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 Vol. 118 Issue 017 (October 11 1991)
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Journey to life Spokane, Wash, To the Editors: I extend to the editors and staff of Commonweal my deep personal appreciation for the special supplement you prepared [August 9] on...
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Editorials
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CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 17 Correspondence 562 Editorials 563 The sounds of Spanglish: Ilan Stavans 564 Poetry: Ernest Kroll 565 Hitting home: Abigail McCarthy 566 ...
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The sounds of Spanglish
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Stavans, Ilan
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of the sick and dying, physicians and nurses, themselves fall prey to the despair of a Trumbull or an Atkins. It is a steadily downward path from there. "If we continue to seek with our present...
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Poetry
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Kroll, Ernest
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Americans, descendents of the oldest Hispanic families in the U.S., look back to 1848, when in a diplomatic compromise, two-fifths of Mexico was sold by Generalissimo Santa Anna to the White...
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Hitting home
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McCarthy, Abigail
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United States. Puerto Ricans are the lowest on the economic the panelists had to refrain from using neologisms--and for that, scale within the Hispanic minority as a whole, even below the were often...
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Bigots & bluster
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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Social philosopher Myriam Medzian, interviewed recently in Time (September 16, 1991), points out that young people in this country are surrounded by a culture of violence. "By the time American...
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Disarming Austin Fagothey
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Douglass, James W.
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the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and resisting every kind of injustice. All of it was building a new society, the kingdom of God, within the shell of the old society. Jesus' vision of God's...
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Looking into the night
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Temme, Leonard A.
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in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The fundamental lesson of the war, which even I was aware of before the meeting opened, was that it was because of our night vision capabilities that we won so...
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Ecclesia semper reformanda: An exchange of views
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Steinfels, Margaret O' Brien; McCabe, Thomas A.
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ECCLESIA SEMPER REFORMANDA AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS MARGARET O'BRIEN STEINFELS THOMAS A. McCABE Our intrepid editor, with the support of her colleagues, went off in mid-June to give a...
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Alleva, Richard
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foul-mouthed, nihilistic ex-psychiatrist, a role that cries out for one of the sleazeball turns in Rip Tom's repertoire, not for Williams's unquenchable cuteness. As a sinister housekeeper, Hanna...
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Weales, Gerald
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zest that the detective, a tough customer, becomes the still center of the lawyer's storm. Even as he tries to respond to the cross- examination, the cop can't help noticing the stress that...
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Wheeler, Edward
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Despite its defects, Another Person was an earnest play in a spirited production in a fine setting. By the time this review appears, the seats, the lights, the performers, the echoing voices will be...
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A Hole in the World/Someday
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Garvey, Michael O.
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if a life lived in such self-imposed con- straints, where "thoughts against thoughts in groans grind," can produce the great poems of the age. The corpus is small and must make up in intensity what...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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here has been a spate of books in recent years dealing with Marian apparitions and shrine sites. Why this should be so is not hard to fathom. Liberationists have an intense interest in popular...
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Vol. 118 Issue 018 (October 25 1991)
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