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IssueVol. 123 Issue 019 (November 8 1996)
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Paid articleCorrespondence Of conflicts & courtesy
PRENDERGAST, WILLIAM B.; JR., WALLINGTON M. SIMPSON; WRIGHT, CHARLOTTE E.; D'Antonio, William V.; SHONIS, ANTHONY J.
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Illinois's Catholic solon Gregory R. Beabout's article "Catholic Wins" [October 11] says that no Catholic has ever served in the Senate from Illinois in the past. In...
Paid articleEditorial Stop thief! Please!
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Stop thief! Please! Crime is going down. At least that is what the nationwide statistical evidence suggests. And as in so many things, New York City is leading the way. Crime was down 17 percent...
Paid articleEt cetera Faith & treason & charm
ET CETERA FAITH & TREASON & CHARM Historian Antonia Fraser is the biographer of Mary Queen of Scots and the six ill-fated wives of Henry VIII. Her new book, Faith and Treason: The Story of the...
Paid articleHenri Nouwen Our columnist recalls the life and insights of a peripatetic Christian
Garvey, John
OF SEVERAL MINDS JOHN GARVEY HENRI NOUWEN Restless no more Henri Nouwen died recently while visiting his father in Holland-I met him when he was a visiting professor of psychology at Notre Dame in...
Paid articleShusaku Endo In his novels, the twain did meet, and mingle
Coles, Robert
Robert Coles SHUSAKU ENDO At the river's edge With the recent death of Shusaku Endo, in Tokyo, at seventy-three, after a long struggle with hep-atitis, Japan lost one of its foremost novelists,...
Paid articleAHOY! Jack & Stephen go to sea, and Patrick O'Brian takes us along in eighteen volumes
Wheeler, Edward T
AHOY? Patrick O'Brian sails again Edward T. Wheeler The enormous success of Patrick O'Brian's historical novels defies any simple explanation. Perhaps the current interest in film adaptations of...
Paid articleTV cop shows cop-out on race TV really is make-believe, especially when it comes to race and power
Moss, Robert F
MEDIA Robert F. Moss TV COP SHOWS COP-OUT ON RACE The real world it ain't It's happening everywhere. In Baltimore, Lt. Al Giar-dello, the black shift commander on "Homicide," bellows paternally at...
Paid articleThank You, Saint Jude by Robert A Orsi From a tiny shrine, a mighty saint did grow
Fisher, James T
BOOKS Saint Jude: Double agent Thanh You, Saint Jude Women's Devotions to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes Robert A. Orsi Yale University Press, $30,303 pp. James T. Fisher Robert A. Orsi's 1985...
Paid articleMiles to Go by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Wolfe, Alan
THE JOURNEY SO FAR Miles to Go A Personal History of Social Policy Daniel Patrick Moynihan Harvard University Press, $22.95,288 pp. Alan Wolfe Daniel Patrick Moynihan has been right so often one...
Paid articleMary through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan A guide to the development of doctrine about Mary stresses the contribution of artists and lay people, but neglects the reality of her gender
Maitland, Sara
WAS NARY A WOMAN? Nary through the Centuries Her Place in the History of Culture Jaroslav Pelikan Yale University Press, $25, 260 pp. Sara Maitland I am not certain whether this book was given its...
Paid articleWhen Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
Wycliff, Don
WHAT WILSON HISSES When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor William Julius Wilson Alfred A. Knopf, $26, 322 pp. Don Wycllff William Julius Wilson's last book, The Truly Disadvan-taged,...
Paid articleSame Places, Same Things by Tint Gautreaux
Cooper, Rand Richards
LOCAL COLOR Same Places, Same Things Tim Gautreaux St. Martin's Press, $20.95, 211 pp. Rand Richards Cooper Ho judge by Tim Gautreaux's fiction, Thoreau's famous dictum had it half wrong: true, the...
Paid articleAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Deignan, Thomas
OUT OF IRELAND Angela's Ashes A Memoir Frank McCourt Scribner, $23,358 pp. Thomas Deignan The moment of the memoir has arrived, or so the New York Times Magazine announced in a recent issue. From...
Paid articleThe Living and the Dead by Paul Hendrickson
Uebbing, James J
'IN RETROSPECT,' REDUX The Living and the Dead Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War Paul Hendrickson Alfred A. Knopf, $30, 427 pp. James J. Uebbing By the time Robert McNamara got around to...
Paid articleArt on its own terms The late Walter Kerr's theater criticism appeared in these pages in the early 1950s, but his artistic insight endures See why
Kerr, Walter
THE LAST WORD ART ON ITS OWN TERNS Walter Kerr Walter Kerr, who died last month at the age of eighty-three, was Commonweal's drama critic from 1950-52. This article is condensed from his "Where the...
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