groups like the National Center for the Laity, the Catholic Worker, Bread for the World, Network, and many others have attempted to do. Of course, their very...

Other lives: (May 1990)

OTHER LIVES KATHARINE BYRNE A REPORT ON THE 'MOMMY TRACK' Like the Moliere character who found that he had been "talking prose for forty years without knowing it," I have learned only recently...

Correspondence (June 1988)

CORRESPONDENCE Abetting Israel Miami, Fla. To the Editors: The article ["Occupying Each Other," April 22] is an excellent portrayal of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, but author Mitchell Cohen...

An afternoon with an elderly respondent: (February 1984)

proportions. Such naive leveling underestimates the power of the obscene to shock and violate. Yet one can only violate what was first held to be sacred. Obscenity is the sacred's counterimage....

A different looking Orwell: (March 1983)

A CONNECTION WITH THE EARTH & PEOPLE CLOSE TO IT A different-looking Orwell KATHARINE BYRNE THE FAMILIAR press card snapshot of George Orwell suggests a man haunted by the "Orwellian" future he...

'It happens all the time' (October 1979)

compulsion. This scheme includes service in the military as pants might serve for longer periods of time, receive modest national service and would undoubtedly mean that the objec- ...

GEORGE ORWELL AND THE AMERICAN CHARACTER: (April 1974)

Events of the past year have en- couraged a number of variations on the theme, Orwell-you-should-be- GEORGE ORWELL living-at-this-hour, each asking what...

Marvin's Mother (June 1964)

KATHARINE BYRNE Marvin's Mother What to do till the mortician comes YOU MAY have seen that cartoon which shows an eager and anxious young woman talking to her husband. "Listen, Irving!" she...

Byrne, Lawrence Joseph

Byrne, Robert

BYRNES, CHARLES J.

Byrnes, Joseph F.

Byrnes, Timothy A

Byrnes, Timothy A.

Byrns, Ruth

Byrns, Ruth K.

BYRON, (REV.) J. PAUL

Byron, William J.