The Commonweal week by week THE GREAT SILENCE T WO NATIONAL figures, Secretary Dulles and General Ridgway, have recently used two popular magazines to express their views on politically...
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The Specter of Starvation "THE NUMBER ONE PROBLEM TODAY IS HOW TO FEED THE WORLD'S PEOPLE" FRANCOIS HOUTART W ITH LITTLE fear ,that the facts will prove me wrong, I venture the prediction that...
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"VARIETY IN UNITY" Understanding the French GEORGE H. TAVARD F ALL Western nations, the French Republic seems to be the one that the average American finds most hard to understand. In politics...
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A EUROPEAN VIEW America: Image and Reality CUNNAR D. KUMLIEN I T IS usually difficult to remember, once you have seen a place, what your previous idea of it had been. The reality replaces...
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THE STAGE NORTH AND SOUTH T HE Circle in the Square has revived "Cradle Song," the tenderly austere drama of conventual life by the Spanish playwright Martinez Sierra, in a production...
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THE SCREEN HOW TO LAUNCH 1,000 SHIPS A FTER having seen "Tiger at the Gates," the modern French play that portrays Helen as a luscious dumb bunny and Hector as a wise Trojan trying desperately...
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OF NOTE WORSHIP AND THE ARTS T HE DECEMBER issue of Architectural Record (119 W. 40th St., New York City) contains a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture by Otto Spaeth, a founder and...
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COMMUNICATIONS "THE CASE OF EZRA POUND" New York, N.Y. T O the Editors: The discussions of our times seem to center prominently around matters of freedom and security. The Commonweal has...
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BOOKS The Universe Rang True When Fairly Tested SURPRISED BY JOY- The Shape of My Early Life. C. S. Lewis. Harcourt, Brace. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE T HE author of the best-known Anglican...
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