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...He takes the symbols, doc- All persons involved in the Western 10025...
...The Reichstag building had burned For CORRESPONDENCE on 27 February 1933...
...enforce those rights: or is that which placing responsibility: in his world the Perhaps, Novak is afraid that those scares and threatens you and forces poor are poor of their own accord, the who have fought from "outside" the upon you the rise to a contorted porich are benevolent...
...Messages of support can be sent to dogma of novelty or the baptizing of ligion...
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...Printed in the USA and published weekly, said in Eliot's Waste Land...
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...How- skew the system of advancement, de3, 1956...
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...Politics in Germany" [22 Feb.], and was an absurd relic of man's barbaric Much of the material is not original...
...Bishop Thomas Gumbl_ton of Detem, there are no conduits to status, troit...
...Worker youth, Deedy's splendid war provide at least rough surrogates for record in the Mexican Gulf theater, the variables used in the Pennsylvania Schroth's own Jesuit calling and No- study...
...while the Nazis offer: You may cancel on receipt of invoice...
...bered, is speaking from inside the sys- might we not ask what are the forces Affirmative action is the result of tem...
...with lack of concern for other pro- sylvania legislature...
...tary expenditures at level about 5 per- Institutes Though I am in the world, I am not of cent higher than those supporting legal- CRIMINAL JUSTICE-July B-14 and August 19-25...
...Maybe its sometime glib use over URBAN STRATEGIES could suffer with us until this prob- the last decade has made it too rhetori- Paul Brandt, S.1...
...of not more than 250 or 300 words India Hard Hit This extrapolation from their find- DESTITUTE PARENTS in Assam, India, now "selling" naturally have a better chance of their children to people a bit better off...
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...national culture, has been the promul- refusing to accept the lies fabricated Let me end by saying that nothing gation of affirmative action rulings, by ruling elites, that people are deis so "demeaning and contemptible," policies and decisions...
...1 Year, $14 The Free Father McLaughlin Com- ing presence on Berlin streets the im2 Years, $26 mittee expects to receive support from pression in troubled minds of impendall who protested the exiling of Daniel ing revolution...
...vincing...
...previous experithat a sophisticated man of letters like other things, six questions dealing with ence on primary-secondary level highly desirable...
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...Thirdly, the Zentrum was not the is quaint and pathetic...
...Twelve words Schroth's review...
...Reply beexist independent of O'Gara's Catholic and the use of force by police...
...For this is what for justice in these United States...
...Classified vak's Slavic roots...
...wanted an indefectible review, why were even smaller, with the former very SACRED SCRIPTURE: Sixth Annual Institute, August 11-16...
...In view of the fact that we judgment, he tells us, have come to- he claims to represent...
...have been in a state of daily agony, I wonder if the word oppression is as have thousands of other people...
...Women experi- I agree with these gentlemen that soBrian Tierney, for historical data chalence war as community destroyed...
...that, ". . . there would seem to be Department of Political Science, Coordinator a serious inconsistency in the attitudes California State Polytechnic University WANTED: M/F, religious or lay, as religious education coordinator for suburban parish in New York of many anti-abortion legislators, prob- Metropolitan area with 2,500 families...
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...THE HIRED COLLAR H. Yeah (expletive deleted), the (characterization omitted) have more A few weeks ago the greatest living embarrassment to American Jesuits money...
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...ever, he does not address, or even ask, cision and power: that is, it is blatant Leicester Junior College let alone suggest, what lies at the root androcentrism to talk about discrimiof affirmative action policies...
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...22], ing pro-life issues, neither is there much ligious orientation, August 18-25...
...We are surprised The NORC study includes, among or theology required...
...They conclude Assistant Professor, LEGE, Chestnut Hill, Mass...
...seph Fitzpatrick, S.J...
...curiously, powerless, that have perpetuated self- of when he talked of the politics of he identifies with the outcast for he hatred among the oppressed groups of language...
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...any or all journalistic sources do to so conveniently did in his article, sexist -PANELS and WORKSHOPS-really publicize this matter of great practices, there is no meritocratic sys- SPEAKERS: Bishop George Evans of Denconcern to all of the relatives of these ver...
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...Rumors of (Continued from page 323) various Communist actions filtered out ORDINATION of the proletarian sections of Berlin to desire of a religious order not to look WEDDING GIFTS ridiculous, but to rebuke Father Mc- the north and cast...
...For Communist political opponents to agree Novak's assault upon "affirmative ac- affirmative action policy has been efto extraordinary powers for Hitler...
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...its part in Reichstag adoption of the Still another survey found that wo- Ermaechtigungsgesetz of 23 March The book is brilliant, humane and vimen think we are in a recession while brant with faith...
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...Come off it, RAPID URBAN CHANGE into the corrupt government of South Michael, we live in a society that is Vietnam, and are continuing to keep not democratic, not meritocratic...
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...His socio- ca,led "Christian" political parties in logical framework borrows heavily A survey of policewomen funded by Germany and elsewhere have degraded from Peter Berger and Thomas Luck- the Ford Foundation shows them less the Church and all Catholics, and beaggressive than their male counterparts man, and Mircea Eliade is the source long only in nineteenth century Bavaria, for views on the human origin of so- by half...
...it is saying that there are words being honed so egregiously and tells us all this, and that "those who and that there have been elitist, sexist, in the service of a logic that proceeds speak as victims do not speak as racist practices governing people's lives, from the heart of Corporate America, equals," we must wonder if he is inten- keeping them in the places that Mi- from the heart of a power structure that would have us blame ourselves for our condition when that condition has so often been a functional, direct What and Why result of ruthless and deliberate economic, social and political decisions With its own correspondents in various key centers and contributors made by those like your present benefrom many countries, Commonweal keeps its subscribers in touch with factors...
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...spised by Schroth, stems rather from NORC study supported increased milian unabashed admiration of the Fathers...
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...varying circumstances, as well as ques- Position requires ability to coordinate activities of those repsonsible for reNo thought exists independent of the tions on support for military spending, ligious-moral formation of all students, life of the thinker...
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...Nor that he has a reputation for expensive has good Jesuit precedents for all his tastes...
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...To the Editors: I have just finished ocratic system of advancement in the Lastly, let me say that I doubt Mireading your March 15th issue on professions...
...Paul S. Gee 094720, gether in a deep revulsion against for Slavic and Italian Americans, "we who is among the 1200 MIAs still "preferences for anybody...
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...to life' before and after birth" (em- subjects treated in its pages...
...Carroll Stuhlmueller, James Reese and didn't it ask me...
...many Jesuits, for good reasons, cannot function properly when We believe that Father McLaughlin tied to traditional communities...
...We weren't than the one found among Pennsyl- INDOCHINA CHRONICLE...
...As hard as it can who would like to restore a real is for Michael to see, it is plainly ap- STRATEGIES FOR PRIEST sense of dignity to the word patriotism...
...would like to announce the formation It is certainly not that he seldom wears clerical dress...
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...Those to march in a peace demonstration has mate significance to particulars...
...and many other members of the church-was the Nixon Administration's JOHN F. MAHONY hired collar, Father ("Doctor") John J. McLaughlin, S.J...
...Letters phasis added...
...PETER STEINFELS logian says, mediates for him an "ex- arguments is to intelligently refute SHEILA BROWN perience of transcendent reality" and them-should consider quitting re- P.S.-We hope to issue in the future opens a level of consciousness he ligion...
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...about the old bootstraps routine, not only nor the first of the Nazi's nonTo the Editors: In reading Michael the fomenting of social policies...
...anism to insure justice, to correct a sys- ism and ethnic barriers...
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...In his theology ascetic living, expressed in dismay at the bomber of Hanoi, the invader of Cambodia, the landlord of San Father McLaughlin's residency at the Clemente, the man ultimately responsible for the whole network of crimes Watergate Apartments, seems unduly and cover-ups called Watergate, is "the greatest moral leader of the last selective...
...But when he our society...
...332 To the Editors: When Sisyphus writes A DEMAND FOR [MORE] : Linda Kuehl 334 [May 17]) "Yes, Scott Fitzgerald might THE WORLDS OF HARRY TRUMAN: Kenneth S. Davis 336 BOOKS: Walter M. Miller, Jr., Elliott Wright 338 have said to rephrase himself when he replied to Hemingway about the JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROBERTSON: Editorial Assistant rich . . ." I suspect him of wanting COLIN L. WESTERBECK...
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...doubts for which there are only tenta- To the Editors: Reference is made to tive answers...
...So too, a concern for word "Jesuit"-one who reasons cleverly to escape the truth...
...plaining that McLaughlin didn't speak for the Society, imprudently disNew York, N.Y...
...for military expenditures...
...force," says the report, "may stimulate men display an unfortunately distorted Seldom, however, has so much well increased attention to ways of avoiding perspective of history in their unqualiviolence and cooling violent situations digested scholarship and fresh insight fied condemnation of the Zentrum for without the resort to use of force...
...And what can be done in terms tinually victimized and by those who action "patronizing help" when affirma- of social policy and agitation to effec- have recognized invidious discriminative action has in reality been a mech- tively correct institutional racism, sex- tion when they have experienced it...
...Quesnell, Tracy, Tyrrell...
...By the way, we did not study theol- ship was, however, far less dramatic Indochina ogy at Louvain as alleged...
...power or respect actually based upon Msgr...
...chael wants those who are "still 'out- affirmative action is doing: it is crack- It is sad to see the decline of a keen side' the national culture" to strive to ing the myths that have kept the poor mind into the muck that Orwell warned be better at what they do...
...PRIESTS military plans, does anyone really think Indeed, within such a grouping of that the other side is going to release individuals there may be an internally JUNE 25 FORDHAM UNIVERSITY any information about the MIAs...
...On the average, those Laos, Cambodia...
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...slightly less inclined to support use of Robert Karris...
...See Erich Matthias, "Die Sitzung holds as given and then let the argu- racial preferences and fraternity...
...Adding women to the police if at all...
...Gordon C. Zahn's article, "Religion and does bode in the book...
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...In short, to Berliners Berrigan to Latin America several years and Reichstag deputies alike, the frat14 June 1974: 340 ricidal times of the Spartacusbund and talk about "it is up to us to crack this Affirmative Action system, and to alter it in its depths" the Frei Korps were returning...
...Now McLaughlin seems to have prevailed in their family that the Jesuits may take disciplinary quarrel...
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...force by police, but a bit more in favor of the death penalty and reduction Attitudes A Crucial Point of welfare expenditures...
...Indeed, it is almost timization and inequality of which he effected by those who refuse to be consickening to hear him call affirmative speaks...
...Maerz 1933," in Vierteljahrtive he fashions a convincing, though within those other spheres to further she/te /uer Zeitgeschichte, Vol...
...It der Reichstagsfraktion des Zentrums ment be joined...
...who refuse to deal with Davis' argu- there been a personal liberties case of The Christian tradition, the theo- ments-and the one way to deal with equal weight...
...Pointing to dis- national culture don't only want to get lemic that makes you not an ally, but crimination, in his world, is just "an inside, but that they want to really an enemy or adversary, of the struggle admission of cultural inferiority...
...On other issues, differ- response...
...Anyone can understand the third of this century" and the model of Christian charity...
...Please send the next 17 issues to: To the Editors: We couldn't help reading Ray Schroth's review of our book Name Intellectual Skywriting [May 10] with some morose delectation...
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...The Gestapo was GRADUATION making wholesale arrests...
...He will remain in the White House and retain his post as leadaction against Presidential advisor John ing priestly disgrace...
...if one FOR thousands of our men in that area in is white, male, articulate, given to civilian clothes to help support their fawning, one can more easily get by...
...and McLaughlin (Continued on page 340) calls those who question this hypocrites...
...We do not think he should be lives in Watergate-although it is a strangely insensitive mind that does discriminated against merely because not see why he should not live there...
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...Instead of treating the hypostatic union 14 June 1974: 342 of personality and ideas at play in that tried to replicate Edelstein et al's andistinguished journal, our critic sug- alysis as closely as possible using data Position Available gests we should have stuck to its pla- from the National Opinion Research Qualified applicants for position of reliCenter's 1973 General Social Survey, gious coordinator for Father Flanagan's tonic forms...
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...Foreign $17...
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...Our problem with Father McLaughlin is that he has enthusiastically alTo discover, for instance, at this late lowed himself, his priesthood and the prestige of his Order to be used to date that Father McLaughlin lacks offi- justify a pattern of political and moral corruption which his priesthood, his cial permission to serve in the White integrity, and his moral and intellectual training should call upon him to House is a feat worthy of the White condemn...
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...Michael's Commonweal: 341 or Indians," he, it must be remem- tionally missing his own point: for chael's bosses have made for them...
...5] I paused to consider fected to crack this system, to alter it the political processes of the Reichstag asking how a person could espouse in its depths, to orchestrate and insure as the crisis mounted in German minds, such confused and contorted reasoning a true "meritocratic system of advancethe Zentrum was forced to this fateful and have it pass for argument...
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...But Michael do not need 'affirmative action' . . . unaccounted for in Southeast Asia you misses the point: affirmative action and neither . . . do Blacks, Latinos, can understand my special interest policies are not "preferences" or quotas, in this subject...
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