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Vol. 123 Issue 014 (August 16 1996)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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Correspondence
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors First fruit of reflection You have done the church in this country an enormous service by printing Archbishop John R. Quinn's address, "The Exercise of the Primacy"...
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Editorial
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Israel: security vs. peace Israeli politics has an edge and a capacity for going over the edge which undermine its steady fix on security for the people and the land of Israel. By an extremely...
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Dear Mr. Clinton
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Callahan, Sidney
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OF SEVERAL MINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN DEAR MR. CLINTON I'm returning your veto I am a prolife Democrat who's going to defect from my party. Come November, I plan to vote for Bob Dole. And how, pray...
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Moving up the ladder
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Carlin, David R. Jr.
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DAVID R. CARLIN, JR. MOVING UP THE LADDER How equality reinforces inequality Throughout the long course of human history, systems of social inequality have run into trouble because of...
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Green with disgust
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Ferkiss, Victor
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Victor Ferkiss GREEN WITH DISGUST It's Nader for me I confess. I have been a political junkie almost all of my life. Some people have a passion for art or music, literature or philosophy, fine...
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Who's Tony Blair?
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Bergonzi, Bernard
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Bernard Bergonzi WHO'S TONY BLAIR? Maggie Thatcher in reverse There is a general assumption in Britain that by next spring Tony Blair, leader of the Labour party, will be prime minister. May 1997...
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SO FINELY TUNED A UNIVERSE
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Polkinghorne, John
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SO FINELY TUNED A UNIVERSE Of atoms, stars, quanta & God John Polkinghorne I have spent most of my working life as a theoretical physicist and all of my consciously remembered life as part of the...
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Anaximenes
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Warshaw, Peter
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Peter Warshaw Anaximenes Only Miletos of the cities that make the modern world can boast a man the like of Anaximeites. Old, perhaps, oar master and friend showed us how the very stars in...
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Shooting Stars
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Lewis, Steven
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Steven Lewis Shooting Stars This blue morning on the drive to Norfolk, I passed a bread truck and thought of the nothingness of death. This dark blue evening we lay on our backs on the cottage...
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Lone Star
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva WHO KILLED THE SHERIFF? John Sayles's 'Lone Star' Hone Star is John Sayles's latest exploration of The Way We Live Now. One of the very few filmmakers to have won...
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Eloise Knapp Hay, R.I.P
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McConnell, Frank
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MEDIA Frank McConnell ELOISE KNAPP HAY, R.I.P. I've lost a sparring partner Eloise Knapp Hay died at six in the evening of April 30, 1996, of inoperable brain cancer. She was the best friend-or...
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Quarks, Chaos & Christianity
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Polkinghorne, John
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What trust reveals Quarks, Chaos & Christianity Questions to Science and Religion John Polkinghorne Crossroad, $9.95.102 pp. Edward T. Oakes The poet W. H. Auden used to enjoy playing a...
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God's Chinese Son
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Spence, Jonathan
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CHINESE APOCALYPSE God's Chinese Son The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan Jonathan Spence W, W: Norton and Co., $27.50,400 pp. Nicholas R. Clifford In the mid-nineteenth century, about...
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Serpent on the Rock
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Ellis, Alice Thomas
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SHE CAN PUNCH Serpent on the Rock A Personal View of Christianity Alice Thomas Ellis Trafalgar Square, $13.95,223 pp. Paul Baumann Alice Thomas Ellis, the blunt-speaking British novelist, first...
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In the Shadow of War
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Sherry, Michael S.
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THE COST OF VICTORY In the Shadow of War The United States Since the 1930s Michael S. Sherry Yale University Press, $35,567 pp. R. Scott Appleby In his 1958 State of the Union Address,...
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'Waiter!'
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Varga, Michael
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THE LAST WORD 'WAITER!' Michael Varga At the age of forty, I recently took early retirement from the U.S. Foreign Service because of serious medical problems. With more time on my hands and...
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