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 Vol. 122 Issue 014 (August 18 1995)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence:
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AMES, RUTH M.; COLLINS, (MSGR.) TIMOTHY S.; SPRADLEY, JOHN; MURPHY, JOHN D.; PRICE, M. DANIEL; McCarthy, Abigail; JR., WALLINGTON M. S1MPSON
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CORRESPONDENCE Perfection, please Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: No wonder there's a shortage of priests. Who could meet the standards of the critics who write to Com-monweal? [Correspondence, May...
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Editorials:
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Hiroshima 1945 This editorial is reprinted from the Commonweal issue of August 24, 1945. Two months ago (June 22) we were writing about poison gas. We said: 'To the Orient we are bringing the...
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Notebook:
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Jordan, Patrick
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NOTEBOOK IN THE BOMB WE TRUST REFLECTIONS It wasn't exactly love at first sight, but over the past fifty years, the bomb has become an accepted part of our lives, our most significant Significant...
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Hanoi's victory undone?:
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Schroth, Raymond A
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REPORT FROM ABROAD-I HANOI'S VICTORY UNDONE? VIETNAM EMBRACES THE MARKET Ho Chi Minh's corpse glows under the yellow light. A twenty-second glimpse and we are out of the air-conditioned tomb and...
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Prague spring:
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Imbelli, Robert P
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REPORT FROM ABROAD-II PRAGUE SPRING CZECHS ENCOUNTER PLURALISM Prague last spring resounded with the sounds of music and the tramp of tourists' feet. Hundreds of concerts, large and small;...
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The lessons of World War II:
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Hehir, J Bryan
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WORLD WATCH J. Bryan Hehir THE LESSONS OF WORLD WAR II WAR MUST BE LIMITED Writing about the anniversary of Hiroshima is never easy; doing it while wit-nessing the savagery of Bosnia is...
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki:
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Loebs, Bruce
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HIROSHIMA & NAGASAKI ONE NECESSARY EVIL, ONE TRAGIC MISTAKE BRUCE LOEBS Winston Churchill and Harry Truman found biblical metaphors to describe their first reaction to the atomic bomb....
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An eye on history:
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Doyle, Brian
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An eye on history On August 1,1945, as the bomb called Little Boy (by those who delivered it) and Original Child (by those who received it) was being assembled on the island of Tinian, my father,...
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Poetry:
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Siegel, Joan I
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Joan I. Siegel Hiroshima 1991 The woman says: Everyone ran to the river and jumped in. There I found my father, a miracle. We floated downstream with all the burning dead. The man says: I...
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Saving Jews was her passion:
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Phayer, Michael
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SAVING JEWS WAS HER PASSION SERVING SURVIVORS WAS HER AGONY MICHAEL PHAYER Margarete Sommer of Berlin was forty years old when Hitler came to power. Unmarried all her life, Sommer was a...
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Screen:
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN SUSPENDED ANIMATION 'POCAHONTAS' & 'BATMAN' Could a cenobite escape them? No. The monastery's computer might break down and a repair person would show up wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with...
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Pope John Paul II, by Tad Szulc:
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Englund, Steven
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BOOKS Coped crusader POPE JOHN PAUL II The Biography Tad Szulc Scribner, $25,542 pp. Steven Englund Pity the poor devil ('s advocate, that is) who will be assigned when, inevitably, John Paul...
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Riding the Rap, by Elmore Leonard:
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Worth, Robert
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PLUMBING THE SHALLOWS RIDING THE RAP Elmore Leonard Delacorte, $22.95, 294 pp. Robert Worth Elmore Leonard has been writing great crime fiction for years with the same cozy formulas, the same...
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John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, by Alan Ryan:
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Elshtain, Jean Bethke
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LIBERALISM'S PHILOSOPHER JOHN DEWEY AND THE HIGH TIDE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM Alan Ryan W. W. Norton, $30,448 pp. Jean Belhke Elshlain Political philosopher Alan Ryan has written a brisk,...
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Know thine enemy:
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Westerfield, Nancy G
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THE LAST WORD Know thine enemy NANCY G. WESTERFIELD Fifty years ago, they fought on opposite sides in the Pacific war that scarred them both. One is the professor-husband whom I married in 1950,...
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