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IssueVol. 125 Issue 003 (February 13 1998)
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Paid articleCorrespondence
Consumer survey To balance January 30's "Fourteen Reports from file Pews" (an excellent set of pieces), may I suggest that Commonweal follow up with interviews, a la Studs Terkel, with...
Paid articleContinuing the conversation
Downey, Arthur T.
STAFF Eclitor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Business Manager: Gregory...
Paid articleGood & plenty
Callahan, Sidney
ise than six used to be. I can only conclude that family size among Americans, Catholics inclu d ed, will remain small in the foreseeable future. Ironically, our generation was the exception,...
Paid articleKarla Tucker's legacy
Dionne, E.J. Jr.
own progeny, but there was also a great deal of altruism involved. I try to explain to young people that before the world changed, the main channel for youthful desires ~o serve others was...
Paid articlePuerto Rico
POLICANO, JOSEPH D.
death penalty. "Mercy," declared Roberton, "trumps justice." Ron Carlson, the brother of one of Tucker's victims, voiced the core argument against capital punishment. "The reason I think...
Paid article'Justa' homemaker
Smith, Beverly
tive; they tend to look with suspicion on something new like statehood. Thus, supporters of the present commonwealth status argue that the choice would mean the loss of the island's Spanish...
Paid articleWill everything really be ok?
Bauerschmidt, Frederick C.
WILL EVERYTHING REALLY BE OK? The spirituality of Julian of Norwich Frederick C. Bauerschmidt H ulian of Norwich is an unlikely prophet for our times. This fourteenth-century...
Paid articleThe church & dissent
McCormick, Richard A.
THE CHURCH & DISSENT How Vatican II ushered in a new way of thinking Richard A. McCormick W n August 12, 1996, the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin announced what is now known as the Common...
Paid articleKundun
Alleva, Richard
hat is it about Buddhism that elicits the child in sophisticated European and American directors? The reverence toward every living thing? The reliance on anecdote and legends to teach...
Paid articleThe Magician's Wife
Wren, Celia
alive cinematographer Roger Deakins, designer Dante Ferretti, and editor Thelma Schoonmaker--helped Scorsese to a visual exquisiteness that never becomes pompous or pseudo-mystical. And...
Paid articleMarshall McLuhan
McConnell, Frank
tempted to betray her husband and her country. Despite the scenes of brittle diplomacy and the menace of future war, The Magician's Wife is not the most suspenseful of Moore's novels; the...
Paid articleThe Conquest of Cool
McCarraher, Eugene
virtual reality of the Tube, but the Tube conveys, mostly, crap; "the medium is the message"; but what is the message? McLuhan could probably not have been, and surely was not, a...
Paid articleThe scream
Ortiz, Dianna
THE SCREAM Dianna Ortiz survivor of political violence is often revisited by memories when least expected. Some time ago I was sitting next to a young woman on a plane who told me of her...
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