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Vol. 071 Issue 001 (October 2 1959)
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Week by Week
THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION , week by week ...... LACK OF PROGR~.SS REPORT T WO YEARS AGO the...
Theology and Literature
Murchand, Bernard G.
Theology and Literature In the renewed dialogue befween liferafure and theol- ogy, it is the latter, perhaps, which sfands to profit most by BERNARD G. MURCHLAND T HE RELATIONSHIP between...
Isaiah's Coal
Nims, John Frederick
Mass," he says, "is the key to a Catholic art. It de- fines the relation of grace to nature, and the relations of the Catholic artist to the world. But this stand- point, in effect, disparages any...
Arrivederci, Roma
Cogley, John
HERE AND THERE ARRIVEDERCI, ROMA E ACH TIME I have left this city, the City, eter- naUy urban, eternally beckoning, it has been with the solemn resolve to return. But it would be foolish...
The American Pattern
Hynes, Sam
The uniqueness of American experience is reflected in our literature The American Pattern by SAM HYNES I T HAS BEEN nearly two hundred years now since Cr~vecoeur asked "What is an...
Reading Dante with Ionians
O'Gorman, Ned
writers--perhaps only Henry James--have had the critical capacities for such an examination of tl~eir own relation to their inheritance as Americans. The Territory Ahead is a book of institutions...
The Language of New York
Burnham, Philip
COUNTERPOINT THE LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK A PERSON who once lived in New York City a long time and then moved far away finds his visits back to town more interesting every addi- tional year...
Bertolt Brecht: Anti Hero
Cook, Bruce A.
Whatever his politics, he was preeminently a playwright Bertolt Brecht: Anti-Hero by BRUCE A. COOK I N 1947 Bertolt Brecht told an interviewer that he thought he would remain in his Santa...
The Stage
Hayes, Richard
Brecht had apparently made an irrevocable choice. When he arrived in East Germany in October, 1948, the blockade was already four months old; the lines were drawn; the Cold War had begun. Still, a...
The Screen
Hartung, Philip T.
bears too heavily on him, cheerfulness--as it did with the failed philosopher--keeps breaking in. The consequence of all this is a delight as impressive as it is humane and rare: sophisticated,...
Budapest: A Poem
McCallister, Claire
BUDAPEST New York, December 1956 Dust in the fog dropped opal and down the East River Night setting fire to the bridges would drown what we knew: Out over the halls ringing eloquence taller...
Books
~OOKS Marcel Proust and the Dragon of Time PROUST: The Early Years. By George D. Painter. Atlantic- Little, Brown. $6.50. By RICHARD GILMAN I T WOULD seem to take a high degree...
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