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...8-12) For the complete "Human Family" booklist write to: The National Conference of Christians and Jews, 71 Fifth Aver, New York, NY 10003 Commonweal: 628 children stand around and our Sandinista guides strike up a song to lighten the atmosphere...
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...France, Italy, Spain, Latin America however, Vega and Obando had persuaded the group to issue a - can men only ingest religion through their womenfolk...
...Their valiant as the story concentratres more on Tuan's use of the English lan- struggle to help those they love reveals the true meaning of Apartheid, guage, superiority in mathematics, and adjustment to American ways just another word for slavery...
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...To fulfill ope's duty, to obey A story like this needs interiority, but Price's writing and the laws of the country...
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...tragedy and to placing his trust in his new-found adopted family...
...edy is left "io a repressed people...
...He Louisa, a young girl, and her shy little brother, stop collecting Buffalo experiences the fears, dangers, and hopes of the Chinese immigrant as chips in the Nebraska prairie to hurry off to welcome the newest he tries to prove himself to Cassia, whomm he loves, to his village and arrivals - a doctor and his beautiful wife from New York City...
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...Yesa is brought up in the tradition of the People of the Plains and is almost a man when the Long Knives - the white men - move across the plains...
...as Newman says ways, looking in and listening to the band and the songs, were while observing Cruise, "I sometimes think I'm watching still others...
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...Life on the kibbutz, including terrorist attacks, is presented in a fairly positive manner...
...Lukas goes with him, along with many men this picture book set in South Africa...
...7-10) Satomi Ichikawa and Cynthia Mitchell have produced a hymn to the Growing Old in America, by Elaine Landau...
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...Gradually, with the help of a caring nurse and therapist, she learns to stop fighting herself Streams to the River, River to the Sea, by Scott O'Dell...
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...To love God, to love the coun- Scorcese's photography deny the movie depth...
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...Newman first seeks a vicarious comeback as Cruise's guitars, bang their drums, and sing their songs, amplified...
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...guan bishops' pastoral letter of last Easter in La Prensa, (Since the earthquake of 1972 the handsome old cathedral in which, since the $100 million vote, has itself been suppressed...
...His wife and teachings...
...A sharp old man, clearly Obandos of that denomination: We arrive in mid-afternoon the brains of the group, explains that the first two years were and find the gates of the chancery closed...
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...Illustrated by Eric VelasThe Americanization of Tuan Nguyen from Vietnam is presented in a quez...
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...Running is not just a sport to Bullet - it is his freedom and by Ann Grifalconi...
...The roof and the whole hall appear ready to one by one and cry out the name of some loved one who has lift off and ascend into outer space...
...Newman wins, then is shocked when he learns Cruise has On July 28 a new papal nuncio, Archbishop Paolo Giglio, "dumped," or lost deliberately in order to win money on landed at Managua airport and made the following remarks: side-bets.' He taught Cruise the concept, but, like all Doctor The mission of the church is to form good citizens, to Frankensteins, is stunned when his creature turns such instruct our Catholics to love their country . . . What methods on his creator...
...Ito, by Sheila Garrigue...
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...teaches him her language and how to be self-reliant...
...in rejecting the right of a beleaguered government to require In some of the Sandinista actions against Obando and Vega military service of all those who do not have moral or religious there may seem to have been overkill...
...Writing from her own experience, the 1986...
...13.00 Drawing on Betty Friedan's books and personal papers at Radcliffe This exceptional historical study explores Commodore Perry's openCollege as well as interviews with her friends and Ms...
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...The band leader, a and fingers - obviously many non-Catholics...
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...But The Color of Money evokes an one by too much seriousness...
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...14 and up) photographs and an artfully composed text weave the history of the event, bring the reality of the human devastation before our eyes and challenge the existence of today's nuclear weapons...
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...12 and up) Aviva's Piano, by Miriam Chaikin, Clarion, 1985...
...The crowd, which knows all the words, sings the center of the altar...
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...His answer, wondered, "Is it really necessary to give a Latin male a guitar "Four are clearly opposed, four are open to the social revolu- or a drum and amplify the sound in order to get him into tion, and two are more concerned with their own dioceses than church...
...When he gets a carnival job, traveling in the separated from her family while growing closer to the church and its South and wrestling alligators, he humiliates the family...
...She loves books and the doctor's wife has brought a My Three Uncles, by Yossi Abolafta...
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...ideological, find that state-run farms are not as efficient as I could not pretend to be an authority on such matters as the private-owned cooperatives and individual small- and welfare and peace of the people, but there are several curious medium-sized holdings...
...Unlike them, the checked out the congregation...
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...The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales, told by Virginia $11.95 Hamilton...
...True, large landholdings two-thirds of the voters in 1984 - in one of the more honest have been reduced from 36 percent to 10 percent, and the elections in Latin American history - is not "a democratic relationship between agricultural prices and industrial prices government, legitimately constituted, which places the interhas been moving lately in favor of the peasants...
...14 and up) Art Rust's Illustrated History of the Black Athlete, by Edna and Art Rust, Jr...
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...12 and up) Statue of Liberty, by Sue Burchard...
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...The line is continually busy, so we Catholic buildings, the suppression of a Catholic radio station take a chance and a long taxi ride out to a distant suburb,:, where and a Catholic publication, and the censorship of the Nicarahe has his residence, episcopal church, and chancery office...
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...Pin is "adopted" by a wonderful Christian family and as she grows into womanhood falls in love...
...is also the story of Frederick Treves, the surgeon who befriended Late in the story, one sympathetic adult suggests a solution to the Merrick and rescued him from a life of poverty and misery in work- teenager's problem and also convinces his mother than Richard could houses and freak shows...
...With many other family complications, love this family as if they were real people...
...Characters and situations are well-drawn and realistic...
...career for Tom Cruise, who plays the kind of sweet naif that There were more Nicaraguan men present, and in the door- Newman once was as young Fast Eddie...
...destruction, suffering, and death of our families, or which His first stop on his return from Rome was Miami, where he sows hatred and discord among the Nicaraguan people, is said Mass, dined with, and was photographed with contra reprehensible...
...A bare 51 percent of for the peasants than the set-up under Somoza...
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...16.95 observed by a young boy, Jess...
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...Chartwell Books, 1985...
...With the band playing softly behind him, the leader de Picture another Sunday Mass in a poor section of Man- claims some lines from Sandino, "My cause is the cause of my agua, the place packed, plenty of men...
...It called on "all who do against him: " What remedy is left to an oppressed and desper- not share the Sandinista party ideology" to refuse conscripate people...
...One delegate reports requirement of legitimate governments...
...There is plenty of land, and the government has given it to them to have My interpreter is Carlos Escorcia, an engaging young pastor and to hold, but the cooperative land is not supplemented by of an Assembly of God church who, for his Sandinista symindividual plots, and perhaps this is an explanation for the pathies, has been expelled from his ministry by the Cardinal somewhat dispirited air of the place...
...The adults' suffering and their emotional problems A young girl learns about individual differences when she works out are movingly presented...
...worse the conscience to obey the commandments of God and almost in horror of the spoken word, the film gives :no one a country...
...Young readers who clamor for school stories will find a British Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa to fight injustice slightly different twist here...
...All ages) Successfully dispelling many of the myths and prejudices surrounding aging, this is an upbeat, thought-provoking book...
...I and weak eyesight, Newman retrains intensively, then winds protested mildly...
...Older men and women come forward them fortissimo...
...His photography seems more fascinated with trickery (like positioning the camera on the cue ball as it breaks the pack) than with the PUBLIC INTROSPECTION reality of the game itself...
...the largely-leveled downtown area still stands in gaunt splen- Above all, he now protests the expulsion from the country of dor, but open to the sky...
...Greenwillow, 1983...
...14 and up) Mountain Light, by Laurence Yep...
...12 and up) FDR's Splendid Deception, by Hugh Gallagher...
...Most of the men this time, conference opposed U.S...
...11.95 Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, seems an unlikely setting for a World War JI novel...
...Incidentally, tive, while poverty is absolute and ubiquitous...
...contras, the People's Church or Cardinal Obando...
...18.95 A Place Called Hiroshima, by Betty Jean Lifton...
...In this volume, the experience of Blacks, Orientals, His- prairies during the harsh 1930's, William Kurelek knew the immipanics and Native Americans in the United States are examined and grant experience personally, the courage and tenacity, the dignity and some of the vicious stereotypes that persist as a result of racial dreams, and dedicated himself to recording it...
...Cases in point this year include The Color however, limit the dramatic power of these considerable actors Purple, Out of Africa, Heartburn, Children of a Lesser God, to a shallow encounter with time and loss...
...The slave narratives describing the winning of place and history of the times in the presentation...
...12 and up) boy, reveals a development of character by both...
...manager, then strikes out on his own after being humiliated at After the Mass I spoke to Father Molina...
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...10 and up) The Runner, by Cynthia Voigt...
...The pictures are bright and colorful...
...The band was still nine-ball by a young black hustler named Amos...
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...The Nevertheless, the bishops...
...The congrega- one of the early blunders of the Sandinistas in handling the tion is somewhat sparse, middle class, mainly women...
...This would delegitithat he gave Father Kolvenbach, superior general of the mate most of the governments in the world, and particularly in Jesuits, exactly five minutes...
...Everyone receives communion, taking style, but then launches into a series of revolutionary songs...
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...Tuan becomes the prot6ge of Harvey Trum- Naledi and Tiro's baby sister is sick, and they must go to the city to bull, from whom he learns words like "weird," and " no kidding...
...He said, "But they have a right to play up facing Cruise at an Atlantic City grand championship...
...vendepatrias, those who would sell their country to The answer that was probably more satisfactory came the Nicaragua's historic enemy, our beloved country, the United Sunday night before I left...
...Nelson Gato's father is a professional wrestler down on his luck and Frida's true story is full of her conflicting feelings: the pain of being unable to find work...
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...Pool here seems a matter of helterskelter panic, not Platonic geometry, or felt chess...
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...A six-piece band - guitars, accord- from the congress/seminar of the International League of ion, marimba - starts with a lovely, slow number in Spanish Religious Socialists...
...This would scruples against bearing arms...
...Here are all the greats and near greats among Black athletes in baseball, boxing, track, football, basketball, horseracing, and - where Blacks are challenging the newest horizons in the sports front - golf, tennis and hockey...
...Especially fine are the many contemporary woodcuts growing awakening and later fight for the recognition of the equality which show how exotic Westerners looked to Japanese artists...
...16.95 Dreams into Deeds, by Linda Peavv and Ursula Smith...
...25.95 clearly designed to arouse understanding of these little-understood A lavishly illustrated portrait of the immigrant receiving station, from individuals...
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...By a sudden turn of fate, Yesa is carried into the white Gleanings, by Lou Willett Stanek...
...Richard's disabilities who suffered from a severe form of neurofibromatosis which so become more apparent and frustrating to him as he grows older and crippled and disfigures him that people shrank from him in horror...
...It is the discipline of running that allows him to come to In the far-off hills of the Cameroons in Central Africa, in the shade of terms with changes - to coach a Black member of the team, to break the volcano Naka, lies a unique village where the men live in square out of the "box" that is his home life and to enter manhood, alone but houses and the women in round ones...
...12 and up) portray relationships among people of different origins, races, and religions...
...At first, in the wonderful story set off by a profusion of black and white illustrations, hospital, she relates only to Jake, a tough guy, also in a wheelchair...
...At the Instituto Historico, however, I find a copy of the At the congress an American economist had told us that the cardinal's May 10 article in the Washington Post, an article government's agrarian reform had been "tremendously suc- that may have swung just enough votes to approve the $100 cessful...
...Ito, and a protagonist, Sara, provides the background for a story of philosophical concepts of death, friendship and trust...
...Fighting age playing, so loud that we could scarcely hear each other speak...
...But the aging survivors of the atomic bomb, their children and their This is a moving, insightful description of the everyday life and children's children are still suffering both physically and mentally ordeals of the country's Black majority...
...Doubleday, 1985...
...Scribner's, A fascinating, original biography of our thirty-second president, 1985...
...The band, all young men, is bigger and louder, from the popular song, might be the best advice for with a prominent drum section, but the songs are almost a visitor to Nicaragua who is looking for a quick equally revolutionary...
...Bradbury, 1985...
...you expect Friday the 13th, Sylvester Stal- different generations...
...Ellis Island is not only the place through which many of our ancestors passed, but it has become a symbol of the immigrant experience in America.(12 and up) The Eternal Spring of Mr...
...Newman aches for a clear-cut victory...
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...Atheneum, 1985, $11.95 Samuel "Bullet" Tillerman is on the school track team but he is not a The Village of Round and Square Houses, written and illustrated team man...
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...Straddled with a new baby The Yanov Torah, by Erwin and Agnes Herman...
...Except for a few enclaves of contra demonstration on Boston Common, but did not realize still-wealthy bourgeois, prosperity in Nicaragua is mostly rela- that its origin and significance were religious...
...This imperative, borrowed Nicaraguan...
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...leaders and said, "I do not object to being identified with those who have taken up arms...
...Few of the campesinos join in and by no means con brio...
...In vindication - and enrich it with echoes of sin, penance, and the first film, Newman's career was shaped, and wrecked, by redemption...
...such a film is not just a comedown from The Hustler, but even This "sequel," directed by Martin Scorcese, again stars from the more recent The Verdict, where David Mamet's Paul Newman as "Fast Eddie Felson," the young pool shark screenplay gave him room to take subject matter similar to The of the 1961 film, who twenty-five years later attempts to Color of Money - the search of a middle-aged failure for reenter the pool-hall world from which he has been banned...
...Of course, still others might well maintain that nationalism is stronger than either Marxism, Leninism, or Christianity...
...9-12) Commonweal: 626 Advertisement Long Journey of Lukas B., by Willi Fahrmann...
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...12 and up) be helped to make a meaningful contribution...
...7-1) bleak beauty of the prairie...
...12 and up) sends her boyfriend away, shuts out her parents...
...However, the effects of the Japanese bombing at Pearl Harbor also involved Canadians and their Japanese-Canadian residents...
...she does, and upon hearing Miss Fitch's story, Elsie learns that understanding and forgiveness are the hardest, but most important parts of growing up...
...or a counter-revolution...
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...God dren of all ages and conditions, but mostly poor, a good does have political relevance...
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...Author Gallagher, a polio victim himself, sensiinclude Jane Addams, Marian Anderson, Juliette Low, Margaret tively and insightfully shows us another side of one of the most Mead and Babe Didrickson...
...12 and up) Family problems are resolved in these fast-action pages and all comes to a satisfactory conclusion with a father ready to take on reality...
...While the most blatant injustices of racial prejudice are a Tundra, 1985...
...Johnson and his adjustment to a white family with children...
...What is it about the inside of a church that seems to with national problems...
...eloquently told...
...11.95 Fourteen-year-old Elsie discovers that during the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of France, her beloved violin teacher and friend, Miss Fitch, had an affair with a German soldier and was labeled a collaborator...
...With Vega it was a different story...
...The church is decorated people, the cause of all the oppressed people of the world," with striking murals in a respectable imitation of Diego Riv- and then adds the words that are always said when someone era, celebrating the Christian martyrs of Latin America from who died defending the revolution is buried: "It is for these Bartolome de Las Casas in the sixteenth century to Archbishop dead, our dead, that we promise to defend the victory...
...After an argument with his father, Shem runs following selection from the complete list is presented by the away to the woods...
...But Naledi and Tiro are Black, living in South Glimpses of the hardships of the Vietnamese boat people are minimal Africa, and they must go by foot to Johannesburg...
...10-12) School, New York Michael Hearn, Author,critic Dead Birds Singing, by Marc Talbert...
...10.95 Sclectcd h. Edith G. Selig, Coordinator Through strong black-and-white drawings and a poetic text, a woman tells her daughter about the early years in a sod house out on the Janet Austin, Media Specialist, Sicomac Elementary Dakota Prairie...
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...As the Mass began I its president, Vega, or its cardinal, Obando...
...Atlantic Monthly, the idea was born, to the fund-raising activities of Lee Iacocca to 1985...
...to raise the money to restore conference...
...Philomel, 1985...
...They are a pair of true outsiders both at school and at OTHER PEOPLE home until they discover their strengths through the help of a teacher...
...MONEY' & 'MISSION' Cynically viewed, The Color of Money exemplifies the worst of current flmmaking-by-demography: you can just see production heads licking their lips over the box office magic in W HAT's depressing about Hollywood is not its penchant combining two hot sex symbols like Cruise and Newman from for junk...
...If God, el Dios de los Pobres (the God Part of the reason' is clutter, part simplemindedness...
...John's, Antigua, in the West Indies...
...What's really depressing is a trend toward Tough Guys, another recent film aimed at an older audience, in junking the dramatic potential of many films aimed at a sophis- its struggle to replay heroic roles from the past...
...Perhaps Father Molina and Sancta Maria de los home movies...
...12 and up) tragic consequences of the move of these city people to a lonely sod house provide the plot for this novel...
...14 and up) Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs, by Jamie Gilson...
...Nelson sees his father as a man with a dream and reunited with her father in Israel...
...I had witnessed this same ceremony in an antiprosperous city of Granada...
...I have to admire their 1987...
...10.89 to the Golden Mountain, the California gold fields in the 1800s...
...Retold and illustrated by Warwick Hutton...
...But Frida cannot and will not forget her Jewish heritage, daughter leave, but Nelson accompanies his father on this comic/ and as the war ends she leaves the convent life and is eventually serious excursion...
...From the child's perspective, the from the village, plus Mathilde, the oid man's daughter, who stows author-artist pictures Malusi and his slow, curiosity-seeking little-boy away...
...moment reflectively to draw the strands of the story together, What a contrast to the statements of Cardinal Obando and as Newman did so magnificently in the final battle of The Bishop Vega...
...This quiet story reinforces a relationship which is not Ichikawa...
...First, it defines a legitimate, and the cooperatives about 20 percent...
...Graphic, deeply emotional defeated people, but a determined, spirited people...
...A well-researched, moving story of pioneer and Indian life...
...12-14) (formerly Books for Brotherhood) Black Americana, by Richard A. Long...
...For progressive Catholics, an even better project would be The expulsion occurred on July 2 of this year...
...aid to the contras...
...margin, and an assembly with six or seven parties, in which the Sandinistas enjoy a 2-to- I majority over all the others comA FrER the congress and the "tourist program," I make an bined...
...8-12) Sirens and Spies, by Janet Lisle...
...I asked Father without the TV cameras and high ceremony, were clearly Cesar Jerez, the astute Guatemalan Jesuit who heads the Cath- foreigners, Americans, as it turned out...
...Illustrated with contemporary prints and drawings...
...Three examples: but afterwards one considers the fact that St...
...Greenwillow, 1986, $11.75 Here a Little Child I Stand: Poems of Prayer and Praise for Bo spends the summer with his grandfather, developing a warm Children...
...Clearly, he is still too popular and they too vulnerable to take such action...
...Drawing brutal living and working conditions, with a general examination of on the life and customs of her country, this is a candid but never slavery and its origins and place in American history...
...The charge of Marxist-Leninist tendencies still hangs over the Sandinistas...
...Drawing on prayers from around the world, from the Bible to Traditional Eskimo, from Ian McDonald Factual information on the medical, economic, legal and social as- of Guyana to Langston Hughes of Harlem, from the Japanese to the pects of aging is interwoven with anecdotes about real people aimed at Tewa Indians of North America, artist and anthologist embrace the presenting a candid view of what it means to grow old in America...
...Proceeds from this book will go to the and school...
...A Sally, 18, is left a quadriplegic after a car accident...
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...DIOS,' 'PATRIA,' & 'REVOLUCION' ` Raised voices in Nicaragua JOHN C. CORT lnLiudinC Augusta Sandino himself...
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...12 and up) paintings are complemented by a text drawn from his passionately autobiographical writings...
...So is the homily of the eloquent Padre answer to the question: "Who is going to win - Sandinistas or Uriel Molina, the controversial pastor...
...The complete list, selected from books Brothers of the Heart, by Joan W. Blos...
...A second "plot" concerns Lukas's father, Karl, a painter, who ways as he makes the trip to buy new sneakers ("tackies") with his has gone to America five years before and whom Lukas longs to find...
...11.95 Daily life in modern Israel is the background for a young Jewish girl's introduction to Israel after her family moves there from Argentina...
...They a co-editor of Religious Socialism, a publication of the Religion & show us an impressive prison farm, without bars, fences, or Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America...
...Lothrop, Illustrated by Stephen Marchesi...
...11-13) 21 November 1986: 625 Advertisement Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation, 1945-1948, by Aranka Siegel...
...To the Mountaintop, by William cadences of Black speech patterns...
...wrote this Pulitzer-Prize-winning portrait of a country in turmoil...
...It is Ellis Island, by Barbara Benton...
...14 and up) Moses in the Bulrushes...
...plains that the offices close at 1 P.M...
...10-14) A Hidden Childhood, by Frida Weinstein...
...A Margaret K. Although called a novel, this is more a collection of stories about members of one farm family in North Carolina in the 1940s as McElderry/Atheneum, 1985...
...The Sandinistas try again...
...percentages, and elected a president, by a two-thirds percent of the people own 80 percent of the land...
...For Newman, involvement with older kind of filmmaking only to make us miss it...
...Elsie is devastated and refuses to see or speak to Miss Fitch...
...Not Coming: much better...
...Scorcese also stages so many pool contests that no Screen one single game attains climactic power...
...9-11) Eyes of Darkness, by Jamake Highwater...
...3-5) A Black child from the urban ghetto in New York City has a series of adventures in New Hampshire as a Fresh Air Fund "kid...
...But every chance at character depth and draAngeles have discovered the remedy for the religious disaffec- matic irony that such parallels allow is wasted...
...They are depicted not as a from the delayed effects of radiation...
...11.75 trunk full of them...
...The gardener exnot profitable, what with poor weather and lack of equipment...
...The latter make up about 50 percent things about this statement...
...Bradbury, 1985 Not So Fast, Songdlolo, by Niki Daly...
...If He calls cese and screenwriter Richard Price have a complicated story for patriotism, be patriotic...
...I can't help thinking, but that last year had been good - "thanks be to God," a "Your Eminence, you'll never beat the Sandinistas with those phrase he repeats several times - and they have managed to working hours, or in a place this remote from the poor sheep of pay off their loan from the government bank...
...11-13) its construction in 1854 through its heyday in the early part of the 20th century, up to and including its current restoration...
...They are not and now The Color of Money, another victim of emotional allowed to probe into a world where pain and triumph coexist flattening...
...I had several good conversations with one of the more attractive and articulate Christians in the Sandinista front, Miguel Ernesto Vijil, minister of housing, who took an active role in the congress of religious socialists...
...7-10) V Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun, by Rhoda BlumBetty Friedan, A Voice for Women's Rights, by Milton Meltzer...
...I asked Father Jerez how he would evaluate the balance of ideological forces within the Frente Sandinista...
...11.95 Fleeing a rebellion against the Manchus in China, Squeaky Lau goes Prairie Songs, by Pam Conrad...
...A fine story of the West which captures the the recognition of her triplet look-alike uncles...
...But ultimately she feels she cannot give up her own identity or her dream of a future, and she leaves for America to live with relatives she has never seen...
...It also presents an exceptional overview of one of the most passionate, tragic and momentous chapters in American history...
...14.95 The author, a psychiatrist in Paris, conducted these 28 interviews with French people, most of them now in their 30s, who lost one or more parents in the Holocaust...
...14 and up) I Didn't Say Goodbye, by Claudine Vegh...
...Matt remembers bits of his life, often the most Roslyn Rubinstein, Head of Young Adult Division, Central ordinary of moments, as he works his way through to accepting the Library, Queens Borough Public Library, New York...
...Kar-Ben Copies, and a man she did not love, the Shoshone woman Sacagawea guided 1985...
...A note tells us that the author's the immigrants' passage and their experiences in America...
...A remote Miskitos, about whose culture they were surprisingly young priest, high in the pulpit, pleads for "reconciliacidn," ignorant, was to try this ritual with them, not knowing that the which has become a code word for negotiation with the con- Miskitos never mention the dead, and are least of all thrilled tras...
...The Michigan wilderness...
...The special try, to love one's neighbor, to open the heart to work and language of pool halls and hustlers is often confusing...
...Readers and storytellers will recognize Wiley and the hairy formally studied music, rose from poverty and became a leading Man, a version of the Tar Baby story from Uncle Remus, and other performer in his field...
...Given the record, can we blame them...
...Scorof the poor), calls for revolution, be revolutionary...
...I Am One of You Forever, by Fred Chappell...
...We see them first as young girls, with popular and influential people of the 20th century...
...The gov- The whole statement was a clear appeal for aid to the contras, ernment controls only 18 percent of the arable land and this is a delegitimating of the government, and a blessing to the being reduced daily as the Sandinistas, more pragmatic than rebellion...
...I went back to Sancta Maria de los States of America...
...Pepper Junior, an outspoken, feisty girl from California, returns to a Trained as a physician, he dreams of using his skills to build a bridge small town on Long Island, where her father had been part of a between his two worlds - only to find himself trapped between scandal years before...
...9.79 $11.95 A readable, informative history of slavery in America, this book Jamaica Kincaid has written a remarkable autobiographical novel intersperses personal stories of slaves, their courage, sacrifices and about growing up in St...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1985, William J. Evitts...
...12.95 The distinguished British illustrator has expertly retold (through elegant watercolors) the famous Bible story of how the Pharaoah's daughter defied her father's order to kill all Hebrew boy babies and adopted Moses as her own son...
...Her relationship with Frankie, a quiet, sensitive them...
...all ages) Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White, by Joseph Lelvveld...
...A few 'days before his 21 November /986: 629 expulsion he repeated these sentiments at a press conference in treasonous...
...I asked him how it could be that Christian ideology was so dominant among Sandinistas if only one of the nine comandantes of the party, Luis Carrion Cruz, was known to be a practicing Christian...
...Illustrated by John Wallner...
...Friedan ing of Japan to Western trade through both oriental and occidental herself, Milton Meltzer has produced a clear, vivid portrait of the eyes...
...Nothing against women, who are always and here in Sancta Maria de los Angeles, it is a most impressive everywhere essential, but it does take men to fight a revolution and moving adjunct to the Mass...
...And so they do...
...In the last case, the poverty of the screenplay is in conscious introspection...
...12.95 published from August 1985 through July 1986, is meant to In the 1830s, Shem Perkins, 14 and lame, lives with his family in the cover a wide range of ages, interests, and readability...
...Others placed the percentage even higher...
...Illustrated by Ronald Himler...
...Bradbury, 1985...
...Joan of Arc was Picture a large hall, packed with men, women, and chil- equally political and nationalistic, as well as militaristic...
...Messner, 1985...
...12.98 Lively text and pictures celebrate the cultural, social and political role Children's and Young Adults' List that Black people have played in the United States during the past three centuries...
...Viking Kestrel, 1985...
...Little, Brown, 1985...
...This happened ests of the Nicaraguan people above any ideological struggle after an initial shift in the opposite direction, thanks to some or international cause, seeks the welfare and peace of the Sandinista favoritism for their urban constituency...
...old grandmother...
...Armed struggle is a human right...
...serves only to distract, and the sultry Mary Elizabeth Mastran tonio (as Cruise's moll) is increasingly obscured as the film progresses...
...conference did not go as far as did church was well filled, but not full...
...Doubleday, 1985...
...11.95 A long, rambling historical novel set in the 1870s - first in Germany, The universally routine adventure of a shopping trip to the city and then in America...
...The striking illustrations of the Roger Witherspoon...
...the Host in every conceivable arrangement of mouth, hands, The tempos are faster, the rhythms catchy...
...Jess was abandoned into his grandUNDERSTANDING mother's care and Meechum's mother was killed and he abandoned by his father...
...Houghton, 1985...
...People hold back the drama, the anguish of being abandoned, the ambivalence of accepting any kind of happiness in life...
...It portrays the successes and failures, the fear and courage, and especially the faith that moved people to risk their lives for human dignity...
...13 and up) Grandpa and Bo, by Kevis Henkes...
...12 and up) books, has written a moving historical novel about one of the most important women in American history...
...Vijil and the Sandinistas are understandably allergic to any negotia- told me, incidentally, that the salary at his level of the governtions with those whom they consider heirs of Somoza and ment was $55 a month...
...12 and up) With vibrant full-color pictures, Ann Grifalconi describes the life of one little girl in Tos and how it came to be that its men live in square Sink or Swim, by Betty Miles...
...It contains his grievances against the more restrained assessment in Envio, the excellent periodical Sandinistas and concludes that the government elected by of the Jesuits' Instituto Historico...
...Vegh, herself, was one of the children whose parents were arrested and only her mother returned...
...Of the Nicaraguan olic university in Managua, how the ten Nicaraguan bishops men present, the majority - ten - were in the band...
...Lothrop, 1985...
...In cartoons, and photographs...
...His father's escapades and his eccenTwelve-year-old Rinko learns about adult problems and gains insight tric uncles' stories are especially amusing and readers will come to into different forms of love...
...Has any other Catholic hierarchy in the world gone so far remarks during World War II...
...Newman's appeal in The Color of lone's rampages, and tawdry nonsense from "stars" Money parallels that of Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster in like Eddie Murphy...
...Christian ideology is certainly the strongest element in the party...
...whites...
...and Gogo, the A flavorful book, translated from the German, giving a good view of grandmother, is fat and comforting...
...We arrive too late for the speeches tendance, including about forty of us (from sixteen countries) but in time for the music...
...11.89 The year is 1942 and as her parents watch the Germans take over France, young Frida is sent to live in a Catholic convent school...
...Facts on File, 1985...
...This poignant picture book reiterates, without lectur- School, Wyckoff, New Jersey ing, that the pioneer woman's contribution to the taming of the land Joseph Benkovitz, Librarian, Springfield Gardens High was equal to that of her husband...
...After JOHN C. CORT, a pioneer member of the Catholic Worker movement, is the congress the Sandinistas take us out into the country...
...of men and women...
...pastoral that in any other country would be considered The band played on, and the young men sang their revConvnonweal: 630 olutionary religious songs fortissimo, and before the final new film, Newman attempts to make a comeback by shaping a blessing came around I looked at the congregation again...
...She and her time come vividly to life in this war, it is brought to American where it occupies a hallowed place in a well-researched novel...
...The Swedish Red Cross takes them in, and under the care of the generous Swedish people they begin to rebuild their lives...
...One might almost wonder at the tolerance of the Sandinistas in allowing him back into the country...
...9.79 International Family of Children...
...The sensitive relationship of a Japanese gardener, Mr...
...Very powerful, with a wonderful afterword by psychiatrist Bruno Bettelheim...
...The twenty-eight prejudice are presented and refuted...
...Both films, ticated audience...
...Managua people, and enjoys the support of an overwhelming majority...
...12.95 man's world where, to survive, he accepts the white man's wisdom...
...Angeles for another look at the "people's church...
...11-14) sensational account of the author's experiences from her early childhood through her sexual awakening...
...Times Books, 1985...
...seem to be true of the suppression of the Easter pastoral, which includes this clearly anti-contra statement: "We feel that any AFTER Ohando was named cardinal, the only one in Central form of assistance, regardless of the source, which causes the America, in April 1985, he felt emboldened to go further...
...Female voices that the dead might be present in their midst...
...Christmas Books The peasants describe their cooperative - actually, three separate cooperatives that are only three years old...
...Harper & Row, 1985...
...This does not seem to square with our visit or with a million for the contras...
...bitter confrontations with co-stars George C. Scott (as his Scorcese's haphazard style is a great asset in evading such Satanic manager) and Jackie Gleason (magnificently sad as the significance, and a cheap, mindlessly upbeat conclusion also pool champion, and damned soul, "Minnesota Fats...
...died in the war or the revolution, and everyone responds, Picture Sunday Mass in an old church in the relatively "Presente...
...Newman's sideline love affair with Helen Shaver himself - has been listening to the music...
...His Apparently the government suppressed it because it also answer was somewhat circuitous and ambiguous, and I will proposed "reconciliacidn," or negotiations with the contras, not repeat it because I could not entirely follow it myself...
...Photographs by Journalist Lelyveld traveled extensively through South Africa during Eikoh Hosoe...
...What remgovernment of Nicaragua...
...13.95 lack understanding or sympathy, as in the case of sixteen-year-old This is the touching story of Joseph Merrick - the Elephant Man - Richard, or "Dickey" as his family calls him...
...Perhaps so...
...Dodd, Mead, 1985...
...13.95 renovate the great lady in time for her hundredth birthday in 1986...
...All are grateful to Vegh for the opportunity to talk about it - most for the first time...
...He traces her life from United States came to respect one another through mutually profitable her days as Betty Goldstein in her home town of Peoria, Illinois, to her commerce...
...Could a U.S...
...Louisiana State (12 and up) University Press, 1985...
...11.95 Lewis and Clark through the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase...
...8 and up) This dramatic portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr...
...One grows a bit uneasy at the charged political atmosphere Without pretending to instant expertise after a two-week - patria, rvolucidn, and Dios seem hopelessly confused - visit, I think the musical approach has merit...
...11-13) ful...
...14.95 author, a quadriplegic, married and with children, gives the reader an Scott O' Dell, one of the most honored authors of American children's authentic and inspirational message...
...THE HUMAN FAMILY $12.95 A junior novel concerning the unlikely friendship of Jess (Big Man) and Meechum (Burn-Out...
...hardly expect a few seconds, but I feel an obligation to try to at The cardinal's grievances center on the confiscation of some least talk to a spokesman...
...it assumes that "democratic" is an essential effort to interview Cardinal Obando...
...It would be an excellent project for Bishop Pablo Vega, president of the Nicaraguan bishops' conservative Catholics in the U.S...
...Kodansha International, 1985...
...12.95 Ruth Rausen, Coordinator of Young Adult Services, The After a car accident kills his mother, Matt now entirely on his own, New York Public Library grieves and harbors bitter anger toward the drunken driver responsible...
...12 and up) Captive Bodies, Free Spirits: The Story of Southern Slavery, by Annie John, by Jamaica Kincaid...
...They sing a hymn, but light no fires...
...strikingly handsome young man who has the voice and the A high point of the liturgy comes at the remembrance of the aspect of an angel of God, leads the crowd with an air of dead...
...In the helps...
...Many foreigners are in atcross-section of el pueblo...
...tion of the Latin male...
...13.00 Based on the life of a Native American doctor, this novel dramatically captures the alienation of a teenager caught between two cultures...
...Dutton, 1985...
...Edifying, enlightening occurred, of the intensive care unit and the rehabilitation center...
...She and enjoyable...
...Atheneum, 1985...
...When one considers the fact that Nicaragua is pose compulsory military service as justification for this fighting for its life against the richest, most powerful nation in statement: "The absolute dictatorship of a political party the world, and the further fact that Nicaragua is one of the which is constituted by force as the only arbiter and owner of smallest and poorest nations in the world, one cannot blame the state, its institutions, and every type of social activity, the Sandinistas too much if they use Vega's own language poses the problem of its legitimacy...
...12 and up) First Your Penny, by Donna Hill...
...Nevertheless, predominate...
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