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i Correspondence I I Strict separations Saskatoon, Saskatchewan To the Editors: Robert Hoyt's recent review ["From Behind Closed Doors, January 17] of The Politics of Sex and Religion raises...
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...To the Editors: Robert Jones's review of four Robertson Davies' novel ["A Company of Daimons," December 20] is so overwrought that it deserves reply...
...The fact that they advance SDI at great expense will draw money from programs that will help our material well-being, and from our pockets in taxes, so we will have less to luxuriate with...
...But that is only part of the picture, and perhaps the most obvious...
...I know that many -- the vast bulk -- of senior offleers are a highly dedicated, moral lot, who unselfishly and quietly serve their country...
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...that the" traditions" established then have more relevance than all the history which has swept us along since then...
...This being so, we want to hear of everything bad about the military ($6,000 coffee pots, etc...
...But it's equally silly to think that that culture in which the first things happened must be the Christian context for all time...
...The sacrifices of the military disturb us...
...The rest of the civilized world is rapidly developing nuclear power while we pursue folly...
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...In this shortcoming and in all the others, I see the handwriting of our German bishops, especially of the Cardinals Ratzinger and HiSffner...
...But there can be an effective defense...
...nor that the people he employs are "warm, caring, and in most cases reli-' gious...
...Certainly the nastiest of his characters are men (see World of Wonders and Rebel Angels...
...We hope against hope (Rom...
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...is a smokescreen for a determinist view . . ." "His grandiloquent, quasinineteenthcentury prose is an artificial a t t e m p t . . . " to damn things present and things liberal...
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...I am in possession of the facts of the case, and you, quite obviously, are in possession of a welter of opinions...
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...The result of the synod is better than we dared to hope...
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...Even among those receiving most of their research funds from the Pentagon, more disapproved than approved of SDI...
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...It would simply not make sense...
...Clearly, in his reading of this last novel, Jones takes Davies's deliberately stagy angel and daemon device too literally...
...Noel Keller, RSM, Institute on Sacred Scripture, College Misericordia, Dallas, PA 18612...
...There was no way, for instance, that a woman could have been the Christ, or even one of the Apostles, 2000 'years ago...
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...This study breaks new ground with the development of what the author describes as his central thesis: that a traditional Irish Catholic worldview predisposed Irish emigrants to view themselves not as willing adventurers seeking their fortunes, but as involuntary exiles...
...At its deepest level, the reluctance stemmed from a Gaelic culture, however attenuated in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that embodied a communal rather than a private understanding of property...
...They worry about the future of their families and the nation...
...The crucible of these conflicting interests was the natural origin of Irish nationalism, to which the anguish of invoiuntary exile gave a fierce urgency, especially in America...
...The council defined the church above all as the "people of God...
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...A reci~tit statement by abortion activist E. Spencer Parsons puts the problem starkly and clearly: "I know many people who are strongly anti-abortion who use the Pill, and have no problem with the third function of the Pill, which is to alter the endometrium (and cause an early abortion) . . . . They are absolutely astounded and amazed that you would begin to call the Pill both a true contraceptive and a true abortifacient...
...According to a New York Times report, the poll found "that the scientists were not opposed to weaponry in general...
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...Commonweal: 194ence or absence of education serves only to complicate our understanding of the personal motives for emigrating, influencing in surprising ways its outcome...
...A defense which can reduce civilian casualties by perhaps 100 million...
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...Opponents, he suggests, are given to "erudite, philosophical hand- wringing" or fearful of having less tax money "'to luxuriate with...
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...As I remember, one of the bedrock traditions of Christianity, not to mention Judaism, is that God's dialogue with humanity always takes place in the context of history . . . . His will is always done, finally . . . . If I can accept that about the past, I must accept it about the present, too...
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...Most of the opposition to defense comes from a public distaste for anything that takes away some of our pleasures...
...I know their objectives and the probability of success of those objectives...
...Therefore, when England acted in its own interests in Ireland, as a habitual mastery inclined her to do, she acted against Ireland's interests...
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...In other words, emigration was exile forced upon a reluctant Irish people by the English...
...To the Editor: John Garvey, in "Attending to Tradition" [January 31] says some important things, and, naturally, says them well...
...E . J . MeCULLOUGH Silent synod Heidelberg To the Editors: I read "So Far, So Good, So What," [December 20, 1985] with animated interest and consent...
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...Those who hold that there is a strict separation need to enlighten us as to how this strict division is possible when current versions of the Pill are abortifacient...
...But, lest you think that I have the socalled "military mind," my undergraduate and first master's degree were from Catholic institutions, and in the humanities . . . . Back to SDI...
...Miller correctly refuses to view emigration simply as an outcome of Ireland's chronic economic dependence upon England...
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...The root of Davies' "misogyny" is the "rage of an insignificant man . . . . " My own view, as one having read eight of Davies' novels this past year, is that they are clearly related, intentionally so in two trilogies, though one of these trilogies has little to do with the "world of wonders...
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...The development of more sophisticated reproductive technologies does seem to raise unpleasant questions for those who want to separate the problem of abortion from that of' contraception...
...All the talk of Freud and Jung...
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...Unless we resolutely face the evil in this temporal world,it will overcome us...
...In two (A Mixture of Frailties and Rebel Angels) women are protagonists, and in all others there are favorable treatments of women, including the bisexual Liesl referred to in Jones's diatribe...
...How about good things about the military...
...But crucial issues remain unsettled: decentralization, real not apparent collegiality, intercommunion -- Bishop Elchinger's (Strasbourg) eucharistic hospitality -- help for the divorcedI I Commonweal welcomes letters on subjects treated in its pages...
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...One may find the Jungian scheme restrictive, even sexist at some levels, but it does provide a more coherent sense of the self than I find in some of the "highbrow" authors Jones seems to tout...
...Whether absentee or "improving" landlords made little difference...
...Clearly, Irish emigration is a complicated issue...
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...For me, too, Davies does create tangible characters -- if sometimes set in a stillnineteenthcentury Canada -- and he does succeed in creating certain "wonders...
...They are there all right, but never publicly aired, (or very rarely...
...I invite and even dare Rome to crank up its centralized pastoral machinery (one which, by the way, we Orthodox don't have) and simply come celebrate with us . . . as a unilateral act of love...
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...Correspondence (Continued from page 194) "fundamentalist" worldview, Davies's determinism is that of a Jungian (most explicitly in The Manticore), trying to respect both the public personality and its undersides, to integrate both "male" and "female" into his completed characters...
...A defense which can make it impossible to effectively attack and destroy counterattack weapons...
...And SDI is denigrated -- voices carefully setting forth the case for it stifled...
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...You see, I work daily with IBM scientists working on various aspects of the SDI program...
...Well, I spent thirty-one years in the military, retiring from the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1974...
...Scientists critical of SDI are dismissed as part of those opposed "to anything nuclear" or even "to anything military...
...remarried, and all the complex issues concerning sexuality, not least the state of women, and other questions...
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...In this connection I see and affirm your statement: "Mystery could become mystification...
...A defense that can destroy incoming warheads exo-atmospherically -- where their radiation . . . would couple their energy as X-rays, not heat blast and contamination...
...To the Editors: I must disagree with your December 20 editorial on the president's Space Defense Initiative...
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...It is no small irony, underscored by this study, that while Irish nationalism has been vindicated, the Irish emigrant's exile endures...
...We don't, as a nation, want to hear of sacrifice...
...As an insider, he claims to be "in possession of the facts" while critics like ourselves have only"a welter of opinions...
...Alas -- and you reflect some of this same attitude...
...Colonel Hession's letter, combining assertiveness with defensiveness, typifies a manner of defending SDI we do not find persuasive...
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...If God speaks in history, acts through living humans, then he surely is not going to pretend in 1986 that it is still the first century A.D...
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...No nuclear winter...
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...True, Davies does pick up on some of the experiences of people who are isolated, scorned, or driven, but even the deformed children are given some nobility...
...He cites these facts on the mistaken premise that our criticisms of Star Wars were based on the notion that its proponents or developers are evil people or "mad scientists...
...No defense can be absolute...
...And instead of erudite, philosophical hand-wringing, they are doing something about it...
...That the synod was silent on it is, it seems to me, one of its most serious deficiencies...
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...His treatment of women and sexuality is "part of a private pathology...
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...Even when the attempt fails at points, as for example, in the weak openning of What's Bred in the Bone, I find the effort to speak a richer language worthwhile -- whether liberal, conservative, or other...
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...In 1986, that "Feast of Feasts, Holy Day of Holy Days" (eighth ode of the Paschal canon) will be celebrated on May 4 by hundreds of millions of Eastern Orthodox Catholics, the vast majority of whom live behind the iron curtain...
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...Operating, according to Irish historian Oliver MacDonagh, by means of an absence of a fully contractual relationship, the Irish agricultural economy left tenant farmers consistently at the mercy of their landlords...
...But, best of all, SDI means no general nuclear war...
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...But this meticulous study brings considerable understanding to it with an analysis that includes such internation events as the American Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, as well as such domestic considerations as the Catholic/Relief Acts of the late eighteenth century and the economic changes following in the wake of the Industrial Revolution...
...The Latin church does indeed talk a good game, but when the cards are all out on the ecumenical table, it contradicts what it says by its actions...
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...For what it's worth, a recent poll found physicists doubting the soundness of SDI as a national security policy by a margin of almost two to one...
...Davies' worldview is essentially "fundamentalist," with pitchforkcarrying devils and.., angels who tell jokes...
...They are not mad scientists, but warm, caring, and in most cases, religious persons...
...Yes, there are scientists who advance opinions diametrically opposed to SDI -- and for that matter, to anything nuclear (even nuclear power, the cleanest and safest power source we have -- witness what fossil fuel power is doing...
...Rather than a repetitious magic show, however, the larger theme has to do with people finding their roles ~ or vocations, often in relation to various forms of art...
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...After invoking literary greats who overshadow the merely "middlebrow" Davies, Jones goes after Davies tooth and nail: even in Davies' best Fifth Business, the reader gets only talk about a "world of wonders," but no entry into one...
...I had not realized that it was possible at all within Christianity to take various events "as simple accidents...
...A cultural bias of this strength served only to make Ireland even more vulnerable where England failed, according to Charles Townshend, to appreciate in the Irish "a deep structural social imperative to possess land...
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...Nowhere was this dependence more evident than in that unique economic and social institution, namely, Irish landlordism...
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...In fact, it is his letter which is running on stereotypes...
...It's silly even to entertain the notion...
...Master and slave, oppressor and victim: these are the categories that Davies imagines the world...
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...i Correspondence I I Strict separations Saskatoon, Saskatchewan To the Editors: Robert Hoyt's recent review ["From Behind Closed Doors, January 17] of The Politics of Sex and Religion raises an interesting question for those who have followed the contraception debate for some years: can the easy division of contraception and abortion be maintained in the light of current reproductive technologies...
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