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Vol. 116 Issue 013 (July 14 1989)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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SEXTON, JOAN; EGAN, JAMES A.; Editors, The; BILLINGS, DR. EVELYN L.
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CORRESPONDENCE Marching for choice Brooklyn, N.Y. To the Editors: It is very sobering, as you say ["The Longer March," May 5] to consider that more than 300,000 people would go to Washington to...
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Editorials
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Birmingham f irehouse From the Birmingham jail to the Birmingham firehouse could be the subtitle of a yet-to-be written history charting the rise and fall of the struggle for racial equality in the...
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Compromise or lose:
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White, Robert E
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COMPROMISE OR LOSE SETTLING FOR A SETTLEMENT Seldom is foreign policy made. First it accumulates; then all too often disintegrates. United States policy toward Central America had moved into the...
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Solidarity's many faces:
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Moore, Kenneth
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SOLIDARITY'S MANY FACES TO GOVERN IS TO CHOOSE A great white banner with Solidarnosc spelled out in red hung from the upper level s of the Gdansk railway station. Billboards and posters throughout...
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As American as freeways:
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Jr, David R Carlin
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AS AMERICAN AS FREEWAYS equal," thereby upholding the South's newly enacted Jim Crow laws by finding them to be not inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause. Nearly...
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Honk if you care:
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McCarthy, Abigail
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HONK IF YOU CARE CHINA NEXT DOOR Those of you who read this column regularly know how often I have inveighed against television because of one of its insidious effects- the tendency of its viewers...
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Never a question of easy grace:
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Baumann, Paul
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NEVER A QUESTION OF EASY GRACE THOMAS KENEALLY'S FANTASTICAL CREATURES What are we to make of a novelist whose lankly numinous attitude toward the womb is best likened to the Lord...
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Meeting God in others:
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Cecala, Kathy Petersen
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MEETING GOD IN OTHERS IN DAIUNESS, SMALL MIRACLES KATHY PETERSEN CECALA THE LAITY & THE LIFE OF FAITH It those times when I think of the Catholic laity, I don't always think of myself as...
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Poetry:
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Shepard, Roy
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Roy Shepard Great Blue Heron The wonder was mutual, I not to be expected. As for myself thought had narrowec vision to the path proper when below me blue of a steel sky soundless his wings reached...
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Screen:
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O'Brien, Tom
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FACTS OF (GHETTO) LIFE 'RIGHT THING' & 'LAST CRUSADE' Spike Lee is now America's leading black filmmaker-perhaps the only one with a firm foothold in Hollywood. In previous films such as She's...
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Eric Gill:
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Gilliam, Robert
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Eric Gill is a figure at least vaguely familiar to many Commonweal readers. The Commonweal masthead is printed in one of Gill's many typefaces (Gill sans ultra bold). In the interwar years and in...
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A Strategy for Peace:
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Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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A STRATEGY FOR PEACE Human Values and the Threat of War Sissela Bok Pantheon, $17.95,202 pp. Jean Belhke Elshtain Prior to World War I, liberal internationalist hopes soared. Some 194 treaties...
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The Russia House:
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Bannon, Barbara A
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THE RUSSIA HODSE John le Carre Knopf, $19.95, 353 pp. Barbara A. Bannon Tantalizingly unlike anything he has written before, even though it deals with the world of spies and counterspies, le...
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Maternal Thinking:
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Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
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MATERNAL THINKING Toward a Politics of Peace Sara Ruddick Beacon Press, $24.95, 291 pp. Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Feminist discourse about male dominance had a frightening moment in the 1970s....
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