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Of several minds: Frank Getlein THE REAL BUREAUCRACY WILL WE DECLARE INDEPENDENCE OF THE FBI? THERE was something chilling about the two things happening in the same week. First, Romain Gary, the...

The swing thing (December 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein THE SWING THING ONE KINDLY LIGHT AMID THE ENCIRCLING GLOOM WOE AND DESPAIR is all about I see, Democrats clutching what hair they have left, crying out...

The secret of the press (November 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein THE SECRET OF THE PRESS AND THE SECRET OF THE MEN WHO FOUND IT WILLIAM SAFIRE, the country's leading Nattering Nabob of Negativism for the last four years, took...

The emperor's planes (October 1980)

despite a fairly flabby comment by the bishops in their re- ence. Will history repeat itself, with a majority of resolutions sponse to the recent National Pastoral Congress on this and individuals...

Saving the generals (September 1980)

high Andes who told a visitor that he did not know what heaven was like but that he was certain that it was a city, was giving voice to an age-old yearning. It is a yearning shared by those who have...

To life (patent pending)! (August 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein TO LIFE (PATENT PENDING)! RICHARD NIXON ON THE SISTINE CEILING IT certainly came as no surprise to me that the Nixon Supreme Court would and did find that new...

Spoilers & spoilsmen (June 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein SPOILERS AND SPOILSMEN THE MAYOR OF THE PALACE ENTHRONED You You HAVE to admire them for the sheer, brazen effrontery of it all: the national chairmen of the...

The rigors of travel (May 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein THE RIGORS OF TRAVEL NOBODY HERE BUT US COMMIE MOMMIES SOME OF US warned that this would happen when the first modern attacks on the freedom of Americans to...

The Jimmy principle (April 1980)

Of several, minds: Frank Getlein THE JIMMY PRINCIPLE LEADING FROM HIS STRONG POINT-INCOMPETENCE IN MY HOME TOWN, invariably described by my father as "an industrial mining camp,'' we had a...

Bureau of instigation (March 1980)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein BUREAU OF INSTIGATION SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF Assume the FBI would do nothing really risky without clearing it with the Department of Justice. Assume the...

Another U.S. triumph (February 1980)

rationale is that reducing waste accumulation in other coun- helped to create. tries will reduc~ their interest in reprocessing, which can lead So far, only research fuel is being returned--the...

Humanitarians amok (December 1979)

two brothers and a sister and nieces and nephews, as well as his Catholic Worker family. Among the present editors were Frank Donovan, Rita Corbin, Peggy Scherer, Dan Mauk, Kathleen Clarkson,...

The Invasion of Cuba (November 1979)

fact that the stories passed down to me sheepskin-lined coats (Oh yes, Min- made its small towns a byword for were all about the journey down the nesota winters are cold),...

Name of the Game (October 1979)

and a rebuke to the government's new legislation. And for the pope to say that "the very possibility of divorce in the sphere of civil laws makes stable and permanent marriages more difficult for...

The bombing of Haig (August 1979)

out $650.00?" asks Cynthia. Probably the resources of the city. They play soc- level in the Japanese way. "The not. Certainly not without paying for it. cer in the parks,...

The American auto, R.I.P.: (July 1979)

usually cited as a weakness by political come from, or are complicated by, polit- pointed out that members of the press, columnists, remembering the clout ical changes in the...

Acknowledging a debt: (June 1979)

able? If there is a loss of vitality in the tradition, to what degree did? I'd be pleased if these questions would go away, by is such a loss of vitality attributable to such a priori 'stonewal- ...

Safe against Brecht: (May 1979)

In this sense, the encyclical merits their careful reading. It ment of human rights. The Pope endorses no political formulas contains a strong commitment to three themes of Vatican II: ...

Peace dividend, hah!: (April 1979)

and scrupulous about not simply asking others-whether a burst of rhetoric was successfully resisted; and though the bishops or some undefined audience of Christians-to...

Dis-orient express (March 1979)

dinner!). But he was unequivocal in his ignorant-"without sufficient knowl- I had never heard then of the "boy speech to the National Press Club ... and edge"-of the history of...

The triumph of Coca-Cola: (January 1979)

imports from underdeveloped countries, and the creation of a Nicaragua's internal affairs. Later Perez sent a flight of Air fund financed by OPEC and the developed nations to stabilize ...

A Gasp in Iran (December 1978)

Of several minds: Frank Getlein A GASP IN IRAN GOOD GRIEF! THE IRANIANS WANT SELF-GOVERNMENT PERSIA has always been a tough place for the West. It could even be said, without mangling...

The Democratic Dukes (November 1978)

cal preaching, based on scripture and Vatican II, far in advance to have escaped the journalists), but capable when necessary of of anything in this country. uttering a firm non possumus to...

Land O'Goshen (October 1978)

lifetime of Paul, the number of Catholics alone on the conti- dence meant merely a change in colonial rulers. Yet, in spite of nent nearly doubled, reaching a total of at least 40 million. failures...

WASHINGTON REPORT:Unlucky Number:Proposition 13 (September 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT I I UNLUCKY NUMBER: PROPOSITION 13 It is a Capitol Hill commonplace that any attempt at tax reform, especially any well-announced effort to close the famed "loopholes" through...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Mystiques And Mystagogues (September 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT MYSTIQUES AND MYSTAGOGUES There were a lot of old salts around town you could have knocked over with a belaying pin when President Carter not only vetoed the military...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Death Near and Far (August 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT DEATH NEAR AND FAR The military aid to Turkey has been solved for the moment at least and, as is depressingly usual with problem-solving these days, nobody seems to...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Dissidents and Dissent (August 1978)

WASHIHGTON REPORT I I DISSIDENTS AND DISSENT Andrew Young claims the recent trials of the two Soviet dissidents are in some fashion a mark of progress toward humanity on the part 'of the Soviet...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Questioning Foreign Aid (July 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT QUESTIONING FOREIGN AiD Foreign aid took a few lumps here recently. It got kicked around for the ~vrong reasons, namely the hypnotic and paralyzing fear of Howard Jarvis and...

WASHINGTON REPORT Holy Russia Rises in Vermont (July 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT HOLY RUSSIA RISES IN VERMONT It has taken a little better than sixty years, but at last the late 19th century Russian self-bamboozlement of the intelligentsia—a Russian word,...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Crook Books: Vol. VI (May 1978)

and guns bought with money that contributors, Americans in the main, thought was going for foods, medicine and other relief. Effective remonstrations by the Irish government and more...

WASHINGTON REPORT: How To Whip inflation New (May 1978)

WAHHIHGTON REPORT HOW TO WHIP INFLATION NOW The President has rallied us, as did his predecessor, to whip inflation now, although happily Carter has' not scattered broadcast the crates of old...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The City Delivered? (April 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE CITY DELIVERED? The New York Times lead editorial on the administration's new, first-ever National Urban Policy summed it up in a headline which raises interesting...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Heritage of Fear (April 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT HERITAGE OF FEAR Franklin D. Roosevelt could not have known how right he was, how prophetic, when he told his countrymen they had nothing to fear but fear itself. He...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Underground Movement (March 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT The White House may have changed its mind by the time you read this, but as I write it, the administration is handling the miners' strike by invoking...

WASHINGTON REPORT: A Handle on Haldeman (March 1978)

WASHINGTOH REPORT A HANDLE ON HALDEMAN One of the most spectacular theatrical productions in our century was Max Reinhardt's Everyman staged on the steps and platz of Salzburg Cathedral. In...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Consumers Consumed (March 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT CONSUMERS CONSUMED About the first major action in the House of Representatives in the new session was the defeat of the effort to establish an Agency for Consumer Protection...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The More It Changes (February 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE MORE IT CHANGES "What is our party anyhow?" asked Jack Wintergreen, just before he accepted its nomination for the presidency in the mythical year 1932. "Well,"...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Truth and the Big Ditch (February 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT TRUTH AMD THE BIG DITCH It would be nice if the right wing in this country would some day start calling their answers to rational arguments "rebuttals," or "dissent" or...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Lies, Damned Lies & 'Intelligence' (January 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT LIES, DAMNED LIES & INTELLIGENCE' When Richard Helms stood outside that courtroom here about a month ago and told us how proud he was to be a convicted, sentenced liar, the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Ends and Beginnings (January 1978)

WASHINGTON REPORT ENDS AND BEGINNINGS The great new thing to be recorded for the new year is, of course, the new realism in the Mid East, manifested at first solely in President Sadat of...

WASHINGTON REPORT: A Star in the East (December 1977)

WASHINGTON REPORT A STAR IN THE EAST The givers were all Jews and Moslems, but they gave this city the best Christmas present it's had in years. This was, of course, the abrupt, unscheduled,...

WAISHINGTON REPORT: The Job on Jobs (December 1977)

shouldn't be afraid," the bishops concluded in their final message. "With the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit, the Christian can be, according to the word of the Apostle, 'strong in the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Helmsmen, What Quarry? (November 1977)

probability of the extinction of homo sapiens--the socalled no-survivors myth. The fact is, says Clayton, that "barring some totally unknown mechanism, the effects of total warfare today . . ....

WASHINGTON REPORT: Israel Back and Forth (October 1977)

that European and Japanese producers were "exporting unemployment" and served notice on the administration that "if our friends can't find a way to help us, we will devise means to help...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Double Standard (October 1977)

shortages, and people by and large tend to relax through autumn in a comfort that is seasonal and in the long run illusory. All of which is to say that there is nothing wrong with the Carter...

WASHINGTON REPORT: 1517 And All That (September 1977)

Carter's statement may have some good results. For it could provide the impetus to break the political logjam into which Northern Ireland politics have become increasingly locked. Because of...

Washington Report: Return of the Notice (September 1977)

not take place until the end of this century. The United States will have a permanent right to defend the neutrality of the Canal from any threat. U.S. warships will have a permanent right to...

Washington Report: The Mind Controllers (September 1977)

on our understanding and love. As Robert Lipsyte wrote in the New York Post: "So long as he was faceless, a specter in the city, a terror, a demon, there was no need to deal with him. Now he is...

Washington Report: Kill Him, Save It (August 1977)

other things these sources also speak of as many as 300,000 persons being held in "re-education" camps, and of the arrest and detention of a wide range of people, including religious, cultural...

Washington Report: Down in Flames (August 1977)

have already established a new society. As for Spanish Communist leader Santiago Carrillo, the New Times said he "has lately spoken of our country and our party in terms that even the most...

Washington Report: Not Remarkably Entertaining (July 1977)

inconvenienced by childbirth or by the welfare mother who fears she cannot feed another childmis a tragedy. This did not happen. Rather, one of the most complicated moral issues of our time,...

Washington Report: Hell on Wheels (July 1977)

this indiscreet and voluble maverick is some evidence that Carter doesn't mind a little public embarrassment when he perceives that a higher moral goal may be served. Just as he promised, Carter...

Washington Report: Protestor Kissinger (June 1977)

wing would probably preclude any Middle East peace parley this year. And if there is no progress in negotiations, he said, "I would not exclude another military confrontation." Equally...

Washington Report: Part Imperfect, Future Imperative (June 1977)

play was an affront to the conscience of Catholics. Following up the first installment of Fo's play, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Ugo Poletti, sent a telegram to Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Nixon Without Dietrich (May 1977)

rather than just comply. While ultimate authority in matters of faith rests in Rome, the Detroit-Chicago issues, in spite of their dogmatic dimension, were primarily matters of discipline; and we...

Washington Report: Equivalence and Equivocation (May 1977)

you press people hard enough to cast the net wide enough, you find [minority and female] people." And he made it clear that his position included quotas. "For a long time," he said, "I didn't...

Washington Report: Middle East Realities (April 1977)

realistic hope that change tor the better is within the reach of words. Some would debate that this practicality obtained in the Carter-USSR instance, if for no other reason than the different...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Eccentricities of Ethics (April 1977)

seriously we must see how his understanding of his mission and his identity grew, developed gradually throughout his public life, and that he may not have fully understood in what way he...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Immoralists (April 1977)

finally, Saudi Arabia has made it plain that it expects the United States to take positive action in the Middle East in exchange for its efforts to hold the line on oil prices and avoid another...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Entertainers (March 1977)

official publications, to the near status of house organs. This is particularly apparent in the case of diocesan newspapers. It is a clich6 that the freedom of the press is never fully won, and...

APPOINTMENTS CALENDAR (March 1977)

WASHINGTON REPORT I APPOINTMENTS CALENDAR President Carter made a serious mistake in his original appointment of Theodore Sorensen to head the CIA in an era when that agency simply has to be...

Washington Report: Clashing Symbols (February 1977)

and Catholic participation in the 1936 Munich Olympics which he knew Hitler had planned as a Nazi showcase. He witnessed the Ansctduss at first hand; for he saw the German troops march into...

Washington Report: To Arms! To Arms! (February 1977)

instance, who in Carter's earlier words didn't know where Sweden was or how to get to Canada. Nor are doubts relieved by some high-level appointments, notably that of Griffin B. Bell as...

Washington Report: The Graves of Academe (January 1977)

leadership--plus economic problems aggravated by inflatiou, the unbridled expansion of competing public higher education, and a decline in the college-age population-have raised new questions...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Speculative Spectaculars (January 1977)

8 million unemployed are between the ages of 18 and 24. For those over 25 the unemployment rate is 6 percent; for those in their teens it is almost 20 percent. Millions of youngsters are not...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Could Conservatives Conserve? (December 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT COULD CONSERVATIVES CONSERVE? The Republicans, in the wake of the recent catastrophe, are maneuvering and manipulating here and elsewhere for all the world like the stegosaurus...

WASHOINGTON REPORT: Policing the Policemen (December 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT POLICING THE POLICEMEN I don't know what Jimmy Carter and his Georgians are doing down there, but I do know what one of them ought to be doing. Some staff members ought to be...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Conflict-With Interest (November 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT CONFLICT-WITH INT It is possible, even reasonable, to have reservations about the net effect of some of the activities of Common Cause, the "citizens' lobby" trying to make...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Great Roll-Back (November 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE GREAT ROLL-BACK In the second of the "debates," as those television shows of the two major party presidential candidates were mysteriously called, President Ford startled the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: In Darkening Africa (October 1976)

WASHNGTON REPORT IN DARKENING AFRICA The headline of the month for October has to have been printed on the first day: "Kissinger, at U.N., Urges Africans To Resist Any Outside...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The F.B.I. and the Servo-Croats (October 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE F.B.I. AMD THE SERVO-CROATS It must have been embarrassing for the FBI when the French resolutely stood up to the Croatian terrorists and hijackers, compelled their surrender...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The American Disease (September 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE AMERICAN DISEASE For two hundred years or so, the English invariably referred to syphilis, gonorrhea, chankers and even crabs as "the French disease." For the same two...

WASHINGTON REPORT: On Pardon and the Dole (September 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT ON PARDON AND THE DOLE In the newsroom where I work there was no particular surprise at Ford's choice of Dole as his running mate: hack calls out to hack across the void, after...

WAHINGTON REPORT: Closing the Bureau Drawer (August 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT CLOSING THE BUREAU DRAWER Can we afford the FBI? It's an interesting question that hasn't quite been asked yet but is certainly overdue. The question has been asked about the...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Deutsche Treatment (August 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE DEUTSCHE TREATMENT In the spring of 1945, as a boy-soldier, I was briefly in the business, along with all my friends, of accepting the surrenders of individuals and groups of...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Working Both Ends of the Street (July 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT WORKING BOTH ENDS OF THE STREET Life went abruptly out of Washington within days of the bicentennial Fourth of July. The Queen went off to New York, thence to Boston and Canada,...

WQASHINGTON REPORT: Barking Dog and Private Agency (July 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT BARKING DOG AND PRIVATE AGONY At this writing there is no peace in Lebanon and there is no prospect of peace. The Syrian incursion, as President Nixon taught us to call...

WASHINGTON REPORT: The Future of Aerial Warfare (June 1976)

WASHINGTON REPORT THE FUTURE OF AERIAL WARFARE The new military aircraft, the B-l, has been regularly in the news recently for all the world as if someone somewhere in either the wonderful world...

WASHINGTON REPORT: Ford Against Ford: Ford Loses (June 1976)

CWASHINGTON REPORT FORD AGAINST FORD: FORD LOSES (The following was written by Frank Getlein, critic-at-large of the Washington Star-News and a previous contributor. He is temporarily taking over...

THE STAGE: (July 1975)

THE STAGE Arena Stage in Washington has mounted the most sensational Soviet play since Gorky. It's called The Ascent of Mount Fuji by Chingiz Aitmatov and Kaltai Mukhamedzhanov, both residents of...

THE THEATER ON TELEVISION: (March 1975)

THE THEATER ON TELEVISION FRANK GETLEIN On the other hand, the state of the theater on television has never been as good as it is right now. This is almost entirely due to Public Television and to...

THE BRITISH ARE HERE (January 1975)

THE BRITISH ARE HERE FRANK GETLEIN WHAT does it mean that the British have taken over the American theater so heavily? That having gone bankrupt in their own, wonderful-while-it-lasted, real...

Downstream from Watergate (November 1974)

of the outside China-watcher. It may simply be that Daubier (and to a far lesser extent Esmein) allow politics to obscure their vision, and it is quite possible that men with a more detached...

THE VATICANIZING OF AMERICAN ART: (September 1974)

T HE FIRST time the Vatican had much to do with contemporary art, it THE VATICANIZING produced the High Renaissance, which, OF AMERICAN...

THE GREAT ANTIQUITIES RIP-OFF: (February 1974)

BOOKS' THE GREAT ANTIQUITIES RIP-OFF The Plundered Putt KARL E. MEYER Atheneum, $12.95 Karl E. Meyer has written the first book of ethics for an area of human activity which has been...

BOOKS (November 1972)

through visions of social sin, of poverty, or Hiroshima or Mylai, but through the sufferings of a little girl who---he and his defenders would have us believe--was suffering not through...

MAD DOGS AND WHO GO OUT IN THE MID-DAY SUN? (April 1971)

MAD DOGS AND WHO GO Or I IN THE MID-DAY SIW Late-comers in the empire business FRANK GETLEIN Empires have always had their troops all over the ter- ritory. They have always believed in...

HONORABLE DISCHARGE FOR GOD? (May 1969)

Honorable Discharge for God? God has been in and out and in again at the Army's character-building course with a rapidity worthy of fourth century church councils defining the indefinable...

ART (December 1967)

WHO KILLED McKINLEY? • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ART It was inevitable that someone would make an honest, effective artistic medium out of those elements in contemporary painting loosely called...

A DREAM OF FAIR CITIES (January 1967)

Beyond redemption? A DREAM OF FAIR CITIES FRANK GETLEIN The most deceptively attractive legacy of the 89th Congress is the widely held feeling that the city is about to be saved. The grounds...

The Inimitable Dali (December 1958)

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...

Gesture toward the Arts (December 1957)

Church where the oftener you laugh the better, be-cause by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice and affirm good fellowship without mawkishness." And in his preface to Immaturity, he...

Art and the Church (June 1957)

Art and the Church "THE CHURCH IN AMERICA IS BLESSED WITH AN UNHEARD-OF PROSPERITY, YET ITS ART IS WHAT WE SEE" FRANK CETLEIN THE SITUATION of art in the Catholic...

Books (March 1957)

BOOKS The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil THE INNOCENT. By Madison Jones. Harcourt, Brace. $4.75. By THOMAS F. CURLEY THIS IS a first novel. If it were sexually sensational enough to attract wide...

Books (January 1957)

BOOKS A Great Dramatist's Approach to Autobiography MIRROR IN MY HOUSE: The Autobiographies of Sean O'Casey. Mac-millan. 2 Vols. $20. By DAVID H. GREENE MOST OF us already know that the Irish excel...

Books (January 1957)

BOOKS Need for Courage, Knowledge and Humility GO IN BEAUTY. By William Eastlake. Harper and Brothers. $3.50. By THOMAS F. CURLEY AFTER READING Mr. East-lake's book once, one is impressed and...

The Movies as Art (September 1956)

FILM HISTORY The Movies As Art FRANK GET/EIN A T THE END of its seventy-fifth anniversary year, Marquette University presented last spring a rare opportunity for the student of the American...

Books (August 1956)

BOOKS Little Nobleman, Great Saint, Continued Paradox ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA. By Leonard Von Matt and Hugo Rahner, S.J. Translated from the German by John Murray, S.J. Regnery. $6.50. By...

Books (August 1956)

Familiar Catholic Stories, Too Seldom Told THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH. By Honor Tracy. Random House. $3.50. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN FOR ALL his rationality, man is also a comic animal and...

Books (June 1956)

BOOKS Extended Comment on French Intellectuals THE MANDARINS. By Simone de Beauvoir. World. $6. By FRANK GETLEIN F OR REASONS that escape me completely, this novel was awarded the Prix...

Books (May 1956)

BOOKS The Citizen as Patriot and Traitor THE LOYAL AND THE DISLOYAL. By Morton Grodzins. University of Chicago Press. $4. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON HOW DO we evaluate those officers of the...

Books (January 1956)

BOOKS Short Stories of New and Established Writers PRIZE STORIES 1956. Selected and edited by Paul Engle and Hansford Martin. Doubleday. $3.95. By WILLIAM J. SMITH T HIS thirty-sixth annual...

Book Reviews (December 1955)

Man's Necessary Encounter with the Other JUSTICE. By Josef Pieper. Translated by Lawrence E. Lynch. Pantheon. $2.75. By LEO R. WARD A NY work by Josef Pieper has distinction of ideas and...

Books (September 1955)

BOOKS A Visit to the Eisenhower Brothers THE GREAT AMERICAN HERITAGE: THE STORY OF THE FIVE EISENHOWER BROTHERS. By Bela Kornitzer. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $5. By FRANK GETLEIN T HERE...

Books (September 1955)

BOOKS A Note on the Prevalence of Anthologies ESSAYS TODAY. Edited by Richard M. Ludwig. Harcourt, Brace. $2.50. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. A LTHOUGH the publishers evidently have some notion...

Book Reviews (July 1955)

A Guidebook to Modern Literature THE MODERN WRITER AND HIS WORLD. By G. S. Fraser. Criterion. $3.95. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. T HE s u, bject of this long, crowded volume is, the...

Books (June 1955)

BOOKS The Bravery and Insight of Georges Bernanos THE LAST ESSAYS OF GEORGES BERNANOS. Translated by Joan and Barry Ulanov. Regnery. $4.50. By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T HE addresses which have...

Books (April 1955)

BOOKS Love and Violence: A Parable of Our Times FAITHFUL ARE THE WOUNDS. By May Sarton. Rinehart. $3. By FRANK GETLEIN I N her new novel, May Sarton moves from the world of purely personal...

Books (March 1955)

BOOKS Seeking a Definition of the National Interest CIVILIZATION AND FOREIGN POLICY. By Louis Halle. Harper. $3.75. By GEORGE JAEGER I T is not a coincidence that so much good writing has...

Book Reviews (February 1955)

BOOKS The Church's Human Element THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. By Paul Simon. Newman. $2.75. By H. A. REINHOLD p AUL Simon, who died as the Provost of the Metropolitan Chapter...

Books (January 1955)

BOOKS Building a Bridge Between Dream and Reality THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EDITH SITWELL. Vanguard. $6.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE D AME Edith Sitwell is not only the dean of living English poets....

Books (October 1954)

BOOKS An Idealist's Vision of Our Contemporary Distress IN THE NAME OF SANITY. By Lewis Mumford. Harcourt, Brace. $3.75. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, Jr. M R. Mumford is filled with what he himself...

The Screen (October 1951)

The Screen HITTING PAYDIRT ~ ATURDAY'S HERO" is being ~idely advertised O ~s the "first honest football picture." I:t isn't q~ite that. The copy quoted presma~bly means that the picture admits...

Keeping Up With "the Others" (October 1951)

Keeping Up With "the Others" By FRANK GETLEIN TWENTY-FIVE years ago, Mark Rampion said to Philip Quarles: "The first step would be to make people live dualistically, in two ...

The Old Roductio ad Obscenum (September 1951)

526 The Old Reductio ad Obscenum By FRANK GETLEIN FOR the nominal neo-Thamist who is more or less professionally concerned with literature—as critic, as teacher, as reviewer for the Catholic...

That Catholic Elite (August 1951)

That Catholic Elite Are the college alumni forever to be treated as great big boys who never grow up? By FRANK GETLEIN EUROPEAN culture is undoubtedly and, one hopes, indelibly, a Catholic...

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