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strongly with economic variables such as history of The Voice portrays...
...King be passed Thich Thien Minh had been jailed "be- whom Amnesty International and IFOR without expression of horror or shock cause of serious acts of opposition to the had intervened...
...monthly in advance for more sed...
...This accommodation has been ac- becomes more interdependent, and al- writing skills (25 articles published in contemporary journals, including COMcomplished.more in the external relations most every aspect of social policy beof the church with the world around it comes a matter of national security, it is MONWEAL) wishes to leave classroom than in the church's own internal life...
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...merely a question of neglect-this selfnificance of psychological factors, such In McAuliffe's version, there is the righteous focus on a few selected and as a putative "authoritarian personality good old Voice, the mirror of the emerg- - privileged individuals, in a complex and structure" and employs some standard ing counter-culture, the "writers" difficult environment, has contributed to sociological explanations, such as newspaper, where founder-editor Dan the further savaging of a huge army of status-insecurity, loss of mobility oppor- Wolf let bright, young, mixed-up, floun- victims (still denied even the right to tunities, and direct economic competi- dering men and women pour out their trade, let alone to rceive aid for the viction...
...I put out 25 cents for the New York Post misrepresentation of fact-daily abducRONALD DE FEO writes for The National and feel that I am simply giving the tions, tortures and killing occur on a large Review, The Nation and other journals...
...At the extreme, the p i Biblical Institute tions belonged to a single person (King, mary value in the traditional model is the TRINITY COLLEGE, Burlington, Vermont Pope, Bishop, Pastor, etc...
...But the analogy remains for funeral rites...
...to as would not be complemented by more perience as head of a 900-pupil, Catholic "linear-fragmented" in contrast to the stress on the organic and cylical dimen- co-educational, independent, secondary school, available June 1, 1979 for princitraditional "cyclical-organic...
...I Correspondence JAMES R. KELLY am guilty of bringing aid and comfort to the U.S...
...in which, it is hoped, things get better framework which looked back to prethan they were 0 the past and certainly modern agrarian societies...
...I imagine Mr...
...the first week...
...At the risk of further confuBut was Thich Thien Minh's death but tomorrow they may be able to tell us, sion, I hope Mr...
...This is the only detail we person swept the pavement in front of his Thomas Merton, a bit like Martin Luther presently know of his six months' life in own door...
...government, all for regretting THE GREAT AMERICAN NEWSPAPER: (Continued from page 130) The Rise and Fall of the Village Voice, in South Africa, Chile, Argentina, or REVIEWERS by Kevin Michael McAulife, Scribners, South Korea...
...bomJAMES R. KELLY teaches in the sociology stuff to share with my journalism classes...
...other ways an asset, at least for a critique the First World as well...
...cyclical-organic) interpretation of soci- chance of being published...
...An appeal for 37 other except in American media...
...land mine...
...cussions, worship, hiking, riding in high Either view has its strengths and Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects country wilderness area...
...common good...
...The model is the machine, JOE HOLLAND newal, through seminars, informal disrather than the body...
...The cadre wanted to in- as blinkered politically as we used to be rangements regulated by individual contimidate him...
...a succession of not-to-be-trusted Loatian or South Vietnamese farmer He observes that conflict can be based on money-men like Carter Burden ("willful whose legs are severed by an exploding rational andvirrational grounds, that not...
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...Address: which is not a circle going round and Early Catholic social thought was strong Reverend C.K...
...Herman is quite right that these Mr...
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...16 March 1979: 157 the death of a Vietnamese monk a bit like obedience...
...7. Write: Director, Ring ety is the principle of "subsidiarity," i Lake Ranch, Dubois, Wy...
...In Hanoi the following day, a and present General Secretaries of the or the jailed Berrigans gone unreported in Hanoi official confirmed the news to the Unified Buddhist Church, have now the press of the Soviet bloc...
...Organic" refers to the pre-modern he said he had been wearing the brown But how strange to hear we must respond view that society formed a single body, robe for 41 years and was so used to it he only to those suffering within a particular and was not simply a lot of parts arbitrarwould not be comfortable in any other power bloc...
...The model for interpreting the sostripped of all his clothes and to be a threat to the neighborhood school...
...dergoing mainly rhythmic changes in "At the prison of Hang Sanh, Gia Dinh, There are others of whom this might be which little was truly new...
...all conflict is bad, and that ethnic- spoiled"), Clay Felker and Rupert Mur- EDWARD S. HERMA religious conflicts will persist: ". . . doch have changed it into a packaged America will probably see these con- commodity written to match the editors' The author replies flicts, in varying degrees of intensity, notion of what will sell...
...Workshop pluralism, reflected at least in two politi- If this further compounds the obscur- WILDERNESS RE-CREATION: explore cal parties (and within them by numerous ity, double apologies...
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...In his interpretation of ethnic toady, constantly sidling up to the most like Jim Forest is scandalous...
...Besides journalism, interested in prison, social jusThus, while the church moves mainly in and run the society as a theoretically or- tice work, but open to any challenging, a liberal world, it maintains much of the ganic unit...
...quarter away...
...peace organizations regularly respond FATHER DONALD SENIOR, C.P., Associate Twice a week, on the way from with energy to ordinary imprisonments in Professor of New Testament Studies at Commonweal to Grand Central Station, Chile, Argentina, etc...
...This time there was little re- ally there will be witnesses to events after of Catholic social thought and liberal sosponse...
...Even Forest does tics...
...Marrion will let me try something more than the result of old age and shed light on the darkness...
...Informal...
...We would call this decen"equality" was a jarring idea for the tralization...
...under Marxist political sponsorship is an ety which, Bayor observes, is the catalyst RAYMOND A. SCHROTH acceptable alternative...
...Thich Huyen Would it have been better, in Mr...
...He did not have the chance to Korea, the Soviet Union and, for that of human life through biological stages, meet his fellow monks there since the matter, the United States...
...I used to hang on for be those of the United States, which left a vania...
...and pet hates, some useful background exploding ordnance left by U.S...
...And Obscurity transcended this crippled pacifist religious leader why everytime an important figure dies Washington, D.C...
...Thus like the Thich Thien Minh was put in a dark and said in South Africa, Argentina, South passage of nature through the seasons, or horrid cell...
...Since 1975 JEAN BEIHKE E SHTAIN is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of ing to glean, beyond his cynical snickers hundreds of farmers have died from Massachusetts, Amherst...
...A second deJEFFREY MEYERS's books include works on over 60 cents for The Village Voice, and ception is the equating of the Minh case Lawrence and Orwell...
...The corrective to the traditional 250 or 300 words naturalh' have a better ership...
...Will he argue that bussing is tracts...
...This is the source, I believe, growth-oriented work...
...guts, politics and sensibilities-and thus tims o1...
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...Herman is annoyed that I com- tional League for Human Rights...
...Why," the corre- Alkmaar, Holland both Amnesty International and the In- spondent writes, "was it prohibited to ternational Fellowship of Reconciliation touch the body of Thich Thien Minh...
...of the Vietnamese chapter of the Interna- Mr...
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...I wonder, therefore, if liberalism CATHOLIC PRIEST, 45, ten years' exThe liberal view of society I refer...
...But most will paragraph can serve as lynch mob, in this find it a useful reference work...
...Whether a humanistic tional, international coverage...
...He ordered the monk to be religiously...
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...191 for numerous appeals, sufficient to effect his The writer goes on to note that eventu- obscure terminology in my comparison release...
...reviews-and above all for Andrew Sar- not claim that Minh was tortured or kil- DENNIS vEU.UCCi has taught English and ris, whose just-published collection of led, whereas Biko and literally thousands American Studies at the University of Southfilm reviews, Politics and Cinema (Col- of Argentinians and Chileans have been...
...trails in learning, theology, personal refactions...
...Now as the world CATHOLIC SISTER with Ph.D...
...That ciety was the human body, and each punished naked for one week for dis- the world would be clean if only each piece had its place, like the brain and the Commonweal: 158 food in our own bodies...
...Herman sleeps best at wax and wane many times in the future...
...No more...
...has been to accommodate itself to an its history, is that its internal dynamic has Situations Wanted entirely different understanding of soci- been eroding community and creating a ety which flowed out of the Enlighten- fragmented society...
...Marrion [Correspondence, Jan...
...When the prison officer other countries there are people risking remained constant, at least in its pattern...
...Nathan focusing on the common good (the of the new society...
...A letter from a brother and to awaken the conscience of each one Catholicism tended to see society as unmonk in Vietnam reached us last week: of us...
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...The real mystery of The Voice seems night if first delivered of a fresh indictI think some readers will miss a more to be how a group of people who dis- ment of U.S...
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...But I pared the monk's death with that of a Leaders of the Unified Buddhist doubt his approach, at least if it involves New Yorker, pointing out the New Church came to the prison to claim the the voice used in this letter, will open any Yorker died of murder...
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...tried to stimulate appeals to Hanoi for Why was the body so well covered...
...66c, three organic view, at least traditionally, since interpretation is "counter- vailing times...
...These in turn are the traditional Catholic orientation and a READ THE GUARDIAN, America's #1 seen as more loosely related, even as future-oriented socialist critique of independent Marxist newsweekly...
...They were not prison doors...
...One of his recent columns and diseased in body and mind have been FATHER RAYMOND A. SCHROTH, S.J., is asmade a joke out of Karen Quinlan...
...The death of Thich Thien Minh jolted "literal empire of torture and death On October 20, three days after Thich many appeals to the Hanoi government squads in the U.S...
...Should the Agence France Presse, charging that been released, as well as two others for assassination of Dr...
...His latest is A Fever at am beginning to feel the same way...
...In the judg- Publications are different...
...Cause of death was said to Buddhist leaders still in prison has been conscience of the world have so paroch- be cerebral hemorrhage...
...strongly with economic variables such as history of The Voice portrays tough- issues involved here (including problems unemployment, relief work, and job in- guy-in-print Cockburn as the office of survival and rehabilitation) by people security...
...I didn't imagine so was imprisoned by three consecutive re- refer to two aspects of the traditional when I wrote the article for Com- gimes...
...Jim . His last and only analytic chapter enti- caught the imagination of a changing Forest, will you not get out and protest tled "On Ethnic Conflict," consists of a America-and the bad, new Voice where the human rights violation of the next scant four pages of some basic sociology...
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...Today they are silent, cial thought...
...ordered him to take off his monk's robe, their lives to awaken public conscience...
...JAMES H. FOREST was not with the cause-line of their death allowed to take possession of the L..4 y or Coordinator, certificates, but rather the silence that to see any part of it other than the face, by Int'l Fellowship of Reconciliation proceeded their passing...
...wimpy...
...In addition, as in the body, only against individual and interest group than three times...
...It is not conflict Bayor wisely minimizes the sig- powerful man in the room...
...case with myself as proposed mobile...
...Nadisparate and competitive forces in the liberalism...
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...thority, and within this authority the of no single person or group can prevail executive, legislative, and judicial func- over the others...
...of much of the periodic group animosity What magic there is in words...
...I with, say Biko, or the Argentinian the Core: Six Studies of the Idealist in Polihang on for the Off-Off Broadway torture-killing plague...
...or illness in prison-is it possibly the Thien Minh fought for social justice and I use the term "cyclical-organic" to result of brutality...
...Quality leadviance...
...supine...
...In these and life went round and round, but basically previous year...
...And left to suffer unaided by the former in- sociate editor of Commonweal and the author Kevin Michael McAuliffe's persuasive vader.The neglect of the human rights of The Eagle and Brooklyn (Greenwood...
...This is a gross Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, is the Editor of The Bible Today...
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...sneaky...
...the temptation of the military to step in for new apostolate June, 1979...
...June 10-Sept...
...Must the government...
...Full "Linear" refers to a view of history on real subsidiarity or decentralization...
...ial a management that the death of hemorrhage was listed as the cause of We have had good luck in recent people like Thich Thien Minh has no death of another noted Vietnamese pris- months with similar efforts for prisoners right to be noticed except where such oner in 1978, Tran Van Tuyen, chairman in South Africa and Argentina, though news would be suppressed...
...reached the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace were reported near death...
...Alexander Cockburn's Press Clips hop- devastated land and people...
...the executive, judicial, and legislative for both Catholic and liberal social branches, and in the society's internal thought...
...This is in part a problem, but in Third World, and perhaps eventually in N.Y.C...
...Cerebral started...
...Every Wednesday I hand scale, mostly unprotested...
...Thich again...
...He suffered because he wanted to Catholic interpretation of society...
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...whose previous imprisonment by the in prison is his death due to cerebral To the Editors: Apologies to Robert W. Saigon government had occasioned hemorrhage...
...Small ecumeniweaknesses, and a corrective to its de- treated in its pages...
...Delegation in France and was reported to Quang and Thich Quang Do, the former Herman's view, had the Wilmington Ten the press...
...Herman would make us ily thrown together in voluntary arkind of dress...
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...pp.] marks him again as a tough- that the truly massive human rights vio- GEORGE EL LARD teaches in the philosophy minded,independent critic I should not lations in Vietnam were and continue to department at Dickinson College in Pennsyltry to do without...
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...hard-won successes are far too o few...
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...sphere of influ- Thien Minh's death, news of the event for others still in jail, especially two who ence...
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...have deflected attention from the rise of a worker...
...in history, ment...
...evils, but a broadside at rigorous connection between group con- liked and mistrusted one another so anyone disturbed at torture and death flict and the economic structure of soci- much could put out a paper at all...
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