Correspondence Defining life, yes Mt. Ranier, Md. To the Editors: John Garvey's reasoning in a recent article that Congress should not define when human life and/or per-sonhood begins with...
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CAN LABOR COMEBACK? IT WAS A very fitting gesture for Poland's independent trade union to invite Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, to attend the opening of Solidarity's first national...
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"A BORTION ITSELF WAS COndoned as late as the nineteenth century by the Catholic church, using a time clock of the "ensoulment' of the fetus." Linda Bird Francke makes this statement in her...
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THE MORAL FALLACY NUCLEAR WAR MAKES OUR DIFFERENCES PALE Be England what she will. With all her faults she is my country still "The Farewell" Charles Churchill (1731-1764) THE OTHER DAY - it was...
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How to combat world famine Whatever happened to the Green Revolution- and what we should do about it now SUDHIR SEN LAST JANUARY THE much-esteemed Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the...
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Cracks in the Masonry ERIC R. TERZUOLO "MEN OF INTELLIGENCE, culture, wisdom, and, above all generosity, with a moral and intellec-tual drive to work solely for the good of mankind. . . ." Thus...
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Screen POET IN RESIDENCE THE THEATRICAL & THE PERSONAL THE SENTIMENTAL favorite this summer is a film called Stevie, about the poet Stevie Smith. Nothing could seem less likely to succeed in...
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Stage FLAWED & FASCINATING THREE NEW PLAYS THE FAMILY PLAY HAS been steadily reasserting its primacy in American drama. Two recent examples that have attracted a great deal of attention - both...
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Jesus Christ the stumbling block DONALD SENIOR CONTEMPORARY CHRISTOLOGIES: A Jewish Response (Paulist Press, $7.95, 203 pp). is just what its title claims: a thoughtful, spirited Jewish response...
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THE ISSA VALLEY Books: BOYHOOD'S SOMBER BLESSEDNESS CZESLAW MILOSZ, the Berkeley profes-sor and 1980 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature, writes in Polish and considers himself primarily a Polish...
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FATHER'S DAT Eugene Kennedy Doubleday, $13.95, 488 pp. Paul Connolly IS IT yourself knows the meaning of "baloney"? The common notion is that it's a corruption of bologna. But I have it from me...
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THE GNOSTIC DIALOGUE. THE EARLY CHURCH AND THE CRISIS OF GNOSTICISM. By Pheme Perkins. Paulist Press, $6.95, 250 pp. In the wake of the publication of an English translation of the ancient Gnostic...
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