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Week by Week
The Commonweal week by week THE PROBLEM I T is not easy to assay the various factors involved in the tension between the two worlds --partly because of insufficient evidence. In the...
The Sin of Slums
Stanley, John
The Sin of Slums "THE SLUM IS A GREAT WEIGHT THAT MUST BE CARRIED, AN AFFLICTION LIKE A RUNNING SORE OR A COLLAPSED LUNG" JOHN STANLEY G ENERALLY speaking, slums are unlighted, unclean,...
Last Hope in Viet Nam
Simpson, Howard R.
PRESIDENT NGO DINH DIEM Last Hope in Viet Nam HOWARD R. SIMPSON Saigon A T twelve midnight on January 15th the singsong voices of the Chinese girls behind the busy dice tables faded. At six...
Labor's House United
Cort, John C.
THE MERGER Labor's House United T HE story is that Walter Reuther did not want to go to Miami Beach. All his life he had been avoiding the place. To him the idea of labor leaders' meeting in a...
The Strange Alliance
Cogley, John
HERE AND THERE The Strange Alliance T HREE times during this past week I had the opportunity to talk at some length with exCommunists. For each of the three, leaving the Party was a bitter...
The Stage
Hayes, Richard
THE STAGE TWO STRIKES AND A FOUL T HE season proliferates occasions of terror: at the Barrymore, Joseph Hayes turns the screw again with a racy transcript of his novel, "The Desperate Hours."...
The Screen
Hartung, Philip T.
THE SCREEN "THE DROGHTE OF MARCH" S PRING is arriving with a flurry of new films, none of which you have to drop everything to rush out and see, but several of which you may want to know about...
Reality, Art, and Prayer
Merton, Thomas
LIFE OF THE SPIRIT Reality, Art, and Prayer THOMAS MERTON O NE of the most important--and most neglected ---elements in the beginnings of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality,...
Peter and John Running: A Poem
Sandeen, Ernest
PETER AND JOHN RUNNING F IRST is the woman, almost falling, panting Out the news of the ponderous door standing Ajar. And then the dreamy Sabbath of grief That they have drowsed in, splinters...
Books
Mercier, Vivian; Dever, Joe
BOOKS Yeats' Lifelong Immersion in the Spirit of Ireland THE LETTERS OF W. B. YEATS. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Allan Wade. Macmillan. $9.50. By VIVIAN MERCIER W 'HEN Yeats won...
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