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CORRESPONDENCE Christian Healing Unadilla, N. Y. To the Editors: I was horrified (to put it mildly) to see healing equated with "spiritualism, and all sorts of 'superstitious beliefs' from...
...Religion in Germany Heidelberg, Germany To the Editors: I have read Gordon C. Zahn's article, "Religion and Politics in Germany" [Feb...
...Now Reuss would create what amounts to a recall petition and referendum for the President, with the power of petition vested not in the people, but in Congress, a separate and often competing and even hostile branch of government...
...The federal system was not designed to make Congress dominant over the Presidency...
...Although Cervantes is "popular" biography, more or less, Predmore is meticulous in his scholarship and on certain important points he does set the record straight: Cervantes never had a university education, and he was not jailed in Seville in 1601'or 1602 for what would have been the second time there...
...The transcripts certainly do not portray John Dean as a saint...
...WILLIAM L. DAY No No.Confidence Syracuse, N.Y...
...3) Today, e.g., the abortion theme for the Catholic political group is less a serious moral problem than a means to overthrow the hateful Social-Democratic government...
...To read what the supposed custodians of the public trust say to one another in time of crisis has made both Nixon defenders and critics sick at heart...
...For humans, to know oneself is to know oneself as part of one branch of a family tree...
...But neither is it like being a Japanese...
...Today our full identity is grasped only when all the relations of all human cultures are known...
...There the restraint on a no-confidence vote (besides the party discipline notoriously lacking in our system) is that it brings on new elections for everybody, putting the government and the parties before the country...
...The humanities ought to demystify pretensions...
...Robert Pawlowski 264 THE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...The two careers--along with several more pedestrian ones like commissary and tax collector--give Cervantes, like Byron, a natural fascination for biographers, and so in a profusely and handsomely illustrated book Richard Predmore (author of a superb critical study, The World o~ Don Quixote) tells once again the sad story of Cervantes' five years in prison in Algiers, his frequent and prolonged separation from his family, the final and total rejection by his daughter, the struggle for patronage and recognition, and the periods of great poverty alternating with periods of yet greater poverty...
...He has simply claimed that his testimony is true...
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...It worked...
...But, unlike Nixon, he never claimed innocence...
...So we have the man who has often reminded us that he is a lawyer Commonweal: 251 de Cervantes, though, who followed long service as a warrior with his literary vocation, and who was patriotically or perversely proud, till the end, of the crippled hand that he had earned in the battle of Lepanto...
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...They now know more about Nixon than than anyone really wants to know...
...7"0 the Editors: Congressman Reuss' no-confidence amendment [Apr...
...And it still is today...
...Still, so careful is Predmore not to speculate beyond demonstrable facts, so dependent is his whole conception on those facts, so free of intuition, that a rather bloodless portrait of his hero emerges...
...As Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., points out, the response to the "imperial Presidency" of recent times is not Congressional sovereignty...
...According to my knowledge of the situation, he has hit the right nail on the head...
...Chad Walsh 260...
...The more the public finds out about Richard Nixon the more it realizes he is unworthy of his office...
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...They weep that the chair once occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt should now belong to so small a man...
...Horowitz would like to see for himself, I direct him to the next healing service of Kathryn Kuhlman in Pittsburgh so that he may see for himself not only the radical difference between (Christian) healing and "superstitious beliefs" but the results of such healing as well...
...Second class postage paid at New York...
...Being an American is not quite like being a Frenchman...
...The proposal is totally unlike the parliamentary system...
...12], in which sixty percent of both houses of Congress can force a new election for a President in office, putting the President on leave in the meantime while the Vice President governs, is a bald bid for Congressional control of the government...
...Our Constitution, unlike the Parlia(Continued on page 271) NEWS & VIEWS: 250 CORRESPONDENCE: 251 EDITORIALS: 251 EXORCISING A VICE PRESIDENT: George Behan 252 PLANETARY HUMANITIES: Michael Novak 254 RIGHT-TO-REPLY LAWS: Thomas Powers 225 WASHINGTON REPORT" A City of Two Faces: Sisyphus 258 VERSE: John C. Hanley 257...
...And the large question that takes one to a biography of Cervantes in the first place remains unanswered: why did that gaunt knight Don Quixote ever choose him to chronicle his own uncertain fortunes...
...If I am to add some observations: 1 ) With regard to Catholic Bavaria, in 1925 the Bavarian voters rendered possible Hindenburg's election, the prelude of the seizure of power by Hitler, who only in the Catholic Bavaria (today the Bavaria of Franz Joseph Straus) could find his base of operations...
...In Reuss' proposal, Congress would bring down the President, not itself, and would do so at the discretion of 60 percent of its fractious members...
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...CORRESPONDENCE Christian Healing Unadilla, N. Y. To the Editors: I was horrified (to put it mildly) to see healing equated with "spiritualism, and all sorts of 'superstitious beliefs' from palm reading and astrology to devil-worship" in Irving Louis Horowitz's article "The Europeanization of American Politics" [Apr...
...22] with bated breath...
...Thus 1300 pages of cynicism, pettiness, paranoia, indecision, vindictiveness, opportunism and desperation...
...The GaUup Poll reports that only 17 percent of 700 adults questioned have a more favorable impression of the President...
...TheVatican intheAge of the Dictators (1922-1945) ANTHONY RHODES "Remarkable for its balance and detachment...
...4) The existence of so-called Christian political parties is generally, in Germany especially, most discrediting to the Christian and particularly Catholic position...
...As to his objecting to the Munich pastoral, I think he is very right...
...MARK TAYLOR 000 000 000 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued ]rom page 251) mentary system, creates separate and competing branches of government, deliberately building a balance of conflict and cooperation into the system so no branch may dominate another (as Hamilton said, in the quote misused by Reuss...
...Thus, just as the TV camera in the 1952 Checkers speech shifted solemnly to the moist-eyed Pat, last week it turned to the two-foot stack of transcripts emblazoned with the Presidential seal--wouldbe symbol of openness and trust...
...259 'MORAL CONSISTENCY AND ABORTION': An Exchange of Views: 261 FAITH AND THE AMERICAN EDEN: Robert T. Handy 265 ROOKS: Fred M. Hechinger, Robert Phillips, Mark Taylor 268 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: ULOS/LNS JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTEREECK, JR.: Movies JOHN FANDEL: Poetry BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUBAKER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature and the Arts...
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...WPASHINGTON POST/ BOOK f f ' O R l . l ) "[The author's] purpose is to examine motives and expose facts: and this he does with discernment and clarity, drawing on material newly available" -- C03iMONWEAL "Careful and utterly dispassionate . . . . with [a] marvelous sense of fairness...
...It is good evidence of the extremes to which Watergate can lead us in reaction...
...The President, for instance, is elected by the nation, not by Congress, and the Presidency is to be subject to law, not to Congress...
...Then--no good...
...Each one of these other cultures illumines parts of the American experience not illumined by the others...
...He split the House Judiciary Committee along party lines...
...For a day...
...and Senators Ervin, Baker and Weicker have reiterated their confiedence in what he has said...
...Before they had time to read the papers...
...REV,) DANIEL A. DEGNAN, S.J...
...The White House inner circle has been obsessed with John Dean...
...of others a step more accurately, we see the way our earlier habits of perception had been too limited--we learn something about our own deficiencies or limits...
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...5) The state of things becomes very well illustrated by the difference between the German and the French bishops, if it refers, e.g., to helping the Chileans suffering under suppression...
...In the wake of the Mitchell-Stans acquittal-a case only peripherally related to Watergate--the Nixon team must have guessed that this was the time to land some punches on the credibility of the President's chief accuser, and that the edited transcript--which, they hoped, few citizens would take time to read--introduced by a Nixon TV pitch, would fix Dean the Wheeler-Dealer and Nixon the Victimized Chief in the public mind...
...nor, again (even if one is black) like being a Nigerian...
...Healing was, both in the Old and New Testaments, one of the greatest evidences of God's power and good will being manifested among men...
...What position do we Americans actually occupy in the human race...
...In his futile attempt to prove that he is not a crook he has proven that he is something worse--the totally amoral person...
Vol. 100 • May 1974 • No. 11
