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 Vol. 125 Issue 003 (February 13 1998)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Short takes on many topics
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The wet look As a great admirer of Richard Alleva's movie criticism, I was pleased to see the headline on your January 16, 1998 cover, "Richard Alleva reviews Robert Duvall's The Apostle." I...
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Ancient warriors
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STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Business Manager: Gregory...
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Who knows ?
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WHO KNOWS? It looks as though the nation will have Bill Clinton to kick around a while longer. On Topic A we know nothing more than we read in the newspapers and see on television (nobody's...
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Postcard from Havanna
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Kelly, Mary Pat
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WHO KNOWS? It looks as though the nation will have Bill Clinton to kick around a while longer. On Topic A we know nothing more than we read in the newspapers and see on television (nobody's...
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A death in the family
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Jordan, Patrick
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Patrick Jordan A DEATH IN THE FAMILY Ivan F. Alava, R.I.P. armen Alava is Commonweal's first person of welC come, a presence willing and helpful--on the phone, to each one who crosses our...
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Love is the measure
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Garvey, John
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Ivan had had a personal devotion to Nuestra Segora de El Cisne, the patroness of Loja, Ecuador. He was buried the next day from Saint Michael's Church, where there is a special shrine to her. Her...
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Re: Clinton & Lewinsky
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Dionne, E.J. Jr.
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Jesus tells his disciples, "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love....This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you'(John 15: 9, 12). And...
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APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY?
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Marino, Gordon
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APOLOGIZE FOR SLAVERY? Facing up to the living past Gordon Marino or reasons that would be interesting to explore, gestures of collective repentance have recently become quite popular. In 1994,...
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HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTIONERS
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POLICANO, JOSEPH D.
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major league baseball team. And yet, the logic of their claim that responsibility only extends as far as one's own free will would seem to militate against the idea of any form of...
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BLACK & AMERICAN:WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
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Thompson, Clifford
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BLACK & AMERICAN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It means you learn to improvise Clifford Thompson W hen I left my adopted home of New York City to go to Spain, in 1991, I was twenty-seven...
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Amistad Titanic
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Alleva, Richard
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mastery with their powers of improvisation (resourcefulness!) to create art on the spot. Jazz, simply put, was black resourcefulness set to music: both the product of and a metaphor for the...
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The battle for words
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Stavans, Ilan
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tography) is to make us understand how crushing our civilization can be to a victim of it. The weakest element is the presentation of the legal developments, or rather lack of developments,...
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The American Clock A View from the Bridge
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Wren, Celia
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Celia Wren MILLER TIME 'The American Clock" & 'A View from the Bridge' he glittering ball that plummeted toward Times Square on New Year's Eve plunged into the middle of an Arthur Miller...
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The End o f the Novel o f Love
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Gornick, Vivian
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Not bloody likely Sara Maitland V ivian Gornick has a clear thesis; she embodies it in the title, and summarizes it at the end of her book: "Put romantic love at the center of a novel today,...
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Bob the Gambler
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Barthelme, Frederick
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PLACE YOUR BETS Valerie Sayers ~ eading Frederick Barthelme, I often feel the way I do when I'm reading a slick magazine s t u f f e d with glossy ads and just enough substance to cut...
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BOOKS
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Kennedy, Eugene; Charles, Sara C.; Bankston, Carl L. III
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gaged in Barthelme's later work, and especially in this novel, something more purposeful, something less irritating, more satisfying. It's as if, this time around, Barthelme has...
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Black & blue
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Hall, Patrick
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BLACK & BLUE Patrick Hall y ou don't need a university study to determine who are the most frequent victims of crime in the inner city and who are its perpetrators. It is AfricanAmerican...
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Vol. 125 Issue 004 (February 27 1998)
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