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IssueVol. 126 Issue 003 (February 12 1999)
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Paid articleCovers, colleges, confession
CORRESPONDENCE To the Editors Fear of women I have just finished reading the two excellent articles on women in the church in your January 29,1999 issue. Would...
Paid articleThe spirit of Saint Louis
The spirit of Saint Louis Papal visits can be a bit like a Rorschach test. Everyone sees what they want to see. John Paul II's January visit to Mexico and to Saint Louis initially seemed routine,...
Paid articleExplaining Bill Clinton
Mitcham, Marylee
FRANK McCONNELL, R.I.P. It was with shock and great sadness that we learned last month of the sudden death of Frank McConnell, Commonweal's long-time media critic, frequent book reviewer,...
Paid articleFebruary 6,1959
From the archives Throughout 1999, Commonweal will be celebrnting its 75th anniversary. Here from the issue of February 6,1919, is an excerpl from "The Futurr of The Commonweal" by Edward...
Paid articleRocks of ages
Callahan, Sidney
OF SEVERAL MINDS SIDNEY CALLAHAN ROCKS OF AGES A pilgrim's progress Thousands of Muslim pilgrims streamed through the narrow Jerusalem streets hurrying to worship at the Dome of the...
Paid articleIrish arrangements: Yes, sex scandal in Ireland
Horgan, John
John Horgan Irish arrangements A prime minister & his 'companion' Even a decade ago, if any professional soothsayer had suggested that there would come a time when an Irish Protestant...
Paid articleConvening Vatican II
Komonchak, Joseph A.
Joseph A. Komonchak Convening Vatican II John XXIII calls for a council We grow old, we grow old.... It is now forty years since January 25,1959, when Pope John XXIII announced his intention...
Paid articleConfederate Statue at Oak Bluffs,
Vineyard, Martha's
Confederate Statue at Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard "What's that rebel doing here?" you asked with patriotic scorn. As if I cared about a statue peering at the sea. But there he stood, cap...
Paid article'KRISTALLNACHT' REMEMBERED: Collective guilt and communal responsibility two generations later
Etzioni, Amitai
'KRISTALLNACHT' RENENBERED History & communal responsibility Amitai Etzioni I am bound by history, duty, and by my personal journey to face again a very well-known subject. As with the...
Paid articleHILARY AND JACKIE SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE: The creative impluse at work from sibling rivalry to romantic love
Alleva, Richard
SCREEN Richard Alleva LOVE'S LABOR 'Hilary & Jackie' & 'Shakespeare in Love' Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the...
Paid articleOUT OF THE ASHES: Anselm Kiefer at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jordan, Patrick
ART Patrick Jordan OUT OF THE ASHES The postwar art of Anselm Kiefer It does not take long for "Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969-93"—fifty-four watercolors, gouaches,...
Paid articleElegy for Iris by John Bayley: A unique portrait of a marriage
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
BOOK Trophy marriage Margaret O'Brien Steinfels From the mid-forties through 1994, Iris Murdoch wrote more than two dozen novels, at least three important philosophical works, plus literary...
Paid articleAtlantic Crossings by Daniel T. Rodgers
McGreevy, John T.
BIG IDEAS TRAVEL Atlantic Crossings Social Politics in a Progressive Age Daniel T. Rodgers Harvard University Press, $35,672 pp. John T. McGreevy Thirty years ago, historian Peter Filene...
Paid articleWork and Welfare by Robert M. Solow edited by Amy Gutmann
MORRIS, CHARLES R.
WARRING VALUES Work and Welfare Robert M. Solow Edited by Amy Gutmann Princeton University Press,$19.95; 100 pp. Charles R. Morris From 1960 to 1970, New York City's welfare caseload more...
Paid articleLasso the Wind by Timothy Egan Narking the Sparrow's Fall by Wallace Stegner edited by Page Stegner
Anderson, Chris
AN ARID LAND Lasso the Wind Away to the New West Timothy Egan Alfred A. Knopf, $25, 266 pp. Marking the Sparrow 's Fall Wallace Stegner's American West Wallace Stegner edited and with a...
Paid articleCommonweal Associates: A long and distinguished list
Become a 1999 Commonweal Associate until everything is out of balance. "There are too many of us," Stegner bluntly says. "We will either starve or strangle in our own wastes." And then still...
Paid articleThe voucher canard
Feuerherd, Peter
THE LAST WORLD THE VOUCHER CANARD Peter Feuerherd Last November, the Supreme Court let stand a Wisconsin school voucher program that allowed students to pay for private school tuition with...
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