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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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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