Et Cetera One small step Transplant successful
ONE SMALL STEP "Welcome to the modern world": So reads the first letter to the editors sent via Commonweal's new web site, http://www.commonwealmagazine.org. We will not quibble with...
...Who says the age of miracles is over...
...The web site is not the whole answer, but it's a step toward giving interested people-searching the net, after all, for something-a sense of what Commonweal is about, then and now...
...O ye of little faith...
...To ensure that this site will serve as a link to the future, there is also a form for new subscribers...
...Tell us what you think...
...There it is plain to see: Commonweal has been talking to the concerns and interests of the present day since its very first issue...
...We will not quibble with congratulations, but do ask readers to go online and take a look at the "Commonweal Reader" (under the button "Inside Commonweal"), an anthology of articles from the magazine since 1924...
...He e-mailed: "Who says the age of miracles is over...
...Commonweal's distribution is limited, and we want that to change...
...Despite two weeks when we had no real place to hang our miters, it looks as though we will even make the deadline for the issue you are holding in your hands...
...Besides the anthology, we've posted a recent issue (currently, the May 23 issue with James Carroll on the cover) and indices by both issue and subject matter...
...The web site's goal is to keep that conversation going by getting to and engaging people who might never have seen a copy of the magazine or have forgotten about it...
...One editor is reported to have spent an entire morning just riding the Center's peerless elevators...
...David Gonzalez of the New York Times did...
...The building's cafeteria has the ambience of a well-stocked library, the hallways are wide, and the floors as polished as a Commonweal fundraising letter...
...And finally it is possible to e-mail the editors...
...There are even couches in the ladies' rest rooms...
...The physical elegance, quiet, and technical competence of the Interchurch Center (the official name of our new home) will take some getting used to after Dutch Street's dilapidated charms...
...Under "About Commonweal," there are profiles of the magazine and editors past and present...
...The computers are plugged in, the phones are ringing, the mail seems to be arriving, and the editorial staff appears to be girding its loins for a resumption of combat...
...TRANSPLANT SUCCESSFUL II Thanks to the strenuous, but ever gracious, exertions of the burly (very burly) men of Approved Moving, the economical genius of architect Joe Druff el (and the efficiency of C&P Construction and their unionized laborers), the ceaseless toil of Managing Editor Patrick Jordan, the inspired kvetching of Editor Peggy Steinfels, and the plucky resilience of everyone else concerned, Commonweal has landed on its knees, if not its feet, in our new digs at 475 Riverside Drive...
...Whew...
...Stay tuned...
...Will such physical comfort spoil Commonweal...
Vol. 124 • August 1997 • No. 14
