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Vol. 114 Issue 019 (November 6 1987)
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Thanks & no thanks New York, N.Y. To the Editors: Some praise and a complaint: Thank you for the discussion of the morality of a policy of deterrence. I was particularly...
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Editorials
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COMMONWEAL After the fall Despite the sudden collapse and subsequent writhings of the stock market, the American economy is fundamentally sound. That, at least, has been the view expressed by...
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'Claiming our power'
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Smith, Karen Sue
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WOMEN-CHURCH 'CLAIMING OUR POWER' DIALOGUE, WORSHIP, & DEVELOPMENT At the same time the world's Catholic bishops gathered in Rome for this year's synod on the laity — where bishops from ...
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A shortsighted vision
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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OF SEVERAL HINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A SHORTSIGHTED VISION THE ABC'S OF SCHOOLING One of the best in the long string of recent education reform reports came out in...
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The monster's spell
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy THE MONSTER'S SPELL TELEVISION & THE ELECTORATE The negotiations are so secret," says the portly senator in Wagner's "Grin and Bear...
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Verse
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Ryan, Kay; Myers, Joan Rohr; Coulthard, Leslie Jean; Westerfield, Nancy G.
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Kay Ryan Caryatid Caryatids look slightly languid. They have grace under weight; straight, but not too straight, an alignment lost along with Pericles' helmet. We may attribute some of...
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The resegregation of America
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Sleeper, Jim
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THE RESEGREGATION hm sleeper OF AMERICA PROMISE & THE UNDERCLASS For lots of compelling historical and ideological reasons, most of American society — our popular culture,...
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Stage
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE PHILADELPHIA ON PITCH OLIVER SACKS'S 'HAT' The 1987 American Music Theater Festival, which ran in Philadelphia from September 12 to October 11, presented its most ambitious season to...
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Screen
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O'Brien, Tom
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SCREEN VEINS THAT RUN DEEP SAYLES'S 'MATEWAN' Matewan is close to being a great film. The word should be (and has been, in this col umn) used rarely; but in style and content this work...
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Manufacturing Matters / Rusted Dreams
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Janeway, Eliot
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BOOKS The mod monorchs of management MANUFACTURING MATTERS THE MYTH OF THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman Basic Books, $19.95, 297 pp. RUSTED DREAMS HARD TIMES IN...
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Crossing to Safety
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Bannon, Barbara A.
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OLD-FASHIONED WAYS OF KNOWING CROSSING TO SAFETY Wallace Stegner Random House, $18.95, 277 pp. Barbara A. Bannon This is Wallace Stegner's first novel since Recapitulation in 1979 and it is...
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Beloved
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Baker-Fletcher, Karen
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FIERCE LOVE COMES TO HAUNT BELOVED Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf, $18.95, 275 pp. Karen Baker-Fletcher I have never liked ghost stories. I either find them unbelievable or too sensational —...
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Limits of the Papacy
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Chirico, Peter
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UNLOCKING THE KEYS THE LIMITS OF THE PAPACY Patrick Granfield Crossroad, $15.95, 207 pp. Peter Chirico It is a pleasure to read this clearly written, non-polemical, balanced, and...
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The Color of Blood
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Long, J. V.
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THE CARDINAL'S VIRTUES THE COLOR OF BLOOD Brian Moore E. P. Dutton, $16.95, 182 pp. J. V. Long Since a Pole was elected pope, relations around the world between the church — really,...
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American Childhood
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Hazo, Samuel
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ATTENTION MUST BE PAID AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD Annie Dillard Harper & Row, $17.95, 255 pp.________ Samuel Hazo Two things are revealed in this personal reminiscence by Annie Dillard that...
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Simone Weil/Formative Writings
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Springsted, Eric O.
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CONDEMNED TO MORAL LONELINESS SIMONE WEIL A MODERN PILGRIMAGE Robert Coles Addison-Wesley, $17.95, 170 pp. FORMATIVE WRITINGS: 1929-1941 SIMONE WEIL Edited and translated, D. McFarland & W....
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Vol. 114 Issue 020 (November 20 1987)
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