The Commonweal week by week THE WAR ON POVERTY N EVER before in history has a single nation been so directly and intimately involved in the affairs of other nations as the United States finds...
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The Essence of Thomas Mann "HIS WHOLE VISION IS OF THE MAJESTIC DARKNESS OF A MIND ESTRANGED FROM TRUTH BY A LONG GENEALOGY OF ERROR" ANNA HELLERSBERG-WENDRINER A SHORT time ago, Thomas Mann...
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FROM POLAND Hope Behind the Curtain T HE red stars and the red flags on the [actory chimneys and on the mine towers were blackened with smoke, and the smoke hanging in the sky over this huge...
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THE SCREEN WHAT ARE HEROES, PROPHETS, MEN? N 'O doubt the most amazing thing about "To Hell and Back" is ,that the makers of this good movie were able to ten the story of the most decorated...
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PHILIP T. I'~RTUNO. COMMUNICATIONS "THE RIGHTS OF NON-CONFORMITY" New York, N. Y. T O the Editors: I hope it will hearten you somewhat to learn that at least one reader of The Commonweal...
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OF NOTE "'1 CONFESS'" T HE Pilot, official paper of the Boston archdiocese [49 Franklin St., Boston 10, Mass.] recently ran a lead editorial on the tenth anniversary of Hiroshima. We here...
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LIFE AND TIME JOHN P. SISK The Things That Pass S HAKESPEARE'S Troilus and Cressida, Orwell's 1984, and a stack of seventeen,year-old Li/e magazines may appear to be an unlikely combination,...
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BOOKS The Sicilian World of Giovanni Verga MASTRO-DON GESUALDO. By Giovanni Verga. Translated by D. H. Lawrence. Grove. Cloth: $3.50. Paper: $1.45. By JAMES GREENE T HERE were two Italies...
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