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IssueVol. 123 Issue 005 (March 8 1996)
IssueVol. 123 Issue 006 (March 22 1996)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
BEARY, THOMAS J.; VINCENT, PAUL D.; TUROWICZ, JERZY; Fleet, Robert; SZPAK, ALINA; BRODERICK, W. A.; GEBHARDT, JOHN C.; KIERNAN, MICHAEL; STOVEL, FRED; Garvey, John; PHILIPPART, DAVID
CORRESPONDENCE Punchy pix Plaudits to whoever is responsible for selecting and placing the cartoons that appear in Commonweal. At their best, they resemble The Pick of Punch. THOMAS J....
Paid articleEditorial The right to die
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
COMMONWEAL Court-assisted suicide Hhere is "a constitutionally recognized 'right to die/" So ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 6 in Care in Dying v. Washington. The...
Paid articleDigging for our roots Certain ideas are among the deepest sources of our American selves
McCarthy, Abigail
ABIGAIL MCCARTHY DIGGING FOR OUR ROOTS The deepest aren't ethnic Heveral years after the war (World War II), I was in Germany. Although I had good German friends, I felt very much alone. It was...
Paid articleIncluding voters out The Democrats are practicing particide Yes, particide
Jr, David R Carlin
OF SEVERAL MINDS DAVID R. CARLIH, JR. INCLUDING VOTERS OUT The Dems do it better than Buchanan Hhe conventional judgment about Pat Buchanan's speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention...
Paid articleO Jerusalem A sense of place and faith is renewed with a visit to the Holy Sepulchre
Jordan, Patrick
Patrick Jordan O JERUSALEM A journalist becomes a pilgrim Owent up to Jerusalem in January as a journalist, but quickly became a pilgrim. I write "up" because the psalms refer to the city that...
Paid articleA Buchananite speaks
Filicchia, Ralph
Ralph Filicchia A BMCHANAHITE SPEAKS Tired of Republican promises Dam a middle-class, blue-collar worker with one wife and three children (one in college). Since I first started voting in 1960 I...
Paid articleTHE RECONCILIATION OF UNBELIEF The death of a young gay artist, and the story of his faith
Mason, Alane Salierno
THE RECONCILIATION OF UNBELIEF For 'P' Alane Salierno Hasan There are only a few AIDS narratives. As there are only a few ways of talking about those who die young of other causes. Children...
Paid articleThe Glorified Body
Barone, Patricia
Patricia Barone The Glorified Body I. "Though I'm old and sick/' said Uncle Ned, postincision, half his stomach gone, ''in God's eye, I'm just a baby/' He looks forward to his new body,...
Paid articleONE GOD Our problem with monotheism: We aren't excited about it Some lessons from polytheism
Beeck, Frans Jozef van
ONE COD And other revelations Frans Jozcf van Beech The Bible does not support the view that God is God in the same way at all times. Karl Barth Monotheism. One survey after another confirms...
Paid articleWhat hath Phil wrought? Phil Donahue didn't mean to, but he opened the floodgates to rivers of bathos
McConnell, Frank
Frank McConnell WHAT HATH PHIL WROUGHT? A coarsening of culture Hhil Donahue, he says, is retiring. This will be his last season hosting the talk show he's stage-managed for coming-on thirty...
Paid articleThe Twilight of Common Dreams by Todd Gitlin
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth
What happened to the Left? The Twilight of Common Dreams Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars Todd Gitlin Metropolitan Books, $25,294 pp. Elizabeth Fox-Cenovese Hike many today, Todd Gitlin...
Paid article"Feminism Is Not the Story of My Life" by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
THE SHACKLES PF SEXUAL LIBERTY "Feminism Is Not the Story of Hy Life" How Today's Feminist Elite Has Lost Touch with the Real Concerns of Women Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Doubleday, $23.95,275...
Paid articleThe Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Simon, Linda
REMAINS OF f HE NOVELIST The Mnconsoled Linda Simon Hazuo Ishiguro is best known for his third novel, Remains of the Day, which won England's Booker Prize in 1989 and subsequently was rendered...
Paid articleReligion booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S
Lawrence S. Cunningham Monasteries and prisons have some things in common. Both emphasize a life of penance; both cloister themselves from the "world"; both have residents who get up early, earn...
Paid articleEvangelical cinema
Musbach, Tom
EVANGELICAL CINENA Tom Musbach 0fter watching the film Dead Man Walking, I felt deeply encouraged and excited. My reaction was rare, to be sure: viewers are avoiding the film, despite critics'...
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