NEWS& VIEWS London Watching American book dealers and critics were roasted by London Times Literary Supplement commentator W. J. Weatherby for their "ignorance" about Australian...
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CORRESPONDGoading Pharoah Bridgewater, Conn. To the Editors: What is that good man ' Leonard Kriegel saying [review of Heartland, Jan. 18]—that this is no time for goading Pharoah? that the...
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BEGONE, SATAN! In the last scene of The Exorcist—after two hours of curses, flying furniture, spinal taps, green vomitings, lacerations, violent deaths and holywater sprinklings—the movie-star...
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NEVER EXORCISED AT ALL It cannot be said that the Devil does not figure in the American imagination. From "The Devil and Daniel Webster" to "Damn Yankees," and perhaps even from Moby Dick to...
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WASHINGTON REPORT TIME TOR SPRING GLEANING The House of Representatives in many ways and at many times has been the legislative branch of the Congress—for better or worse. It's difficult to...
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divorce a REMARRIAGE DAVID S. TOOLAN Two recent books discuss an issue crucial for Catholics During that dreadful period known as the Dark Ages, the Church faced a terribly complex crisis of...
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FUTURE SCHLOCK THE SCREEN Maybe Woody Allen gave his new film the title Sleeper to tempt reviewers into accolades like "the comedy sleeper of the year!" OK. What can I lose by being so...
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T still remember my annoyed reac¦*• tion to a pastoral letter read from a Munich pulpit some years ago. Ostensibly intended to remind the faithful of the moral obligation to fulfill...
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Cunneen, Sally; Cohen, Arthur A.; Cooke, Bernard; McCarthy, Abigail; Neuhaus, Richard J.; Swidler, Arlene; Wright:, Elliott
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Selection* for Religioua Book Week CRITICS' CHOICES Sally Ounneen The "religious books" I have been hunting out lately are those that have answered two different areas of need: for a deeper...
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