CORRESPONDENCE Merton's Power Ojai, Calif. To the Editors: I protest Benjamin Saltman's conclusion [May 11] that Thomas Merton's poems are valid indication that this "mystic, priest,...
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sive qualities between spiritual values and "values of the body" are richly imaged in Merton's entire corpus. And the dimension of time is packed into his verse. The Incarnation initiates...
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Get Ahead, Go Along." A moral issue can still be the most powerful force in American politics--especially when it is clear, as it is today, that the network of deception and power-grabbing known...
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ON CELIBACY AND MARRIAGE Daniel Berrigan was kind enough to refer recently to a "totally dead scene, which is Christian marriage." He did so on the occasion of the wedding of a priest and a...
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WATERGATE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WES BARTHELMES The Nixon crowd has made the unthinkable thinkable Richard Nixon, in effect, has taken "the Fifth." His communiqu6s to the American people about...
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_9 | _9 _9 O WATEnGATEO _9 _9 _9 _9 NIXON'S SECRET STORM MEDIA The Nixon Administration has long shown a fear of the media, a fear which has finally proved well-founded. Testimony from the...
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ever one felt about the truth of his story, he seemed somehow less and less human as time went on. Not only was his testimony extraordinarily consistent from day to day, but the personality of...
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over Sergio's story. During the period that we observe him, Sergio stands aside from all institutions and political points of view. He visits local places of interest--the art museum, and the...
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BOOKS O O O O O O 0 0 0 0 0 O O O 0 0 0 O O How to tell lies (and get away with it?) The P o l i t i c s o f Lying DAVID WISE Random House, $8.95 P o l i t i c a l Prisoners...
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