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CORRESPONDENCE Previous Opinions Pittsburgh, Pa. To the Editors: I am puzzled by a reference in Joseph Cunneen's otherwise excellent review of a book by Rev. Andrew Greeley [May 13]. Mr....
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...These critics are implying that the reductions made it impossible for the Indians ever to grow up...
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...I have discussed him in my writings but always from a point of view the opposite to that suggested by your estimable reviewer...
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...000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 MIDDLE EASTERN PROSPECTS The dust of the Israeli elections has had a chance to settle, but the view now is not much better than it was in the first place...
...It should be said that the election was not fought on foreign policy issues...
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...The real damage is to our own lucidity about society's probl.'ms...
...The reductions perished forever, with many of the Indian tribes who lived in them...
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...But the result has been a victory for a right-wing political leader who insists that the Arab lands taken in the 1967 war are not occupied but liberated...
...You may mill it, grind it, stuff it, polish it, even filter it, and it remains opinion, subjectively...
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...Much more of this is badly needed and could only help to improve the situation no matter what the ultimate outcome is...
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...Charles Kadushin's systematic interviews with elite intellectuals found them overwhelmingly negative toward the "counter-culture" and deeply concerned about the disintegration of old values...
...I've never encountered Father Greeley...
...Every time someone actually attempts to study these milieus with a degree of objectivity and a few instruments of measurement and documentation, the results turn out to be almost boringly similar...
...It was Labor that lost, hugely, forfeiting 21 seats...
...It is rather easy from this point of view to say that the Jesuits were so deeply enmeshed in politics that the work could not have succeeded...
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...However, in light of their determination to maintain their language, and the mixed reaction to this from the rest of the country, one could be excused for believing secession to be inevitable...
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...inflation, constant strikes, im'possible taxes and personal corruption combined to oust Labor after 29 years...
...They administered social and economic affairs and equipped and trained armies...
...A large part of the English-speaking three-fourths of the population feels unrepresented, even be(Continued on page 415) NEWS & VIEWS: 38G CORRESPONDENCE: 287 EDITORIAl,: 387 WASHINGTON REPORT: P r o f e s s o r K i s s t s ~ e r : Frank Getlein 388 A PASTORAL STRATEGY: Brian Wicker 390 A LITTLE igNOWLEII~IE: Peter Steinfels 392 READING CIlINESE TEA LEAVES: Sylvia E. Crane 303 TIlE CHUIlCIl IN CHINA: Robert L. Johnston 394 PRIESTS~NUNS~MINISTERS IN POLITICS: Jim Castelli 398 TIlE PREK~: Too Much With Us: Thomas Powers 400 TIlE SCIlEEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
...The growth of a knowledge industry and a technical-professional "new class" is one of the most important developments of our recent history...
...But if the results can not be called a famous Likud victory, the fact remains that it is Likud's Begin who will almost certainly form the next government, and there's the problem...
...The products of this tradition are marked by full and careful examination of all the pertinent documents, visits to the sites, and the use of a crisp, clear and quite readable English prose...
...Some recent Jesuit critics, C. tells us, have said that they managed the reductions as if they were Jesuit conlmunities...
...In addition, a comparison--which C. modestly did not make--between the reductions and the abominable treatment given the Indians by the government of the United States after 1789 suggests that the reductions were the most successful encounter between Europeans and the American aborigines since 1492...
...The objects of these studies are found to be distinctly more liberal than the American public at large but by no means radical...
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...Naturally enough, having resisted assimilation for two centuries, most French-speakers are determined to continue doing so...
...I don't know what naive Monsignor did cry out at Father G. Hate to spoil a good story but it was not Yours truly (in Christ), (MSGR...
...405 VERSE: Thomas Reiter 3 0 1 ; Richard E. McMullen 30"1 TIlE TWIN URGES OF JAMES BALDWIN: Wil/rid Sheed 404 ON BEING IlANS KUNG: Jaroslav Pelikan 407 BOOKS: Eleanor B. Wymard, David Bowman, Lois Spear, Ronaid Christ, l~tichael F. McCauley, Stu Cohen, John L. McKenzie 408 ILLIff,~"rlL4TIONS: Front cover and pages 393 and 396, courtesy ol The Holy Cross Quarterly...
...However, official policy (bilingualism), supported by all political leaders, is opposed to such assimilation...
...CHARLES OWEN RICE French-Quebec Sydney, Cape Breton, N.S...
...To the Editors: Jordan Bishop's article on the French fact in Canada [May 13], though a brief treatment of a complex situation, contains a number of sensir insights into current Canadian concerns...
...JOHN HANRATTY Commonweal: 415...
...It deserves serious study and reasoned comment...
...Cafko/Ic Periodical Index, and /eek Review Digest...
...But the Jesuits did not exploit the Indians...
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...In such an atmosphere, such balanced, thoughtful analysis as Mr...
...Among politicians and the news media, a prolonged hysteria reigns because 40% of Quebec voters have supported a government dedicated to secession...
...C. studies in this book one of the more controversial episodes in the history of the Society of Jesus before its suppression in 1773...
...The Indian reductions of Paraguay were victints of the dedicated and singularly small-minded secularism of the major Catholic nations of Europe in the eighteenth century...
...At a time when Arab leaders seemed finally to be moving toward some kind of moderation in their approach to Israel and when even the PLO was beginning to sound halfway reasonable on occasion, an intransigent regime in Israel headed by a famous former guerrilla leader is the last thing anyone needs...
...At the moment its status in the public prints is much like that of white ethnics some years ago, before writers like Moynihan, Nathan Glazer, Andrew Greeley, and Novak himself, began to make an impact: anyone (including, ironically enough, these same writers) feels free to toss off an impression as fact and turn a class of people into a whipping boy...
...In their own way they were devoted to the Indians as people...
...One has only to compare the condition of the Indians in the reductions with the condition of the Ir~dians elsewhere in the Spanish colonial empire to realize that the Jesuit ambition to establish reductions throughout the whole of Spanish South America, if achieved, would have been far better for the Indians than what did happen...
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...officials tried to put as good a face on things as possible, but others did not share their wait-and-see attitude...
...They were agents of the Spanish mon...
...A series of studies found that elite intellectuals and media figures ranked "culture and values" as an important problem facing America in exactly the same position as did the business elite, those in the administrative branch of government, leaders of voluntary associations, and the public at large (and somewhat higher than did labor leaders...
...Cunneen has me crying out, "You and your damned facts...
...Translation o/ /ront cover symbols: "Faces o[ the New China" JAMES O'GAU: EdDer JOHN DEEDY: Managing Edlter RAYMOND A. SCHROTH: Asseclate Edlter ANNE M. ROEERTSON, Edlterlal Asslstaat COLIN L. WESTEREECK, JR.: Mevles JOHN FANDEL: Peatry PRANK GRTLEIN: Wasklegtee BRIAN WICKER...
...Few politicians or analysts care to dwell on it, but many English-speakers want French-speaking Canadians r learn English and become assimilated with the rest of the country...
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...The tradition of historical investigation sustained by the Jesuits of Farm Street in London (really Mount Street) is alive and well...
...This position takes two basic forms: an active bias or reaction against measures designed to strengthen or protect Frenchspeakers' rights, or simply an apathy towards what happens to Quebec...
...It is not so much that Menahem Begin's Likud party won a great victorymindeed, the Likud gained only a few seats over its total in the last election...
...Bishop does not indicate whether or not he thinks Quebec will secede from Canada to form its own Frenchspeaking nation...
...But the matter will not be easily changed, and for now all concerned must live with the electoral verdict as best they can...
...At the very least, such widespread division over basic realities points ahead to troubled times...
...UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim said immediately that the electoral victory for the right Commonweal: 387 lands are many things," Caudill says, "but most of all they are a warning...
...I do not recall any such incident...
...The Jesuits diet patronize the Indians...
...One who has some experience of Jesuit management recognizes at least a halftruth in this charge...
...JOHN L. MCKENZIE 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 S t e i n f e l s ( C r e s t . ) everyone agrees is the politically significant element of this knowledge ind u s t r y - t h e media, the professoriate, and the intellectual elite the picture is hardly one of "cultural nihilism...
...It is true that most Quebecers, at this time, do not want to secede, principally because of the uncertain economic effects of such a move...
...Are the elite intellectuals cultural nihilists...
...After Father Greeley and his company examine an issue and take their polls and samples, they end up where they started, all previous opinions miraculously confirmed...
...Most comments about Canada's regional nature stop far short of his forthright and well-founded assertion that "in many ways Canada is not a nation," and that it cannot be assimilated simply to the nation-state formula...
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...Some insuit but little injury is done thereby to the relatively well-off operatives of the knowledge industry and the affluent members of the "new class...
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...There is one often neglected factor that might help to explain existing unrest and confusion...
...Father Greeley has no facts...
...If the correspondents in the Middle East are correct, the Israeli voters were stunned the day after the election at what they had done, and no wonder...
...Opinion is opinion no matter what you do with it...
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