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 Print Media's Plight
 There are services of gov-
 ernment which are absolutely
 basic, which must be pro-
 vided irrespective of trouble
 or cost. The fostering of
 good order... | 
    
    
      | CORRESPOND-
 ENCE
 Hitchcock  Infinitum
 To the Editors: I don't know if you pub-
 lished Hitchcock's article [May 14] out
 of intellectual openness or as a subtle
 way of showing up the... | 
    
    
      | CATCH-UP LEADERSHIP
 There's an almost pathetic poignancy to the recent pastoral instruction
 from the Vatican on public communications. The pastoral, sweeping and
 detailed, is a meritorious... | 
    
    
      | REINHOLD NIEBUHR
 The ideas and attitudes of the father are rejected by
 the son and discovered by the grandson. That, at least,
 is the usual pattern. But as he did in so many things,
 Reinhold... | 
    
    
      | Hardhats* Hyacinths
 And Heturnabie Battles
 The last session of the Maryland State Senate experi-
 enced a floor debate on an issue which a few years ago
 might have been dismissed as ludicrous... | 
    
    
      | HANS Kr\4. REPLIES
 TO GREGORY RAUM
 What is the criterion for a critical theology?
 I am sincerely grateful to my good friend Gregory
 Baum for his detailed review of my book, Infallible?... | 
    
    
      | CARL BODE
 THE FRIDAY FENCE
 The water hurries toward me, whipped by the same
 Wind throwing sand onto my face. The sky in its
 Folded gray lowers over last Sunday's lace.
 The beachgrass bends... | 
    
    
      | LATIN AMERICA:
 WHO IS TO BLAME?
 GARY MacEOIH
 Last year, during a three-month search for Latin
 American reality which took me to 13 countries of the
 hemisphere, I discovered in an obscure... | 
    
    
      | UN  ART  NOUVEAU
 THE SCREEN
 The title of Eric Rohmer's third film, La Collection-
 neuse, might well have been given to the film by its
 narrator rather than Rohmer himself. The narrator... | 
    
    
      | BOOKS
 Dickens gets the old scrutiny
 Dickens the Novelist
 F. R. LEAVIS & Q. D. LEAVIS
 Pantheon, $10
 BRIAN  WICKER
 In The Great Tradition (first pub-
 lished 1948) F. R. Leavis... |