CORRESPONDENCE Mass Music Jackson Heights, N.Y. To the Editors: A long Gregorian Amen to Thomas Day's article "A Syllabus of Musical Errors." [Aug. 27]. I recently returned from a Choral...
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WHAT CARTER FORGETS With the statistically exhausting and emotionally disappointing first TV debate on the record, the presidential campaign enters its final month with the American people no more...
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WASHINGTON REPORT THE F.B.I. AMD THE SERVO-CROATS It must have been embarrassing for the FBI when the French resolutely stood up to the Croatian terrorists and hijackers, compelled their surrender...
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SAVING TIME PETER STEINFELS According to Art Buchwald, the problem with America is that the Hope Diamond is in the Smithsonian. I have a better theory. The problem with America is the digital...
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THE HOLY CROSS CASE DAVID O'BRIEN Crisis in Jesuit education These are tough days to be a Catholic Christian in the United States. Father Andrew Greeley has documented signs of decline evident to...
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THIRD WAY IN ENGLISH JOHN DRUSKA Tyranny in the kingdoms of language and literature I Last year I attended a lecture given by John Holt in a hotel meeting-room that was filled with several...
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THE BUCKLEY AMENDMENT DENNIS O'BRIEN Solving some atrocities but creating a number of problems A second-grade boy is observed to have developed a close friendship with another boy in his class. A...
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GRAZIE, ITALIA MUSIC The occasion was the first performance in the first visit of La Scala to the U.S., a bicentennial gift from Italy to America. The question on everyone's mind was: why...
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AMIN, AMEN THE SCREEN In a crazy way, Clint Eastwood and Idi Amin invite comparison. Eastwood is a star, of course, and currently, in The Outlaw Josey Wales, the director of his movie as well....
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BOOKS TWO CRITICS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Half the House HERBERT KOHL Bantam, $1.95 The night is dark and I am far from home JONATHAN KOZOL Houghton Mifflin, $7.95 The...
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Persons and Masks of the Law JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10 Lawyering HELENE E. SCHWARTZ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $10 DANIEL MORRISSEY If, as Professor Noonan points out,...
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