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 Vol. 115 Issue 021 (December 2 1988)
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Vol. 115 Issue 022 (December 16 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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Chapin, Jim; KIRCHNER, LOUIS D.; Ferkiss, Victor; LONERGAN, SISTER ANNE; Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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CORRESPONDENCE
Stolen phrases
New York, N.Y.
To the Editors: John Garvey ["Creeping Dimness," October 21] unwittingly illustrated his own point when he attributed to Mort Sahl the observation that...
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Editorials
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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EDITORIAL
Wholly innocent
AIDS has become the leading cause of death in women aged 25 to
34 in New York City. The babies born to them often contract the AIDS virus while still in the womb. And that...
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Veronica's handshake:
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Ramirez, Antonio
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REPORT FROM CHILE
VERONICA'S HANDSHAKE
PREPARING FOR DEMOCRACY
On October 6, 1988, the day after the historic "No" vote in Chile's plebiscite on extending General Augosto Pinochet's dictatorial rule...
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Trading away the future?:
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Bishop, Jordan
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REPORT FROM CANADA
TRADING AWAY THE FUTURE
BUSINESS BUYS A MAJORITY
What have been touted as the most impor-tant general elections since 1911 have just resulted in a comfortable majority for Prime...
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Middle East dead end:
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Hehir, J Bryan
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WORLD WATCH
J. Bryan Hehir
MIDDLE EAST DEAD END
TIME TO BACK OUT
There is an inevitable and urgently necessary debate ahead for the United States. The topic is the Middle East, more precisely the...
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Faithful conflict:
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey
FAITHFUL CONFLICT
REJECTING CAMPBELL'S SOUP
I was reading Benedicta Ward's excellent translation of the sayings of the desert fathers, The Desert Christians (Macmillan,...
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An anthropology for Christmas:
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Hoyt, Robert G
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AN ANTHROPOLOGY FOR CHRISTMAS
IN WHICH IS EXPLAINED THE MYSTERY OF GOODNESS
ROBERT G. HOYT
I know a woman-let's call her Helen-who will start planning for Christmas 1989 on December 25,1988. In the...
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Poetry:
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Porter, Anne
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Anne Porter HERE OH EARTH
The old man living
In his rented room
Grows lonely as the night comes on
Especially in winter
And the boy shooting drugs On the tenement roof Is lonely whether or not He...
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Screen:
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O'Brien, Tom
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SCREEN
ICE & FIRE
'PELLE' & 'WOMEN ON THE VERGE'
Pelle the Conqueror, winner of the 1988 Cannes Festival Palme D'Or, is an old-fashioned, classically made film that risks boredom for the sake of...
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Stage:
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE
LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE
CRAIG LUCAS'S 'RECKLESS'
At the beginning of Craig Lucas's Reckless, Rachel is having one of her "euphoria attacks," as she says, babbling away about Christmas, snow,...
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The Great Divide:
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Baumann, Paul
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BOOKS
Blithely self-centered, if not mean-spirited
THE GREAT DIVIDE
Second Thoughts on the American
Dream
Studs Terkel
Pantheon Books, $18.95. 439 pp.
Paul Baumann
This is the book Jeane...
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The Truth about Lorin Jones:
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Bannon, Barbara A
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TRUTH TELLING
THE TRUTH ABOUT LORIN JONES Alison Lurie
Little Brown, $18.95, 328 pp.
Barbara A. Bannon
One thing is certain about Alison Lurie's novels. They always entertain. Although The Truth...
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Science and the Unborn:
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Shannon, Thomas A
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THE EMBRYO'S CONTINGENT FUTURE
SCIENCE AND THE UNBORN
Choosing Human Futures Clifford Grobstein
Basic, $18.95, 224 pp.
Thomas A. Shannon
In this book, Clifford Grobstein, emeritus professor of...
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Spare Days:
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Wilkes, Paul
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THE SWEET CHARIOT SWINGS LOW
SPARE DAYS Marvin Barrett
Arbor House/William Morrow, $16.95, 200pp.
Paul Wilkes
Marvin Barrett's path to spiritual whole-^^H^P^^H ness had indeed been a rocky-but...
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Religious booknotes:
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES
His story in history
Lawrence S. Cunningham
A hundred years ago, the German scholar Adolph Julicher argued, in a pioneer-ing work, that the Gospel parables were not to be read as...
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