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IssueVol. 123 Issue 007 (April 5 1996)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
CORRAO, PAUL; ROGERS, EDWARD F.; SCHADE, MRS. JULIA; GILL, BARRY; MAHER, GREGORY G.; BRANIGAN, JOHN; GNEUHS, GEOFFREY B.; DALY, ROBERT; LORENTZ, JOAN
The legacy of 'Roe' The PBS documentary "Murder on Abortion Row," discussed in your editorial ["Two Families," February 23] was, in my view, a stunning indictment of the 1973 Supreme Court decision...
Paid articleEditorial School vouchers
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
School vouchers State aid to religious or private primary and secondary schools in the form of tuition vouchers or a tuition tax credit is a worthy public-policy goal. Vouchers would benefit...
Paid articleEt ceteras Bring on the euthanizers Beezer's dissent
BRING ON THE EUTHANIZERS Court-assisted suicide/' last issue's editorial (March 22,1996), tried to convey the startling nature of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals's March 6 decision:...
Paid articleA Canticle for Leibowitz
Garvey, John
JOHN CARYEY A CANTICLE FOR LEI BOWITZ A eulogy for Walt Miller Walt Miller shot himself in January. His suicide fol- lowed by several months the death of his wife Anne. Many readers of Commonweal...
Paid articleMaintaining distinctions
McCloskey, Liz
LIZ McCLOSKEY MAINTAINING DISTINCTIONS Assisted suicide erases them For those of you still wrestling with moral qualms over the notion of physician-assisted suicide, there are those who would...
Paid articleHolding out for hope Our intrepid correspondent looks at Saint Patrick's Day festivities in New York and Washington, and their impact on the Irish peace process
Kelly, Mary Pat
Mary Vat Kelly HOLDIHG OUT FOR HOPE Clinton's Irish policy An unusually quiet Saint Patrick's week in the United States allowed the fragile Irish peace talks to gain ground on American soil....
Paid articleCAN UNIVERSITIES BE CATHOLIC?
SJ, Robert J Egan
CAN UNIVERSITIES BE CATHOLIC? Some reflections, comments, worries & suggestions Robert J. Egan Questions about the Catholic identity of a university-or anything else-are questions about its...
Paid articleGive Yourself
Warshaw, Peter
Peter Warshaw Give Yourself to Poetry Dear child, yes, give yourself to poetry and leave the world of unsubstantial things. No need to wear that pretty ribbon now your hair will have no place to...
Paid articleJOB WANTED
Maloney, Thomas N
JOB WANTED Catholic colleges & the hiring dilemma Thomas N. Naloney In the fall of 1994,1 reached a milestone of sorts. After a long job search, I landed my first tenure-track academic post. I...
Paid articleNotes to a student
Schilling, Timothy P
Timothy P. Schilling NOTES TO A STUDENT Education for parish ministry 0t times the preparation I underwent to become a pastoral assistant seemed endless. For ten years I felt myself to be in the...
Paid articleChristopher Dawson
Russello, Gerald J
Gerald J. Russello CHRISTOPHER DAWSON Is there a Christian culture? N ineteen-ninety-five marked the twenty-fifth an- niversary of the death of the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson, author of...
Paid articleMary Reilly/Before and After
Alleva, Richard
Richard Alleva FATAL ATTRACTIONS 'Mary Reilly' & 'Before & After' Mary Reilly is a haunting, fas- cinating failure. It tells the Jekyll-Hyde yarn from the point-of-view of the doctor's Irish maid...
Paid articleDesecrating literature
McConnell, Frank
Frank McConnell Reading the PMLA Hor reasons too complicated to go into here, I recently found myself subscribed- for the first time since 1964, my first year as a graduate student at Yale-to...
Paid articleThe Scandal of Pleasure by Wendy Steiner
Wolfe, Alan
Schools for scandal The Scandal of Art in an Age of Fundamentalism Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, $24S5r 251 pp. Alan Wolfe The loser in our recent culture wars was neither the Left...
Paid articleShould We Burn Babar? by Herbert Kohl The End of Education by Neil Postman
Collins, Clare
BUT WHAT ABOUT CELESTE? Should We Burn Babar? Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories Herbert Kohl The New Press, $1835,192 pp. The End of Education Redefining the Value of...
Paid articleManhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell Modern American Memoirs edited by Annie Dillard and Cort Conley
Marget, Madeline
BEING AROUND WORDS Madeline Marget Mary Cantwell's intense and generous memoir is about marriage, motherhood, work, Manhattan's aura, and the needs and consequences of a sensitive person's...
Paid articleThe Manufactured Crisis by David C Berliner and Bruce J Biddle Possible Lives by Mike Rose
Altbach, Philip G
NOT TO WORRY Hie Manufactured Crisis Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle Addison-Westey, $25,412 pp. Possible Lives The Promise of...
Paid articleThe Catholic Church and Anti-Semitism by Ronald Modras Karski by E Thomas Wood and Stanislaw M Jankozvski
Fisher, Eugene J
POLAND'S DOUBLE-LIFE The Catholic Church and Anti-Semitism Poland, 1933-39 Ronald Modras Harwood Academic, $48,429 pp. Karski How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust £ Thomas Wood and...
Paid articleA Book that Was Lost and Other Stories by S Y Agnon
Cohen, Carolyn
WORLDS LOST & FOUND A Booh that Was Lost and Other Stories S. Y Agnon, edited with introductions by Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman Schocken Books, $27.50,436 pp. Carolyn Cohen Hhis...
Paid articleWriting Home by Alan Bennett
Wheeler, Edward T
Writing Home Alan Bennett Random House, $25,417 pp. Edward T. Wheeler Hhe dust jacket of Writing Home tells us that this was a number-one best-seller in England. As it happens, its author's...
Paid articleReligion booknotes
Cunningham, Lawrence S
Lawrence S. Cunningham I have often told my students that the variety of mass-pro-duced crucifixes which hang in every Notre Dame classroom provide, when looked at closely, a compressed history of...
Paid articleIn her prime
Morelli, Mark
IN HER PRINE Mark Morelli My brother described some- body as being "dumb as a mud fence/' It had been years since I'd heard that phrase and it had a fun, folksy ring to it, so I jotted it down for...
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