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Vol. 115 Issue 009 (May 6 1988)
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Vol. 115 Issue 010 (May 20 1988)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Other side of optimism Athens, Ga. To the Editors: Virginia M. Bouvier's piece on contemporary Paraguay ["On the Threshold," February 12] implies that democracy is just around the...
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Editorials
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COMMONWEAL Demon Runyon Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has written that the Supreme Court as an institution has steadily grown in authority and public trust because of its overall performance...
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The worker's mite
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Amidei, Nancy
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MINIMUM-WAGE LEGISLATION THE WORKER'S MITE TO BE PAID & STILL POOR Having a job ought to mean something: food on the table, a place to live, a way to pay the doctor when the kids get sick....
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Old business & new
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Russett, Bruce
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THE CHALLENGE OF PEACE' OLD BUSINESS & NEW THE BISHOPS, SDI, & DETERRENCE The National Conference of Catholic Bishops' ad hoc Committee on the Moral Evaluation of Deterrence Policy has released...
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Distraction at the heart
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey DISTRACTION AT THE HEART WHAT WILL WE PASS ON? Recently I read Geir Kjet-saa's Fyodor Dostoyev-sky: A Writer's Life (Vi- king, 1987). It is a solid and interesting...
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Letting Sanji die
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Beverly, Elizabeth; Fox, Richard Wightman
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LETTING SANJI DIE HOW CULTURES UNDERSTAND DEATH & LOSS ELIZABETH BEVERLY & RICHARD WIGHTMAN FOX Historians and anthropologists have had a lot to say to one another lately. Historians have learned...
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Poetry
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Hazo, Samuel
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Samuel Hazo Update Trying to toughen where the hurt came once and where it stays, you learn too late that nothing heals, that years are poultices, not cauteries. It takes so little for the...
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Screen
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O'Brien, Tom
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SCREEN MAGNIFICENT 'POWAQQATSI' A MIXTURE OF REGGIO & GLASS Powaqqatsi is the Hopi word for "the sorcerer who steals from life,'' and the first sign of this film's unusual significance....
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An interview with Godfrey Reggio
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O'Brien, Tom
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An interview with the director GSHl odtrey Reggio may be the only film director whose conversation ranges from the Hopi to Thonuis Aquinas, from papal encyclicals (especially those of John XXIII)...
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Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
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Bernstein, Richard J.
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BOOKS Philosophy & virture for society's sake A lasdair Maclntyre is one of the most thought-provoking philosophers of our time. The title of one of his earlier books, Against the Self-image of...
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Poetry
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Porter, Anne
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Anne Porter Farmyard by Moonlight There must be a farmer asleep under the eaves Filling his room with the surf-like sound of his breathing. He takes deep draught of rest. Gathering all of it in...
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Quinn's Book
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Quinn, Peter A.
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INCANDESCENT ALBANY QUOIN'S BOOK William Kennedy Viking, $18.95, 273 pp. Peter A. Quinn With Quinn's Book, William Kennedy adds another installment to his Albany Cycle of novels. The first...
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The Yellow Wind
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Baum, Gregory
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NO SHELTER FROM SCORN THE YELLOW WIND David Grossman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $17.95, 216 pp. Gregory Baum Here is what it says on the dust cover: "A brilliant and passionate firsthand report...
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Anthills of the Savannah
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Breslin, John B.
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GHOSTS OF THE COLONIZED ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH Chinua Achebe Doubleday, $16.95, 216 pp. John B. Breslin It has been two decades since Chinua Achebe's last novel (A Man of the People), but...
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Open Mind, Open Heart/The Mystery of Christ
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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THE WAYS OF THE PILGRIMS OPEN HIND, OPEN HEART Thomas Keating Amity House, $8.95 137 pp. THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST The Liturgy as Spiritual Experience Thomas Keating Amity House, $8.95 129...
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Returning
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Redmont, Jane
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WAKEFIELD'S CONFESSIONS RETURNING A Spiritual Journey Dan Wakefield Doubleday, $17.95, 250 pp. Jane Redmont Discovering anew the story of the prodigal son, Dan Wakefield is especially moved "by...
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