CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Dogs and Donuts Garrett Park, Md To the Editors: While it is clearly not of great importance, Mr. Getlein's knowledge of colloquial German is somewhat deficient. In his column of...
...j. m. gurian Credit Due Chicago, 111...
...McCourt and McCready, respectively...
...In particular, the chapter on reasons for attending Catholic schools and the chapter on (Continued on page 639)CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 579) finances were by Drs...
...REV...
...Had the sentence been, "Ich bin ein Frankfurter," that would be true, but should Mr...
...I don't think that's fair...
...However, at the risk of persuading the Commonweal editor that I am never satisfied, I would like to register a moderately strong protest against the omission of the names of my two lay colleagues from the body of the review...
...ANDREW M. GREELEY Director, Center for the Study of American Pluralism...
...In his column of August 13 he translates Pres...
...Getlein go to a store or restaurant in Germany and ask for a "Berliner," expecting a Hot Dog, he might be surprised to be served a Jelly Donut, for that is what a Berliner is colloquially...
...Alford devotes substantial space in bis review to these two chapters, but attributes them to me...
...This may be considered carping criticism, but in truth, it is amusement, at a small slip in a series of otherwise superior columns...
...They are not research assistants but established scholars with publications of their own...
...Kennedy's remark "Ich bin ein Berliner," as meaning "I am a Hot Dog...
...They put at least as much work into Catholic Schools in a Declining Church as I did, and merit at least as much credit for the good things in the book and criticism for the bad, as I do...
...It might now be a quick exercise for Mr...
...Getlein to rewrite the remainder of the paragraph and his play on the word Hot Dog, to see how it works with a Jelly Donut...
...To the Editors: I am grateful for the competent professionalism of George Alford's review of Catholic Schools in a Declining Church [June 18], and for the complimentary remarks he made about the volume and about other NORC work...
Vol. 103 • September 1976 • No. 20
