To the editors: As a student at a local seminary, I had initial interest in your cover story on “The Gospel According to Thomas Sheehan” in this past week’s edition [April 21]. When I read the article, however, I was disappointed to find Sheehan’s statements reflect essential atheism disguised in the polished language of high-powered […]
Tag: Vol. 18 No. 30
Issue of May. 11 – 17, 1989
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Dance Notes: a new man with a new plan at MoMing
“I feel like this is the beginning of the new MoMing,” says Chicago choreographer Jan Erkert, who has called the MoMing Dance & Arts Center her artistic home for the past ten years. “It’s very exciting.” Amy Osgood, another Chicago choreographer who has performed and taught at MoMing for many years, adds: “There is so […]
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Dr. King’s Candidate
To the editors: Doug Cassel’s article, “What’s This Election About?” [March 31], is generally a well-written piece that helps shed light on the rhetoric that’s been all over Chicago’s airwaves for the last few weeks, and helps identify the real issues at stake. But in stating his preference for Tim Evans (albeit with some reservations […]
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Light and Darkness
MORDINE & COMPANY at the Dance Center of Columbia College May 4-6 and 11-13 Mordine & Company is celebrating 20 years of struggle and achievement with characteristic savvy. No simple self-laudatory retrospective for choreographer Shirley Mordine: she has chosen instead to juxtapose her newest works–Flores y Animales, a premiere, and the 1988 Delicate Prey–with dances […]
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Reader’s Esoterica
To the editors: Robert McClory in his article about Thomas Sheehan (Reader, 4/21/89) remarks on the books on Sheehan’s shelves as concerning “esoteric subjects like phenomenology and hermeneutics.” Then a few lines later in the very same paragraph McClory blithely refers to metaphysics and Heidegger as if they are not esoteric. Where is McClory coming […]
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Bob Mould
“This year was the worst I can remember, except when I was five years old, pushed open the front door, got lost in the snow.” An unnamed band member wrote those words as liner notes on the last Husker Du album; soon after, the group was history, a victim of the centrifugal spin of underground […]
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The Church of Social Control
To the editors: In crossing the minefields of biblical scholarship, Thomas Sheehan (in your April 21 cover story) has taken a few missteps–not serious enough to get blown up but bad enough to call for some corrections on the minefield maps. For example, he talks about Christians abandoning the holy city just before the Romans […]
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Kinder and gentler in Uptown: Will HUD kibosh a promising private-public housing deal?
The struggle, says Denice Irwin, began soon after rain poured through her windows and ceiling, drenching the living room in her Uptown apartment. Within a few months, Irwin, a mother of three, had helped organize a tenants’ group in the 22-story federally subsidized building at 920 W. Lakeside Place. And now, after three years of […]
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Hail Alvernia
Doe Coover was planning to spend her weekend hanging wallpaper in the dining room when her sister phoned Boston with the news. After 65 years, Alvernia–the Catholic high school for girls on Lawndale Avenue just south of Irving Park Road–was shutting down because of declining enrollment. That Sunday, May 7, there would be a gathering […]
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Defile the Dead
To the editors: While I agree that the album Dylan & the Dead was a rather lame effort, don’t you think you were a little rough on the guys? (i.e. the blanket statement that Jerry Garcia plays bad guitar because of a solo on the album that you think he’s responsible for) [March 17]. But […]
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Club Dates: bandoneon on the run
The bandoneon, which is sometimes called the button accordion, is a peculiar instrument–and I’m being charitable. A conventional accordion has that small piano-style keyboard for the right hand and a rack of chord buttons for the left. The bandoneon has no keyboard, and each of its buttons plays only a single note at a time; […]
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Fred Anderson/Billy Brimfield Quartet
Hunkered down, sometimes to the point that his tenor saxophone appears to be parallel with the floor, the burly Fred Anderson suggests a cosmic sumo wrestler–a noble fighter grappling with destiny. His music does little to alter that impression. The tone is dark and expressive; the improvisations are freewheeling and pantonal, yet they retain a […]
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33 Martyred Popes Can’t Be Wrong
To the editors: Mr. Sheehan’s article regarding certain beliefs about Christ’s message, knowledge of the Trinity and plans for his church are very interesting [April 21]. It is a wonder indeed that such a veritable scholar such as Mr. Sheehan thinks himself to be that he completed (in his own words) ten years of Catholic […]
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Route 142
ROUTE 142 Bob Eisen and Dancers at Link’s Hall May 3-6 Bob Eisen’s work walks a fine line, the one between mere movement and dance; the purpose is to illuminate both. Route 142, recently performed at Link’s Hall, is on the surface even less theatrical–even more matter-of-fact and just what it is, no more–than his […]
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Babies Wanted
Childless couples seek alternatives to traditional agency adoption.