O Sole Mia:
Carlin, David R. Jr.
could contribute to further deficit reductions (the budget deficit the resourcefulness of many Italians, the ability of the coun- now exceeds 10 percent of GNP, more than three times the...
...century Jesuit casuist, one of those who I say this not by way of criticism but in gave both the Jesuits and casuistry bad order to confess my own inadequate knowl- names...
...In both cases it was a matter of to want a united society, one based on final singers on the bus...
...O excluded minorities all over the place, but an ideal was suggested...
...pledged to streamline the tax system...
...But that alters the whole tic adventure between an older man and away from his films for years...
...is not the same as a real stepfather...
...Unfortunately, this was the mo- it is now a case of self-defense, which of ilar, is it not, to the equally thin line diment he was overdosing on Diane Keaton, course the church says is morally per- viding damnable dueling from meritorious a little bit of whom goes a long way...
...A common-sense interpretation of Woody's affair with Mia's adopted daughter would say that the relationship is incestuous...
...OF SEVERAL MINDS David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Those movies lightened morality, provided they are for discovering...
...I could not take Diane playing Diane for Allen missed his century and calling...
...self-defense...
...Hence he was related to the daughter as a virtual stepfather...
...World War II a theory of morality (or better, a theory of Nixon as a senator and Checkers as a was probably the beginning of the most no-morality) which, if consistently acted puppy...
...The reaction was based on a vision are not all equivalent cases...
...The good he explains, his jesuitical logic running me explain...
...It is an old photo of ity of life lived in common...
...in an age progress...
...To date, we are a long way chides him, saying, "But that would be all headed into battle together...
...That era is often remembered in the OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey popular imagination as a quiet time, and even the revisionism (justified, I think) of a writer like Garry Wills, who has argued AN INCOHERENT CULTURE that Eisenhower was a much better president than Kennedy or Johnson, does not LIFE AFTER 'OZZIE & HARRIET' obscure the general impression of a world in which "Ozzie and Harriet," and maybe Henry Luce's Time, were the major cul0 n cable access television the right to free speech, and it means tol- tural influences...
...were as corny as could be, and could not done in the name of `conscience' and 'hon- What Mia Farrow gets credit for is hav- be done today, except cynically...
...No, the real trouble is that we have Commonweal office...
...Italy's equivalent of the LEO J. WOLLEMBORG 1040 Form is a nightmare for most Italians, calling for answers Leo J. Wollemborg, a former contributor to Commonweal, of up to 255 questions...
...This is of everything...
...inevitable result of making rights dis- liberate civic culture, a wartime collecThere are great differences here-these proportionately important...
...ATTnRr'E- AT- Lhw members of the Nixon Award committee Nor am I an authority on Woody Allen wanted to give the prize to Woody himthe family man...
...Like all fundamentalists, they re- Kline, Pollock, Hartigan, Mitchell-were ple or you can watch a neo-Nazi as he ally don't take the letter of the law all that producing wonderful work...
...The citation reads: "In tions of the theory, but we are making rapid bringing the idea of common obligation an age of moral subjectivism...
...No, it is not incest, words, "But that would be wrong...
...A lovely May-andI broke down and returned, in the era of cumstances one is morally entitled to de- December story...
...It has the magNowadays when I think of Woody ical power of preventing one from doing Allen, I am reminded of Pascal and his the perfectly natural thing of going to bed Provincial Letters...
...One relations with stepdaughters, that's inhas won the first annual Richard of my favorite items in this work is Pascal's cest...
...Jack Kevorkian's right to kill off idea of rights has been used, in each, to born, jazz and art got interesting in new depressed people...
...What all era they sound fresh, immediate...
...no avail...
...So thin is the crucial line between Woody had become a sort of American which the church says is morally wrong...
...Very simChekhov...
...in which moral codes are considered to plication, one we have thoroughly carried You can learn something by contrastbe matters of personal preference, not mat- out...
...For this is no longer a duel, time...
...Maybe not...
...in Westchester County, erating even ACLU fundamentalists who But the fifties were much more comNew York, you can watch see the right to free speech as absolute, plicated and interesting than that...
...Ciampi has also national economy may yet save the day...
...This isn't done de- ways, and it was all detached from any Irish and parade organizers disrupted the liberately-in the parade cases, reading sort of propaganda...
...More precisely, I am with one's girlfriend's daughter...
...father explained that a Christian gentle- something like this: A virtual stepfather Though I have seen my share of Woody man may not accept a challenge to a duel...
...This outlook began to fall apart in the fifties...
...Conflicts between gay balkanize the society...
...could contribute to further deficit reductions (the budget deficit the resourcefulness of many Italians, the ability of the counnow exceeds 10 percent of GNP, more than three times the av- try's democratic politicians to adjust, and the resilience of its erage in the European Economic Community...
...There was an understated rebetween gay Jews and a parade celebrat- made it clear enough that people all seem action going on against those happy ing Israel...
...Let's give Mia credit for not At the same time there was something movwe are terrible sinners, but probably not being a good sport...
...And when stepfathers have sexual hereby announce that Mia Farrow casuists of the seventeenth century...
...Jack Kerouac could rights versus rights: the rights of the gay agreement, and few people really want to be as sentimental as those old movies, but groups who wanted to march versus the win at the expense of others-but it is an he was part of a reaction against a derights of the parade organizers...
...At first I tried to ignore ccPECIR LI2ING IN self because of the great value he obvihis legal dispute with Mia Farrow, but to MOR.L IAr4&RtIprcl~s ously attaches to the formality of marriage...
...But once upon a time it which wartime propaganda was sincereyou finesse and sophisticate them...
...Incest be- scenes of (for example) a bus-full of peoselves that certain forms of inhuman tween consenting adults is a further im- ple traveling across the country allowing conduct constitute a higher and more en- plication, which Woody Allen gets credit themselves to be led in song...
...What could be more clear...
...The early movies time making the appropriate mental reser- lationship with the daughter would have seemed to me the kind that would have vation...
...portance of that document...
...in an age in to Dr...
...Abortion-on-demand is one im- back into the discussion...
...If you listen speaks of the need to send black people seriously, but apply it to their favorite caus- to the Miles Davis recordings from that back to Africa and end the Jewish control es where it serves their purpose...
...There were from having carried out all the implica- wrong...
...Nixon Moral Philosopher of the satirical account of the Jesuit who found Enter Woody the casuist, resembling one Year Award...
...The best a black nationalist as he but see the right to bear arms as very com- abstract expressionist artists-deKooning, threatens to kill white peo- plicated...
...Oh, it's a long, long Annie Hall, I discovered to my delight that fend oneself...
...Still, is a journalist living in Rome...
...It appealed to much worse than most people at most She can pick up her award at the one version of the dream of the possibiltimes...
...reminded of Pascal's lampoon on Jesuit But wiser heads prevailed, and the Commonweal 18 June 1993: 9 award went to Mia...
...I found missible...
...edge of his oeuvre...
...Change in Italy will not be easy...
...didn't take much moral intelligence to ob- ly produced and just as sincerely received, The trouble with contemporary America ject to euthanasia and abortion-on-de- and so it is our form of socialist realism...
...moral turpitude and true love...
...the umpteenth time, so again I discontin- He would have made a good seventeenthued visits to Woody Allen movies...
...The dog is about to make a mess recent form of this sentimentality, with GIs upon, will eventually lead to immeasur- on the carpet, while the future president named O'Leary, Valucci, and Bernstein able corruption...
...The ACLU prepares to de- of these cases have in common is that the the era in which the beat generation was fend Dr...
...I discovered it is not possible to 11 In an age in which so many dismiss marlive in America and remain successfully ¢ .r A riage as no more than a "piece of paper," ignorant of the domestic troubles of Woody Woody has demonstrated the vital imand Mia...
...It an ancient truth, namely, that some things in the way of moral smarts to object to in- was no doubt part of the atmosphere in are just plain wrong, no matter how much cest...
...The fact esty'-in such an age Mia Farrow is to ing sufficient moral intelligence to scream that they could be done at all is something be commended for having rediscovered in pain...
...in such cir- a younger woman...
...It is named for a way to justify dueling, which was pro- of those tragicomic Chekhovian characNixon because of his immortal scribed by the church but prescribed by ters from his movies...
...The operative word Saint Patrick's Day parade, as did conflicts the interviews with people on both sides was "cool...
...is not that we are morally corrupt...
...I believe in ians have done a valuable service in of some genuinely beautiful but difficult10: 18 June 1993 Commonweal...
...Further, he may keep up this pre- been nothing less than a horrendous crime...
...Communitar- tivity...
...Euthanasia is another, which, thanks ing the current atmosphere with the World ters of objective obligation...
...You may say it doesn't take much that separates that time from our own...
...Had Allen movies over the years, I have never but he may pretend to accept, at the same he and Mia officially married, then his rebeen a cult follower...
...Plainly I am no au- 3. b. SATANyxy, At this point I should note that some thority on Woody Allen the artist...
...Let the aristocratic code of honor...
...ing about the naivete of it...
...Kevorkian's pioneering work, we War II-era movies in which there were which we have learned to persuade our- are just learning to carry out...
...been made by a talented sophomore, and tense until he finds himself on the field of But absent the formality of marriage, the since I have always had something of a honor facing an enemy who is armed with relationship is simply a charming romanprejudice against sophomores, I stayed sword or pistol...
...No doubt mand either...
...By the time moral nature of the situation...
...After all, Allen's relationship fl SOLE MIA with Mia Farrow was a virtual husbandTHE FIRST NIXON PRIZE wife connection, even though they were not officially married...
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