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NEWS AND VIEWS The Marxist-Christian dialogue that has taken place the past several years in countries of middle Europe, notably Czechoslovakia, has been faulted as being narrow and incestuous,...

CORRESPONDENCE:

O'GRADY, PATRICK; Berube, Maurice R.; SULLIVAN, DAN; GUARE, CHARLES J.

CORRESPONDENCE Controlling the Schools Bronx, N.Y. To the Editors: The title of Maurice R. Berube's article [June 21] on community control of the schools, "Scarsdale, Yes- Harlem, No," implies...

EDITORIALS:

O'Gara, James

EDITORIAL THE BIRTH CONTROL ENCYCLICAL "Conforming to fundamental principles of a human and Christian vision of marriage, we must once again state that there must be excluded absolutely, as a...

MCCARTHY FIGHTS FOR AN OPEN CONVENTION:

Quirk, John J

McCarthy Fights For an Open Convention A new theme has been written into the McCarthy campaign: the open convention, openly arrived at. As the primaries vindicated a politics of conviction, the...

MAYOR DALEY: DECISION-MAKER IN CHICAGO:

Kearney, John

Mayor Daley: Decision-Maker in Chicago "There's only one delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Illinois." "Only one man makes decisions in Chicago." Both remarks refer, of course,...

THE 'LESSONS' OF MUNICH:

Pfaff, William

THE 'LESSON'S' OF MUNICH At the Munich conference of September 1938, at which Czechoslovakia was not represented, Great Britain and France agreed to German demands that Czechoslovakia be...

THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT:

Padover, Saul K

THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT "They talk about the power of the President," Harry Truman once complained, "how I can just push a button to get things done. Why, I spend most of my time kissing...

GUERRILLA PRIESTS:

Chandler, Ralph Clark

GUERRILLA PRIESTS RALPH CLARK CHANDLER In its issue of Feb. 2, 1968, Commonweal had reservations about the prospect of pistol-packing nuns and gun-running clergy in Latin America. Now that a few...

ALOHA AND ALL THAT:

Cox, Harvey

ALOHA AND ALL THAT HARVEY COX Down the street from the ritzy Hilton Hotel in Honolulu there is an Aloha Gas Station. Around the corner stands the Aloha Laundromat. When you fly from Honolulu to...

VERSE:

Pollak, Felix

FELIX POLLAK SONG. I left without goodbye free as a bird you were the faintest cry from once-it-hurt Free as a bird I leaned against thin air you were a gust of wind from never-were You were as...

VERSE:

Atkins, Arthur

ARTHUR ATKINS POEMS THE DARKEST AFRICA Deep in the jungle, the great creeping jungle where a jaguar lives and panthers stay in the trees while monkeys roam the treeside and apes sittin...

'UNDERGROUND THEOLOGY': An Exchange of Views

FERRARA, AQUINAS M.; Daly, Mary

'UNDERGROUND THEOLOGY' In the following exchange, Fr. Aquinas M. Ferrara, O.F.M., and Dr. Mary Daly debate the theological views presented by Dr. Daly in "Dispensing with Trivia," one of three...

THE SCREEN:

Hartung, Philip T

THE SCREEN What with this magazine's alternate-week summer schedule and the plethora of new films on our screens, space is at a premium. So here is a run-down of imports now playing, all of which,...

RECORDS:

Haggin, B H

RECORDS That state of inner illumination of Beethoven's last years, which I spoke of in connection with his Piano Sonata Op. 106 (Hammerklavier) [July 12], achieves its most unusual and, in the...

BOOKS:

FRIEDENBERG, EDGAR Z.; Rothberg, Abraham

BOOKS Prelude to Riot PAUL JACOBS Random House, $5.95 EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG Paul Jacobs, surely, is one of the most cogent and competent American social critics. His strength is derived from an...

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