NEWS & VIEWS Callahan on Abortion In the current Christianity and Crisis (which appeared almost simultaneously with the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion), Daniel Callahan writes that...
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CORRESPONDENCE Forgiving Pound Old Saybrook, Conn. To the Editors: Current discussions of Ezra Pound like the one in the Dec. 8 issue of Commonweal indicate a radical misunderstanding of...
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AFTER THE CEASE-FIRE Any agreement, however imperfect, that stops the slaughter in Vietnam, arrests the bombs, and returns the prisoners on all sides to freedom, is an agreement for which to be...
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FROM BLACK AFRICA 'SLAVE TRADE IN FRANCE On one side of me, as I stepped out of the car, was the ring-motorway that encircles Paris— a mass of swirling metal, epitome of our age. On the other...
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WHERE WILL ALL THE CATHOLICS GO? MICHAEL NOVAK Ah, New York is lining up again. What fun! The old alliances are shifting, new targets are coming into view. Seven years ago, Kathy...
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KING OF THE ROCK JAMES MacGREGOR BURNS Even if McGovern had won, he would have been frustrated Of the many explanations of George McGovern's defeat a most important one has been neglected: the...
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TEN YEARS LATER - IV I PUT IT WRONG' ROBERT W. HOVDA Before the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Commonweal published a series of articles on the general theme of "What the Layman...
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GOING IT ALONE THE SCREEN Like any mass art, movies often seem a way to live vicariously a life of adventure and drama that we all admire, but that few of us are up to living in reality. This...
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ONE SITTING WITH GLEB DERUJINSKY SAMUEL HAZO It is a three-room second-floor apartment on West 65th Street in New York, replete with the usual urban safeguards: a locked main door that is...
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BOOKS Power and Innocence: A Search tor the Source* of Violence ROLLO MAY Norton, $7.95 RONALD SAMPSON In this book, 'power' is defined not as it is universally understood by men as the...
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