THE Commonweal A Weeldy Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION -week by weekASPIRATIONS AND REALITIES HOW SECURE is the society which can...
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Socialism and Religion "IT IS NOT 'CHURCH' AND 'STATE' WHICH ARE IN CONFLICT, BUT CITIZENS OF BASICALLY DIFFERENT OPINIONS" J. N. MOODY NO PEOPLE CAN escape its...
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RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES Status of Forces C K. YEARLEY, JR. IMPROVISATION of a worldwide network of American alliances and the progressive development of American bases overseas have...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Man Without a Mask LOUIS CROMPTON TO THE READER of William Blake in this bicentennial year of his birth two facts must appear as near-miracles: there is the primary miracle...
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ST. BASIL TO THE ELDER HARMATIUS My dear sir: Forgive me if an old Man writes to you about your son. An old Man is permitted to console Even a stranger, and I write To speak of consolation....
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THE SCREEN AFTER THE MOMENT OF GREATNESS IN SPITE OF its not being as good as Irwin Shaw's original short story, "Tip on a Dead Jockey" is commendable and definitely a movie to be...
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HERE AND THERE LONELY PROTEST A FEW WEEKS ago a reader said that I had a blind spot on Christian pacifism. He may well be right. I admit I have never been persuaded by the pacifists' arguments,...
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COMMUNICATIONS "ARREST OF THE PACIFISTS" New York, N. Y. TO the Editors: The sentiments expressed in The Commonweal's editorial concerning the refusal of Dorothy Day and her followers to take...
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BOOKS Insight into the German Mind THE RETURN OF GUNNER ASCH. By Hans Hellmut Kirst. Little, Brown. $3.95. By WILLIAM JAMES SMITH "I DIDN'T believe in our cause and yet I allowed my...
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