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Vol. 107 Issue 020 (November 7 1980)
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Editorials
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commonweal A BAD CASE OF NERVE GAS CHEMICAL warfare was one of the ghastliest features of that evil war we call—prophetically?—World War I. (How many more can mankind survive? III, IV, V? It...
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After the campaign
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McCarthy, Abigail
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Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy AFTER THE CAMPAIGN A CHANNEL FOR DISCUSSION THIS CAMPAIGN of 1980—may its like never afflict us again! It has been ignoble and exhausting. As I went about on...
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The secret of the press
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Getlein, Frank
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Of several minds: Frank Getlein THE SECRET OF THE PRESS AND THE SECRET OF THE MEN WHO FOUND IT WILLIAM SAFIRE, the country's leading Nattering Nabob of Negativism for the last four years, took...
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By the waters of Disneyland
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Lodge, David
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By the waters of Disneyland A STORY DAVID LODGE IN AMERICA, Ruth traveled from city to city, from.convent to convent, like a medieval pilgrim, making notes about the changes that were taking...
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Rediscovering Sigrid Undset
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Boland, Maura
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A NEGLECTED NOBEL-PRIZEWINNER Rediscovering Sigrid Undset MAURA BOLAND ONE DAY in 1900, a librarian in Oslo was surprised to receive a borrowing slip from a pretty eighteen-year-old secretary:...
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Screen: Old Movies Never Die: They Just Fade Away
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Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
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Screen OLD MOVIES NEVER DIE THEY JUST FADE AWAY I USED to go to the movies three nights a week, often to double bills, and about half of what I saw were repertory films. These weren't all...
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Does God Exist?
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Swidler, Leonard
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Books: TAKING ATHEISM SERIOUSLY THIS is a passionate book, passionately researched, reasoned, and almost reckless in its daring to probe ultimate questions for their ultimate...
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Loon Lake
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Maloff, Saul
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The American dream in fragments LOON LAKE E. L. Doctorow Random House, $11.95, 258 pp. Soul Mcdolf THE last page of E. L. Doctorow's new novel,Loon Lake, is composed entirely of a...
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Verse
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Niflis, Michael; Leedy, David; Scheele, Roy; Porter, Anne
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A Federal Sexton Speaks "'Twenty-eight of the national cemeteries are inactive with no space for future burials This well-won grave beside the noisy city embraces a very sleepy young man He...
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The Ministry of the Word/Tell the Next Generation
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Zeik, Michael
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The preacher's gift TIE MINISTRY OF THE WORD D. Cleverly Ford Eerdmans, $12.95, 253 pp. TELL THE NEXT GENERATION Walter Burghardt, S.J. Paulist Press, $6.95, 225 pp. Michael Zeik THE NEWS is...
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Walter Lippmann and the American Century
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Fox, Richard Wightman
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Detachment, democracy, & dissent WALTER LIPPHANN AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY Ronald Steel Atlantic-Little, Brown, $19.95, 640 pp. Richard Wightman Fox AMONG American intellectuals in...
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Side Effects
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Pinsker, Sanford
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Angst & despair, bagels & lox SIDE EFFECTS Woody Allen Random House, $8.95, 149 pp. Stanford Pinsker Side Effects, Woody Allen's third collection of comic writing, is preoccupied with the...
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American Dreams
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Kuczkowski, Richard
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National town meeting AMERICAN DREAMS LOST & FOUND Studs Terkel Pantheon, $14.95, 496 pp. Richard Kuczkowski Studs TERKEL has been listening to America for years and he is not happy with the...
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Birds of Winter
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Taylor, Mark
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In Brief BIRDS OF WINTER, by Theodore Vrettos, Houghton Mifflin, $9.95, 211 pp. The little Greek village of Livani belongs to "a wretched land that could nourish only the humble olive tree,...
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Vol. 107 Issue 021 (November 21 1980)
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