Correspondence
FAHEY, ROBERT J. & FAHRIG, BROTHER DON & BROPHY, ROBERT & LAWBAUGH, WILLIAM M. & CLEARWATER, DON & KERSTEN, HERBERT H. & CHEW, MICHAEL & Gans, Herbert J. & Senser, Robert A. & Beck, Henry G. J.
Bitter, worldly, arrogant Your editorial ["Responsum dubium," December 1] is deeply offensive. For you to accuse the pope of inflicting wounds on the body of Christ is to claim both an authority of...
...It was really our old friend William Norman Ewer who wrote it-but he never does get recognized for it...
...Whatever that resolution may be, the issue itself may have depths and complications not yet clear...
...My first impulse was to ask whether Mr...
...Howell ascribed the verse to G.K...
...I found the violence disturbing and at one point had to leave the theater and stand in the lobby...
...Learning skills come easy to some, with difficulty to others...
...But ultimately our marketable skills depend upon the efforts of the individual...
...On the basis of Richard Alleva's fa-(Continued on page 25) (Continued from page 4) vorable review [December 1], my wife and I saw the movie Get Shorty...
...Senser's vocation...
...Instead, morale is down and careers are wrecked...
...The overwhelming reason for increases in productivity is the capital investment by management into machines/methods that minimize the limitations of man (error and speed...
...The idea that the world (company, union, government) owes us a certain standard of living is pure political fantasy...
...Old Testament Position Old Testament Position, Yale Divinity School...
...The editorial also reveals a lack of hope, moderation, and toleration...
...Israel's status is quite otherwise...
...The author replies: Mr...
...While I do not own a television or a VCR, I do occasionally go to the movies, and in my opinion the insights of Messrs...
...Including women out David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Seeking theological degrees, sabbaticals/renewals for clergy, religious, laity...
...The government...
...michael chew Stuttgart, Germany Manuscripts MANUSCRIPTS WANTED...
...My seven-year-old niece is responsible for my seeing that piece of cinematographic pulp...
...Otherwise, one might have expected protest against the denigrating body counts of Vietnamese or the demonization of Iraqis in the Gulf War...
...Fort Dodge, Iowa Critics on target Please count me as a fan of your film and media critics...
...Now, reading David Carlin's column in the issue of January 12,1 find the quote attributed to Dorothy Parker...
...Meanwhile, those at the top continue to profit...
...Financial help available...
...It has a way of getting around...
...Capital expenditures must be justified prior to authorization...
...We all know that Hilaire Belloc coined it...
...Something's wrong here...
...Yale University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer...
...Senser's fantasy Re: "Loaded at the Top," by Robert A. Senser [December 1,1995...
...argues that the October 28 Responsum by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, though it may offend our sense of rationality, is no more shocking than the God of all humanity having a chosen people...
...For you to accuse the pope of inflicting wounds on the body of Christ is to claim both an authority of knowledge and a moral superiority which I profoundly doubt you have...
...But the question is this: Are some favored individuals and groups able to exploit their positions of power, as well as access to and influence over government resources and policies, to accumulate exorbitant rewards for themselves, while leaving many millions of workers, in the United States and elsewhere, short-changed or utterly deprived...
...Is Pulp Fiction an artistic and religious masterpiece...
...Consider Isaiah 19:24-25: "In that day, Israel shall be a third partner with Egypt and Assyria as a blessing on earth...
...Subsidy Publisher with 75-year tradition...
...choose/the Jews...
...Kauffman and his Institute have no shame, but then I wondered whether they are just not smart enough to tell the difference between Day's anarchism and Newt Gingrich's corporate pandering...
...THOMAS M. CURRAN Auburn, Ala...
...Sperling Books, 160 E. 38th St., 25-ECW, N.Y., N.Y...
...This starting point leads him easily to the view that management deserves all it gets and that ordinary workers should not expect to depend even on their own companies for a certain standard of living...
...Chesterton...
...We found it gross and repulsive...
...Applications, including an updated vitae and names of three references, should be sent to Dean Thomas Ogletree, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-2167 by March 1, 1996...
...beck Winchester, Va...
...HERBERT J. GANS New York, N.Y...
...The successful candidate must demonstrate ability to teach effectively a large lecture course in Old Testament, beginning and intermediate Hebrew, as well as exegetical and topical courses...
...I am not a prude...
...I am afraid that in this context, "chosen" is poorly chosen...
...Initial appointment is for three years, beginning July 1,1996...
...Reviewers should not endorse garbage...
...If he fails to do so, he risks his job (as he should...
...This afternoon I read a chapter heading from Father Clifford Howell's Of Sacraments and Sacrifice: "How odd/of God/To CORRECTION Unfortunately, an editorial addition meant to enlighten may have caused confusion in Mary Lee Freeman's review of Kevin Coyne's Domers: A Year at Notre Dame (January 12,1996...
...Calls for apologies become embarrassing when you see that the finger must be turned toward all who blessed the bombers and all (including myself) who assented to these evils by silence...
...Clearwater does not make a case against the main point of my article- that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening to a disturbing degree...
...What has happened to the freedom to succeed or fail...
...The error of Mr...
...Last summer my son and two friends talked me into seeing Pulp Fiction...
...Who is responsible to offset the average decrease in wages...
...We, as God's children, have been blessed with certain talents...
...Robert a. senser Endorsing indecency I strongly urge you to find a movie reviewer whose standards will not allow tacit endorsement of total vulgarity and indecency...
...Bissinger, not Kevin Coyne...
...He bases part of his approach on the assumption that capital investment by management in technology is the "overwhelming reason for increases in productivity...
...for the Lord of hosts will bless them, saying, 'Blessed be my people Egypt, my handiwork Assyria, and my very own Israel.'" henry g.j...
...The Lion King certainly deserves one...
...Applicant should possess a minimum Bachelor degree in music, with at least five years experience in parish ministry...
...Historical, linguistic, and exegetical strengths, in addition to theological interests, are sought...
...I am not sure...
...Obviously the efforts of many individual human beings, using skills that have upgraded their God-given talents, are important at every point...
...Look at the mounting evidence...
...Ministry Program Want to Be a Priest, Religious, Lay Minister (man or woman) in the Church...
...Candidates must have completed the Ph.D...
...Everyone of my generation who writes against poverty owes a debt to her, Peter Maurin, and their Catholic Worker, where they wrote it all first...
...that permeates this so-called "wholesome family entertainment/' and afterward felt that I had somehow participated in the moral corruption of a child...
...I have traveled the world, served in World War II, and have dealt with people in all walks of life...
...Senser (and of Secretary of Labor Robert Reich) is the assumption that the workers are responsible for increases in productivity...
...When the stem-winder of a business increases its earnings and net worth, should he not be rewarded...
...Books Available Still Looking for a Book...
...Robert j. fahey Rye, N.Y...
...If it can be arranged conveniently, please see to the cancellation of my subscription...
...Yale University Divinity School seeks candidates to fill a vacancy for an Assistant Professor in Old Testament Studies...
...Read the business pages and business magazines...
...Competitive salary plus benefits...
...Position Available DIRECTOR OF LITURGY AND MUSIC-Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Springfield, Illinois...
...Workers had better rely on the talents that God gave them and on their ability to learn marketable skills, or else forget it...
...Curran's old friend who penned those lines...
...Send resume and three professional references to: Bill Vogt, 542 E. Lawrence, Springfield, Illinois 62703...
...Free Search...
...Coyne's previous work, A Day in the Night of America (Random House, 1992), was not "about high school football in a small Texas town" but about Americans working the night shift...
...Senser on the mark Robert A. Senser's "Loaded at the Top" [December 1,1995] was on the mark...
...I am sure, however, that it is far less threatening to morality and human decency than The Lion King...
...by June 1996, and must have the ability to teach Old Testament in a university context to students preparing for Christian ministry...
...The employer...
...Average wages tend to decrease with the displacement of high-wage jobs...
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...From the editors: Research inspired by these letters established, first, that for some reason Commonweal's sketchy library includes 19 (!) volumes of collected quotations (including two of Chestertonian aphorisms...
...Yet corporations and institutions that have already slid down those slippery slopes have not shown any improved performance nor the expected savings nor windfall profits...
...Three years ago (latest figures available), following waves of layoffs, CEO compensation rose to 157 times that of the average worker...
...Yet the movie offended me nearly as much as it offended my wife...
...During the film I could not help wondering who in America decides which movies get an "X" rating...
...DON CLEARWATER Redding, Calif...
...Herbert H. kersten, m.d...
...Instead, he brings up points designed to justify the growing disparity...
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...It wasn't Dorothy Parker Odd coincidence...
...God's choice here binds a special people to its covenan-tal partner, but does not bar his other children from the divine compassion...
...the principal justifications are savings in labor and waste and increases in the rate of production...
...A dynamic interplay of much else is involved: worker creativity and commitment, job environments conducive to work, a sound distribution system, marketing skills, research in basic science and technology, patent protection, infrastructure creation and maintenance, quality education, law and order, appropriate tax and lending policies, and so on down a long list of conditions, some linked to government assistance or regulation...
...Your bitter, arrogant epistle is in a worldly spirit that I can easily find elsewhere...
...From the editors: Additional letters on this and related topics will appear in the following issue...
...BROTHER DON FAHRIG, S.M...
...william m. lawbaugh Frederick, Md...
...and, third, that it was indeed Mr...
...D. Day & N. Gingrich I was appalled to read of the attempt by one Bill Kauffman and the American Enterprise Institute to turn Dorothy Day into a "Neocon Saint" [January 12...
...During World War II, one heard no hierarchical protest over the Allies' embrace of "total war" mania, leading to obliteration of German cities because they were "enemy" and because we believed we could shorten the war by indiscriminately killing the aged, women, and children in Ham-(Continued on page 4) (Continued from page 2) burg, Berlin, Dresden, Hiroshima, and all the rest: The end justifies the means...
...Wicks organ, Baldwin grand in Cathedral...
...Mater Dei Institute, Gonzaga University, 405 E. Sinto, Spokane, WA 99202-1849.1-800-633-2252, ext...
...No doubt Commonweal's editors were thinking of Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream (Addison-Wesley, 1990), also a highly acclaimed work, but authored by H.G...
...Charles Darwin, welcome to 1996...
...Robert brophy Los Alamitos, Calif...
...Nevertheless, there was something compelling about the film, just as there is something compelling about the Bible despite its many extremely violent, obscene, and ghastly passages...
...Even under contemporary conditions, improving the rate of productivity of a company, as well as of an industry and an economy, depends on far more than technology...
...When I read generalized conclusions arrived at by people using gross statistics, I fear that this great country is in danger of losing its economic freedom to centralized government control...
...It began with the "F" word and then repeated it or one of the other four-letter words in nearly every other sentence of dialogue...
...Corporate greed takes many forms but recently tries to gain respectability through buzzwords like downsizing, reinventing, TQM, reengineering, and the like...
...The church in its capacity for its own governance has the potential to bring the issue that so troubles you to resolution...
...Most wars get blessings Gordon Zahn's "An Incomplete Confession: German bishops forgot their blessing on Hitler's wars" [December 15,1995] is brilliant in its concise evaluation of ecclesiastical complicity...
...Or the workers...
...So far as I remember, no prayers were offered for Iraqi or Vietcong soldiers or the hundreds of thousands of civilians, God's children and members of the human family, who were car-pet-or-otherwise-bombed-or-na-palmed...
...ALL TYPES...
...In the Responsum, choice of males means exclusion of females...
...second, that only one of them, The Oxford Book of Quotations, tells us who wrote "How odd...
...But the Christian prophetic voice is not now and never seems to have been notable in the hierarchy, except for its Johnny-one-note on abortion...
...I was shocked by the subtle racism, sexism, and homophobia (not to mention violence...
...I assume that his personal experience was not in business ownership or management...
...Position available 2/1/96...
...McConnell and Alleva are usually right on target...
...Fifteen years ago, CEO compensation averaged forty-two times that of the average worker...
...Cincinnati, Ohio It wasn't Chesterbelloc I'm afraid David Carlin made Dorothy Parker a bit more cerebral than she really was by crediting her with "How odd/of God/to choose/the Jews...
Vol. 123 • February 1996 • No. 3
