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IssueVol. 112 Issue 015 (September 6 1985)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
Correspondence Exclusive justice? Washington, D.C. To the Editors: In his enlightening essay ["At the Heart of the Letter," June 21] Professor R. Bruce Douglass puts the essence of the...
Paid articleEditorials
commonweal REVIVING THE COUNCIL'S ATMOSPHERE ARE YOU AMONG the many, Catholics and non-Catholics, inclined in darker moments to fear that this November's extraordinary synod in Rome will usher...
Paid articleMurderous evil
Garvey, John
Of several minds: John Garvey MURDEROUS EVIL DOES NONVIOLENCE OFFER A SOLUTION? IN HIS July 12 Commonweal article, "Appointment with Hitler," Peter Steinfels raises some difficult...
Paid articleWho's the boss?
Bell, Robert H.
WHITS THE BOSS? SCALPED & REBORN IN LONDON Like a lot of modern parents, my wife and I have equal responsibility for the care of our two-year-old daughter. My wife teaches her the basics, like...
Paid articleStaking claim to the family
GELLOTT, LAURA
WILL LIBERALS REDISCOVER A HERITAGE? Staking claim to the family LAURA GELLOTT We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes... what a proper government should be. The idea of...
Paid articleReading the Establishment Clause
Devins, Neal; Feder, Benjamin
HISTORY MUST BE AIDED BY COMMON SENSE Reading the Establishment Clause NEAL DEVINS & BENJAMIN FEDER WHAT WOULD the Founding Fathers think of Education Secretary William Bennett's recent remark...
Paid articleVerse
Smith, LeRoy Jr.; Park, Clara Claiborne; Hirschfield, Robert
(Continued from page 482) of wage that meets today's cost of living, why does the job exist at all? If instead of lowering the minimum wage for students, we increase the minimum wage to a...
Paid articleMorality: the deepening crisis
Cahill, Lisa Sowle
LISA SOWLE CAHILL MANY CATHOLICS are familiar with a favorite phrase of Pope John XXIII, "the signs of the times." The task of "scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in...
Paid articleScreen
O'Brien, Tom
Screen SAVING HUMORS THE AFTERTASTE OF SUMMER Two FINAL NOTES on summer .movies: The best was not a studio feature but the space documentary, The Dream is Alive [ Commonweal, August 9] made...
Paid articleWithout God, Without Creed
Marsden, George M.
Books: MAKING GOD UNNECESSARY WITHOUT GOD, WITHOUT CREED THE ORIGINS OF UNBELIEF IN AMERICA James Turner Johns Hopkins, $26.50, 316 pp. George M. Morsden WHEN Ralph Waldo Emerson once met an...
Paid articleHotel du Lac
Jones, Robert
Romancing the novel HOTEL DU LAC Anita Brookner Pantheon Books, $13.95 184 pp. Robert Jones ROMANCE NOVELS are one of the most conservative forms of fiction, but even they have made...
Paid articleSuch a Vision of the Street
Cahill, Susan
The impact of simplicity SUCH A VISION OF THE STREET MOTHER TERESA-THE SPIRIT AND THE WORK Eileen Egan Doubleday, $16.95, 449 pp. Susan Cahill "WE thought she was cracked." So said a...
Paid articleOutliving the Self
Tipton, Steven
Psychology of adulthood OUTLIVING THE SELF GENERATIVITY AND THE INTERPRETATION OF LIVES John Kotre Johns Hopkins, $20, 282 pp. Steven Tipton GENERATIVITY, according to psychologist Erik...
Paid articleReasons to Live/Self-Help
Drzal, Dawn Ann
An assemblage of trifles REASONS TO LIVE Amy Hempel Knopf, $11.95, 129 pp. SELF-HELP Lorrie Moore Knopf, $13.95, 158 pp. Dawn Ann Drzal THE MOST basic aim of psychoanalysis, Freud said,...
Paid articleAll God's Children
Jordan, Patrick
In Brief ALL GOD'S CHILDREN, by Dorothy Gauchat, Ballantine, $2.50, 161 pp. This is the challenging, true story of the Gauchats, an Ohio family who opened its doors and hearts to a...
Paid articleA Weed for Burning
Howard, Dick
In Brief A WEED FOR BURNING, by Conrad Detrez. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $13.95, 258pp. This novel, winner of France's prestigious Prix Renaudot, is the story of a generation. It is a...
Paid articleThe Body of Faith
Rosenthal, Abigail L.
In Brief THE BODY OF FAITH: JUDAISM AS CORPOREAL ELECTION, by Michael Wyschogrod. Winston-Seabury, $24.95, 265 pp. Judaism is not only a different religion from Christianity, in the sense...
Paid articleThe Structure of Biblical Myths
Toolan, David
In Brief THE STRUCTURE OF BIBLICAL MYTHS: THE ONTOGENESIS OF THE PSYCHE, by Heinz Westman. Spring Publications (P.O. Box 222069, Dallas, Texas 75222), $J8.50, 477 pp. I had looked forward to...
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