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Vol. 115 Issue 005 (March 11 1988)
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Vol. 115 Issue 006 (March 25 1988)
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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COY, PATRICK G.; BELTH, ZOE L.; BERGMAN, ROGER; CRONK, SISTER MARION; FLICK, CATHY; Slavick, William H.
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CORRESPONDENCE
'Maintaining perspective on peace'
AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS
Lopsided leaching
St. Louis, Mo.
To the Editors: In your editorial ["Maintaining Perspective," January 29] you saw fit to take...
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Editorials
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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COMMONWEAL
A light in the attic
The energy crisis of the 1970s made this country take a deep look at itself. Somewhere a light went on. We realized that we were not only squandering our resources,...
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Lessons from Amherst:
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Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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LESSONS FROM AMHERST
DRAGNET OR AGENDA FOR ACTION?
An ugly headline on the front page of a recent Sunday edition of the Boston Globe reads: "RACIAL ACTS STAIN IVORY tow- ERS." The article goes on to...
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'Glasnost' meets the Wall:
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Fleischman, Janet
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'GLASNOST' MEETS THE WALL
THE LONG WAY TO REFORM
The East German government has launched an undeclared war on opposition activity and, perhaps, on Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glas-nost. On...
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Pilgrims of the absolute:
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Garvey, John
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PILGRIMS OF THE ABSOLUTE
THE SEARCH THAT NEVER ENDS
Julius Lester, the author of a number of books (including the excellent To Be a Slave, a Newberry award winner which really should be required...
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Taking on the super-rivals:
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Hehir, J Bryan
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J. Bryan Hehir
TAKING ON THE SUPER-RIVALS
REACTIONS TO THE POPE'S LATEST ENCYCLICAL
John Paul IPs latest encyclical, The Social Concern of the Church, has raised hopes and hackles. The latter are...
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Death in the convent:
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Sauro, Joan
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DEATH IN THE CONVENT
OUR DAYS ARE LIKE GRASS
JOAN SAURO
From the outside the three-story, grey stone structure looks imposing, something like a fortress, secure. Set upon a hill, surrounded by...
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Verse:
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Lindeman, Jack
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Jack Lindeman Growing Deaf
I am tired of listening
with my cars shaped like knotholes
and nothing in sight.
I lie down in my own trough
and Iced on my mind.
Each nibble enriches a thought,
each...
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Still awaiting the second spring:
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Gneuhs, Geoffrey
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STILL AWAITING THE SECOND SPRING
GEOFFREY GNEUHS
CZECHOSLOVAKIA'S CLANDESTINE CHURCH
Since January of this year, over 300,000 citizens of Czechoslovakia have signed a document petitioning their...
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Rome welcomes married priests:
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Fichter, Joseph H
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Bohemia because of his efforts to rid his country of German domination. Today a more insidious domination exists. For Pope John Paul to acknowledge the significance John Hus has in the national and...
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Screen:
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O'Brien, Tom
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SCREEN
YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN
MALLE'S 'ENFANTS' & HUBERT'S 'HIGHWAY'
Ever since Frangois Truffaut made his two gems that gently deromanticized youth (the autobiographical 400 Blows and the historical...
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Stage:
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE
THE FOREST & THE TREES
BLESSING'S 'WALK'
My introduction to Lee Blessing's work came in 1986 with the premiere of Eleemosynary at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre of New Plays; it has since...
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Levine & Co/The Takeover Game:
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Janeway, Eliot
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BOOKS
Nad bulls & sweet intoxication
A funny thing hap-pened to the coun- try's bookshops on the eve of the selling panic that hit Wall Street last October. They were hit by a buying panic. The...
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The Old Enemy:
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Russell, Jeffrey Burton
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THE OLD ENEMY
SATAN AND THE COMBAT MYTH
Neil Forsyth
Princeton, $67.50, 506 pp.
Jeffrey Burton Russell
The Old Enemy is a book on the development of the literary, mythological, legendary, and...
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Rich in Love/A Southern Family:
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Rowen, Suzanne
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THE SOUTH RISES & FALLS
RICH IN LOVE Josephine Humphreys Viking, $16.95, 261 pp. A SOUTHERN FAMILY Gail Godwin Morrow, $18.95, 540 pp.
Suzanne Rowen
Two southern women writers-Humphreys with her...
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Upon This Rock:
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Gallagher, Michael
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SIMON PETER REMEMBERS
UPON THIS ROCK
THE LIFE OF ST. PETER Walter F. Murphy Macmillan, $19.95, 538 pp.
Michael Gallagher
In Flannery O'Connor's short story " A Good Man is Hard to Find," a...
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