Conventional ghosts
Kavler, Peter
reference to cases where a woman has been so unambiguously a victim of violence is also too frequently a way in which public sentiment is garnered while the more common reasons for large numbers of...
...There is a river, scarlet, that descends from a different mountain than the Poconos...
...In San Ysidro...
...Skirmish" boasts of being the adult version of capture the flag...
...The womuted, a mustard-colored invitation to escape the city streets...
...But to heal, it must be drawn up and tasted...
...In East Timor...
...Out of the game...
...She is an undoubted be- liever and faithful practitioner, reared in a Catholic home, educated in a Catholic college and Catholic law school, a wife of two decades, a mother of three children...
...Yet it binds those who play "Skirmish," those who walk the city streets, those who labor in sorrow and ceaselessly without pay...
...FDR was there, of course, recalled in courseless configurations...
...Ssssplat...
...And afterwards, you can go whitewater rafting: "You'll sleep like a rock, and you'll never be the same again...
...Your shoulder and chest are splattered with red goo...
...At the same time, her position appears to be equally rooted in the conventional liberalism that would pigeonhole concern about the value of fetal life as a matter solely of religion and take refuge in the individualistic shibboleth about not imposing beliefs...
...There is, we're told, an infinite variety of play (but always, always one conclusion...
...You're marked and out of the game...
...A woman, New York City crime widow and welfare mother, writes at the same time in the Times, "I lost my husband a year ago in a street shooting and robbery...
...BY THE RIVER The blast of summer had struck this "How'm I doin' ?" city...
...holds over 30 pellets powered by a standard C02 cartridge...
...Since then, after my one child started attending kindergarten, I have been seeking work...
...They are non-toxic, biodegradable and wash off easily...
...Ferraro, it is hard to see that anyone will come out a winner...
...She has not found it...
...Election '84 CONVENTIONAL GHOSTS YOU CAN'T EAT MEMORIES W~fie TRE MOST important delegates to the Democratic onal convention ghosts...
...If many Catholic women feel forced to choose between the church's apparent refusal to acknowledge legitimate differ- ences on abortion and the credibility of a strong and independ- ent woman like Mrs...
...Congresswoman Ferraro's position may well have roots in her experience in the Special Victims Bureau of the District Attorney's office, where she worked daily with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence, including child abuse...
...While wr were walking to lunch one day on a crowded street, a crazed stranger suddenly strikes an uncomprehending woman full in the mouth...
...They are made by a leading drug company, and break easily on contact...
...Everything you need to play Skirmish is supplied...
...and Sarbanes, Governor 10 August 1984:421...
...And finally there is the stock phrase about not impos- ing one's beliefs...
...The pellets are soft, round gelatin capsules filled with water soluble coloring...
...The new Mach Ipistol...
...She vividly illustrates the possibility of a range among Catholics of personal and political responses to the abortion problem...
...A film on the life of or Roosevelt sent young women rushing around an's wounds will be measured for seasons...
...Imagination is all that is needed to find a 'foe...
...As the Democratic vice:presidential nominee sits in center stage over the next few months, we wish she would clarify and refine her position, possibly with some sound theological advice...
...There's a sharp crack behind you," the brochure writes effectively...
...She knows that problems for so many mothers and their children do not end at birth but may in fact begin there...
...But if that is a challenge to Mrs...
...The leaflet pictures smiling men and women in army camouflage fatigues, intent, but buoyant in camaraderie...
...Ferraro's use of the phrase "so self-righteous" is peculiar, as though what was at stake in cases where women refuse abortion was generally a matter of one degree or another of self-righteousness, Third, there is her disconcerting calculus of the pecuniary cost of abortion com- pared to the burden on the taxpayer of supporting the un- wanted...
...There is only time to lunge before a third blow, and the crazed one escapes into the throng...
...Ssssplat...
...This summer...
...reference to cases where a woman has been so unambiguously a victim of violence is also too frequently a way in which public sentiment is garnered while the more common reasons for large numbers of abortions remain undiscussed...
...If she does not rely in a more nuanced way on the church's teachings in this area, how much of that is due to the fact that the church's perform- ance has fallen short in compassion and respect both for the problems of women who are victimized and the accom-plishments of women who have struggled and achieved...
...In El Salvador...
...No one can react until the second blow has driven a dull, bloody thud into our dazed consciousness...
...For her and thousands like her, the real skirmish is still on...
...A friendly handbill is being distrib- speeches by Senators Hart, Kennedy...
...at least until the action starts...
...Ferraro, her candidacy is also a challenge to the church...
...You've been hit...
...Your heart drops with a thud...
...For her and her child, the round pellets have not washed out...
...It had turned the streets and sidewalks into griddles --hot, humid, harrowing...
...It is the water that can wash all tears from our eyes, void the canyons of our divisions, and flood the lethargy of our consciences...
...Where is the camaraderie, where the helpers...
...At the Shatt al Arab...
...It announces "Skirmish USA," the "Poconos Friendly 'War' Game: Exciting, Challenging, Competitive...
...You'll be among friends...
...At the same time, Mrs...
...It washes the streets of New York, San Ysidro, and San Salvador...
...It is silent, incomprehensible, and unnoticed...
...with Eleanor Roosevelt Centennial posters attached to their Near the 42rid Street bus terminal thousands stream in Mondale or Hart signs...
...A two-hour game can be scheduled for $15...
...A shot...
...A twig...
Vol. 111 • August 1984 • No. 14
