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 Vol. 119 Issue 005 (March 13 1992)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE A feminist, but... Drexel Hill, Pa. To the Editors: I could easily identify with David Carlin's recent column ["I'm Not a Feminist, But..." January 17]. I know plenty of women...
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Editorials
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COMMONWEAL 'Roe' redux Even though defeated at the last moment by its highest court, the Irish government's attempt to bar a fourteen-year-old girl from traveling to England for an abortion...
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An editor's notebook
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK WHY THEY DIED ACCOUNTABILITY AT CITY COLLEGE On December 28, nine young people, AfricanAmericans, died at the bottom of a stairwell leading to a basement gym at the City...
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Bush faltering
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Chapin, Jim
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CAMPAIGN '92 BUSH FALTERING IS TSONGAS A REPUBLICAN? Since it began in 1952, the New Hampshire primary has taken on mythic power in American politics. One of its "rules" is that if the vote for...
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The church's teaching
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Connors, Russell B. Jr.
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CONTRACEPTION & COMMUNION THE CHURCH'S TEACHING BISHOP FLAVIN HAS IT WRONG Bishop Glennon Flavin of Lincoln, Nebraska, has written a pastoral letter to Catholic couples of his diocese warning...
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Bush's ambivalence
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Callahan, David
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REPORT ON THE UNITED NATIONS BUSH'S AMBIVALENCE SOVEREIGNTY OR COOPERATION? Not long ago, the United Nations served as Exhibit A for Republican presidents anxious to discredit "idealistic"...
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A choice in Rhode Island
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. A CHOICE IN RHODE ISLAND CARLIN'S LIFE & HARD TIMES From time to time in this space I have made mention of my favorite vice: I have spent the last eleven...
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Small changes, big losses
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy SMALL CHANGES, BIG LOSSES BUTCHER, BAKER, DRESSMAKER The receptionist at the dentist has told me that she is retiring and I feel suddenly bereft. Lois has...
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Who's doing Catholic theology?
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Egan, Robert J.
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WHO'S DOING CATHOLIC THEOLOGY? ROBERT J. EGAN AND WHY, HOW & WHERE? The word "theology" means discourse about the divine mystery, an organized way of thinking and talking about God, or the...
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Poetry
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Pavlich, Walter
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Nearer than the door
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Cunneen, Joseph
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NEARER THAN THE DOOR JOSEPH CUNNEEN A TOURIST IN IRELAND It was a naive idea—to learn something about Ireland in two weeks. Like too many Irish-Americans, Sally and I were shamefully ignorant...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN BRILLIANT ODDITY TOLKIN'S 'THE RAPTURE' I've just seen the most original, the most audacious, the most disturbing American film of the last two decades. And you haven't. And you're not...
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Stage
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE DOWN THE TUBES BLUE MAN GROUP 'PIECES' When the advertisement for Blue Man Group's Tubes appeared last fall, it looked like a case of upward-mobility tidying. When I first saw Matt...
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Media
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McConnell, Frank
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MEDIA ERIC CLAPTON'S GENIUS A MENSCH WHO PLAYS THE BLUES “Clapton is God." That was the graffito scrawled all over London in the late sixties. It is, for sure, one of the most famous graffiti...
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Lenten book suggestions
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Our pre-Vatican 11 flirtation with Latin heralded Lent's arrival with the sobering, if scarcely deniable dictum: "In medio vitae jam mortui sumus—in the midst of life we already taste...
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The Great Dissent
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Spaeth, Robert L.
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BOOKS Was Newman a failure? THE GREAT DISSENT John Henry Newman and the Liberal Heresy Robert Pattison Oxford University Press, $29.95, 231 pp. Robert L. Spaeth N ewman a failure? It is...
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The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day
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Scott, David
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THE MORAL VISION OF DOROTHY DAY A Feminist Perspective June E. O'Connor Crossroad, $16.95, 123 pp. David Scott MORE THAN A FEMINIST At first blush, Dorothy Day wouldn't seem to make much of...
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The Evangelist of Desire/The Divine Dramatist/ John Wesley's Sermons
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Moore, Arthur J.
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GREAT REVIVALISTS THE EVANGELIST OF DESIRE John Wesley and the Methodists Henry Abelove Stanford University Press, $25, 136 pp. THE DIVINE DRAMATIST George Whitefield and the Rise of...
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Jocoserious Joyce
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Hederman, Mark Patrick
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MORE THAN A JOKER JOCOSERIOUS JOYCE The Fate of Folly in Ulysses Robert H. Bell Cornell University Press, $24.95, 233 pp. Mark Patrick Hederman There is a story told at nearly every Joycean...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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The early days Lawrence S. Cunningham Rather like a fashion photographer who "shoots" a model from many angles and with many frames in order to capture one subject, Kingsbury looks at the...
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Vol. 119 Issue 006 (March 27 1992)
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