CORRESPONDENCE Too mean to Pat Scranton, Pa. To the Editors: Your mean-spirited and ad hominem attack on Pat Buchanan [October 26], with its gratuitous insults of President Ronald Reagan,...
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The wailing game Sometimes elections bring unexpected results. But the real surprise of this month's largely inconclusive political brawl occurred two days after the polls closed. That's when the...
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MONSIGNOR JOZEF TISO A SPECTER HAUNTING SLOVAKIA This past July, the unveiling of a memorial plaque to Msgr. Jozef Tiso, the president of Slovakia during World War n, in the town of Banovce nad...
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ALL IS GRACE J. Bryan Hehir THE PRIESTLY LIFE OF SHAWN SHEEHAN On October 24, 1990, the church in Boston buried a "great priest." Shawn Sheehan-a priest of the archdiocese for forty-nine years,...
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CLARITY, NOT CONSOLATION RELIGION ISN'T THERAPY recently read an article-it appeared in the September 24 issue of the New Republic and is worth looking up-which offered a brilliant reading of the...
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AN ETHICAL CHALLENGE TO PROCHOICE ADVOCATES ABORTION & THE PLURALISTIC PROPOSITION DANIEL CALLAHAN At the heart of much moral debate in America lies a simple and popular conviction: the law...
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A POLITICAL CHALLENGE TO THE PROLIFE MOVEMENT TOWARD A POST-'WEBSTER' AGENDA JAMES R. KELLY It is tough for anyone to talk about abortion, but Catholics ran up against a particular difficulty...
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SCREEN WHAT WRITERS DO 'HENRY & JUNE' Just as opera characters must sing, movie characters must move or at least give the camera something to look at. But suppose a filmmaker takes a writer as...
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STAGE YOUNG WOMAN IN A WEB 'MACHINAL' AT THE PUBLIC Numor has it that Joseph Papp asked Michael Greiftojoin the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater after seeing his production of Sophie...
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CLASH OF ABSOLUTES Laurence H. Tribe W.W. Norton, $19.95,270 pp. Daniel A. Degnan This book, powerful in one way, is also a study in inverted argument. Ostensibly presenting both sides of the...
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FOREIGN STUDIES Shusaku Endo (Translated from the Japanese by Mark Williams) Under Press/Simon and Schuster, $18.95,232 pp. Elizabeth Beverly Consider this book. The author calls it a novel even...
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