THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE ACT OF CENSORSHIP T HE RECENTLY announced campaign of the...
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The Catholic As Censor The censorship struggle in the United States has done nothing to close the tragic gap between religion and secular culture by WILLIAM W HAT THE SCHOOL question has been...
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I fear this book will not dispel for many of them the conviction that, necessary or not, such groups must continually be opposed as spokesmen for an at best anachronistic approach to the problems...
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particularly in the ending. A second Tanizaki novel, The Makioka Sisters, should certainly be explicit enough for any reader interested in knowing about the life of a Japanese family in the years...
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HERE AND THERE MORE ON PRATO I N A RECENT column on the Prate affair, I said I did not believe an American court would find the Bishop guilty of libel because under our system so much...
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Lourdes: A Poem by Joseph P. Clancy I. Trapped like an idiot in a wilderness of feeling You hold to faith like Ariadne's thread, reeling Yourself, a willing catch, to Mary's gaff, Hearing...
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THE SCREEN WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE I 'M NOT SURE why I am so lethargic about the movie version of "Marjorie Morningstar.' Milton Sperling has given his film a good production with some nice...
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perhaps some of the flatness of the film is due to the fact that the story does not follow through to Wouk's conclusion. Ending abruptly when Marjorie sees Noel for the shallow playboy he really...
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must somehow be demonstrated, justified in its effects or spiritual utility. Hence the rash of desperate insights, "conversions," offensive smears of moralism which mark the wild finale of...
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BOOKS Robert Graves: Cranky, Malicious and Entertaining FIVE PENS IN HAND. By Robert Graves. Doubleday. $5. By ANTHONY BAILEY A S MR. GRAVES remarks in his prologue to Goodbye to All That...
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