The Commonweal week by week THE BREAK THAT FAILED FOUR men in Boston recently accomplished something. They managed to focus the nation's attention upon life in prison. And in doing so, they...
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Experiment in Simplicity "OUR PURPOSE WAS TO ESCAPE FROM INDUSTRIALISM ALTOGETHER, FROM THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF MECHANIZATION" (Bede Griffiths, O.S.B., is a monk o/ Prinknash Abbey in...
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AMERICANS ABROAD Incident on the Manila Waterfront L AST December 4th two Americans--in the Philippines as labor advisors to the University of the Philippines--drove down to the...
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THE STAGE THE SAINT OF BLEEC;KER STREET M R. Gian-Carlo Menotti's new opera is a contemporary document of much energy and some power, imposing itselfmin a production of great brilliance and...
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THE SCREEN "SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD" E XCEPT for a few brief scenes concerned with men on leave in Japan, "The Bridges at Toko-ri" is all war; and Mark Robson has directed his cast...
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COMMUNICATIONS CHRISTIAN CULTURE Los Angeles, Calif. T O the Editors: Mr. Joseph McMahon [Jan. 7] detects the odor of the ghetto in Professor Dawson's theories. That may be. But certainly, the...
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BOOKS Marxism's Changing Face WILL HERBERG C OMMUNISM, in Arthur Koestler's judgment, or the Russian Revolution, or the triumph of Stalinis "the gravest challenge mankind has yet ism, but...
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The Allurement of Contemporary Irish Fiction THE RED PETTICOAT AND OTHER wild and lissom, love interest is STORIES. By Bryan MacMahon. Dot- added to conflict. And when, ton. $3. finally, you...
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