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 Vol. 118 Issue 009 (May 3 1991)
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Vol. 118 Issue 010 (May 17 1991)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE Hopkins misjudged? Newburgh, N.Y. To the Editors: Re John Garvey's piece "Gays & Straights Together" [March 22], in which he insouciantly speaks of the homosexuality of Gerard...
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Editorials
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CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 10 Correspondence 306 Editorials 307 Complicity & corruption: Robert E. White 309 Freedom to believe: Timothy Phalan 311 Going to hell by inches: John Garvey...
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Complicity & corruption
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White, Robert E.
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to be painted in subtle shades of gray rather than in the blackand-white of winning and losing sides. (Copies of the report are available from the Knights of Columbus, 1275 Pennsylvania Ave....
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Freedom to believe
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Phalan, Timothy
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Noriega was a drug trafficker, and they knew that the U.S. government knew. They concluded, therefore, that Noriega and his policies reflected the priorities of the U.S. government. There is no...
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Going to hell by inches
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Garvey, John
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many people who have been helped by the writings of C.S. I~wis. But the older rationalist proofs don't "wash" any more for most people. They have to be communicated differently, starting from the...
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Rabbit loses the race
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Cooper, Rand Richards
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RABBIT LOSES THE RACE JOHN UPDIKE'S 'SMALL ANSWER OF A TEXTURE' / RAND RICHARDS COOPER I n everything he writes, John Updike creates sentences that carry the feeling of having been cared for,...
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Poetry
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Oberg, Robert J.
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the author's part to reach down out of his bourgeois decadence and shake hands with Rabbit's blue-collar, conservative toughness. An unseemly air of savage satisfaction surrounds Rabbit's most...
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To die in New Orleans
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O'Laughlin, Michael
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stand and look out the window instead. The partnership with death details an intimate secrecy the reader is privileged to share. For Harry, the path toward cardiac disaster is strewn with illicit...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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or a mental case leading the parade. Percy's Catholicism, acquainted with sorrow, familiar with failings and yet confident in God, belongs and connects in that swampy, beautiful place. I found...
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Stage
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Weales, Gerald
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But the dialogue in the trial scenes is so lifeless that Torn starts to labor visibly, the way all good actors do when they are asked to supply the wit that their scripts lack. Lee Grant as the...
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Media
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McConnell, Frank
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at a high emotional moment being forced to sing about there being days like this, and the Chris-Kim duet about the "song on a solo saxophone." There are several vigorous and very...
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A search for the 'unfettered self
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Baumann, Paul
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MANY GORDON ON LIFE & LITERATURE A search for the 'unfettered self' PAUL BAUMANN PAUL BAUMANN is associate editor of Commonweal. "agreeable fantasy." But, as so often with people this writer...
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Why Amricans Hate Politics
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McWilliams, Wilson Carey
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place--we are replaceable. Is this how we should think of new life? Where have Gordon's "irreplaceable fiches" gone? In fact, the sexual relationship between men and women is asymmetrical....
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The Promised Land
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Wycliff, Don
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inspired neoconservatism's doubts about the efficacy of state planning and its conviction that the bureaucratic "New Class" was undermining the civil and social decencies--a view shared, on...
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India
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McGowan, Jo
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Lemann says, by a critical policy mistake. Johnson embraced "community action," an idea cooked up by the Kennedy team, as the central precept of the war on poverty. Not only did community action...
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The Conscience of the Eye
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Lasch, Christopher
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book's main flaw. Most Indians love to tell stories. They seem to believe that one cannot understand them without knowing their entire history, their relationships with obscure aunts and...
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American Steel
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Bensman, David
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Against the City, announced the direction of his work in 1970. The title conveys the one-dimensional character of Sennett's thinking. He has never been able to grasp the way in which families...
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Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
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Haegel, Nancy M.
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THE UNIVERSE AS SAGGING MATTRESS LONELY HEARTS OF THE COSMOS Dennis Overbye HarperCollins, $25,430 pp. Nancy M. Haegel he title conjures up a romantic novel, but the romance is...
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The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
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Gromer, Crystal
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questions, though profound, are not religious. How did the universe come to be here? What will happen to it? No one with a sense of past or future can fail to be stirred by those questions...
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The Litany of the Great River
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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BREATHING UNDERWATER THE LITANY OF THE GREAT RIVER Meinrad Craighead Paulist Press, $18.95, 76pp. 30 color illus. Margaret O'Brien S t e i n f e l s n a former life at a previous magazine, I...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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he New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship carries on the reference book tradition begun with Glazier's The New Dictionary of Theology (1987). A third volume on spirituality, now in...
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