The Commonweal week by week NEED FOR A CHANGE R ECENT American foreign policy has had a prominence and an urgency that was lacking when it revolved around such concepts as the Monroe...
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Catholics and AntiIntellectualism "THERE HAVE BEEN GRAVE REASONS IN RECENT YEARS TO FEAR THAT WE HAVE FREQUENTLY REVEALED A NERVOUS SPIRIT OF IMPATIENT AND SULLEN ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM" JOHN J....
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COMMUNISM AND THE FUTURE The Lesson of Anarchism GUNNAR D. KUMLIEN O NCE upon a time there was a man who thought that it would be better for him to creep on all fours rather than to walk. After...
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FROM ENGLAND Princess Margaret's Choice JOHN M. TODD I N COMING to her widely-publicized decision Princess Margaret, like many other Anglicans, was inevitably confronted with the basic...
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BRITISH AND AMERICAN PLAYS Shakespeare and Shopping-Baskets WALTER KERR T HE difference between the British theater and the American theater is partly a matter of Shakespeare and partly a...
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THE STAGE IN DEFENSE OF FRIVOLITY T HE uses of comedy are various, and none more potent than the contemporary practice of displaying personali, ty draped with the meager habiliments of wit....
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THE SCREEN ACHILLES' HEEL A LTHOUGH no one accuses Hollywood anymore of turning out only escapist films, audiences still welcome controversial, well-made movies from abroad. They have...
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BOOKS Revealing Example of Charity and Hope THE CATHOLIC APPROACH TO PROTESTANTISM. By George H. Tavard. Harper. $2.50. By H. A. REINHOLD I F FATHER T a v a r d ' s book amounts to the...
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