NEWS AND VIEWS From the Newsletter of the Military Ordinariate, printed in New York for American Catholic chaplains: "Innovations. A senior chaplain writes us as follows (and we think his point...
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CORRESPONDENCE From Archbishop Alter Cincinnati, Ohio To the Editors: Will you kindly permit me to set the record straight with regard to your editorial of October 7 entitled "Shackling the...
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WHAT'S HAPPENING? Something startling is overtaking our national politics. It has not much to do—directly—with Vietnam, the pendulum of off-year elections or the growing disenchantment with...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED TO THE BISHOPS The annual meeting of the new American bishops' conference is scheduled to begin on November 14. For better or for worse, it could be one of the most...
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MALAMUD'S HEROES The fate of fixers JONATHAN BAUMBACH One knows that it is not possible to write a contemporary American novel about a Jew accused of a ritual murder in Tsarist Russia, based on,...
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KARL PATTEN POETRY The single swimmer, Arm-length after arm-length measuring the current, Sprawls at last on the sand. His eyes are gone totally, black and blind. So, weathering himself...
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REACTIONARY REVOLUTION The Catholic literary revival in France LOUIS AIXEN Is it possible to be both intelligent and a Catholic? The question is not new, and invariably sounds priggish....
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A new point of view THE NEW BOHEMIA WILLIAM JAMES SMITH Everybody knows where the New Bohemia is—that region of tenements and shabby little parks and old churches to the East of Greenwich...
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JOAlNINfc. THE WHITE GARMEJVT Outside the window of my labor room A chilly blast of sun Illuminates the Southern blooms, Magnolia and the celebrating dogwood, Turned white too soon, too soon...
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THREE COMEDIES THE SCREEN A trio of new comedies is on our screens, films that are not of the something-for-everybody school but are of the brazen-and-brash variety—for audiences who can...
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THE STAGE One of the least discussed, and for all I know the least significant, developments in literary technology is the ever increasing efficiency of modern mimicry. Of course there have...
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BOOKS Standards STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN » Horizon, $6.75 ERIK WENSBERG The toil of the literary ombudsman appended the bang-bong, tin-can phrase. But of course the main point is simply that...
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