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Commonweal
WEEK BY WEEK
The Pope Isolationist?
FATHER JAMES M. GILLIS is one man who has never ceased to call himself an isolationist. Even during the World War
II days when it seemed the word...
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Why French Workers See Red
The successes of the Communist Party are built on the failures of others.
By JEAN MAUDUIT
CERTAIN apologists for capitalism and some conservatives who are behind the times...
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Stalin's Big Mistake
The man who might have won Europe's votes chose instead to live by the sword.
By PETER VIERECK
IN EARLY 1945, when the heroism of the ordinary Russian peasant-soldier did so...
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FROM FRANCE
Desert Pilgrimage
PERMIT me this time to abandon the role of Parisian reporter and to lead my readers on a pilgrimage-to the desert. The opportunities for encountering silence and...
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SO THEY TELL ME
Koestler Revisited
"BUT, you can't," she said to me,, "take a character in a book and make him a symbol, a type."
We had been talking about Gletkin, and I had been maintaining with a...
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The Stage
ANGEL IN THE PAWNSHOP
I ONCE had a teacher who was fond of extolling the virtues of imagination. "Why, I can stand here," he would say, "and, although my body is rooted in this spot, my...
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The Screen
SOOTHING THAT SAVAGE BREAST
AS A RULE films about music and musicians sound good to the ear but are pretty dull visually. Once the camera has shown us what the musician looks like, it...
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Tito and the War on the West
By MAX FISCHER
YUGOSLAVIA is a country where East meets West, where the energy of the occidental civilization and the colorful fancy of the orient blend together. If...
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Communications
Vernacular in the Liturgy
New Haven, Conn.
TO the Editors: Had I been wearing a hat, I should have thrown it into the air after reading Mr. Cort's excellent and timely article! I feel...
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Books
We of Nagasaki. Takashi Nagai. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. $2.75.
I REMEMBER the day, in Aug-ust, 1945, when the papers here announced the atomic destruction of Nagasaki. I was a soldier-at...
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