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...My con- better: "War, even more than drink, as men could...

...Martin E. Marty...

...To listen to retiring Congressmen ence...

...Politics seems to be one of sions in life, are liberating society as earnestly...

...325 West 93rd Street, Apt...

...Alfons Beil's commentary letter of 17 and disorderly past . . . it destroyed May...

...A brilliant analyst and observer, "Writers do not find subjects: sub- and women this year is to believe that Denis Brogan, professor of political jects find them...

...There is not so much he knew indeed whereof he spoke...

...Who would ever have suspected the Graf von Helldorf, amplified these Commonweal rumors, and reinforced by their mountJesuits might go that far...

...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...

...trines and even institutions of Chris- religious enterprise should read and Not since Kim Agnew was forbidden tianity seriously without assigning ulti- ponder Temptations of Religion...

...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...

...The Gestapo was GRADUATION making wholesale arrests...

...ference in the perception of reality...

...been combined in such a cogent form...

...They are now saying stituents have rights, but so has my (Continued on page 340) 14 June 1974: 326 thought...

...represented to these normally stolid time, they may lead their male colWrite CONTEXT, Dept...

...He takes the symbols, doc- All persons involved in the Western 10025...

...knows is "valuable and liberating...

...doubts for which there are only tenta- To the Editors: Reference is made to tive answers...

...Exactly...

...I want to spend cent polls and surveys tend to indiof that I am thinking now...

...4, 221 W. Madison St., people an intriguing combination of leagues once again out of social anChicago, IL 60606...

...Prussian Junkerism...

...Adding women to the police if at all...

...seriously...

...Still, the tradition raises questions and 0000 00000 Leicester, Mass...

...Yet Davis avoids both a fallen prey to the temptations of re- ago...

...As women "get it sermons, programs, classes...

...No risk sponsible Germany...

...But I think they are chang- can make a real contribution by re- "Women traditionally have adopted a ing what they are saying...

...The Reichstag building had burned For CORRESPONDENCE on 27 February 1933...

...she was named James Morris...

...I think I showing...

...Politics in Germany" [22 Feb.], and was an absurd relic of man's barbaric Much of the material is not original...

...LA DIFFERENCE AMERICAINE ABIGAIL McCARTHY A nice professor of my acquaint- that they can do things, but do them family...

...of Commonweal to write about the better for everybody...

...Gordon C. Zahn's article, "Religion and does bode in the book...

...The spirit of Kierkegaard Abigail McCarthy (Cent...

...The Congressman has two became more complex, but some rechoice is truly possible, but it is not younger children...

...mitee, but he is leaving it for personal of the woman's thrifty view of human One of the puzzles of the universe reasons...

...Davis is dependent on others, notably what women made...

...by means of physical change...

...of what is humane in this confused Your first issue is waiting...

...The dito thinking differently...

...However, I was also unreasonable demands...

...Any who let Davis' 1933 which gave Hitler broad emergmen do not-surely a fundamental difrejection of clerical vows stand in the ency powers...

...The idea that women, by insisting problems of women...

...while the Nazis offer: You may cancel on receipt of invoice...

...from clue to clue...

...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...

...who united with the itinerant that the writer does not outlive that Congressman John Blatnik is by no preachers to bring stable marriages, hope-here and there his eye passes, means too old to exercise the chair- literacy and law to the new society...

...However well intentioned, both cial orders...

...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...

...The seventy-hour week is life, as compared with the extravagant is certainly the difference between too much," he says, and adds that masculine attitude," was one mark of men and women...

...Perhaps David Riesman almost twenty years roots deep in the American experinovelist Elizabeth Bowen was right: ago...

...South German voelkisch thuggery and archy into community...

...Time- environmental factors: The Commulegislative needs of senior citizens than saving, "inside" summary of religious and so- nists, both domestic and Russian, cial news . . . a rich source of ideas for are Congressmen...

...She thinks ahead of men in favoring the right of struck by the fact that she admitted that most of her male colleagues ac- return without punishment...

...I don't think I agree...

...But Brogan puts it that they could do things just as well and a wife and a mother...

...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...

...The Berlin police, Subscriptions to Laughlin by invoking the vow of pover- under the Nazi Polizeipraesident, Wolf ty...

...Through subject he manship of the Public Works Com- In the next generation "the adoption offers his explanation...

...I do not think it is necessary ance has protested my using the pages differently, and that their way may be to sacrifice one to the other...

...I won- ends out of four "back home," when Women were entangled in a forest der about so intelligent a person mak- other fathers nearby were with their of conflicting values as our culture ing that choice, and whether the sons...

...Free Father McLaughlin" T-shirts...

...science at Cambridge University, a search as a state of open suscepti- Julia Butler Hansen, after thirty-seven wrote in The American Character that bility...

...Actually it has historical write about women lately...

...as the "civilizers" that Brogan thinks at once that people who met her did But pretty, brainy, young Patricia they have been in the past in Amernot take what she had to say as seri- Schroeder, first-term Congresswoman ican society which, as he insists, was ously or listen as attentively as when from Colorado thinks the fault lies a "made" society...

...Yet it not in the political life, but in the A recent poll on amnesty for draftwas the same person with the same politician's uncritical acceptance of evaders shows women ten points interesting mind...

...way of receiving his witness have First, underlying almost every poFinally, the National Council of Senior litical judgment during the waning Citizens reports that Congresswomen years of the Weimar Republic, are two CONTEXT-six-page newsletter for an ecumeni- are significantly more responsive to the cal audience, by Dr...

...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...

...Brogan's "extravagant way that other universal puzzles do eastern states-almost did away with masculine attitude" can be translated, not...

...Secondly, Berlin at this time was per•• ••o ••• vaded by an atmosphere of nascent horror...

...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...

...34, NYC, any fad...

...showed up when she was bathing her archy on the frontier, who brought The child, almost any child, is born baby and demanded that she drop him about community life, the possibility with the hope that the universe is because "she needed and demanded of a non-savage future for the chilsomehow to be explained...

...Women experi- I agree with these gentlemen that soBrian Tierney, for historical data chalence war as community destroyed...

...cept life-styles which are "the most rector of the survey shrugged off this Women are asking to be listened to inhumane I have ever seen...

...Twenty-two issues haunted the bourgeois mind of retogether," as they become more sure yearly for $16.75, by First Class Mail...

...They used fusing to adjust-by living in an al- less warlike stance in public opinion to say, in the woman's movement, ternative way...

...When his son was a I think, as the attitude that human much as James Morris has recently little boy he could not understand why beings are expendable in pursuit of a become a woman named Jan Morris his father had to spend three week- goal...

...A writer I used to admire very his private life...

...it may be my time...

...I'm a Congresswoman polls...

...In short, to Berliners Berrigan to Latin America several years and Reichstag deputies alike, the frat14 June 1974: 340...

...dren...

...It affects each one the needs of his large district-geo- an American moving from the fronof us profoundly and intimately in a graphically the size of several of the tier condition...

...That's momism," he said...

...Those to march in a peace demonstration has mate significance to particulars...

...I was time with them before it is too late," cate that they may be emerging again struck that Jan Morris noticed almost he says...

...Messages of support can be sent to dogma of novelty or the baptizing of ligion...

...lenging papal infallibility...

...But I those callings where celibacy can be a whole is an idea dear to the new must say I don't know exactly why I defended on practical grounds," wrote feminists...

...Your witness Take women in politics for ex- on the humane and personal dimenshould be broader than that," he said ample...

...subject remains apart-an in- years in public life, still remembers it was the women who conquered the explicable factor, an inner choice for with bitterness the constituent who savagery and the temptation to anwhich no external can yet account...