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Vol. 119 Issue 017 (October 9 1992)
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••Cover Page••
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Correspondence
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Things look great Morristown, N.J. To the Editors: Congratulations on the issue of September 11, with its fine supplement on the laity. The great Newman is still very much alive. MARTIN J....
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Editorials
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COMMONWEAL Promises, promises here would not seem to be much to choose from between the bombast and xenophobia of the Republican convention in Houston and the Democrats' strident prochoice rally...
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Editor's notebook
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Jordan, Patrick
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AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK PLASTIC OR PRINCIPLE? TO CHOOSE OR NOT TO CHOOSE y father told me never to get a credit card. It was in the early 1960s and the oil companies were after him to take out a...
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Paying for values
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Bates, Timothy D.
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CAMPAIGN '92 PAYING FOR VALUES THE REAL NEEDS OF REAL FAMILIES BS-TV recently reported that only one in three children is now raised in a two-parent home. That is just one indicator of the...
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Designing a stream
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Anderson, Chris
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REPORT FROM OREGON DESIGNING A STREAM MOTHER NATURE'S LITTLE HELPERS "Everything is going to have to be put back. " —W.S. Merwin, "Unchopping a Tree." cott and I are splashing up Portland Creek...
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They just don't get it
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MMDS Abigail McCarthy THEY JUST DON'T GET IT FROM ONE PROSPECTIVE FIRST LADY TO ANOTHER ccording to the new book titled Dirty Politics (Oxford University Press) by Kath-, leen...
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Bread, butter & infrastructure
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Wilber, Charles K.
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BREAD, BUTTER & INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMIC ISSUES IN THE CAMPAIGN CHARLES K. WILBER he 1992 presidential campaign may never provide us with a genuine debate about the state of the American economy....
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What's missing from this picture?
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Landy, Thomas M.
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WHAT'S MISSING FROM thomas m landy THIS PICTURE? NORMAN LEAR EXPLAINS ost Americans know Norman Lear as the man who gave us Archie and Edith Bunker, Fred Sanford, Maude, and...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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CLINT'S DARK VISION EASTWOOD'S 'UNFORGIVEN' With the Westerner, it is a crucial point of honor not to "do it first"; his gun remains in its holster until the moment of combat.. ..The Westerner...
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Stage
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Weales, Gerald
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Eastwood, accompanied by an old pal, Nate, and a young wannabe shootist, the Schofield Kid, takes on the assignment. But wait. We have seen the knifing of that poor whore and Munny hasn't. One...
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Poetry
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Porter, Anne
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Anne Porter Autumn Crocus Some of the leaves Are falling early But there are glinting Dragonflies Hornets in windfalls And a brown honey-bee Searching about In the surviving roses The...
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The Nature of Development/International Banks and the Environment
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Feffer, John
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First world blames third othing challenges our con-temporary notions of progress more thoroughly than the dual deterioration of the environment and the third world. Periodically, we try to exorcise...
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Grand Illusions
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Flaherty, Francis
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INNOCENTS AT HOME & ABROAD GRAND ILLUSIONS Critics and Champions of the American Century John Judis Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25, 344 pp. Francis Flaherty test. Which president said this and...
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Reviving the American Dream
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Siegel, Fred
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SUBSIDIARITY FOREVER REVIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM The Economy, the States, and the Federal Government Alice Rivlin The Brookings Institution, $15.95, 196 pp. Fred Siegel here is no better way to...
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Carnival Culture
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Garvey, Michael O.
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LIKE A SEPTIC TANK CARNIVAL CULTURE The Trashing of Taste in America James B. Twitchell Columbia University Press, $24.95, 306 pp. Michael O. Garvey If you blindfolded yourself and threw a...
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Vol. 119 Issue 018 (October 23 1992)
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