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 Vol. 124 Issue 021 (December 5 1997)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence Applause and complaints on many fronts
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HOGAN, BEN; MONGOVEN, ANNE M.; DRUMKE, JACK; EGAN, (REV.) HARVEY; ZWICK, MARK AND LOUISE; Jordan, Patrick; HOLDORF, WILLIAM J.; Zahn, Gordon; BOGUCKI, (MRS.) GENE; CUSEO, ALLAN; MAZZARELLA, MARIO D.; Rosenthal, Peggy; FROST, RAYMOND
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CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Shaman? Thaumaturge? Perhaps you should advertise for an alchemist instead of a business manager. Best of luck. GERALDINE ETHEN Portland, Oreg. McConnell on...
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Editorial The least-bad solution
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
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The least-bad solution Amilitary confrontation between the United States and Iraq has been narrowly averted-at least for now. Iraq has agreed to readmit American inspectors along with the rest of...
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Nunsuch? Religious communities are changing but reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated
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Callahan, Sidney
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OF SEVERAL MIND SIDNEY CALLAHAN MUNSUCH? Reviving religious communities Recently I was invited to speak to a conference of vowed religious on the identity of the religious vocation from a...
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Priest Lost to Church Scaffolding
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Szumowski, Margaret C
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Margaret C. Szumowski Priest Lost to Church Scaffolding Only yesterday, in his fine green gown, he talked of lost sheep and calves stuck in the mud. Today he walks the shaky scaffolding high...
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A twist in Houston The struggle of a multicultural, multiracial Houston to share the bounty of city contracts may sink under court rules, though the citizens have voted otherwise
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Burke, John Francis
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John Francis Burke A TWIST IN HOUSTON Affirmative action affirmed, denied Bucking what some consider a nationwide trend, voters in Houston, Texas, turned down an anti-affirmative action ballot...
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A SOLDIER'S LEGACY How one soldier's unobtrusive faith changed another soldier's life
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Ostermann, Robert
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A SOLDIER'S LEGACY Faith born on the killing fields Robert Ostermann Taking the long view, a religious conversion must be understood as an invisible event. The action happens off-stage, behind the...
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Boogie Nights The Ice Storm Remember the '70s? Two moviemakers do in exploring the squalor of the pornographic movie business and the moral aridity of suburban life
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva FRIGID SEX 'Boogie Nights' and 'The Ice Storm' The best thing about Boogie Nights, a lengthy and panoramic view of the porn film industry in the late 1970s and early '80s,...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Donnelly, Daria
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Daria Donnelly Daria Donnelly, a free-lance writer, lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When I was young our house was full of poetry. My mother spoke to us...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Morris, Charles R
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Charles R. Morris Charles R. Morris's most recent book is American Catholic (Times Books/Random House). He lives in New York City. Cynthia Ozick's The Putter-messer Papers (Knopf, $23, 235 pp.)...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Freeman, Mary Lee
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Mary Lee Freeman Mary Lee Freeman is a nurse and graduate student at the MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, and a former Commonweal intern. R.C. Hutchinson's A Child Possessed (London...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Bell, Robert H
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Robert H. Bell Robert H. Bell is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at Williams College, where he directs the Project for Effective Teaching. A book of great power and permanent value is...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Castronovo, David
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David Castronovo David Castronovo is professor of English at Pace University. His most recent book, a critical study of the American novelist Richard Yates, was written in collaboration with Steven...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Mason, Alane Salierno
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Alane Salierno Mason Alane Salierno Mason is an editor at W. W. Norton. Her last article for Commonweal was "Respect: An Italian-American Story" (October 10). She lives in Brooklyn. On the age of...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Fisher, James T
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James T. Fisher James T. Fisher holds the Danforth Chair in Humanities at Saint Louis University. His most recent book is Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-61 (University of...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Johns, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Johns Elizabeth Johns teaches art history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is American Genre Painting (Yale). The landscape exhibition that she has co-curated, "New...
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Critics' choices for Christmas From the "Book of Nonsense" to the "Vegetarian Planet," the joys of "Hardboiled America" to "The Bridge on the Drina," our critics urge you to stuff your stockings with good books this Christmas
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Baumann, Paul
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Paul Baumann Paul Baumann is executive editor of Commonweal. How many gimlet-eyed and razor-tongued English lady novelists can there be? Ev-idently an unlimited supply. I was vaguely aware of the...
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In cyberspace, all things Catholic
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Incandela, Joseph M
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THE LAST WORD IN CYBERSPACE, ALL THINGS CATHOLIC Joseph M. Incandela The Internet has produced what one Web site (appropriately called "god.com") has called "a temple without bounds." For...
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Vol. 124 Issue 022 (December 19 1997)
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