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Vol. 061 Issue 009 (December 3 1954)
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Week by Week
THE Commonweal week by week THE TWO MATERIALISMS I F hedonism may be dignified by the name of a philosophy, then there are indeed two rival materialist philosophies today--hedonism at home...
Morning in Wales
Thomas, Dylan
Morning in Wales " i WALKED THROUGH THE STREETS LIKE A STRANGER COME OUT OF THE SEA." DYLAN THOMAS QUITE early one morning in the winter in Wales, by the sea that was lying down still and...
Somerset Maugham
Krim, Seymour
Somerset Maugham "THE TIME SEEMS ESPECIALLY RIPE TO CONSIDER THIS WISE OLD LITERARY CAT." SEYMOUR KRIM "There are no real pleasures without real needs." --Voltaire N OW that W. Somerset...
The Stage
Hayes, Richard
THE STAGE FORTUNE ON 48th STREET M R. Horton Foote's "The Traveling Lady" and "The Rainmaker" by Mr. N. Richard Nash are the curious fruit of television: until the recent closing of Mr. Foote's...
The Screen
Hartung, Philip T.
THE SCREEN NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL A LTHOUGH many of Graham Greene s stories have been adapted into cinema, few of these movies, interesting though they may be, have caught the essence of...
Communications
COMMUNICATIONS "NUCLEAR WAR" New York, N. Y. T O the E d i t o r s : . . . Your discussion [of nuclear war in a series of editorials---Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, & Nov. 12] is clearer and saner...
Book Reviews
BOOKS An Artist's Vision of the Goodness of All That Is THE POETIC DRAMA OF PAUL CLAUDEL. By Joseph Chiari. Kenedy. $3.7,5. By ANNE FREMANTLE T HE poet, more than any other artist, is not...
Critics' Choice for Christmas
Rago, Henry; Mercier, Vivian; Quinn, Patrick F.; Harrington, Michael; Hayes, Richard; Burnham, Philip; Fitzsimons, M. A.; Sullivan, John F.; Baer, Dom Alban; Fremantle, Anne; Herberg, Will; Shannon, William V.; Joost, Nicholas; Lukacs, John A.
Critics' Choice for Christmas VIVIAN MERCIER A N unusually large number of books of lasting worth have appeared this year; I hope to read them all eventually. Those that have not yet come my...
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