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Vol. 115 Issue 003 (February 12 1988)
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Vol. 115 Issue 004 (February 26 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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WILLGOOSE, CARL E.; BEACH, LINDA; FINGER, SEYMOUR M.; ARBAIZA, NORMAN D.
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CORRESPONDENCE
Who's shortsighted?
Wolfeboro, N.H.
To the Editors: It appears to me that David R. Carlin, Jr., knows little about the intricate business of education as he sets forth his somewhat...
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Editorials
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Editorials
A never-ending process
In accepting the Nobel Prize for his Central American peace plan, Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias said: Peace "is not the product of a victory or command. It has...
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An elusive procedure:
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Policano, Joseph D
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THE AIDS TEST
AN ELUSIVE PROCEDURE
ACCESS & CONFIDENTIALITY
I am a middle-aged heterosexual who has no known contact with IV drug users. So being told that I had to take an AIDS blood test to...
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Ready for Rome:
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Komonchak, Joseph A; Provost, James H
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MEETING IN SALAMANCA
READY FOR ROME
DEFINING EPISCOPAL CONFERENCES
What is the nature and authority of bishops'
conferences? The recent controversy over
the document on the pastoral treatment of
...
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The phantoms of the press:
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Queenan, Joe
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The phantoms of the press
usual surprise party for a journalist friend of ours this month. We're inviting every single unidentified "'source" whose opinions appeared in a single day's editions of...
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Is there no end in sight?:
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey
IS THERE NO END IN SIGHT?
GETTING READY FOR THE MILLENNIUM
I had an interesting time in a Chicago cab last winter. The driver was a pleasant man, full of jokes about the...
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No place to be neutral:
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Manuel, Anne
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NO PLACE TO BE NEUTRAL
THE PLIGHT OF THE SUMU INDIANS
ANNE MANUEL
One of the most tragic aspects of Central America's wars has been the victimization of people who try to stay neutral; living their...
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Horton Foote's many roads home:
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BURKHART, MARIAN
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HORTON FOOTE'S MANY ROADS HOME
AN AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT & HIS CHARACTERS
MARIAN BURKHART
I realized that Horton Foote is quite probably America's greatest playwright when, after seeing both Lily Dale...
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Verse:
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Fandel, Larry Rubin, Michael Cadnum, Paul Petrie, John
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Larry Rubin
Harrisburg, Mon Amour (Three-Mile Island)
Dissecting the seed, we split infinity,
Vaporizing time for those beneath
The cloud. Layers of peeling atoms smashed
Into the cells and scorched...
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Screen:
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O'Brien, Tom
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SCREEN
THE YEAR THAT WAS
SEVEN WORTH THE PRICE
Five hundred and eleven films were released in 1987; the year's box office earnings added up to $4.2 billion. These record numbers reflect two...
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Stage:
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE
DIMINISHED CLASSICS
'CHERRY ORCHARD' & 'DREAM'
In The Shifting Point, Peter Brook differentiates between a "directorial conception," which is imposed from the outside, and a "sense of...
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The bishops & their critics:
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Sullivan, William M; Madsen, Richard
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BOOKS ON THE ECONOMICS PASTORAL
The bishops & their critics
WILLIAM M. SULLIVAN & RICHARD MADSEN
In the several years of its evolution from the first to the final draft, Economic Justice For All:...
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The Bonfire of the Vanities:
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Baumann, Paul
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BOOKS
An icy dip in the real world
Whaddaya whaddaya? Only one thing stands between thir- ty-eight-year-old Wall Street whiz Sherman McCoy, once a self-proclaimed Master of the Universe ("There was...
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The Literary Guide to the Bible:
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Perkins, Pheme
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DIVERSITY & FERMENT
THE LITERARY GUIDE TO THE BIBLE
Edited by Robert Alter & Frank Kermode Harvard/Belknap, $29.95, 675 pp.
Pheme Perkins
For the past twenty years a quiet revolution has been going...
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God and the New Haven Railway:
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Toolan, David
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THE ENGINE & THE ENGINEER
GOD AND THE NEW HAVEN RAILWAY
AND WHY NEITHER ONE IS DOING VERY WELL
George Dennis O'Brien
Beacon, $14.95, 159 pp.
David Toolan
Have you wanted, lately, to read a book of...
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Reading America:
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LaSalle, Peter
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WALKS ON THE WILD SIDE
READING AMERICA
ESSAYS ON AMERICAN LITERATURE
Denis Donoghue
Alfred A. Knopf, $22.95, 320 pp.
Peter LaSalle
Time was when it was tough to find real issues arising in...
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And a Voice to Sing With:
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Lacefield, Patrick
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CONFESSIONS OF A ROLE MODEL
AND A VOICE TO SING WITH
Joan Baez
Summit Books, $19.95, 378 pp.
Patrick Lacefield
I honestly can't remember when I first heard Joan Baez, her achingly pure soprano...
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