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IssueVol. 112 Issue 007 (April 5 1985)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
Correspondence The quality of mercy Lexington, Ky. To the Editors: Amen to Garvey on the "Temptation to Be Right" [February 22]. This is a fascinating phenomenon to a psychologist who works...
Paid articleEditorials
commonweal TO DISINVEST OR NOT CAESAR MAY HAVE reckoned correctly that Gaul is divided into three parts, but the government of P. W. Botha erred fatally when it trisected South African political...
Paid articleChanneling ideology
Gans, Herbert J.
Media politics CHANNELING IDEOLOGY SENATOR HELMS EYES CBS ONE VIRTUE OF America's form of democracy has been the absence of doctrinaire and rigid ideologies in our major political parties, news...
Paid articleCharity, warm & simple
Garvey, John
Of several minds: John Garvey CHARITY, WARM & SIMPLE WHEN IS 'FEELING GOOD' THE REAL THING? There IS A wonderful old phrase — "as cold as charity" — which needs to be replaced now. The phrase no...
Paid articleThree presidents discuss higher education
Mahoney, Colette; O'Brien, Dennis; O'Hare, Joseph
THREE PRESIDENTS ON HIGHER EDUCATION Visions, values, and declining support IN MID-MARCH, the editors of Commonweal met with three distinguished educators to assess the present state of higher...
Paid articleBoston's schools after the battle
Ford, Maurice deG.
DESEGREGATION, RESEGREGATION, & DEMOCRACY Boston's schools after the battle MAURICE DeG. FORD TEN YEARS have passed since Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity rendered his decision in the...
Paid articleREDISCOVERING BACH
Noble, David B.
Music REDISCOVERING BACH A VISION OF CHURCH MUSIC THE THREE-HUNDREDTH anniversary of Bach's birth was anticipated by an extraordinary celebration in Batell Chapel at Yale University: Thirty-three...
Paid articleTWO HAMS ON WRY
O'Brien, Tom
Screen TWO HAMS ON WRY WOODY ALLEN & MICHAEL PALIN WOODY ALLEN has often seemed too narrow for my taste. His sole subjects, he once said in Sleeper, were sex and death. He modified this to Love...
Paid articleEden in Apple Country
Howell, Kath
Kath Howell Eden in Apple Country The smell of apples these last hot days ripens the almost autumn air. In a nearby orchard, Eden approaches harvest; : earth hangs high under...
Paid articleMended-Speech
Hefling, Charles C. Jr.
Books: SPIRITED LANGUAGE NOTHING stays put. So said Hera-clitus, and after twenty-five hundred years we are beginning to learn how right he was. Neither subjects nor objects, knowers nor what they...
Paid articleThe Second Self
Verkamp, Bernard J.
Program for selfhood THE SECOND SELF COMPUTERS AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT Sherry Turkle Simon and Schuster, $17.95, 362 pp. Bernard J. Verkamp IN Eugene Ionesco's play The Rhinoceros, the ordinary...
Paid articleAmerica's Saints
Bradford, Mary L.
More on Mormonism AMERICA'S SAINTS THE RISE OF MORMON POWER Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley G. P. Putnam's, $16.95, 278 pp. Mary L. Bradford THE TITLE of this book is calculated to attract the...
Paid articleEconomics in the Real World
Smith, Karen Sue
In brief Economics in the Real World: How Political Decisions Affect the ECONOMY, Leonard Silk. Simon and Schuster, $16.95, 298 pp. This fast-paced book gives a feel for the complexities of...
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