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 Vol. 124 Issue 003 (February 14 1997)
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Vol. 124 Issue 004 (February 28 1997)
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••Contents••
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 Correspondence
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CORROSPONDENCE The wit that refreshes Besides all the other excellent qualities of your magazine, you have a refresh-ing sense of humor. The back-page announcements of the [then] coming tribute to...
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Editorial
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EDITORIALS Just say no Hirst the good news. Earlier this month the Republican leadership in Congress postponed bringing the Balanced-Budget Amendment to a vote in the Senate. The proposed...
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Et ceteras
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Et ceteras OTHER THINGS Richard Neuhaus, editor of the neo-conservative journal First Things, recently chastised the editors of Commonweal, America, Christianity Today, and Christian Century for...
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God will wipe away our tears
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Garvey, John
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If abortion is the defining moral concern for the bishop, was Dole really that much better than Clinton? Can the U.S. bishops truly be described as "passive, withdrawn, or indirect in their...
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Lengthening shadow
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Callahan, Sidney
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LENGTHENING SHADOW SIDNEY CALLAHAN Will it be 'Pull up your socks' or Prozac? Do you suffer from a "shad-ow syndrome" mental dis-order? Say what? Shadow syndromes are identified as mild mental...
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Bashing Black English
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Mills, Dorothy Jane
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BASHING BLACK ENGLISH Dorothy Jane Mills The pundits got Oakland wrong Twenty-five years ago I published in this maga-zine an article on Black English explaining that the dialect, although...
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Kitchens rivers
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Dobel, J. Patrick
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KITCHENS & RIVERS J.Patrick Dobel Metaphors for America Americans are always trying to figure out who we are. The current battles over multiculturalism and identity politics simply extend that...
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WAR BY OTHER MEANS
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Himes, Kenneth R.
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WAR BY OTHER MEANS Criteria for the use of economic sanctions Kenneth R. Himes The end of the cold war has presented American foreign policy with a paradoxical situation: As the remaining...
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SEND IN THE PEACEKEEPERS
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Christiansen, Drew; Powers, Gerard
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SEND IN THE PEACEKEEPERS Sovereignty isn't sacred Drew Christiansen & Gerard Powers During the cold war, when nuclear weapons were an overriding concern, much discussion on in-ternational ethics...
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The Spell
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Oser, Lee
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The Spell Lee Oser Old trucks and blackberries, Tracks and flutes of grass, A boy among them on a bike Laughing through buckteeth. The steeple broods Like a pregnant man Where spurred by summer...
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Alleva, Richard
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SCREEN Richard Alleva HENRY & JANE Campion's 'The Portrait of a Lady' With her film version of The Portrait ofa Lady, Jane Cam-pion doesn't just adapt Hen-ry James. She refutes him. But it's a...
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Everything for Sale
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Kuttner, Robert
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BOOKS Liberalism's unfinished business Jay R. Handle If all that a rehabilitation of liberalism in this country requires is a devastating cri-tique of laissez-faire eco-nomics, Robert Kuttner's...
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Thurber
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Clifford, Nicholas R.
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THUNDERING THURBERBOLTS Thurber Writings and Drawings James Thurber, edited by Garrison Keillor The Library of America, $35,1,004 pp. Nicholas R. Clifford This past fall, the Economist...
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The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
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Santella, Andrew
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THE EPISTLES OF PALS The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy fay Tolson, editor W. W. Norton, S27.50, .310 pp. Andrew Santella In 1931, Walker Percy began his writing career with a...
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Damned to Fame
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Knowlson, James
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Damned to Fame WAITING NO LONGER The Life of Samuel Beckett James Knowlson Shnmi & Schuster, $.35,800pp. Celia Wren Above a darkened stage, a disembodied mouth recites a tale of loss. A blind...
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The Sparrow
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Russell, Maria Doria
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The Sparrow JESUITS, FAR OUT Maria Daria Russell Villurd Press, $23,408 pp. Paul Q. Kane Among other attributes, a good work of fiction should leave the reader asking questions: questions about...
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Business as a Calling
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Novak, Michael
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Business as a Calling RELIGION AT WHOLESALE PRICES Having already christened American capitalism in his previous books, Novak celebrates the wizards of postindustri-al affluence-CEO's,...
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I do not look Jewish
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Palant, Paula
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THE LAST WORD I DO NOT LOOK JEWISH Paula Palant Recently, my wife and I attended a bar mitz-vah. We sat next to a couple who, upon hear-ing that I come from Lvov, Poland, told us abou t a cousin...
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