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 Vol. 119 Issue 011 (June 5 1992)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE No sauce for the gender New York, N.Y. To the Editors: I am deeply hurt after reading about the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on women. I want to tell them that if God...
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Editorials
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COMMONWEAL What's the rush? If Horace was correct that the source of justice is the fear of injustice, then American justice is in trouble. When he first refused to commute the death sentence of...
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An editor's notebook
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Hoyt, Robert G.
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AN EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK 'KENNEDY CALLING' CHURCH, STATE & SCHOOLS Without invitation, I want to butt into the argument going on in these precincts over the idea of granting vouchers or tax...
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Arming Saddam Hussein
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Barnard, Patrick
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THE BNL SCANDAL ARMING SADDAM HUSSEIN A WASHINGTON COVER-UP? Just as the 1992 presidential campaign really begins, the Bush administration finds itself faced with a major scandal, what the...
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Ambiguity & hierarchy
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Carraro, Robert J.
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JAPAN IN TRANSLATION AMBIGUITY & HIERARCHY WHY AMERICANS DON'T GET IT Language is something that most of us take for granted. Yet it is the ability to communicate with one another that binds us...
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Legends live on
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Houghton, William J.
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A FATHER'S IMAGE OF THE PAST LEGENDS LIVE ON ALIVE, CRANKY, WARTS & ALL By mid-high school, our children often rushed past me, shouting back that they would be home later, and it grew harder to...
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'Of all the gin joints'
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MINDS Abigail McCarthy 'OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS' HEROES WANTED It was sheer pleasure to see Casablanca whole, uninterrupted, and uncut after fifty years. Somehow I had missed seeing...
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The business of being Perot
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin Jr. THE BUSINESS OF BEING PEROT THE ANTINOMIAN CANDIDATE It must be the effect of advancing age, but I seem to be getting cranky about nearly everything...
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Eureka moments
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Haegel, Nancy M.
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EUREKA MOMENTS NANCY M. HAEGEL THE PRAYERS OF AN ENGINEER The alarm rings at 6 A.M. I mumble a "good morning" to the Lord, kiss my husband, and listen to the radio. Unlike the first two,...
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Poetry
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Gross, Pamela
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Commonweal 5 June 1992:...
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When Catholics could sing
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McKenna, Edward J.
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WHEN CATHOLICS COULD SING EDWARD. McKENNA WHO WAS GIULIO ROSPIGLIOSI? Who was Giulio Rospigliosi? My own introduction came through obscure references in musical dictionaries. He was the...
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Stage
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Weales, Gerald
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STAGE GROUP CRISES 'TWO TRAINS' & 'CONVERSATIONS' There is a running gag in August Wilson's Two Trains Running which works in a variety of ways, as running gags have a way of doing. West,...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN ROBERT ALTMAN IS BACK 'THE PLAYER' In his glory days, Robert Altman was a subverter of conventional stories. He took a standard service-comedy novel and turned it into that ode to hip...
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Poetry
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Gross, Pamela
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20: 5 June 1992...
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Two Nations/Race
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Wycliff, Don
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BOOKS Can we all get along? TWO NATIONS Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal Andrew Hacker Charles Scribner's Sons, $24.95, 257 pp. RACE How Blacks and Whites Think & Feel about the...
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The Place Where Souls Are Born
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Swick, Thomas
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TRAVELS WITH TOM THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN A Journey into the American Southwest Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris Simon & Schuster, $20, 249 pp. Thomas Swick Here is an...
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Siegel, Lee
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AN UNFLAPPABLE MUSE VLADIMIR NABOKOV The American Years Brian Boyd Princeton University Press, $35, 783 pp. Lee Siegel Though he hoarded the physical details of existence with the exactness...
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Point Blank
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Doyle, Kevin
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WHO BUYS GUNS? POINT BLANK Guns and Violence in America Gary Kleck Aldine de Gruyter, $59.95, 512 pp. Kevin Doyle Whether taken as symptomatic of our bloodthirst or proof of our...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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William M. Thompson has produced an impressive record of publication over the past decade or so ranging from a comprehensive Christology and a study of the saints as a locus for the doing of...
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Vol. 119 Issue 012 (June 19 1992)
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