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 Vol. 117 Issue 009 (May 4 1990)
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Vol. 117 Issue 010 (May 18 1990)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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Howe we forgot New Haven, Conn. To the Editors: It's a good Religious Book Issue this year [March 9]; I profited, as always. However, Gertrude Nelson's piece contains what might be called an...
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Editorials
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Renewing the covenant In the face of mounting allegations of sexual wrongdoing and financial improprieties, the Rev. Bruce Ritter, O.F.M. Conv., resigned as president of Covenant House February 28....
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A deluge of images
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Garvey, John
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OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey A DELUGE OF IMAGES WHY WORRY ABOUT MAPPLETHORPE? So many of the arguments over such things as the Mapplethorpe exhibit and the limits, or lack of them, on the...
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The paradoxes of Covenant House
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Redmond, Rosanne Haggerty; Redmond, Mark
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THE PARADOXES OF COVENANT HOUSE MYTHMAKING & LIVESAVING ROSANNE HAGGERTY REDMOND MARK REDMOND Tommy called us not long ago. He had successfully completed a drug rehabilitation program in North...
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An honest day's work
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Wilkes, Paul
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AN HONEST DAY'S WORK GETTING REJECTED ISN'T ALL BAD PAUL WILKES THE LAITY &THE LIFE OF FAITH The Notre Dame Sisters at St. Benedict's grade school and the Marianists at Cathedral...
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Screen
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Baumann, Paul
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ROCKIN' & ROLLIN' 'CRY-BABY' & 'MYSTERY TRAIN' In Soul on Ice (McGraw-Hill, 1968) Eldridge Cleaver identified the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision as the pivotal event in...
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Poetry
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Fandel, John
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John Fandel Someone Says So A rift becomes Grand Canyon, given time- Ten zillion years, give or take a day. Gulley to gulch takes less almost to rime. And so "the little rift within the lute"...
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Media
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McConnell, Frank
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OUR TOWN LYNCH'S 'TWIN PEAKS' For years now readers of Graham Greene have been referring to the fascinating, seedy, morally ambiguous landscape of his novels as "Greeneland." Now, with the advent...
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Picturing Will
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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BOOKS Ann Beattie: less than minimal Last November, Harper's Magazine published a lengthy essay by Tom Wolfe, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast," in the which the New Journalist-cum-Newer...
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The Catholic Myth
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Wycliff, Don
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PUGNACITY & VISION THE CATHOLIC MYTH The Behavior and Beliefs of American Catholics Andrew M. Greeley Macmillan, $21.95,309 pp. Don Wycliff Andrew Greeley's ostensible purpose in The...
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The Political Meaning of Christianity
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Fox, Richard Wightman
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WHERE SIN ABOUNDS THE POLITICAL MEANING OF CHRISTIANITY Glenn Tinder Louisiana State University Press, $29.95,243 pp. Richard Wightman Fox Clenn Tinder calls his book a "personal statement," and...
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The Message to the Planet
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Marget, Madeline
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OVERWHELMED BUT UNDAUNTED THE MESSAGE TO THE PLANET Iris Murdoch Viking, $22.95,563pp. Madeline Marget Reading The Message to the Planet, one can almost feel the world spin. In her latest novel...
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What Kind of Life
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Higgins, Thomas
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TAKING OUR MEDICINE WHAT KIND OF LIFE The Limits of Medical Progress Daniel Callahan Simon & Schuster, $19.95, 318 pp. Thomas Higgins The health-care system in America could, with moral...
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The Rockets' Red Glare
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Appy, Christian
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ENGINEERING CONSENT THE ROCKETS' RED GLARE When America Goes to War, The Presidents & the People Richard J. Barnet Simon & Schuster, $24.95,476 pp. Christian Appy In case Germany attacks,...
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The Kneeling Bus
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Ellsberg, Peggy R.
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WAISTBANDS & EPIPHANIES THE KNEELING BOS Beverly Coyle Houghton Mifain: Ticknor & Fields, $18.95, 184pp. Peggy R. Ellsberg The eight interlocking stories in this gentle, hilarious first novel...
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Diamonds in the Rough
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Brinkman, Thomas E. Jr.
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THE CRACK OF THE BAT DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH The Untold History of Baseball Joel Zoss and John Bowman Macmillan, $29.95,480 pp. Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. Not too long ago, baseball's off-season...
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