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tioner's name, status, request and summary of enclosed material, the cover carries the official's recommendation for action. Such a procedure is standard for any government where those in high...

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week (February 1964)

Critics' Choices for Catholic Book Week W. E. ARNOLD The "Catholic book" seems to be an indefinable, if dispensable category. I do not know what a "Catholic book" is, but the following is a choice...

Books (December 1963)

The Prototype of the Modern European Goethe: A Psychoanalytic Study. 1775-1786. By K. R. Eissler. 2 volumes. Wayne State University Press. $35. by Karl Stern PSYCHOANALYSIS has its historical roots...

Books (October 1963)

BOOKS An Uncommon Emotional and Imaginative Involvement Culture Against Man. By Jules Henry. Random House. $7.95. by John P. Sisk THE OPENING line of Culture Against Man-"This book is about...

Doing Daddy In (October 1963)

"The Feminine Mystique' Doing Daddy In JEAN HOLZHAUER THE TIMES were ripe for another serious investigation of the status of Woman. Not that such investigations had been lacking, lately: the past...

Signed, "Anxious" (January 1959)

THE ADVICE BUSINESS Signed, "Anxious" by JEAN HOLZHAUER MEN GIVE AWAY nothing so liberally as their advice," La Rochefoucauld once remarked, and it is true that from the beginning of time the...

Books (November 1957)

make life in New Zealand a little more bearable for another American captain (played by Paul Newman). The third sister (Piper Laurie) is a tramp who, as soon as her uncouth husband is in the...

Books (March 1957)

BOOKS Wit, Knowledgeability and Feeling PLAYBOOK: FIVE PLAYS FOR A NEW THEATRE. New Directions. $3.75. By EDWIN KENNEBECK THESE are plays "for a new theatre"-a theatre which evidently means to...

The Nun in Literature (February 1957)

States a generation or two ago, religious conflict raged openly. The real Nun was an arresting figure by virtue of her novelty and others' superstition; her peculiar commitment within a hated...

Books (February 1957)

BOOKS Bright, Brisk Retread of Old, Familiar Faces THE GREAT WORLD AND TIMOTHY COLT. By Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin. $3.75. By WILLIAM DUNLEA YOUNG COLT marries ideal (Law), struggles to...

Communications (January 1957)

COMMUNICATIONS ANGELA THIRKELL Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To the Editors. Oh dear! Miss Dachine Rainer is a Very Clever young woman, and No One could admire her work for The Commonweal more than I;...

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 (August 1956)

BOOKS The Oceanic Sense of James Joyce JOYCE, THE MAN, THE WORK, THE REPUTATION. By Marvin Magalaner and Richard M. Kain. New York University Press. $5. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON IF WE had not...

Books (March 1956)

BOOKS A General's Vision of Greatness THE CALL TO HONOUR: War Memoirs, Vol. 1. By General Charles de Gaulle. Viking. $5. By M. A. FITZS1MONS G I3NERAL de Gaulle has avenged his political...

Critics' Choices for Christmas (December 1955)

Critics' Choices for Christmas ELIZABETH BARTELME THESE are among the books I have most enjoyed during the past year: Marianne Moore's Predilections (Viking, $3.50), a collection of...

Book Reviews (November 1955)

BOOKS The Prize of the Goncourt Novels GERMINIE. By Edmond & Jules de Goncourt. Translated by Jonathan Griffith. Introduction by Martin Turnell. Grave. $3. By WILLIAM DUNLEA G ERMINIE...

Book Reviews (November 1955)

BOOKS Catholics and the Grammar of Dissent TOLERANCE AND THE CATHOLIC. A Symposium. Translated by George Lamb. Sheed and Ward. $3.50. By ERWIN GEISSMAN W E are all concerned today with the...

Book Reviews (August 1955)

Stories from the Spirit of this Age THE COLLECTED STORIES. By Isaac Babel. Edited and translated by Walter Morison. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Criterion. $5. By HENRY POPKIN I SAAC...

Books (April 1955)

BOOKS An Appraisal of a Decade of American Writing THE TWENTIES. By Frederick J. Hoffman. Viking. $6. By HENRY POPKIN A DVANCING from show business to the academy, the revival of the...

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 (October 1954)

BOOKS Examining the Practical Basis for Foreign Affairs THE REALITIES OF FOREIGN POLICY. By George F. Kennan. Princeton. $2.75. By GEORGE W. JAEGER I N his moving address to the Radcliffe...

Books (September 1954)

BOOKS The Search for Shakespeare's Missing Line THE ANNOTATOR. By Alan Keen and Roger Lubbock. Macmillan. :$4. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN BECAUSE it has been hailed by our most pontifical...

Book Reviews (September 1954)

Thomns Hnrdy: New-and Old-Appraisals THOMAS HARDY. By Evelyn Hardy. St. Martin's Press. $5. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN T HE literary reputation of Thomas Hardy has been through some rather rapid...

Books (August 1954)

BOOKS The Monastery As an Enduring Challenge THE MONK AND THE WORLD. By Walter Dirks. Davld McKay. $3,E0. By FRANCIS SWEENEY T HIS is a brilliant essay on monasticism vis-~t-vis the world,...

Books (July 1954)

BOOKS Pleading the Absurdity of Human Existence GUIGNOL'S BAND. By Lou|s-Ferd;nend Cellne. Transleted by Bernard Frechtman and Jack T. Nile. New Directions. $B. By WALLACE FOWLIE G UIGNOL'S...

Books (June 1954)

BOOKS The Last Hope for the Redemption of Africa THE HEART OF AFRICA. By Alexander Campbell. Knopf. $5. By DANIEL M. FRIEDENBERG I T is a frightful thing to be judged by what one claims to...

Book Reviews (June 1954)

Dr. Andrew Carew's Jealous God A SEED UPON THE WIND. By Willlnm Michalfelder. Bobbs-Merrill. $3.50. By ANNE FREMANTLE T HE first time Dr. Carew ever saw a dying patient as a dying human being...

Books (May 1954)

BOOKS Politics as a Threat to the ART UNDER A DICTATORSHIP. By Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt. Oxford. $5.50. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON T HE relation of art and politics in the twentieth century has...

Books (May 1954)

BOOKS The Poet's Eye Glancing from Earth to Heaven POETS AND MYSTICS. By E. I. Watkln. Sheed & Ward. SS. By ERWIN W. GEISSMAN I CAN recall first coming across Watkin's books as an...

Books (April 1954)

BOOKS "The Greatest European Poet of BAUDELAIRE: A S+udy of His Poe+ry. By Martin Turnell. New Directions. $5. By WALLACE FOWLIE T O his earlier studies on the French classical theater...

Holzhauer, R. A.

Holzhauer, Robert

Holzschlag, Phyllis

Homan, Helen Walker

Homer, Joyce

Honey, Mrs. Palmer's

HONEYGOSKY, STEPHEN

Honig, Edwin

Honigmann, John J.

Honner, John

Honness, Elizabeth H.

Hood, Ann