Take my wife, please
Bell, Robert H.
Cube is a sustained world economic recovery --without high interest rates. Outside the Reagan administration, however, which continues to whistle a happy tune about the disconnec- tion between...
...I know for sure that she has been for Walter Mondale through thick and thin, even when I stayed with him only through thin...
...Creditor and debtor governments will have to settle on both short-term relief and, equally important, a long-range write-off that, however approximately fair, gives the third world a definite finish line...
...Analogies to the Chrysler salvage are perhaps in order...
...ROBERT H. BELL (Robert H. Bell teaches English at Williams College...
...I am pretty darn sure that her entire family would go Democratic if she were on the ticket...
...So he makes a joke about it...
...cool...
...If you ask me, we could use a little more of the light touch to relieve the tedium of campaign politics...
...But in other respects it's also an anatomy lesson like St...
...This has happened before, a slippage of support as I became bored...
...What he did not say, church in the world...
...I usually don't get too excited about issues and platforms and policies...
...Gary is bound to feel a little resentful...
...Suddenly Gary Hart burst on the scene...
...To have chosen a life of service to and leadership ON BEING A 'COMMONWEAL CATHOLIC' of that laity, as Jim and his confreres did, l AMES O'GARA'S farewell in the March 23 issue of this journal marked the end of an era for many of the end of the era of the "Comwas to have chosen a life of dedication, voluntary poverty of a kind, persistence in the face of odds and uncertainties, a to be --as he and the other staff of life dependent on faith --a twentieth- Commonweal were in the twenties, the century vocation...
...And I predict that nominating my wife could prove crucial in the swing states on election day...
...Gary had a problem: on the same day he had to win primaries in New Jersey and in California...
...Not particularly," she said...
...Between 1970-79, one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S...
...He is a former Managing Editor and Associate Editor at the Catholic Worker...
...Doesn't he remind you of me...
...We always go for a great family clambake on Labor Day, and she'd be happy to squeeze in a couple of campaign appearances, even though it is a holiday weekend...
...Outside the Reagan administration, however, which continues to whistle a happy tune about the disconnection between astronomical deficits and escalating interest rates, hardly anyone thinks such a beast is possible...
...This interconnected world is a new scene, and will take all our ingenuity to adjust to...
...Leaving the problem to the bankers or just waiting, Micawber-like, for something to turn up will not do...
...I don't know what you know about New Jersey, but the place is the pits...
...He's too old and he calls his wife Mommy, even when his kids aren't in the room...
...It so happens that my wife is a half-Hungarian from Maine...
...It's as if, though many, we partake of one loaf...
...Collectively, LDCs in 1980 purchased 38 percetlt of the total of U.S...
...Progress is being made on another front as well...
...Karl Leichtman, has offered to print one issue free --a very sizable donation...
...He makes a little joke about New Jersey being one big toxic waste dump and how, on the whole, he'd rather be in Califor- nia...
...I 'M a little surprised that Walter Mondale hasn't yet invited my wife to discuss the vice-presidency...
...That's the kind of person she is...
...Patrick Jordan's name may already be familiar as the author of two lead reviews and a number of shorter ones over the past year...
...Maine is full of old Yankees and French-Canadians...
...What about the practical effect of her becoming the vice-presidential candidate...
...She's smart as a whip, hard-working, pleasant to deal with, and would be an asset on any ticket...
...My wife got a lot of publicity in high school for winning the state debate champ- ionship with her brother...
...That's when it occurred to me that Walter Mondale should consider my wife for the position...
...Anne Robertson, a veteran of twenty-four years on the magazine has long exercised a wide range of responsibilities in regard both to our review section and the journal's production...
...Joining the staff at this time are two Assistant Editors, Karen Smith and Patrick Jordan...
...They what he did not tell us, was what it meant ades in which it was not at all certain that were still the days of fortress America Commonweal: 390...
...I think a lot of that campaigning could be done from right here...
...So I was an early Mondale supporter...
...On that question President Reagan flunks...
...When she was Second Lady she was a big booster of the National Endowment for the Arts...
...Karen Smith, a June recipient of a Master's degree from the Harvard Divinity School (and the holder of another Master's from Notre Dame), has edited several newsletters and published articles, most recently, in U.S...
...My support for Mondale began to slip...
...thirties, the forties, the fifties --the It is hard to explain to those who did voice of and the connection for those not know it what life in much of the monweal Catholic" --the term he in- laity who laid claim to the right to be church in America was like in those days voked in his essay...
...With this issue she formally assumes the post of Production Editor...
...It's run by the Mafia, which is why it's a toxic waste dump...
...For me, though, the crucial factor was the New Jersey quote...
...And aid has come from another source: our printer, Mr...
...So he sent his wife to California and resigned himself to working in Jersey...
...We have received or been pledged a total of more than $10,000 by 180 new Commonweal Associ- ates...
...All the Yankees have farms or trust funds, and are sure to vote for Reagan...
...Thanks to her, citizens in out-of-the-way places get federally subsidized art...
...In turn, one fourth of manufactured imports now come from LDCs, and though this has meant a loss of U.S...
...Well, I can guarantee that nothing weird is going to pop out, the way it did when McGovern picked that senator some feared had had a frontal lobotomy...
...Paul's...
...He tends to drone, while the circles under his eyes appear darker and deeper...
...I mean, isn't this a pretty cool dude...
...The term "Commonweal Catholic" was a term of opprobrium or a badge of moral bravery, AN ERA OF EMERGENCE depending on the point of view...
...Admittedly it wasn't flattering to say this about New Jersey the week before the primary, but I thought Walter Mondale came down just a little heavily on Gary...
...So I can assure you that my wife's support for Walter Mondaie remained firm, even though Gary Hart compares to me...
...They don't even bother with dumping in select locations...
...That means that the balance of power in Maine is in the hands of the third electoral bloc, the Hungarians...
...exports...
...manufacturing, one out of five in agriculture...
...It goes to show that there are a lot of talented people working quietly all over the place...
...I also liked the way Walter Mondale begged out of a previous presidential campaign on the grounds that he didn't like rubber chicken banquets and the decor of Holiday Inns...
...This means jobs, one out of every twenty in U.S...
...To all of these supporters, we send heartfelt thanks...
...An additional $4,000 has been given in smaller contribu- tions...
...Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy the laity had that right...
...The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I do not need you' " (I Cor 12:21...
...The natural alternative was Walter Mondale...
...We welcome them both to Commonweal...
...He's married to the kind of woman I admire...
...Then I noticed on a couple of news clips that Walter Mondale seemed lackluster...
...Catholic and Salt...
...A businessman calls the local truckers and tells them he's got a hot load, so to speak, and could the truckers get rid of it on the Q.T., if you see my meaning...
...Maine is going to loom very large in this campaign, and I've done an in-depth study of its complex politics...
...We should be clear about one thing...
...My wife, who is a finer, more caring person than I, wasn't at all troubled by the prissy tone with which Walter Mondale chastized Gary...
...Last week our community theater put on a play about the invention of the Dewey Decimal System...
...economy, at an annual rate of 27 percent, was trade with the third world...
...PROGRESS REPORT It is a pleasure to announce a number of changes in Commonweal's editorial staff...
...We would certainly be happy to travel to Maine to rally the Hungarians...
...He seems to be making a thorough search, including interviews with people I've never heard of...
...I began to worry that Walter Mondale wasn't as 13 July 1984:389 put off as he used tobe by rubber chicken banquets, the decor of Holiday Inns, and conversations with labor leaders...
...Election '84 TAKE MY WIFE, PLEASE DID WALTER MONDALE CALL...
...Yes, the debt crisis resembles gridlock...
...I don't want to say anything that would put the kibosh on my wife's nomination, but Walter Mondale would have to under- stand that she isn't going to traipse all over the country eating rubber chickens, staying in Holiday Inns, and speaking to boring labor leaders...
...When you tote up the Hungarian bloc, and add in the Yuppies who followed that debate tournament, Mondaie would have a virtual lock on Maine...
...This would not be a give-away...
...Readers have been responding promptly and generously to our recent letter concerning funds...
...Then all this stuffcame out about Hart: that he didn't know his age, that he changed his name, that he imitates Teddy Kennedy at cocktail parties...
...Those were the dec- when Commonweal was young...
...The fact that I never heard of Geraldine Ferraro doesn't mean that she might not make a heck of a fine Veep...
...All the French-Canadians have voted Democratic since 1932 and will do so again even if Donald Duck is the nominee...
...Next morning the commuters on the Jersey turnpike are dodging radioactive barrels...
...jobs in stagnant sectors of our economy, the benefits to the average consumer are considerable, estimated at a saving of $2 billion a year...
...Walter Mondaie can be a tiny bit.., pious...
...Not only could Mondale just about count on the backing of several Hungarians in Maine, he might pick up the votes of some Independents...
...Gary sounds like a fun guy...
...So I would say she has certainly shown her loyalty throughout this campaign...
...I know that many people remember their victory...
...I have to admit that I got all excited about Gary Hart for a week back in the winter...
...If, as some predict, the second quarter of 1985 sees the prime rate at 16.5 percent, the recovery will strip away with one hand anything it offers the debtor nations with the other...
...Keep- ing Commonweal alive and vigorous seems to be a matter of banding together many Davids in a world of Goliaths...
...Cube is a sustained world economic recovery --without high interest rates...
...I hope my candor doesn't hurt her chances with Walter Mondale...
...My most important consideration is how much the candidate reminds me of myself...
...I don't know, maybe he is a finer, more caring person than Gary, who imitates Teddy Kennedy and jokes about New Jersey...
...We urge everyone who has considered making a contribution, large or small, to join with these other generous friends --and with our new editors --in advancing the work Commonweal has been doing for six decades...
...Watching a clip on the CBS news, I said to my wife, "Isn't this guy kind of...
...I was really bored by Ford, and I became awfully bored by Jimmy Carter...
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