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Vol. 112 Issue 015 (September 6 1985)
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Vol. 112 Issue 016 (September 20 1985)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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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...
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Editorials
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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...
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Murderous evil
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Garvey, John
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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...
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Who's the boss?
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Bell, Robert H.
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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...
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Staking claim to the family
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GELLOTT, LAURA
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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...
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Reading the Establishment Clause
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Devins, Neal; Feder, Benjamin
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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...
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Verse
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Smith, LeRoy Jr.; Park, Clara Claiborne; Hirschfield, Robert
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(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...
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Morality: the deepening crisis
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Cahill, Lisa Sowle
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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...
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Screen
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O'Brien, Tom
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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...
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Without God, Without Creed
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Marsden, George M.
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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...
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Hotel du Lac
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Jones, Robert
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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...
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Such a Vision of the Street
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Cahill, Susan
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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...
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Outliving the Self
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Tipton, Steven
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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...
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Reasons to Live/Self-Help
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Drzal, Dawn Ann
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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,...
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All God's Children
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Jordan, Patrick
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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...
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A Weed for Burning
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Howard, Dick
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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...
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The Body of Faith
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Rosenthal, Abigail L.
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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...
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The Structure of Biblical Myths
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Toolan, David
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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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