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IssueVol. 122 Issue 017 (October 6 1995)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
SPIELBERGER, JOEY; ZIMMERMAN, SILVIA B.; McTAGGART, BILL; HOFF, MARIE; McMENAMIN, ELIZABETH; Koller, Christopher F.; MAHONEY, (REV.) JOHN P.; MAHONY, JOHN F.; LORENZONI, (REV.) LARRY N.
CORROSPONDENCE Buy the rug that smiles I was watching a Chicago Cubs baseball game on television when my dad came downstairs and read to me the article by Abigail McCarthy on child labor ("Pulling...
Paid articleEditorial The pope at the UN
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
EDITORIALS The pope at the UN as reported ahead of time in these pages ["Caped Crusader Conquers Gotham," October 6], John Paul II swept New Yorkers and just about everyone else within reach of a TV...
Paid articleOn the way to the altar Both those for and against the requirement of priestly celibacy have something in common: poor arguments
Jr, David R Carlin
DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. ON THE WAY TO THE ALTAR Should priests be allowed to say 'I do'? I admit to having no very decided convictions on the burning question of whether the Catholic church should...
Paid articleGoing it alone Americans have tuned in and tuned out
McCarthy, Abigail
ABIGAIL MCCARTHY GOING IT ALONE Americans are no longer joiners At last, it seems to me, responsible professionals are beginning to concede what anyone with plain common sense recognized long...
Paid articleWhy we need a second party The Left has lost cohesion, so the center is moving Right
Jr, E J Dionne
E. J. Dionne, Jr. WHY WE NEED A SECOND PARTY When will the Democrats organize? Eefore Americans embark on an adventure with a third political party, they might consider the advantages of having a...
Paid articleThe underworld in Russia From the Czarists and the Communists, the new Russia inherits thugs
Fleet, Robert
Robert Fleet THE UNDERWORLD IN RUSSIA It's been there all along American media were shocked by the assassination of Moscow journalist Vladislav Listyev last March. Listyev was a TV personality, and...
Paid articleDoes your diocese have a council?
Broderick, Bill
Bill Broderick DOES YOUR DIOCESE HAVE A COUNCIL? No sacralization without representation Does your diocese have a Diocesan Pastoral Council? I learned recently that mine does not, but since it is...
Paid articleA CRACK BETWEEN THE WORLDS Burying the dead in Oklahoma Living with the dead in Mexico
Roy, Ann
A CRACK BETWEEN THE WORLDS The Mexican way of death Ann Roy Newly arrived in Guanajuato many years ago, I was fascinated by the colorful displays of sugar skulls and skeletons that suddenly appeared...
Paid articleFive Wishes
Porter, Anne
Anne Porter Five Wishes I'd like to have a wild bird Perch on my hand Perhaps a sparrow Or a chickadee Sudden with her sharp feet And fragile daring I'd like to see again The etchings Rembrandt...
Paid articleMICROCOSM IN A BOTTLE Remembering his days as a young pathologist, an essayist ruminates on the deadly paradoxes of biological life
Gonzalez-Crussi, F
MICROCOSM IN A BOTTLE The silk rope of life & death F. Gonzalez-Crussi As a young intern assigned to the pathology laboratory of a Catholic hospital run by a monastic order, I was ill-prepared for...
Paid articleClockers
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva 'CLOCKERS': ACTION WITHOUT DRANA Spike Lee, sociologist Peck's bad boy makes good. Thaf s the gist of what most critics have written about Spike Lee's Clockers. You can hear...
Paid articleSandman "If Sandman is a 'comic,' then The Magic Flute is a 'musical' and A Midsummer Night's Dream is a skit"
McConnell, Frank
Frank McConnell EPIC COMICS Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' A few years ago I wrote a column for Commonweal (February 28, 1992) on comic books and how they had become a refuge for some very fine, and very...
Paid articlePostethnic America David A Hollinger
McGreevy, John T
BOOKS From melting pot to salad bowl John T. McGreevy Books about the decline of American nationalism will surely become a growth in-dustry. The term "citizen" frequently seems less relevant than...
Paid articleThe Power of Their Ideas Deborah Meier
Sullivan, William M
A GOOD PLACE FOR CHILDREN William M. Sullivan This book is a valuable addition to the developing literature on effective school reform. Deborah Meier writes not as an educational theorist but as a...
Paid articleBetween Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy Edited by Carol Brightman
Harrington, Stephanie
THE REFUGE OF FRIENDSHIP Much of the response to Be-tween Friends has been of the odd-couple variety. What in their worlds, so foreign to each other, drew together the German-Jewish emigre, who had...
Paid articleConversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics
White, Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes and Robert J.
WHICH CANE FIRST, MIND OR MATH? Conversations on Mind, Hatter, and Mathematics Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes; edited and translated by M. B. DeBevoise Princeton University Press, $24,95, 251...
Paid articleReligion Booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S
RELIGION BOOKKOTES Lawrence S. Cunningham There is not, as Joann Wolski Conn has reminded us, a generic spirituality but only particular spiritualities nourished by past traditions, particular...
Paid articleStill awestruck
Lauder, Robert E
THE LAST WORD STILL AWESTRUCK Robert E. Lauder On a sunny morning in May more than thirty-five years ago I was ordained a Roman Catholic priest. Later that day, reflecting on this unique encounter...
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