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ited considerable competence in advising collectivists. Truly it may be wickedness Correspondence the government what...
...Proposi...
...Possibly disci- rect outgrowth of its public policies-it President, Bucknell Univeristy pline, precision, candor, honesty, hard denies the birthright of the individual work...
...To the some bureaucrats...
...PowAmerica doesn't do very well...
...We took away reli- kind of a priori birthright for every single world (even among some capitalists and gious symbols," he writes, "because we human infant born into the world...
...that he sheds no tears over the potential hard to generalize from a list that con- One writer cites Auden on the advantages thermonuclear hell coming off the desks tains Russell Kirk and Harvey Cox, but of lifetime monarchy and John Garvey in the War Department...
...48106...
...But the fact is president from the South...
...I did not language but the Fraiberg points to a "sobering dis- believe then (or now) that there is any way God established in the Garden covery," one that researchers in infant simple fix, right or left, on our society...
...overpopulated, overpriced and under- Fraiberg's testimony...
...Copyright ©1979 Commonweal him...
...I am Ann Arbor, Mi...
...I suspect that research as a culture ralWriting as a lobbyist for children, taking Correspondence lying point in our society will not take the child-centered point of view, hold unless and until serious and engagFraiberg amasses a compelling array of ing programs are launched to make evidence that the world's richest society (Continued from page 386) lifelong learning more than a slogan...
...left...
...I know they aren't as said they no longer communicate...
...To the extent that a society is ne- have those traits they are discussable as the sounds,of their enemies...
...21217 (no subscription charge, but dona- ruination of political judgment right or Stevenson said that he would "talk sense tions graciously received...
...glectful of a child's needs-even, shock- presidents...
...We are cut-off from history, lan- during the first two years of life...
...We live, for better or worse, in a democratic soci- Commonweal is indexed in Reader' s Guide to A church failure Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, ety (however imperfect) and our prob- Index of American Periodical Verse, Book ReNew York, N.Y...
...I fear charismatic style than any defined public Friends" [May 25 ], I do have a presiden- Carter's failure reflects the failure of thesense of his program...
...incapacitates them for work, love, and sions of individual acumen and in- JAMES R. LANGFORD citizenship and does so systematically for genuity...
...But the role of the university press oriented," are abused in large numbers to elide into despair for one knows the of necessity has expanded to include either in their own homes, foster homes, many ways in which policy makers and thoughtful books which directly apply or institutions...
...WASP guardian of the War Department, expecting someone to nominate Glinda The converse of these scenarios of sentences five of us to jail, with tears in the Good-but perhaps she would be too cleansing power is all too evident in the my case...
...He's the one man I can think of National Affairs Executive of popular opinion is reducing the mess who has...
...ingly of the damage we do to our young tic and economic reasons, research, parIf one evaluates a society by how it and of the public policies and private ticularly in the humanities, lives an intreats its very old and its very young, profits that help us to justify to ourselves creasingly tenuous life these days...
...If one could just wish Stevenson because he seemed to me to be Under the Bomb, available from Sun- either of the California Ronalds (Dellums a genuine politician, not a disguised mesburst Press, P.O...
...Serials Data Program No.: programs are moral and correct, the ISSN 0010-3330...
...And besides we have tried a replies of some of your other correfeel a rush of sympathy...
...promises which in many ways reflected Harvard theologian to divine that fact Donato, Toronto Sun, Rothco Agency...
...If we essence of liberalism is to have your accepted all too readily...
...subjects its children to the risk of an emo- that our task was "a long patient and University presses may well play an imtional impoverishment that damages or costly struggle that mocked the preten- portant part in helping this happen...
...And our children The paradox is that as the scope of unistaffed day-care centers or to linger in a will continue to be our victims...
...cannot have the White Cross Knight, let words, tears, life cost you nothing...
...He came into office on campaign is socialistic...
...Our why we, as a society, can do no better or erholders need to be convinced that ad"senior citizens" are denied meaning l are, in fact, doing quite well...
...Above all, we need to tell truth to child and erodes the basis of the human one another-in charity, of course...
...The great champion, the great issue, ArU.S...
...Their primary mission will aldignity and decency...
...In- might as well go on to fantasize that these perhaps the only person in American formation about his political platform estimable public personae could magi- public life who pronounced the word poand activities appears regularly in Year cally carry out their various programs...
...One finishes her ways be to publish books of enduring society that prides itself on being "child- book with a sense of anger that threatens merit...
...Harvey New York, N.Y...
...right: government bureau"campaign biography" includes a Elect Glinda the Good crats...
...it is activity as citizens and those basic social ters on "Child Care Industries Incorpo- an essential part of the human enterprise...
...Our view Digest and Book Review Index...
...Then I reflect there is a theme which such an exercise concludes "individuals in power can't further, with a touch of jaundice, that the invites and which most of the writers make any important difference...
...Stevenson lost to the general Director its most disadvantaged members, (the knight in armor) who would fix it University of Notre Dame Press 6 July 1979: 415...
...Second-class postage paid at very much tempted to put the blame on people must truly want them...
...lit-i-cal with all its syllables so that it One, 1933 Park Ave., Baltimore, Md But isn't this sort of fantasy game the sounded dignified not a term of abuse...
...worked steadily for the public National Council of the of problems to one overwhelming issue: good on central issues of the past twenty Churches of Christ the arms race, the energy crisis, the years-civil rights, war, and nuclear ar- power of some undesirable elites (left: maments...
...of Eden...
...not an area of strength in most church sure, some of your correspondents favor Worcester, Mass...
...Her chap- vancing knowledge is not a luxury...
...Microfilm To the Editors: Your editorial "Why Not friends on the, left and right appear to from Vol...
...I understand his dilemma and sectional...
...tial candidate to recommend: Philip Ber- church...
...versity press publishing widens, finantwilight zone before television sets...
...Arthur Stadler in .1914...
...The vision in political fairyland is number of simple truths that one listens Lewisburg, Pa...
...It would take the skills of a Illustrations: Cover I, Charles Ricketts in Form...
...Fraiberg pulls no punches in painting it...
...It seems to me that there are two to the American people" and he asserted MICHAEL TRUE clear truths about our society that tend to (Continued on page 415) get ignored in wishful politics...
...In effect we have are certain fundamental human needs, she do, but the art of working the complex unplugged ourselves from our life- might argue, and these needs constitute a urges for good that exist in our human support systems...
...few years...
...child's innate "birthright" as well as the "judiciousness," when discussing Partisans on all sides of religious battles moral basis of its own continued exis- politics-if Jerry Brown or Phil Crane pile up words like dead bodies to muffle tence...
...Box 6, 4610 S. E. Bel- or Reagan) into office, well then, one siah...
...We extent that a society meets the child's chaste as some of the buzz words of the trotted out the manufactured symbols basic needs for nourishment and nurtur- left or right but I like words like "tolerwhich communicate even less, or convey ance it sustains both the individual ance," "balance," "prudence," only sterility, barrenness, alienation...
...DENNIS O'BRIEN meaningless meaning...
...The Shepherd's Pie is that contemporary "that the human qualities of enduring presidency is apolitical post with all the American Catholics are disconnected love and commitment to love are forged syllables pronounced and politics is the people...
...This quotation is from Berrigan's On rather than voting for one invites fan- My own political hero was Adlai Beasts and Beastly Images: Essays tasies of power...
...Cox believes that the real silent majority Publishing Co...
...It was remarked that he was mont, Portland, Oregon 97215 ($3...
...It is JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN cial support for many presses is dwindnot a pretty picture, all told, and Selma ling...
...half-life and passes against itself, if Notre Dame, Ind...
...Asking people to wish for a president us have no one at all...
...they are left to wither in parents alike will deny and evade research to the major issues of our time...
...and his recently published capitalists...
...psychology and within a wide range of (John Courtney Murray liked to refer to Norbert Gaughan's main point in other disciplines agree upon, and that is himself as in "the radical middle...
...It condemns the child to a University presses Shepherd's Pie is a Catholic banquet...
...Truly it may be wickedness Correspondence the government what it should or should and sin that we spurn Ralph Nader or not do...
...Our children, in a how we can do better...
...Education of church members in Barry Goldwater for the Oval Office, but a way that makes government action for democratic polity dredges up our inpeace and justice politically possible is anities along with our wisdoms...
...structures-despite the access of the Ted Kennedy who does have popular To the Editors: Thinking again about church to the majority of the population appeal-though one suspects more for "1980-With a Little Help From Our in churches all across the nation...
...simply ("I will go to Korea...
...University Press and The American FENSE OF MOTHERING by Selma Fraiberg writes powerfully and mov- Mind" (May 25 ]. For all kind of pragmaFraiberg, Basic Books, $8.95, 162 pp...
...Thoughts from Alexandria Jail": "The pressing exercise in something or other...
...Magistrate, a better than average In reading over the suggestions I kept mageddon here we come...
...services that would enable them to end rated" and "Priorities for Children" University presses too are at a crucial their days, to live out their lives, with condemn what now exists and suggest junction...
...lems are immensely complex...
...l, 1924, to current issues available The Best" (May 25] reflects my own believe that because they are sure their through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, thinking regarding President Carter...
...p. 394: positions taken by the churches in the last from the current popular mood...
...Here To the Editors: I found the May 25 Presi- Cross Knight all puissant who slayeth the is one such truth, from a chapter entitled dential Wish List a fascinating and de- single dragon before the Castle of Purity...
...Church structures have exhib- tion 13 hardly seems the work of closet Commonweal: 386 to have Mass in any other way or haphazardly for its more privileged...
...To be President Berrigan...
...It is a little spondents: the retreat to powerlessness...
...community...
...JACK DICK Fraiberg is correct, a kind of death sen- To the Editors: Congratulations on the tence for without moral beings there can excellent article by Jack Miles, "The EVERY CHILD'S BIRTHRIGHT: IN DE- be no moral community...
...marvelously simple-behold the White for, in vain, from most candidates...
...if not, back to Munchkin "What will rescue us from this empty, ingly, systematically neglectful as a di- land...
...ALICE WIMER The neat correlate of ignoring the mess rigan...
...There art of the possible- not the art of making guage, art and symbol...
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