THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE PRESIDENT AT GETTYSBURG T HERE MAY HAVE been little that was new...
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The Popular Will In the assignment of blame for our current defense weaknesses, public opinion is so far the one thing that has not been officially blamed by PATRICK SANFORD p UBLIC OPINION in...
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COUNTERPOINT BUDGETING RESPONSIBILITY A N EDITORIAL about federal spending and the budget, called "What Kind of Austerity," published in The Commonweal for February 20th concluded with this...
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The writer is by nature the critic of respectable society Beatniks and Tradition by JOHN P. SISK T HE BEAT generation writers have had a very good press if one uses as a standard the extent to...
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HERE AND THERE A DUBIOUS DICTUM O N MARCH 30 the Supreme Court handed down its "double jeopardy" decision in the Bartkus case. The decision was a significant one, involving a number of legal...
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Lessons to be drawn from Great Britain's experience An End to Unemployment by MICHAEL P. FOGARTY T HE AMERICAN economy seems largely to be working itself out of last year's recession--with the...
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ATHE STAGE THE WEATHERS OF THE HEART T HERE ARE, in all art, and notably the theater art, instances of a power which derives from mind, from large intimations and magnitudes of conception--and...
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side--that the application of such pressure to the stuffs of experience and art may be the solvent to release our theater from the impasse of "realism" in which it has lately seemed to languish....
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BOOKS A Clown Through and Through HENDERSON THE RAIN KING. Saul Bellow. Viking. $4.50. By THOMAS' F. CURLEY By O NE SURE mark of a genuine artist is his unwillingness to repeat what he has...
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