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...nothing new, actually. Since the days when Woodrow Wilson sold out the Irish for David Lloyd George's support at Versailles, it's been the same story. As Andrew Greeley writes in his new book, The Irish Americans. "The American Irish were never able to persuade their government or their nation's cultural elite of the moral rightness of their cause. ...Concern for human rights in Rhodesia, Chile and Franco's Spain has in recent times all but obsessed the nation's intellectual and cultural elite. The issue of human rights in Ireland, however, even today scarcely gains any notice...
...Noble House, Clavell (1 last week) 2. Goodbye, Janette, Robbins (5) 3. The Glitter Dome, Wambaugh (4) 4. Gorky Park, Smith (3) 5. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert (2) 6. Clowns of God, West 7. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley (7) 8. Free Fall in Crimson, MacDonald (6) 9. The Covenant, Michener (8) 10. License Renewed, Gardner...
...Maryknollers have also come under attack closer to home. NeoConservative Catholic Michael Novak has accused the society of "promoting Christian Marxism-uncritically, naively, grandly, extensively." Columnists Patrick Buchanan, William F. Buckley Jr. and Father Andrew Greeley have picked...
...Noble House, Clavell (2 last week) 2.Gorky Park, Smith (4) 3. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert (1) 4. Goodbye, Janette. Robbins (5) 5. Free Fall in Crimson, MacDonald (3) 6. The Covenant, Michener (6) 1. Masquerade, Williams (9) 8. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley 9. Tar Baby, Morrison 10. The Glitter Dome, Wambaugh
...finding that hit hardest, though, was Coleman's comparison of educational achievement, based on test scores. He found that in reading, vocabulary, mathematics, science, civics and writing, the nation's 1.4 million private pupils notably outperform the 13.5 million public schoolers. Greeley's study made a similar point: students from minority low-income families do much better academically in Catholic schools than in public schools...