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 To the Editors: "A New Servant Class?"
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      | ECLIPSE OF AN IDEA
 They did not play a funeral march when President Nixon's recent message
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      | ABORTION PASTORAL
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 Few of the many comments on
 the unfortunate contrast between
 the strong stand of American
 bishops on the matter of abortion
 and their silence on... | 
    
    
      | Two psychologists . . . recently re-
 staged the [Good Samaritan parable]
 —updated, carefully observed, even
 photographed. . . .What determined
 whether a man stopped to help—or
 passed by?... | 
    
    
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 Is Radical Catholicism the villain?
 JAMES HITCHCOCK
 Despite the fact that the conservative analysis of pre-
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      | VIETNAM ROULETTE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 The draft l o t t e r y : an illusion o f . f a i r n e s s PETER J. OGNIBENE The draft lottery has done for conscription essentially what... | 
    
    
      | SOUND OF REVELRY
 THE SCREEN
 In spite of the fact that these are supposed to be dog
 days for the movie industry, the studios are pouring out
 their wares almost faster than we or the paying... | 
    
    
      | ORIGINAL FOLLIES
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 Harold Prince's Follies doesn't sound promising: a
 Broadway musical about a reunion of Broadway vet-
 erans in an old theater. And yet you feel it may be... | 
    
    
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 Pornography as salvational enterprise
 The Aesthetics of
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 PETER MICHELSON
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