Ed Marciniak STAMDING ROOM ONLY What to do about prison overcrowding Until very recently, the U.S. prison system has been our fastest-growing industry, expanding from 500,000 prisoners in 1978 to...
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RACISM ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE But not everyone has noticed Ed Marciniak A new vocabulary is surfacing to assess the state of race relations in the United States. The operative words and...
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.................................:.: ~_~-_-G~z- -~===-. .................... Ed Marciniak RECALCULATING POVERTY More than dollars & cents he time has come to de-emphasize the...
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MORE THAN A ROOF Promising moves in public housing Ed Marciniak Not long ago, I attended a national housing con-ference where a featured panelist was a woman introduced as a longtime resident of...
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he describes the incident, and from the hint of a question mark still hovering above it. Childless myself, I give him the verbal support he wants, hoping that I, too, would have had the courage of...
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CORRESPONDENCE Women only? Chicago, 111. To the Editors: A. certain disquiet hovered over my reading of your six ' 'responses to the pastoral on women" ["Sexism, Sin, & Grace, June 17]. Their...
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The other America, part two THE NEW AMERICAN POVERTY Michael Harrington Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $17.95, 271 pp. Ed Narciniak THE NAGGING enigma that "the poor are still here" in the 1980s...
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Correspondence A choice solution Erie, Pa. To the Editors: I'd like to offer a solution to dilemmas like that of Agnes Mary Mansour, the ex-sister of Mercy who now heads the Michigan Dept. of...
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SECOND SPRING THE COMING OF AGE OF U.S. CATHOLICISM Charles A. Fracchia Harper & Row, $9.95, 176 pp. Ed Marciniak CAN the personal memoir also serve as the history of a turbulent era? In Second...
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sisting negative lines about Carter, to the point by late 1977 of dismissing him as a one-term President. "But the two need each other--that is to say, the nation and its capital city need what is...
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THE GAMES THEY PLAY IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ED MARCINIAK Avoiding reality and postponing the day of reckoning A "new game plan" for the nation's 11,000 Catholic elementary and secondary schools...
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from simple arithmetic to algebra. But her writing is still restricted to proven formulas. As the title indicates, Miss Taylor's co-stars, Michael Caine and Susannah York, are just some unknown...
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BOOKS The megamachine reconstituted The Pentagon of Power LEWIS MUMFORD Harcourt Brace, $12.95 VICTOR C. FERKISS For almost 50 years Lewis Mumford has been one of our most useful and...
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Books Catholicism. Henri de Lubac, S.J. Translated from the French by Lancelot C. Sheppard. Longmans. $3.75. CATHOLICISM is not a new work. It first appeared in 1938 and has had a profound...
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