DR. & MRS. NIEBUHR REMEMBERING REINHOLD NIEBUHR Letters of Reinhold & Ursula M. Niebuhr Edited by Ursula M. Niebuhr HarperSan Francisco, $29.95, 423 pp. Richard Wightman Fox Ursula Niebuhr is...
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WHERE SIN ABOUNDS THE POLITICAL MEANING OF CHRISTIANITY Glenn Tinder Louisiana State University Press, $29.95,243 pp. Richard Wightman Fox Clenn Tinder calls his book a "personal statement," and...
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LETTING SANJI DIE HOW CULTURES UNDERSTAND DEATH & LOSS ELIZABETH BEVERLY & RICHARD WIGHTMAN FOX Historians and anthropologists have had a lot to say to one another lately. Historians have learned...
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christinas Alice E. Mayhew ince I publish books for a living, I shall refrain from praising any one of my house's offerings, except I shall fall off the...
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BOOKS Perils oi the haven hunters Frances FitzGerald has an uncanny eye for the revealing social fact. In this study of four contemporary white Americarf "cultures" — the gay males of San...
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Commonweal: 86 Books: UNITS & THE SOLID SELF THE MINIMAL SELF Christopher Lasch Norton, $16.95, 301 pp. Richard Wightman Fox WITH The Culture of Narcissism in 1979 historian Christopher Lasch...
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effective hidden persuader of all. As early as the turn of the century, Allen notes, advertising theorists began to argue that the point of an ad was not to convey information about a product...
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CUISTIAN REALISM AND LIBERATION TIE0L06T PRACTICAL THEOLOGIES IN CREATIVE CONFLICT Dennis P. McCann Orbfc, $9.95, 250 pp. Richard Wightman Fox IN THE SEVENTIES Reinhold Niebuhr's reputation took...
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Detachment, democracy, & dissent WALTER LIPPHANN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY Ronald Steel Atlantic-Little, Brown, $19.95, 640 pp. Richard Wightman Fox AMONG American intellectuals in...
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