THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE BERLIN CRISIS THERE SHOULD be little question about the allies'...
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Patterns of Vision To exercise the passion of idealism in private, and then to face political facts brutally —this is the schizophrenia of our time by MICHAEL NOVAK WHEN A MAN turns...
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His life is a work of art—in this case, of satirical art The Inimitable Dali by FRANK GETLEIN SALVADOR DALI—the very name is a painter's name. Offhand, it strikes you as probably the best...
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UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE The Book of Books by JOSEPH A. FITZMYER THERE IS no book read more frequently today than the Bible and yet what a book of mystery it remains! In one form or another the...
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HERE AND THERE OUR OWN JAILERS ALMOST A DECADE ago I wrote an article in these pages called "The Failure of AntiCommunism." The article, to no one's surprise, least of all mine,...
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THE STAGE 'WE CALL IT TIRED BLOOD!" MR. SPEED LAMKIN'S variation on the domestic manners of Americans is a relentless exercise in kitsch, that art of the bogus which is a major enterprise of...
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257 AFTER DYLAN THOMAS No such imaginings infect us now. Impostume towns approximate their duties; traffic increases to a scribbled flow, talk staunching responsibilities. No end of fevers...
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THE SCREEN ONE TOUCH OF GENIUS VIEWERS' reactions to "The Horse's Mouth" will depend to a great extent on how they feel about geniuses. In telling the story of Gulley Jimson, the ...
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COMMUNICATIONS "PRAYER AND PRACTICE" New York, N. Y. TO THE EDITORS: Father William Petrek in his review (October 31) of Guardini's Prayer and Practice expressed concern about the loose...
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BOOKS WILLIAM CLANCY Critics' Choices for Christmas THE Lord of History. By Jean Danielou. Regnery. $5. Pere Danielou's book is a profound probing into the meaning of what happens in time. He...
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Greeneland OUR MAN IN HAVANA. By Graham Greene. Viking. $3.50. GRAHAM GREENE. By John Atkins. Roy. $5. By JAMES FINN PLEASE would you mind telling me how they are going to murder...
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