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BERLIN REVISITED Schizoid City In a Divided World MAX FISCHER D D URING the early days of the First World War I had a terrible dream. I saw Berlin, the grand city in...

The New Expansionism (August 1951)

The New Expansionism Since World War II the balance of power has shifted from Western Europe to Eurasia. By MAX FISCHER AT the outbreak of the Second World War, Soviet territory extended over...

Failure in the Far East (July 1951)

Failure in the Far East The Great Debate should, above all, be the starting point for a sound new policy. By MAX FISCHER IF a great nation in the modern world is to preserve the free and human...

Christianity in the Orient (May 1951)

Christianity in the Orient By MAX FISCHER THE CHRISTIAN muwommes wfoo went to Asia came into countries that already had a high intellectual and artistic civilization, basically different in...

Koestler's Longing and Despair (March 1951)

Koestler's Longing and Despair By MAX FISCHER MODERN novelists are generally afraid to incorporate the politics of their time in their stories. They have learned that this is a highly dangerous...

Tito and the War on the West (February 1951)

Tito and the War on the West By MAX FISCHER YUGOSLAVIA is a country where East meets West, where the energy of the occidental civilization and the colorful fancy of the orient blend together. If...

Asia Without Roots (January 1951)

Asia Without Roots Secularism, imported from the West, has left a spiritual void. By MAX FISCHER LATELY the wheel of history has been turning too quickly for the human understanding to follow. The...

Books (December 1950)

BOOKS Art. Eric Gill. Devin-Adair. $2. 25 Nudes. Eric Gill. Devin-Adair. $3- THESE two books complete each other. The former is Gill's word^picture of the role of art in society. The latter is an...

Books (December 1950)

Books The Wisdom of the Sands. Antoine de Saint - Exupery. Translated by Stuart Gilbert, Harcourt. $4. HAILED as one of the most important French books published in the last decade,...

Books (November 1950)

Books The Age of Faith. Will Durant. Simon and Schuster. $7.50. THIS survey of medieval history forms the fourth in the proposed series of six volumes of The Story of Civilization, by the author of...

Books (November 1950)

Books The Disenchanted. Budd Schulberg. Random House. $3.50. IN PLACE of the usual statement that any resemblances are merely coincidental!, Budd Schulberg introduces his third novel with part of...

Books (November 1950)

Books The Life of Mahatma Gandhi. Louis Fischer. Harper. $5. MAHATMA GANDHI was one of the paramount figures of our time, both as a religious man and as the political leader of his nation. How these...

Japan and the Occident (March 1950)

March 31, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 657 and Korea; and he...

Schweitzer, the Philosopher (December 1949)

December 9, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 271 Schweitzer...

BULGARIANS UNDER THE KNOUT (September 1949)

September 2, I949 THE COMMONWEAL _glX Secondly, do the operators have the ability to pay? Yes, they do. They have not denied it. us Steel could not very well repudiate figures which it had just...

BOOKS (June 1949)

204 T H E C O M M O N W E A L June 3, i949 writings of Catholics. The danger of a purely pietistic, apologetic approach in Catholic education and the writings of Catholics 'has been widely...

HAMMER AND SICKLE OVER ASIA (May 1949)

May z 7, I949 THE COMMONWEAL I77 ever entered the machine's mind, for the machine has no mind. A machine, when "instructed" to carry out a certain computation, will carry out that computation,...

"Way Through the Night" (May 1949)

May x3, I949 THE COMMONWEAL I25 into "secularization." We .have onty to compare our century with the eighteenth and early nineteenth to realize how inaccurate the assumption is that we are...

CONTEMPORARY GERMAN WRITERS (March 1949)

536 THE COMMONWEAL March II, 1949 "Boohoo, the beast l We buy his books, and yet he does not love us. He only loves our dollars." But that is the precise nature of the transaction. The writer...

Artists on Art The Death of Virgil Outside Eden Men Without Guns Trial Balance The Question of Henry James The Short Stories of Henry James Agriculture in an Unstable Economy (January 1946)

More Books of the Week Artists on Art. Edited by Robert Goldwater and Marc Treves. Pantheon. $4.50. THE SUBJECT of this book, the editors state in the introduction, is the artist not as writer,...

Teresa Modern German Literature The Diaries of Tchaikovsky Korea and the Old Orders in Eastern Asia The New Veteran Beautiful Austria (January 1946)

337 The Opera Season Melody as a Menace NEITHER Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette" nor Ponchielli's "La Gioconda" is an opera ever likely to be regarded as great in any shift of fashion or taste. It...

John C. Calhoun-The Dream of Philip II-The Concept of Dread (November 1944)

132 THE COMMONWEAL November 17, 1944 More Books of the Week John C. Calhoun—Nationalist, 1782-1828. Charles M. Wiltse. Bobbs. ...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK (November 1944)

78 THE COMMONWKA L November 3, 1944 More Books of the Week Bur (/literacy. Ludiihi run Mises. Yale. $2.00. EVERY fourth year, ;i month or two before Election Day, a number of...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK A Bell for Adano-Ordeal by Battle-The Long Balkan Night-Amen, Amen (March 1944)

Books of the Week A Bell For Adano. John Hersey. Knopf. $2.50. THIS is a good book that is also a good deed. I would say that the fiction form of "A Bell for Adano" is fictitious. This is not...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK French Canada in Transition-Man the Measure-The Dark Continent-Always Room at the Top-American Political Parties, Their Natural History-History of Macy's of New York, 1858-1919-NBC Handbook of Pronunciation (December 1943)

Books of the Week French Canada in Transition. Everett C. Hughes. Chicago. $2.50. THERE are far too many books about French Canada, and all too few of them are good. Getting away entirely from the...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK My Days of Anger-Out of the Silent Planet-The Darker Brother-Thunderhead-Meet Mr Blank, the Leader of Tomorrows Germans-Saint John Capistran, Reformer-The Little Locksmith-The Case for Mrs Suratt (October 1943)

More Books of the Week My Days of Anger. James T. Farrell. Vanguard. $2.75. WHEN YOU are living in a foreign country and you get a book from home you do not read that book in the way you would...

STEFAN GEORGE (September 1943)

538 THE COMMONWEAL September 17, 1943 Stefan George By MAX FISCHER WHILE the second World War is moving to a climax, the...

HAUSHOFER'S GEOPOLITICAL THEORIES (February 1943)

446 THE COMMONWEAL February I9, 1943 what a swagger he has as he rhumbas, twirls his cane, the allegation that...

FATHER SIDOTTI IN JAPAN (January 1943)

Father Sidotti in Japan A dauntless emissary braves the forbidden...

WHAT WAS JUGOSLAVIA (November 1941)

What Was dugoslavia A student of European history who loves the country writes about its people. By Max Fischer T HESE LAST WEEKS there has been much state, created after the first World War...

NAPOLEONIC PATTERN (August 1940)

Napoleonic Pattern The author is a European-trained student of history, who does not believe in "historical laws," but in deepening...

Medieval Hymns (November 1937)

40 The Commonweal November 5, 1937 account of what he had seen, only to find that he had been mistaken in every detail. He then said that he would write no more history. If he could not describe...

Books (June 1937)

Books Christianity and Islam The Crusades: The World's Debate, by Hilaire Belloc. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company. $3.0O. AMONG the popular authors of historical books Hilaire Belloc...

Books (June 1937)

'Books Twenty-five Years' Reporting Dusk of Empire, by Wythe Williams. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.00. \ VACATION had been granted and now before l\ Wythe Williams, after five...

Books (May 1937)

Books About a Great Problem Social Security, by Maxwell S. Stewart. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $3.00. T^\ ISCLAIMING any intention of making a compre-L' hensive survey of the...

Books (February 1937)

Books Snapshot of Utopia Spanish Prelude, by Jenny Ballon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.50. THE SCENE of Jenny Ballou's prize-winning novel, "Spanish Prelude," is Madrid just before...

Holy Week in Seville (April 1935)

T/ e Commonweal April I 9 , I935 HOLY WEEK IN SEVILLE By MAX FISCHER T HE STRETCH between Madrid and Seville, a matter of twelve hours for an express train, was covered by our plane in two. A...

The Balkan Slavs (July 1934)

THE BALKAN SLAVS By MAX FISCHER THOSE who were familiar with the Turkish village of Ueskueb in the days before the war would hardly recognize it again in the Serbian city of Skoplje, with its many...

In the Forest Primeval (March 1934)

568 IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL By MAX FISCHER IT IS obviously not true that the cultural endeavor of mankind progresses through longcontinued processes or evolution, without sudden...

FISCHER, PHILIP C.

FISCHER, TOM

Fisher, Cyprian M.

Fisher, D. W.

Fisher, D.W.

Fisher, Dennis D.

Fisher, Desmond

Fisher, Eugene J

FISHER, EUGENE J.

Fisher, James

Fisher, James T

Fisher, James T.