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Correspondence III IIHI King & the FBI Atlanta, Ga. To the Editors: Lawrence Hogan's comparison of Lech Walesa and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Dec. 16, 1983) provided interesting insight...
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...That question, which Neuhaus says is the beginning of all moral judgment and all just law, "is simply this: Who, then, is my neighbor...
...A ma~or reason the movement is pummeled the way it is, and provokes blind reactions like those in these books, is because it very accurately reflects not some outlandish doctrines but deeply felt values of its Middle American members...
...It seems as if when writing about the right-to-life movement, not only do the gloves come off but respect for even minimal standards of accuracy and evidence is deemed unnecessary...
...Mildred Jefferson was elected president of the National Right-to-Life Committee (NRLC) not because she is dazzlingly articulate and a brilliant spokeswoman for unborn babies but because she is Protestant and, as a black and a woman, "was able to fend off charges of anti-feminism and racism" -- the very unfounded charges created out of whole cloth by people like Paige...
...a professional fundraiser who has raised millions of dollars is demoted to a bookkeeper and placed on a television program on which she never appeared...
...I do not think this was the case in the invasion of Grenada...
...presidents cannot unilaterally declare war without the consent of Congress...
...What she observes in Pyre is her characters' responses to the crises of modem life which are "terrible whatever sort of front one might put on them...
...In 1980, NRLC's political action committee did not go after undefeatable pro-choicers nor spend a lot of money on pro-lifers who were shoo-ins, but instead focused on contested races that could be won, particularly in the cases of vulnerable pro-choice incumbents...
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...For one thing, the reader never is sure who or what she is referring to: "right-to-life" expands and contracts accordion-like to suit her purposes...
...Correspondence I (Continued from page 162) seemed appropriate for Father Hehir to apply those principles...
...1, 1924, to current issues available through University Microfilm, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Mi...
...The taking of life, the use of military force, should only occur when life is threatened...
...direct mail wizard Richard Viguerie is elevated from a county campaign'manager to campaign manager for John Tower's successful 1960 senatorial race, and credited with converting William Buckley to the cause at some unspecified time in the mid-to-late seventies when, in fact, BuckleY was writing anti-abortion columns in the 1960s...
...NotiCing could be further from the truth...
...11968 NAM[ to races in which there is a chance of making a difference is adopting New Right methodology, then the Democratic party is also a client of the New Right...
...Rarely if ever are wars ended by saints (or pacifists) but rather by victory or defeat on the field of battle...
...In "The Case of Grenada" it (Continued on page 190) III II Commonweal is indexed in Read~'s Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, Index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
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...bishops' pastoral on war and peace...
...p. 183, Religious News Service...
...There may be saints among us who resist this trend, but they are few indeed...
...In other words, I am saying that it was the legions that produced the Roman Empire, not the reverse...
...To the Editors: Father Bryan Hehir in his article "The Case of Grenada (Dec...
...Wymard's unique response of a woman critic to a woman artist gives us an original interpretation of Pym's novels which promises exciting developments in the future...
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...To the Editors: It was a pleasure to read Eleanor B. Wymard's article on the novels of Barbara Pym (Jan...
...I Commonweal: 162 from the pages of The Right to Lifers...
...The omission is puzzling in that Father Hehir was a participant in the writing of the U.S...
...Finally, she simply knows very little about politics...
...p. 168, lan Kellas...
...Perhaps Wymard's sensitive insight into Pym's characters is related at least partially to the fact that most of them are women...
...My view implicitly assumes that war is the natural~condition of mankind (the gender distinction is deliberate, as I am not sure that this statement holds true for women...
...9 nights lerusalem, daily breakfast and most dinners, 9 touring days...
...Simple rituals of daily life are seen as a way of keeping faith with life itself, of discovering one's rites of affirmarion in a world in which structured social systems cannot overcome the isolation of the individual...
...For another, Paige wildly inflates the importance of marginal groups and imputes motives to people that they themselves would undoubtedly find strange...
...Wymard finds in Pym's novels an affirmative response to the existential temper of our world achieved through a willingness of "ordinary" people to make personal choices in confronting the terms of their own lives...
...war is a last resort...
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...Visiting Professor of English Salve Regina - - The Newport College Grenada a just war...
...People who vehemently oppose certain strategies are converted into supporters...
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...King, readers should consult David Garrow's 1981 book, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr., rather than the recent Oates biography...
...13), there is a possibly much more important matter touched upon in the article, to the effect that war is a result of the actions of the state, or a "whim" of the state...
...The state grew out of these activities, and ever since the organization of even non-martial institutions (bureaucracy, church, corporations) all copy the military model with captains, lieutenants, non-commissioned officers, plain soldiers...
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...I hope the bishops' pastoral on peace will not become like some church documents which became historical records of brave principles which were never applied to contemporary life...
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...16), neglects to apply the principles of the "just war theory" to the invasion of Grenada...
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...As Wymard points out, Pym's novels are much more than "well-crafted" entertainments...
...This commonsensical strategy is offered as evidence that NRLC adopted the New Right's political methodology "wholesale...
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...It appeared as an opportune moment to give force and meaning to the pastoral letter...
...Professor Merton would have us believe that the movement is "inherently extremist...
...If I am correct, and a predilection towards war is innate in the race, and given the potency of today's weapons, the extinction of humankind would appear almost inevitable, barring divine intervention...
...Paradoxically, this may be because for all the ink spilled on the right-to-life movement, it is yet to be taken seriously...
...Paige is able to spin out theories of a New Right "putsch" of the right-to-life movement for the same reasons she can conjure up imaginary alliances...
...16, 1983) provided interesting insight into their home countries' reactions to the work of the two Nobel Peace Prize laureates...
...By and large, most of the informational gatekeepers in our society, along with an overwhelming preponderance of our opinionmakers, do not grant to the movement the kind of ethical and moral stature necessary for it to be considered a voice worth listening to...
...It is radical, as Richard Neuhaus has explained, "not by virtue of how far out it is but by virtue of how deep and central is the question it raises...
...The military action against Grenada was the first undertaken since the writing of the pastoral...
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...Yet it is true that the right-to-life movement is radical...
...Moreover, nothing is allowed to be taken at face value...
...To the Editors: While John Garvey is undoubtedly correct as regards the central theme of his essay, i.e., that the U.S...
...Indeed, Wymard's essay is itself a penetrating approach to the characters of Pym from an existential psychological point of view...
...And on and on and Oil...
...I believe the principles of the just war as outlined in the pastoral letter were violated...
...p. 180, VidaNueva...
...If my premise is correct, it could be attributed to original sin, or to the imperatives of biological survival (which may after all be the same thing), but it is hard to deny that the thrust towards war seems innate in man...
...For a fuller treatment of the FBI's covert surveillance of Dr...
...By focusing on the alleged motives of right-to-lifers, the anti-anti-abortionist is able to evade the unsettling fact that we abort at least 1.6 million unborn humans every year...
...I do not think the invasion was undertaken with due authority...
...Garrow's is the only work which is based on direct access to the FBI's own files, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act...
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...My feeling, however, is that the state is a historic outgrowth or artifact of war, rather than the other way around...
...But as for men, as far back as history and pre-history take us, we see them organizing themselves into bands and attacking other bands or tribes...
...Philip Larkin has aroused interest in this "most underrated English novelist" of our century, and Wymard now offers seminal criticism on the existentialist mood of Pym's work...
...Henry Adams once remarked that literature would never reveal the depths of female characters until women wrote profoundly about themselves...
...169, 173, 179, Antonucci...
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