WEEK BY WEEK Simple Equation THE pseudo-religious trappings of Communism have long been ironically evident— the theological rather than philosophical method of Dialectic Materialism, for instance,...
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Paradise Enslaved The savage atmosphere of motion picture - making. By JAMES RORTY SOONER or later Hollywood was bound to attract the cold eye of some wandering anthropologist for whom...
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The Lost Audience The popular arts are reducing their public to the status of robots. By EMMET LAVERY CAN the free men of a free society remain free if they remain indifferent to mediocrity? Is...
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FROM ITALY Misery That Pays NAPLES NAPLES means much more than the beauty of the Vesuvius, more than the Bay with its refined luxury and its romantic love songs. It means more than the slums and...
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The Stage THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING CCHRISTOPHER FRY has done one extremely im-portant thing: he has discovered a twentieth-century verse form for comedy. Matters had got to the point where it...
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The Screen Les affaires sont les affaires ADMIRERS of "Brief Encounter," that fine Noel Coward film that won huzzahs some four years ago, will probably like "L'Affaire," a French import with a...
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Christmas Books BOOKS are special things to special men—morally, intellectually and esthetically—and the editors have been aware of the impossibility of making universal recommendations in drawing...
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Iswolsky, Helene; Harrison, G. B.; Hughes, Serge; Kerr, Walter; Fremantle, Anne; MILES, GEORGE; Baer, Alban; Fischer, Max; Reinhold, H. A.; RICE, JOAN; F., A.
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Books The Wisdom of the Sands. Antoine de Saint - Exupery. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt. $4. HAILED as one of the most important French books published in the last decade,...
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