Editorials
CORRESPONDENCE Rocky I n f l a t i o n Willimantic, Conn. To the Editors: Your outright endorsement of (Governor) Nelson A. Rockefeller is stupendous indeed, to say the least. After...
...US and Canada...
...the love of Christ for all people...
...Fanny Van der Grift Osbourne, came to him with two children and also---it was rumored, unkindly but to RLS perhaps gratifyingmwith Negro blood...
...Need I say more...
...President Ford supported the war from first shot to last...
...NEW YORK, N.Y...
...hours, accompanied by more photographs than you could have printed at the drugstore for seven dollars...
...the latter, repugnant...
...17 ROOKS: Dennis O'Brien, Mark Taylor 18 ILLUSTRATIONS: Front cover: Wiaz, Nouvel Observateur/LNS...
...In a way, none of this was surprising...
...However, one did expect sensitivity and tact...
...Earned reentry" to what...
...Printed in the USA and published weekly, except biweekly Christmas-New Year's and J~ne to mid-September...
...The problem is that weaknesses of implementation could be adjusted forthwith (and no doubt will to one degree or another), and the program would still be flawed...
...His message is love...
...of Chicago Press...
...But as someone else asked recently, don't publishers use editors anymore...
...One got what amounted to a lording of moral rectitude...
...And I do like Journey to Upolu (the name of RLS's Pacific paradise), which I forgive for offering no real consideration of the novels, for refusing to divulge the source of the marvelous letters it quotes, and for never getting inside the man...
...rather, indeed, honorable, since it depends on wrongs ancient like the race, and not personal to him who cherishes the indignation...
...young and energetic, they form a religious family...
...The program is patently unfair, particularly when contrasted to the unqualified amnesty extended former President Nixon...
...Her daughter-in-law, who unaccountably hated Fanny, wrote of her that "she belonged to the childhood of the race-the first beginning civilizationNin some dark-skinned peoples...
...Why did you not tell the people of the fact that the Consumer Price Index was rising at a rate of less than 2 percent annually prior to 1965...
...He communicates with the spoken word, the printed page...
...Instead, he produced a laborious measure that is as much political as it is humanitarian, and that aggravates old feelings by presumptions about the righteousness of the Vietnam war and delinquency of those who refused to be part of that war...
...9. The second of the three manners cited for the beholding of the motherhood in God should have read "taking of o u r kind" (a reference to the incarnation), not taking of our "king...
...Small wonder that the initial response has been indifferent from those the amnesty is alleged to benefit...
...And that it was the war in Vietnam, and a drain on resources that really brought on this inflation, it's been that way since...
...A Paulist is a man of the Spirit, a man of his time...
...The Scots, from Sir Walter Scott through RLS, John Buchan, and Alastair MacLean, make wonderful storytellers, and it is a sign of the modern disregard for that craft that RLS is known mainly today, in America, as a writer of children's books, though neither Treasure Island nor Kidnapped was written for, nor originally received by, children...
...President Ford had the opportunity to perform the greatest healing service to the nation since the Lincoln-Andrew Johnson Civil War amnesties...
...It is ungenerous--indeed, in the words of New York Times columnist Tom Wicker, half-hearted and half-punitive...
...Deficiencies of concept are compounded by faulty mechanics...
...1" have not devised a plan to attack at the roots of inflation, that is Monopoly Capitalism (i.e., Rockefeller...
...TAYLOR teaches in the English Department at Manhattan College...
...Against all odds (his father being a man of wealth and of considerable, if erratic, generosity) he maintained a state of extreme privation until nearly the end of his short life...
...For more information send for The Paulist Papers Write to: Father Don C. Campbell, Room 104 PAULISr FAIHERS 41S WEST 59TH ST...
...Letters o] not more than 250 or 300 words naturally have a better chance of being published...
...He rejoices in the signs of hope around him and celebrates with the people he serves...
...YOU SPRE4D 1HE/14 E OF LO E...
...The Paulist Fathers are a small community of American priests...
...IS a year...
...to have the quattrocento glossed as the fourteenth century...
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...Nixon and his New Economic Policy (NEP) and now his Ford who calls inflation "public enemy no...
...Then the clincher came, paragraph four and I quote: " . . . Rockefeller's unique financial background makes him a valuable resource in the fight against inflation, which is becoming an overriding concern...
...It is exasperating to find three typos in the first three pages...
...so did most of his closest advisors...
...Single copies S0c O e e e e e e e e e e e e e O 000 SEMI.AMNESTY The President's amnesty program for Vietnam war resisters has at last been spelled out, and the result is typically Ford: longer on promise than on delivery...
...page 11: FPS/LNS JAMES O'GARA: Editor JOHN DEEDY: Managing Editor RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Associate Editor ANNE ROEERTSON: Editorial Assistant COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR.: Movles JOHN FANDEL: Poetry BRIAN WICKER: Great Britain ALAIN WOODROW: Paris HENRY TEN KORTENAAR: Rome JOHN COONEY: Dublin EDWARD S. SKILLIN: Publisher JOHN BRUEAKER: Advertising Manager COMMONWEAL A Weekly Review of Public ARalrs, Literature and the Arts...
...One hardly expected therefore any hint that the war might have been illegal or immoral, or admission that the consciences of those who chose not to fight and to kill were ultimately correct...
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...What this all means is that your assessment is wrong when you say Rockefeller will come to the office of Vice President fighting inflation...
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...To the company of those who foisted an immoral and perhaps unconstitutional war upon Commonweal: 3 America, and the South Pacific, and very little in Victorian England itself...
...Rockefeller, big business himself can not/will not do anything against high prices, for that would be to eliminate his higher profitst Editors, I am sorry to see that you have endorsed a man of no integrity, a (Continued on page 23) NEItVS & VIEWS: 2 CORRESPONDENCE t 3 EDITORIALS: 3 PARENT POWER IN SCHOOLS: Brian Wicker 4 FACING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS: John Knob/e 5 WASHINGTON REPORT: POST.WATERGATE RECONSTRUCTION~ll: Sisyphus 8 CHOICE AND THE SCHOOL: Paul Haze/ton 11 SISTERHOOD WAS POWERFUL: Margaret Mu/vehil/ Cu//ey 15 THE SCREEN: Co/in L. Westerbeck, lr...
...Admittedly, the program is better than no program at all, but that only makes the whole the more disappointing...
...Guaranteeing that result are emphases, such as on oaths of allegiance and "earned reentry...
...It is noted, for instance, that the program makes inadequate distinction between military deserters and war resisters, that it lacks due process, that there are insufficient guarantees justice will be evenly dispensed...
...1HE I.O E OF CHRIST FOR ALL PEOPLE...
...The former is impolitic, if not unconstitutional...
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...After reading the first three paragraphs of your editorial "The Vice President Designate" [Sept...
...Progressive, searchins...
...6], I was feeling elated to see in print that your weekly had done what other publications have not done--blasted Rockefeller for what he is...
...His commitment to the earth's oppressed was such that he could write, "That the Jew should not love the Christian, nor the Irishman the English, nor the Indian brave tolerate the thought of the American, is not disgraceful to the nature of man...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPONDENCE (Continued #om page 3) man with the blood of Attica on his hands, a man who left New York City in shambles, a man who rewrote the death penalty, a man who supported the aggressive war in Vietnam, a man with vast Imperialist holdings in Latin America, in all a man of businessmilitary-monopolist character for Vice President of the United States...
...Every Paulist is a missionary: in the pulpit, or parish house, on the campus, in the inner-city...
...Second class postage paid at New York...
...The one of these whom he married, Mrs...
...And after a youth spent in the brothels of Edinburgh, he showed a strong proclivity to fall in love with the wives of other men...
...So it is difficult not to like a book that reminds us what a remarkable chap RLS was, and does so in a text that can be read in a couple of Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
...His mission is to all of America...
...Your bourgeois concept of inflation links it to the wage-worker, which is not so...
...With one stroke of the pen, he could have opened home to tens of thousands living in exile or underground, rescued hundreds languishing in military prisons, salvaged the lives and careers of some 460,000 scarred by less than honorable discharges...
...EARL SMITH Correction There was a typographical error in the Julian of Norwich quotation in Abigail McCarthy's column of Aug...
...You see, Rockefeller is inflation...
...to have Joseph Conrad plumped down in London, a famous literary man, at age 16...
...0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 REVIEWERS DENNIS O'nmEN is a professor of philosophy and author of Hegel on Reason and History (U...
...and with contemporary media...
...Have you ever considered the priesthood as a way to serve people...
...Actually, I've grown tired of "Victorian" as a pejorative, but if it still conveys sensible scrupulosity in financial matters, the Pukka Sahib's benign hauteur toward other nations and races, and an avoidance of matters sexual, then let RLS's enlightenment be recorded...
...What you fail to realize is that Rockefeller in his too many years as Governor of New York State never eradicated poverty, Harlem or even saw to it that the poor of New York City and New York State got a fair "deal...
...and on the book's last page to have the playwright Edward Field, husband of RLS's stepdaughter, become Edward Fielding a sentence after he is introduced...
Vol. 101 • October 1974 • No. 1
