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 Vol. 123 Issue 009 (May 3 1996)
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Vol. 123 Issue 010 (May 17 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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McNICOLL, RON; REEVES, DAVID K.; HART, BROTHER PATRICK; RIGA, PETER J.; SR., DONALD F. CUDDIHEE; JR., EDWARD McGLYNN GAFFNEY; O'ROURKE, BRIDGET; DUFFY, CHARLES F.; CUMMINGS, MICHAEL J.
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors In brief Bob Lax writes poems like this. (they show the spirit the matter of fact of bliss.) RON MCNICOLL Berkeley, Calif. Caution: Poet passing Thank you for...
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Editorial Marriage's true ends Would same-sex marriage correct an injustice and deepen our understanding of marriage? Skepticism is in order
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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Marriage's true ends There is every likelihood that Hawaii's Supreme Court will soon overturn that state's prohibition on same-sex marriage. The court's reasoning will be simple enough: Hawaii's...
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A mother's death Job asked a good question about human suffering: Why?
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Callahan, Sidney
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OF SEVERAL MINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN A MOTHER'S DEATH Is this what God demands? A death in the family, especially a sudden, senseless death, plunges the heart into mourning and forces a test of...
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Face it, we've lost
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Jr, David R Carlin
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DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. FACE IT, WE'VE LOST Catholics in an alien culture Even when the signs are right under our noses, clamoring for our attention, most of us don't like to admit we are in grave...
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CATCHING THE HEART OFF GUARD Seamus Heaney reinvents air, light, water, swans
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Keen, Suzanne
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CATCHING THE HEART OFF GUARD The generous vision of Seamus Heaney Suzanne Keen Seamus Heaney in the college cafeteria line at Harvard: The woman serving holds her scoop aloft. "Pasta or potatoes?"...
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NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EQUAL
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Byrne, Katharine
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NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EOUAL Orwell & his animals at fifty Katharine Byrne Although he was a respected novelist and journalist in England during the '30s and early '40s, George Orwell (1903-50)...
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The Shadow Han by Mary Gordon Mary Gordon tries to come to grips with the facts of her father's life
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Maitland, Sara
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BOOKS Final payment The Shadow Man Maty Gordon Random House, $24,282 pp. Sara Maitland Mary Gordon has a well es-tablished record as a nov-elist deeply shaped by, although rather at odds with,...
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The Vulnerable Child by Richard Weissbourd The Abolition of Marriage by Maggie Gallagher
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Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
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CAN MARRIAGE BE RESCUED? The Vulnerable Child What Really Hurts America's Children and What We Can Do about It Richard Weissbourd Addison-Wesley, $22, 280 pp. The Abolition of Marriage How We...
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Mississippi by Anthony Walton
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Coles, Robert
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THEN & NOW Mississippi An American Journey Anthony Walton Alfred A Knopf, $24,279 pp. Robert Coles During the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement in the South, even the...
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Integrity by Stephen L Carter
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Wycliff, Don
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SEEING, DOING, SAYING THE GOOD Integrity Stephen L. Carter Basic Books, $24,224 pp. Don Wycliff It was Father Robert Griffin of Notre Dame, I believe, who observed some time in the mid-1970s...
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Dancing after Hours by Andre Dubus
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Dolan, Neal
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A LUMINOUS CHOREOGRAPHER Dancing after Hours Andre Dubus Alfred A. Knopf, $22.50,256 pp. Neal Dolan Readers familiar with the work Andre Dubus has been producing over the last thirty years will...
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The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Our regular booknotes writer, Lawrence S Cunningham, writes, "Our hoary reactions to virgin saints, celibacy, the misogynist streak in our ascetical tradition are 'deconstructed' by the author's angle of vision, which looks with new but hardly naive eyes"
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
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MONASTICISM, NEWLY SEEN The Cloister Walk Kathleen Norris Riverhead Books (Putnam), $23.35,384 pp. Lawrence S. Cunningham Kathleen Norris's Dakota (1993) was to become an unlikely word-of-mouth...
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Toasting rye bread
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Schultz, Valerie
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TOASTING RYE BREAD Valerie Schultz I have heard that memory is 80 percent smell. I don't know if that is a verifiable percentage, but every time I put a piece of rye bread in the toaster, I think...
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