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February 19, 2000

Vol. 182 / No. 5

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Books
James S. Torrens, S.J.February 19, 2000

The T S Eliot industryall those library shelves of dissertations and articles and book-length studieshas issued at last in a model biography In it Lyndall Gordon sharpens and expands two earlier volumes on Eliot Early Years 1977 and New Life 1988 She has drawn on much correspondence and mat

Arts & Culture Books
James Martin, S.J.February 19, 2000

Is there a more remarkable spiritual writer today than Kathleen Norris And how full of paradoxes she is quot containing multitudes quot to take a leaf from Walt Whitman Coming from what she calls a quot thoroughly Protestant background quot her meditations have been both widely read and grea

Books
John B. BreslinFebruary 19, 2000

With his latest novel Roddy Doyle the laureate of Dublin rsquo s present quot lower middle classes quot moves down the social ladder a notch or two and a century back in time His sympathy remains however clearly with the proles and in Henry Smart he has found his ideal protagoniststreet-sma

Television
James Martin, S.J.February 19, 2000

Not long ago I came across an article about one Mr. Newton Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission who famously described television in the 1960’s as "a vast wasteland." Doubtless it would have surprised Mr. Minow that his phrase still sums up the current

The Word
John R. DonahueFebruary 19, 2000

Late February with Lent around the corner is not a time when we ordinarily think of weddings yet nuptial imagery sets the tone for the liturgy In the first reading the eighth-century prophet Hosea enacts in his life God rsquo s enduring love for a people that has turned away to worship Canaanit

Columns
Robert ColesFebruary 19, 2000

'Even the monsters Hitler or Stalin are fallen sinners, and we cry and pray for them.' In recent months, while a war-time pontiff’s attitudes toward mid-century European totalitarianism became a subject of written discussion (as in Hitler’s Pope and the response to it by reviewer

News

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