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 Vol. 121 Issue 003 (February 11 1994)
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Vol. 121 Issue 004 (February 25 1994)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE The splendor of irony Newton Centre, Mass. To the Editors: As a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a Master's student in the theology department of Boston College, I...
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Editorial
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COMMONWEAL Wailing for Godot Last August, Susan Sontag, the American writer, went to Sarajevo to direct Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. Against criticism that doing theater in the midst...
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Notebook
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Baumann, Paul
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NOTEBOOK FEAR OF FLYING UNRAVELING WITH MICHAEL & LIZ We went to Florida before Christmas to visit with my wife's parents. We flew. To be honest, I'm not wild about flying. Like anything...
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Can we ban land mines?
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Drinan, Robert F.
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DANGER UNDER FOOT CAN WE BAN LAND MINES? THEY KILL ANYONE Land mines kill people, or maim them, because they're hidden. Most are buried, some are camouflaged. Step on one of them, or brush past...
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A conference on racism
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Bowman, Jim
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REPORT FROM CHICAGO A CONFERENCE ON RACISM CORNEL WEST WOWS THEM At a bishops-sponsored conference on racism February 2-5 at Chicago's Bismarck Hotel, "Healing the Past.. .Creating the Future,"...
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Medical progress
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Hogeboom, William L.
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D Medical progress espite the recently announced opposition of the Business Round Table, two news reports from late last year might be hopeful signs for...
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Hope from the Middle East
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Hehir, J. Bryan
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WORLD WATCH J. Bryan Hehir HOPE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TWO PROMISING PACTS T he pattern of world politics in 1993 illustrated just how violent and chaotic the postcold war era could be....
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That's Ms. to you, Bub
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McCarthy, Abigail
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OF SEVERAL MIMPS Abigail McCarthy THAT'S MS. TO YOU, BUB ON THE ADVICE OF GRANDMOTHER & MISS MANNERS T oward the end of last year a provocative column appeared in the...
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Date rape fallacies
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr. DATE RAPE FALLACIES CAN THERE BE PURELY VOLUNTARY ACTS? Like many others, I have been puzzled by the theory and practice of date rape. When I first...
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Giving up the gift
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Gray, Madelein
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GIVING UP THE GIFT ONE WOMAN'S ABORTION DECISION MADELEIN GRAY Until I crashed against my limitations, I seemed to be the perfect Catholic mother. I was known as an active parishioner and...
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Screen
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN ARIAS & GIGGLES 'PHILADELPHIA' & 'FATHER' Philadelphia deals with two subjects, one explicitly, the other implicitly, and neither one of them is AIDS. Each theme has its own...
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Poetry
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Nixon, John Jr.
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John Nixon, Jr. Four Feel around the Square About as thin as the sheet music They didn't have, my teen-aged uncle And Plussy, only slightly fatter And black as...
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Media
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McConnell, Frank
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MEDIA TAKE MY WIFE—PLEASE GOOD (DEEDS) TO THE LAST DROP If you check out the November 22, 1993, issue of People, you may have caught, on the recto page of the centerfold, a rather enigmatic ad...
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A History of African-American Artists from 1792 to the Present, by Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson
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Moses, Wilson J.
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Untold stories, unseen pictures T his handsome book was coauthored by the late Romare Bearden, one of the most beloved African-American artists of our time, and Harry Henderson, a gifted...
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The Rage of a Privileged Class Ellis Cose
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Wycliff, Don
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YES, BUT IT COULD BE WORSE THE RAGE OF A PRIVILEGED CLASS Ellis Cose HarperCollins, $20, 192 pp. Don Wycliff In his novel The Fall, Albert Camus puts into the mouth of his narrator the story...
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Fire with Fire Naomi Wolf
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Collins, Clare
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GENDERQUAKES & AFTERSHOCKS FIRE WITH FIRE The New Female Power and How It Will Change the 21st Century Naomi Wolf Random House, $21, 353 pp. Clare Collins I was apprehensive about...
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The Gnat Is Older than Man, by Christopher D. Stone/Ultimate Security, by Norman Myers
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Worth, Robert
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WARMING TO A GLOBAL ETHIC THE GNAT IS OLDER THAN NAN Global Environment and Human Agenda Christopher D. Stone Princeton University Press, $21.95, 341 pp. ULTIMATE SECURITY The Environmental...
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The Rest of Life Mary Gordon
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Breslin, John B.
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BETWEEN A ROMP & REDEMPTION THE REST OF LIFE Three Novellas Mary Gordon Viking, $22, 257 pp. John B. Breslin Three stories; three women; four men (one a father) to whom the women are...
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Religious booknotes
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Cunningham, Lawrence S.
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RELIGIOUS BOOKNOTES Art, texture &tone in theology Lawrence S. Cunningham There is an old saw that says "every analogy limps" (omnis analogia claudicaf). Be that as it may, analogies can...
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More hungry boys
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Logan, Bob
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THE LAST WORD More hungry boys BOB LOGAN In the spring of 1933, I was sixteen years old, plowing cotton from daylight to dark. The entire country was poor, but my family had been hit...
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