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TERROR IN VIENNA
(November 1973)
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TERROR IN VIENNA GEORGE N. SHUSTER An eyewitness report on the Nazi coup in Austria April 15, 1938 E HAVE passed through a week of harrowing experiences, still so vivid in the memory that I...
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BOOKS
(October 1972)
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BOOKS The England that the tourists do not know City Close-I/p JEREMY SEABROOK Bobbs-Merrill, $7.95 WILLIAM LAIVOIETTE Tourists don't visit Blackburn. It has no cathedral or stately homes or...
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COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE
(November 1969)
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COMMONWEAL'S FUTURE How 3 should the magazine see itself and its • future role? Former editors reply. who have been around...
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American Retrospect
(February 1959)
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The Amen to his country voiced by Father John LaFarge American Retrospect by GEORGE N. SHUSTER "I AM NOT calling for an act of contrition . . . only for an examination of the liberal con-...
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Books
(June 1955)
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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...
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Germany Today
(November 1954)
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EUROPEAN ENIGMA Germany Today AN ANALYSIS OF THE TONE AND TEMPER OF A GERMANY WHICH ONCE AGAIN IS BUILDING A MILITARY FORCE. GEORGE N. SHUSTER T HE citizen of West Germany is bewildered...
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Academic Freedom
(April 1953)
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Academic Freedom "IT WILL ENDURE ONLY AS LONG AS THOSE WHO PROFESS TO HAVE A RIGHT TO IT STAND READY TO PAY FOR IT ANY PRICE WHICH MAY BE EXACTED." GEORGE N. SHUSTER A discussion of academic...
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The Cardinal of Munich
(September 1952)
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The Cardinal of Munich AT HIS DEATH CARDINAL PAULHABER'S PEOPLE KNEW THAT "IT WAS TIME TO STOP AND THINK A LITTLE ABOUT HOLINESS" GEORGE N. SHUSTER THESE were the two best ways to see the...
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The Virtuous Temptation
(March 1952)
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The Virtuous Temptation "If our side could only tell the other side what to do does not this idea haunt a free society'." By GEORGE N. SHUSTER s OON ~i:t wilrl be .two. h.und.r.ed years...
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Over the Horizon
(October 1949)
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Otter the Horizon Unable to see ahead, man goes from uncertainty to un- certainty-which may be his -weakness or his...
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Education in Wisdom
(April 1949)
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36 THE COMMONWEAL set.up is the lack of a constructive and "loyal" opposition. In fact, monopoly of the opposition, in Parliament and in the country itself, is in the hands of the Communists. ~...
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BOOKS The Case for DeGaulle-Poets at Work-The Making of an Insurgent-Civil-Military Relationships in American Life-The Good Pagan's Failure-Divorce Won't Help-The Berkshires - Westward Ha! - Fielding's New Travel Guide to Europe-Our Living Forests-The Disruption of American Democracy-Pilgrim's Inn
(July 1948)
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Books The Case For De Gaulle. A Dialogue Between Andre Malraux and James Burnham. Random House. $1.50. A DIALOGUE between the author of "Man's Fate" and "Days of Wrath" and the author of "The...
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THE LITTLE MAN WHO RAN NEW YORK
(November 1947)
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The Little Man Who Ran New York GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE FIRST time I met Mr. La Guardia was on the occasion of a brief visit subsequent to my signing on the Board of Higher Education's dotted...
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THE HANGINGS AT NUREMBERG
(November 1946)
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The Hangings at Nuremberg The truth was not allowed to emerge George N. Shuster DURING THE SUMMER of 1933, we saw them getting ready at Nuremberg for a meeting of the Party. Trees had been cut...
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THE BARREN TREE
(May 1946)
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May x7, x946 THE COM national monument, the other a national park. We have become proud of them and we find a charm in them which we never would have discovered had he not written as he did...
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MR. ROOSEVELT
(April 1945)
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Mr. Roosevelt "A reason why men and generations are remembered" George N. Shuster YOU will remember, perhaps, Grey's saying in 1914 that the lights were going out over all Europe, and that it...
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Everybody's Political What's What?-The Iliad of Homer-The Pastoral Care of Souls-China's Wartime Politics-Chedworth-Built in USA-The Building of Jalna-The Great Union
(December 1944)
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December 1, 1944 T HE COMMONWEAL 177 Books of the Week Everybody's Political What's Whatf Bernard Shaw. Dodd. $3.00. MR. SHAW, who had written many prefaces, now offers what he no...
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THOSE WHO HAVE NOT FALLEN
(November 1944)
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Those Who Have Not Fallen George N. Shuster THKSIi twenty years Till:. Commonwkai, has gone to press every seventh day. Somebody could always reach into the manuscript drawer and come up...
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GREEK CULTURE
(March 1944)
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Greek Culture GEORGE N. SHUSTER IT MAY seem paradoxical to be told that, in this year of carnage, a book concerned with the great figures of the pre-Aristotelian period in Greek cultural history...
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MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK A Certain Measure-Crusade for Pan-Europe -The Duke-All Year Round-Malta Epic
(December 1943)
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More Books of the Week
A Certain Measure. Ellen Glasgow. Harcourt. $3.50. TWELVE of these thirteen essays first appeared as prefaces in the "Virginia Edition" of the works of Ellen Glasgow. Since...
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THE GREEK TRADITION
(September 1943)
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The Greek Tradition By George N. Sinister PERHAPS it was Mussolini who reminded me of my Greek. At least it may have been the coming of war to the Mediterranean, in a form more horrible and...
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The World After
(July 1943)
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The World After By George N. Shuster I' PROPOSE to take for my text a sentence I from Horace Walpole's epistle to Voltaire, written after the two had debated the merits of Shakespeare: "The...
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FAITH AND SORROW
(December 1942)
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Faith and Sorrow Where is there sorrow like unto My...
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ANSWER TO SENATOR NYE
(October 1941)
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Answer to Senator Nye A radio address by the President of Hunter College By George N. Shuster ON BEHALF of Loyal Americans of German Descent, I wish to answer the address of Senator Gerald P. Nye...
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WHILST WE HAVE TIME
(January 1941)
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Whilst We Have Time A few reflections on the peril in which we find ourselves. By George N. Shuster I HAVE THOUGHT it-might do no harm to set down a few reflections on the peril in which we find...
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PRELUDE TO WORLD REVOLUTION
(November 1939)
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THE WAR which is now in progress is, of course, an episode in the history of contemporary revolution. What has happened in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland is to be accounted for primarily on...
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THE REVOLUTION OF NIHILISM
(May 1939)
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The Revolution of Nihilism Which is the greater enemymHitler or Stalin? The history behind them brings them close enough together for analysis. By George S OME RECENT platform adventures...
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THE POPE OF THE PEOPLE
(February 1939)
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483 The Pope of the People By GEORGE N. SHUSTER AS I STOOD on the steps of St. Peter's last year, the ancient Roman street leading up to the basilica was being torn down and widened....
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THE JEW AND TWO REVOLUTIONS
(December 1938)
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The Jew and Two Revolutions By GEORGE N. SHUSTER IN RADIO addresses and more particularly in stood for. Nevertheless, in the spring of 1917, the columns of Social Justice, Father...
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THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
(December 1938)
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The Man without a Country By GEORGE N. SHUSTER A MAN went from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among robbers. He was aided by a stranger and the story of his rescue has written itself so...
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IS THIS A DIFFERENT WORLD?
(November 1938)
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[89] Is This a Different World? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE LETTERS on the sign painted at Munich are a little clearer now, and they read: an immediate future dominated by new imperialistic...
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Mr.Chamberlain's Dove
(October 1938)
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Mr. Chamberlain's Dove By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T HE ROMANS had their Fabius surnamed Cunctator, reputed to have vanquished Hannibal by the simple expedient of dodging a fight. Have the British...
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READING AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS
(October 1938)
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63o THE COMMONWEAL October 14, 1938 the basis of the revision. For instance, Saint Jerome's third and last translation of the Psalms, direct from the Hebrew, though superior to the other texts, was...
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TERROR IN VIENNA
(April 1938)
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April 15, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 679 Austria was a huge trap. By eight in the morning every resident American in the city had a swarm of visitors asking the impossible. They begged for aid in cajoling...
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Deep in Austria
(March 1937)
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March 11, 1938 The Commonweal 539 DEEP IN AUSTRIA 1 By GEORGE N. SHUSTER W E HAVE been living through some rather absorbing days. Though we tried to keep our minds on the prevailing carnival...
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Twilight in the Third Reich
(February 1938)
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February 4, 1938 The Commonweal 397 TWILIGHT IN THE THIRD REICH By GEORGE N. SHUSTER SOME years ago, when the first real war scare was in progress, I expressed the view that Europe was not likely...
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Three Encyclicals
(November 1937)
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November 12, 1937 The Commonweal 63 the assembled fleets: Lenin; Stalin; USSR; and the Red Star. One of the airships was called Karl Marx. The largest, of course, boasted the title, Stalin. The...
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Masaryk
(October 1937)
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MASARYK By GEORGE N. SHUSTER WE HAVE just been the witnesses of an extraordinary event. A million persons gathered from near and far to honor the memory of Thomas Masaryk, first President...
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Notes of a Traveler
(September 1937)
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NOTES OF A TRAVELER By GEORGE N. SHUSTER ABOVE the waters of the Seine, Russian and German exposition towers stand like two giants shaking fists at each other. Is this a symbolic...
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Books
(June 1937)
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Books A Defeated World A Cardinal of the Medici, Being the Memoirs of the Nameless Mother of the Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, by Mrs. Hicks Beach. New York: The Macmillan Company; Cambridge,...
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Books
(May 1937)
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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...
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Books
(May 1937)
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Books If Rip Van Winkle Awoke Middletown in Transition, by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd. New York: liar court, Brace and Company. $2.OO. THIS is a social analysis of a small inland...
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Some Further Reflections
(April 1937)
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SOME FURTHER REFLECTIONS By GEORGE N. SHUSTER MY GOOD friend Father Talbot has wasted an article on me in America for April 10, and what he wrote he wrote like a gentleman. It seems expedient to...
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Can the Deaf Hear?
(April 1937)
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CAN THE DEAF HEAR? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER "THAT deafness is an affliction everybody knows. But A surprisingly little attention has been paid to curing it (or preventing it, which is much the same...
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Patmore: A Revaluation
(October 1936)
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604 PATMORE: A REVALUATION By GEORGE N. SHUSTER WHATEVER may happen to poetry, it will always remain an art and, indeed, the most illustrious of the arts. This sounds like a very trite remark,...
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Books
(October 1936)
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591 Books Males and Females The Golden Heart, by Richard Strachey. New York: Harcourt, Bruce and Company. $2.OO. Woman Alive, by Susan Ertz. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company....
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European Quandaries
(October 1936)
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EUROPEAN QUANDARIES By GEORGE N. SHUSTER NEVER since the war have news dispatches from Europe been so difficult to understand of so tinged with propaganda. Relatively few in any...
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Books
(September 1936)
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489 Hooks A Resume The Cambridge Medieval History. New York: The Macmillan Company. Nine volumes. $90.00. PLANNED many years ago and since brought to completion under a group of devoted...
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Books
(September 1936)
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September 11, 1936 The Commonweal 469 Books Early Work of a Genius Gunnar's Daughter, by Sigrid Undset. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $2.00. ONLY now published for the first time in...
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G. K. Chesterton
(July 1936)
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319 G. K. CHESTERTON Bv GEORGE N. SHUSTER HE was first of all a great, a good, a singularly unworldly man. It is hard to believe there could be such a one, until after he is gone....
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Books
(July 1936)
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289 Books "The Holy Duke" The Greatest of the Borgias, by Margaret Yeo. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company. $2.50. FRANCISCO, a ragged priest in a travel-stained black habit, and...
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Books
(June 1936)
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247 Books Misty Platonism Sparkenbroke, by Charles Morgan. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.75. PLATONISM and the novel are two things toward which the English mind has showed itself...
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Mass in the Air
(June 1936)
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148 MASS IN THE AIR By GEORGE N. SHUSTER IN THE name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost! Thus, in the traditional language of the ages, began the first Mass ever said on any...
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Books
(May 1936)
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107 Books Thomas More the Martyr The King's Good Servant, by Olive B. White. Neu York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. PROFESSORS as novelists are having an enviable year Santayana's story,...
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Dan Gilbert and the Colleges
(May 1936)
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63 DAN GILBERT AND THE COLLEGES By GEORGE N. SHUSTER IN A WORLD chronically imperfect, many things are wrong. Some of them are to be found in colleges and universities. The sole point...
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Is It Zero Hour?
(April 1936)
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April io, 1936 The Commonweal 649 IS IT ZERO HOUR? By GEORGE N....
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Books
(March 1936)
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March 13, 1936 7~e Commonweal 55 ...
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Books
(January 1936)
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January 3, 1936 The Commonweal 27 Books B. ALTMAN &CO. ...
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Books
(December 1935)
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December 13, 1935 The Commonweal 19 ,.oaks U.ALTMMiAN CO. A Family...
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Books
(November 1935)
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November 29, 1935 The Commonweal 13 Books B. ALTMAN...
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Books
(November 1935)
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November 22, I935 The Commonweal Io7 oo/ s An Ironical Tract It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. M IGUEL COUVARUBBIAS has done a...
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Gen. Sherrill and the Olympics
(November 1935)
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40 The Commonweal November 8, 1935 GEN. SHERRILL AND THE OLYMPICS By GEORGE N....
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Books
(October 1935)
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Books The Story of Worship An Outline of Religion, by E. R. Appleton; with a Foreword by the Reverend S. Parkes Cadman, D. D. New York: H. C. Kinsey and Company. $5.00. A History of Religion,...
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Books
(July 1935)
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Books 10 9E A Protestant View Chaos in Mexico, by Charles S. Macfarland. New York.' Harfer and Brothers. $2.OO. THIS study of the Mexican religious conflict, made by the general secretary...
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Saint Thomas More
(June 1935)
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June 28, 1935 The Commonweal 233 SAINT THOMAS MORE By GEORGE N. SHUSTER 7*v JAM SURE that his canonization must astonish Thomas More not a little, even after all these years of...
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Books
(June 1935)
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Books Recent Verse FEW COMMONWEAL poets have a steadier, more interested following than Robert P. Tristram Coffin, whose new volume, "Strange Holiness," contains many lyrics which made their...
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Books
(May 1935)
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The Commonweal May 10, 1935 Books Gold and Dross Dante Vivo, by Giovanni Papini. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. ONE FEELS compelled to read a life of Dante by Giovanni Papini,...
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What Will Europe Do?
(April 1935)
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April 26, I935 The Commo.wed 725 defender of property and the established order. If there is a crystallization of conservative sentiment behind him, those who vote for his reelection will...
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Books
(April 1935)
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April 12, 1935 T/ e Commonweal 685 The Ultimate Antagonist Anti-Christ, by Joseph Roth. New York: The Viking Press. $2.25. o CTOBER, 1929, was the rock that wrecked more than a thousand...
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Books
(March 1935)
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March 2 9, 193 5 TJ~~ Commonwca[ . . . . . . . . . . . . 629 Recent Essays M RS. GEROULD has recently pleaded for a revival of the personal essay. Perhaps it would be desirable. But essays in...
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Books
(March 1935)
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March z2, I935 T/ e Commonwed 6oi Religious Publications M ONSIGNOR FULTON J. SHEEN in a characteristic foreword calls this book "The Making of the Pulpit Orator," by Reverend John A....
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Books
(January 1935)
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January 18, 1 9 3 5 The Commonweal 349 Recent Verse Amaranth, by Edwin Arlington Robinson. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.oo. Frontiers: American Itistorical Ballads and Legends, by Daniel...
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Books
(January 1935)
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January I~, I93 5 The Common oed 32t Books on Public Affairs The Challenge to Liberty, by Herbert Hoover. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.75. lt's Up to Us, by Joseph P. l/Karburg. New...
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Aspects of Authority
(December 1934)
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December 28, I934 The Commonwea[ 253 career of the late Mr. Nelson would probably have been impossible if, during the piping years of prohibition, we had not all been amused when gangsters shot...
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Books
(December 1934)
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210 The Commonweal December 14, 1934 c V'E X T EEK The Christmas number of THE COMMONWEAL has its own special Christmas adornment in an article by G. K. Chesterton, CHRISTMAS AND THE...
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Books
(November 1934)
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November I6, I934 T/ze Comraonwed 97 For Younger Readers C HILDREN'S book week, here once again, deluges this reviewer with copies of tomes big and little which it is a pleasure to look at and...
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After the Revolution
(November 1934)
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November 2, I934 The Commo wea! I3 "wise" they have made the Russian masses, have not made them wealthy. Fascists and Nazi have succeeded better in regimenting thought than in getting rid of...
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The Crusading Generation
(July 1934)
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THE CRUSADING GENERATION By GEORGE N. SHUSTER MR. VAN WYCK BROOKS has just re-published, in one volume, three short books which years ago kept the eyes of everyone who thought himself "an...
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Books
(July 1934)
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BOOKS Capuchins in America A Romance of Lady Poverty, by Rev. Celestine N. Bittle, O. M. Cap. Milwakuee: The Bruce Publishing Company. $4.50. SELDOM if ever has a story been told about the...
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Books
(July 1934)
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BOOKS Our Saviour The Eternal Galilean, by Fulton J. Sheen. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. $2.OO. "THE ETERNAL GALILEAN" gives a vivid and colorful portrayal of the life of Christ on earth...
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Books
(May 1934)
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BOOKS Extra! The Later Wordsworth, by Edith C. Batho. New York: The Macmillan Company. $6.00. IF A FINER and more badly needed literary study has appeared during the past year than Miss Batho's...
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Is Liberty a Lost Cause?
(May 1934)
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IS LIBERTY A LOST CAUSE? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER LIBERTY is the only thing for which America has found great symbolistic utterance. It is practically also the only thing most of us remember from our...
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The House of Herder
(April 1934)
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712 THE HOUSE OF HERDER By GEORGE N. SHUSTER I HAVE just been looking through a very remarkable book—one of those rare volumes the mere existence of which proves that idealistic...
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Shall We Ban Child Labor?
(April 1934)
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623 SHALL WE BAN CHILD LABOR? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER Current discussion of child labor is interesting not merely because of the social problem involved but also by reason of the theory of...
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Testimony-World Events-Saint Patrick's People-For Children-"Gentle Hearts"
(April 1934)
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638 BOOKS Testimony Is Christianity True"? A Discussion betiveen C. E. M. Joad and Arnold Lunn. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. $2.50. THE journey from Jerusalem to Damascus first...
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526 BOOKS Faith and Mentality New Psychology and Old Religion, by Edward F. Murphy, S.S.J.J Ph.D. New York: Benzinger Brothers. $2.50. THE BEHAVIORISTIC school of psychology, having...
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Father Hudson
(February 1934)
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430 FATHER HUDSON By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE REVEREND DANIEL E. HUDSON, of the Congregation of the Holy Cross, died without any great tribute of publicity. This is exactly the quiet he would...
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Catholics in Nazi Germany
(January 1934)
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343 CATHOLICS IN NAZI GERMANY By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE STRUGGLE which has been going on in Germany during more than nine months between the Nazi government and the Catholic group may...
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Books
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303 BOOKS The New Deal Roosevelt and His America, by Bernard Fay. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.75. The Roosevelt Revolution: First Phase, by Ernest K. Lindley. New York: The Viking...
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Books
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274 BOOKS Books for Youngsters SANTA CLAUS, if he has had a mind to, can have brought every tiny tot an interesting new book or two. Few seasons have seen more picture-and-text literature for...
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Toward Rome?
(December 1933)
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231 TOWARD ROME? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE GREATEST event of these days and months in Germany is not the establishment of the Hitler regime but the struggle—perhaps the death-struggle—inside...
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Days at Beuron
(November 1933)
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November to, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 43 grandfather, "Uncle Henry" Wallace, first editor of Wallace's Farmer, was a Presbyterian minister, a member of Theodore Roosevelt's Country Life Commission, and...
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Max Rheinhardt's "Faust"
(October 1933)
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October 6, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 529 MAX RHEINHARDT'S "FAUST" By GEORGE N....
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490 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1933 for entries into braille classes this fall or to help the Commodore Card...
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Germany under the Concordat
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420 THE COMMONWEAL September r, 1933 GERMANY UNDER THE CONCORDAT By GEORGE...
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330 THE COMMONWEAL July 28, 1933 did not come to America until much later, either in 1720 or...
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248 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1933 At any...
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June 16, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL '9 BOOKS "B. ALTMAN &...
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June 9, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 16 BOOKS Chinese...
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THE COMMONWEAL May 12, 1933 Stephen had loved Nina, that she was, in fact, his...
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666 THE COMMONWEAL April 12, 1933 BOOKS Engineers as a Vested Interest The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen. New York: Viking Press. $i.$O. THE MODERN industrial system,...
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BOOKS Ciceronian Days The Roman Way, by Edith Hamilton. New York: W. W. Norton Company. $3.00. TN "A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN" Virginia Woolf asks -¦- herself the question, "whether there are two...
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Facsimiles for Everybody
(March 1933)
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494 THE COMMONWEAL March r, 1933 FACSIMILES FOR EVERYBODY By GEORGE N. SHUSTER INTEREST in first editions and rare books is, as may have been surmised, not based entirely on the acquisitive...
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THE COMMONWEAL February 8, 1933 BOOKS Intuitive Criticism Sketches in Criticism, by Van Wyck Brooks. New York: E. P. Button and Company. $3.50. O CAN endure to Tead old Teviews?" asked...
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How Shall Religion Be Taught?
(January 1933)
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HOW SHALL RELIGION BE TAUGHT? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THERE is a saying abroad in the land which one sincerely hopes is not true: "Religion is the most poorly taught of all subjects." I shall...
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(December 1932)
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BOOKS Analysis of Intolerance The Shadow of the Pope, by Michael Williams. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company. $3.00. FOUR years ago, for the first time in American history,...
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BOOKS Essays in Criticism Dear Prue's Husband and Other People, by Joseph J. Reilly. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. INCREASING as it goes, is a saying concomitant to varied lines of...
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io6 THE COMMONWEAL November 23, 1932 BOOKS The Youngster's Library ONCE a year, in this place, we take a look at the books written for children. This time the supply is a trifle smaller...
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(November 1932)
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BOOKS Geneva at First Hand The Society of Nations, Its Organization and Constitutional Development, by Felix Morley. Washington, D. C: Brookings Institution. $3.50. /TPHE BROOKINGS...
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Mr. Eliot Returns
(October 1932)
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October 19, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 581 MR. ELIOT RETURNS By GEORGE HOSE of us who are antiquated enough to have T Progressed from irregular verbs to Demosthenes and Juvenal in the belief that so...
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540 THE COMMONWEAL Octobers, x93z T EEK DISTRIBUTISM AGAIN, by G. K. Chesterton, prods the problem of problems with us all on the terrestrial globe at present, the strange paradox, not of Mr....
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312 THE COMMONWEAL July 20, 1932 Gospel being according to Saint Matthew, chapter vii, the sermon was on the keys to heaven, a hackneyed subject surely and treated in the usual mediocre way. To...
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272 THE COMMONWEAL July 6, 1932 BOOKS The Socialist Prophet As I See It, by Norman Thomas. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.00. T HIS volume presents a collection of essays rather than...
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June 22, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL ~zi 9 BOOKS The Inequality Test The Spirit o[ World Politics, by William Ernest Hocking. New York: The Macmillan Company. $5.oo. I T IS refreshing to find a...
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BOOKS The Immortal Jester The J/Forks of Francis Rabelais, by Albert Jay Nock and Catherine Rose Wilson. New York: Harcourt Brace and Com- pany. $I5.00. p ROFESSOR ALBERT JAY NOCK and Miss...
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Here and There in Modern Thought
(June 1932)
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I56 THE COMMONWEAL June 8, I932 came from their homes twenty-five miles every day and did not miss morning Mass once in a month. This fall practically the whole parish has been resolved into...
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June I, I932 THE COMMONWEAL 133 i RECOGNIZE THE RUSSIAN DANGER Harbin, Manchuria. T O the Editor: I just finished reading your splendid editorial, "Recognize the Russian Danger." You and...
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50 THE COMMONWEAL May xI, 1932 proach quite resolutely the old Greek idea of a relentless fate that pursues bad deeds to the point of ultimate retribution. One gathered, at least, that he...
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2 2 i THE C O M M O N W E A L 1 u . i May 4, 1932 behind the authority of an ample reputation as a director. But this does not alter the fact that he writes wholly without a sense of the...
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(April 1932)
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722 BOOKS Mr. Baker's Wilson Life and Letters of Woodrow Wilson, by Ray Stannard Baker. New York: Doubleday, Dor an and Company, Incorporated. Volumes III and IV, $10.00. A MORE...
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BOOKS St. Patrick's Country And So Began the Irish Nation, by Seamus MacCall. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5-00. SPECIAL circumstances, too well known to need recounting, breed in...
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FBOOKS De Profundis New Roads to Prosperity, by Paul Mazur. New York: The Viking Press. $2.00. IN THE words of the author, this little volume "treats of the causes of the failure of American...
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BOOKS On the Eastern Front The Unknown War, by the Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5.00. IN DISCUSSING the skilful movements of the German East...
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The Legacy of Plato
(January 1932)
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January 13, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 289 THE LEGACY OF PLATO By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE AGE warns each of us against the Sophists. To...
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Places and Persons
(January 1932)
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Places and Persons MR. HENRY HEIDE: IN MEMORIAM By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE ART of giving requires a great generosity and cultivation of soul. From the vantage-point of his knowledge of human...
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BOOKS Doctrine for Today Questions of the Day, by John A. Ryan. Boston: StratfordCompany. $3.00. THIS is a vigorous book. It deals with vital questions of the day in unmistakable terms. The...
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November 18, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 77 BOOKS What Shall the Nursery Read? SO GREAT is the demand for reading-matter to give young people that obliging bookmakers have offered any number of...
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22 THE COMMONWEAL November 4, 1931 BOOKS Days of Long Ago Everyman Remembers, by Ernest Rhys. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. $4.00. Companions on the Trail, by Hamlin...
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556 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 the rest, the play has three or four well-constructed scenes and moments when theatrical illusion is well maintained, due to the admirable enthusiasm of many of...
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September 16, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 471 BOOKS Low I. Q.'s Social Control of the Mentally Defective, by Stanley Powell Davies. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. $3.00. THE PURPOSE of the author...
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September 9, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 447 SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD SUFFERN, NEW YORK Among the Ramapo Hills Boarding—Day School for Girls Approved by the University of the State of New...
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A Novelist in Retrospect
(September 1931)
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418 THE COMMONWEAL September 2, 1931 A NOVELIST IN RETROSPECT By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T WENTY-FIVE years ago, German fiction was nothing to boast of. It had been unable to renounce the charms of...
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Where Is the Truth?
(July 1931)
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July 22, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 301 WHERE IS THE TRUTH? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER A SURVEY of the status and prospects of Catholic Evidence work in the United States, by Bishop Edwin V. O'Hara, has now...
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Beside Lake Champlain
(June 1931)
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June 24, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 211 say what M. France claimed to have found there or mean the opposite, but which all help to strip the career of Jeanne d'Arc of every miraculous characteristic. It...
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What Can We Do?
(June 1931)
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June 17, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 175 WHAT CAN WE DO? By GEORGE N. SHUSTER M R. HILAIRE BELLOC'S letter in last week'sCOMMon-WEAL, suggesting that people who favor revision of the Versailles Treaty...
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134 THE COMMONWEAL June 3, 1931 BOOKS Nation and World International Community and the Right of War, by Luigi Sturzo. New York: Richard R. Smith, Incorporated. $3.00 THE AUTHOR, a Catholic...
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A Talk with Chancellor Bruening
(April 1931)
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THE ADVENTURES of the German republic during the past six months definitely constitute one of the most impressive of political narratives. One privileged to occupy a ringside seat—which...
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Austria as One Finds It
(March 1931)
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I SUBMIT that an American's impressions of Austria will have at least a certain piquancy. They may be erroneous in detail, or unaware of grave truths, but they can hardly avoid being enlivened...
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Minerals and Society World Minerals and World Politics, by C. K. Leith. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill Book Company. $2.00. IT IS only very recently that the nations of the world...
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Munich: Anno Domini 1931
(March 1931)
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fFe never cease to assert our faith, though sometimes the voice grows weary and feeble; then, when we have a realist worthy of the name who can see a people in the round, who can give not the one...
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Ravenna Interlude
(February 1931)
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I SHALL admit that going to Ravenna was almost an act of despair. There was a fog in Milan to begin with—a dreadful, paste-like fog which if it had flung itself over London would be remembered...
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Geneva Once More
(January 1931)
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IN MUNICH bands are (as I write) playing Christmas music in the streets. A forest of evergreen tinged with snow flurries invites purchasers along the street which a fastidious king once built...
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Europe's Windiest Corner
(December 1930)
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DURING the past month Marshal Pilsudski decided to endow the Parhament of his country with a majority favorable unto himself. The result was not everything he may have hoped for,...
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Berlin
(December 1930)
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BERLIN is nothing more or less than America in the heart of old Germany. By this I mean two things. First, the vast metropolitan areas which reach from Potsdam-of-the-Hohenzollerns to the river...
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War Clouds over Europe
(December 1930)
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BY THE time this can have been printed, the extent of Geneva's ability to promote disarmament will be rather clear. In all probability the most that can be hoped for this year is more...
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II Duce's Handkerchief
(December 1930)
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WHEN the queen in the play was displeased, she dropped her handkerchief. Signer Mussolini, too, has just dropped his. The extraordinary •effect of his recent address on the subject of...
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Sunrise in the West
(November 1930)
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THE GERMAN, who normally breathed a sigh of relief when the Bruening government managed to organize a supporting coalition, realizes that the triumph may be short-lived. To a far greater extent...
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Germany at Low Tide
(November 1930)
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EVEN yet Germany does not look poor. A nation, the political affairs of which are in a state of literally indescribable chaos, nevertheless manages to keep its ageing buildings in decent repair,...
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Among the Fall Books
(October 1930)
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October 15, 1930 THE COMMONWEAL 611 AMONG THE FALL BOOKS Papal Infallibility The Vatican Council: The Story Told from Inside in Bishop Vllathorne's Letters, by Dom Cuthbert Butler,...
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(September 1930)
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BOOKS A Russian Woman Twice Born in Russia, by Natalia Petrova; translated by Baroness Mary Budberg. New York: William Morrow and Company. $2.00. IN HER introduction to the present modestly...
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(August 1930)
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BOOKS Individuals The Adams Family, by James Truslow Adams. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $4.00. f I "* HERE will be few thoughtful men able to come away A from this unusually able study...
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(July 1930)
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BOOKS Denouncing Dr. Watson Behaviorism: A Battle Line; edited by William Peter King. Nashville: The Cokesbury Press. $2.25. ''I"* HIS book is a symposium to which seventeen writers * have...
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Places and Persons
(May 1930)
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74 THE COMMONWEAL May 21, 1930 Places and Persons THE RESURRECTION OF SALZBURG By GEORGE N. SHUSTER SALZBURG is for me like Vallombrosa. It is true that I have seen neither city. But the...
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(May 1930)
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BOOKS Emily Dickinson Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson; edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. Emily Dickinson, by Joseph Pollitt. New York: Harper...
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The Several Humanists
(April 1930)
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THE SEVERAL HUMANISTS By GEORGE N. SHUSTER "I CAN'T explain myself because I'm not myself, you see," Alice confided to the Caterpillar. That is an admission which ought to be memorized by the...
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The Testament of Beauty
(February 1930)
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THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY By GEORGE N. SHUSTER WHO can forget, if he have read them, the lines in the Apologia which sum up Newman's remembrance of Oxford: "There used to be much snap-dragon growing...
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(February 1930)
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BOOKS Earlier New York New York in the American Revolution, by Wilbur C. Abbott; illustrations selected by Victor H. Paltsits. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $3.50. A NOTABLE essayist and...
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(January 1930)
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BOOKS Count Positive America Set Free, by Count Hermann Keyserling. New York: Harper and Brothers. $5.00. TO MOST of us it would seem a strange experience to feel as cocksure of anything as Count...
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(December 1929)
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BOOKS Speaking for Labor J. Ramsay MacDonald, by H. Hessell Tiltman. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. $5.00. IT WAS, we take it, in order to catch a market that this interim biography of...
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Below the Book
(November 1929)
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BELOW THE BOOK By GEORGE N. SHUSTER EVEN Mephisto, pledged to a series of resounding nays, would hardly question the immediacy with which social phenomena and literature interlock. He might very...
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(October 1929)
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October 3 ~, I929 THE COMMONWEAL 675 a false impression that nothing is being done. It is unfortunately true that, notwithstanding the use of all safety devices known today, and the...
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(October 1929)
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October 9, 1929 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 593 BOOKS Darkness Following Lincoln The Tragic Era, by Claude G. Bowers. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. F THE great crises in...
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(September 1929)
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THE COMMONWEAL September I I, I929 ! BOOKS The Clever Hymenoptera Instinct and Intelliyence, by R. 1/[7. G. Hzngston. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. HIS book with the...
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(August 1929)
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364 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, I9z9 and men of his stamp might go far toward reducing the num- ber of bootleggers. This was received with a contemptuous snort and the illuminating statement...
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(July 1929)
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298 THE COMMONWEAL July 17, 1929 BOOKS The Jew In Our Midst Christian and Jew: A Symposium for Better Understanding, edited by Isaac Landman. New York: Horace Liveright. $3.00. AS INDICATED...
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(June 1929)
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CONSTRUCTIVE THEME WRITING by MARY ELLEN CHASE,Smith College The book is "the result of a conviction that the study and appreciation of good writing is more fruitful and infinitely more...
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Letters and Censorship
(June 1929)
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By GEORGE N. SHUSTER F EAR lest the literary art prove a source of moral decay is as old as_ civilized mankind. The...
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134 THE COMMONWEAL June 5, 1929 BOOKS Some Intimations of Immortality Darkened Rooms, by Philip Gibbs. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. The Last September, by Elizabeth...
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(May 1929)
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22 THE COMMONWEAL May 8, 1929 BOOKS The Queen of Lisieux Sainte Therese of Lisieux, by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus; translated by Helen Younger Chase, with an introduction by Michael...
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April 24, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 723 resource is her infallible sense of timing lines. An...
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The High Lights of Humanism
(April 1929)
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674 THE COMMONWEAL April 17, 1929 THE HIGH LIGHTS OF HUMANISM By...
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Captains of the Modern Soul
(March 1929)
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March 2o, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 563 CAPTAINS OF THE MODERN SOUL By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T HIS article proposes to be, quite specifically, in praise of the Benedictine ideal. It can be...
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518 THE COMMONWEAL March 6, 1929 BOOKS From Our National Family Album Forgotten Ladies, by Richardson Wright. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Gompany. $5.oo. I F THE title of Mr. Wright's new...
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The Inward Darkness
(February 1929)
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February z 7, i929 THE COMMONWEAL 483 nineteenth-century rival of Plantin and Estienne--the young Abb6 Migne, who arrived in Paris toward the end of 1833 with hardly a cent in his pocket, but...
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376 THE COMMONWEAL January 30, 1929 THE...
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Sigrid Undset and the Nobel Prize
(December 1928)
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December z6, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 227 tially American in culture. And biologically the Ameri- might makes right in the...
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(December 1928)
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I7o THE COMMONWEAL December I2, I928 Conyai T HERE is one scene of magnificent "theatre" in the second act of this play by Harry Hervey and Carleton Hildreth; there are also many scenes of...
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76 THE COMMONWEAL November 21, 192S to marry his curious son, and plans to murder slowly, after...
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Mr. Beveridge's Lincoln
(October 1928)
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658 THE COMMONWEAL October 31, 1928 MR. BEVERIDGE'S LINCOLN By GEORGE N. SHUSTER 1IKE thousands of other boys "nursed on the bosom of the Middle-West"—as a favorite Wisconsin "* orator of...
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October 17, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 607 BOOKS India at First Hand John Marshall in India, by Shafaat Ahmad Khan. New York: The Oxford University Press. $7.00. THIS volume contains two of...
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(September 1928)
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BOOKS Toward Siberia Embattled Borders, by E. Alexander Powell. New York: The Century Company. $3.50. Incredible Siberia, by Junius B. Wood. New York: The Dial Press. $4.00. PRESENT...
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(September 1928)
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BOOKS The Russian Debacle The Fall of the Russian Empire, by Edmund A. Walsh. New York: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. FATHER WALSH has written a book which is well worth reading. At the...
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(July 1928)
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3*4 THE COMMONWEAL July 25, 1928 BOOKS Hard-Boiled Yeggs The Gangs of New York; An Informal History of the Underworld, by Herbert Asbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $4.00. MR. ASBURY'S...
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Concerning Ruth Schaumann
(July 1928)
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270 THE COMMONWEAL July 11, 1928 CONCERNING RUTH SCHAUMANN By GEORGE N. SHUSTER 'E HAVE not among us the poets of knowledge," said Paul Valery significantly, when he set out to find a...
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(June 1928)
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BOOKS The American Balkans Nicaragua and the United States, 1909-1927, by Isaac Joslin Cox. World Peace Foundation Pamphlets. A CLEVER young pamphleteer once described the Caribbean...
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(June 1928)
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162 THE COMMONWEAL June 13, 1928 BOOKS Slum Clearing in the Antilles Black Democracy: The Story of Haiti, by H. P. Davis. New York: The Dial Press. $5.00. THE history of Haiti, since...
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(May 1928)
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48 THE COMMONWEAL May 16, 1928 BOOKS The Monstrous Regiment of Popery! Al Smith, the Pope and the Presidency, by Theodore Schroeder. Published by the author at 18 East Tenth Street, New...
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Facts in the Mexican Case
(April 1928)
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AYEAR ago this time we said that the drift of events in Mexico was ominous. We asserted that a reign of anti-constitutionalism would end in chaos. Then we added that "perhaps the...
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(March 1928)
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From Jackson to the Jungle A History of American Life, edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger and Dixon Ryan Fox. Volume VI: The Rise of the Common Man, 1830-1850, by Carl Russell Fish. Volume VIII:...
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Peace and Principle
(February 1928)
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THOUGH the Havana Conference has not been sufficiently emotional to arouse public enthusiasm in any marked way, the press discussion which has attended it does undoubtedly call attention to an...
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(February 1928)
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One View of the Matter Immigration Crossroads, by Constantine Panunzio. New York: The Macmillan Company. $2.50. AMERICA has grown into a snob, a parvenu, ashamed of its forbears, intolerant of...
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The Cross on the Housetop
(December 1927)
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(The foUoitnnff is taken from The Catholic Spirit in America, Mr. Shuster's latest book, published this week by the Dial Press, New York City.—The Editors.) THE humanizing of a great...
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A Great Field's Harvest
(November 1927)
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BOSSUET, whose centenary the year now drawing to a close observed with real interest, loved to say that Christianity had given to man la vie raisonnable—"the life according to reason." We of the...
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Two Years and Upward
(November 1927)
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THERE is a queer contrariness about the imagination of children which one can enjoy without trying to explain. A friend of mine is the proud mother of a boy aged sij^ and a girl aged five. During...
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(November 1927)
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John Sargent, by Evan Charteris. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $6.00. T MPARTIAL as a critic and sensitive as an historian, Mr. ••• Evan Charteris has with great care drawn a vivid,...
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(November 1927)
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America Comes of Age, by Andre Siegfried; translated by H. H. Hemming and Doris Hemming. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $j.OO. Where Freedom Falters, by the author of The Pomp of Power....
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(October 1927)
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A Chaucer Handbook, by Robert Dudley French. New York: F. S. Crofts and Company. $2.00. THIS handbook of Professor French sums up and clarifies the best and most recent findings of Chaucerian...
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(September 1927)
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Professional Patriots: An Exposure of the Personalities, Methods and Objectives Involved in the Organized Effort to Exploit Patriotic Impulses in These United States During and After the Late...
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New Plays and Old Jesuit Players
(September 1927)
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THOUGH no less a person than George Bernard Shaw has defined the theatre as "an instrument of moral teaching," one must doubt that any large portion of the public now conceives of it in...
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(August 1927)
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The Ingenious Hidalgo—Miguel Cervantes, by Han Ryner; translated from the French by J. H. Lewis. New York: Harcourt. Brace and Company. $2.y5WHAT a fascinating book this is! As moving as a...
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(August 1927)
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Towards the Open, by Henry Chester Tracy. Introduction by Julian Huxley. New York: E. P. Button and Company. $3-50. Science the False Messiah, by C. E. Ayres. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill...
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Joseph Bédier and Louvain
(August 1927)
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NOBODY else, it seems to me, has summed up so well the significance of the Louvain anniversary as M. Joseph Bedier, whose address to the great festival throng presented the felicitations of the...
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(July 1927)
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La Vie de Disraeli, by Andre Maurois. Paris: Librairie Gallimard. IT WOULD not be altogether unfair to call it the scenario method—this present-day method of writing biography, presenting the...
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The Teaching Brother
(June 1927)
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HOW difficult a job pedagogy is, only those who have tried it can know. Literature records rather fully the acute and chronic dissatisfactions of the school-bench; and there is not a...
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(June 1927)
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J Methodist Saint: The Life of Bishop Asbury, by Herbert Asbury. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. BISHOP FRANCIS ASBURY is not only the maker of American Methodism. He was one of the builders...
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Saint Michael's in Toronto
(June 1927)
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THOUGH I have seen Saint Michael's College, Toronto, Canada, only once, it is not likely that I shall ever forget it. The sprawling border-cityj then dotted with unfinished railway terminals,...
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(May 1927)
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Life and Work in Mediaeval Europe, by P. Boissonade; translated by Eileen Power. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5.00. PROFESSOR BOISSONADE ends his treatise on mediaeval economics by saying that it...
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Claudel to Riviere
(May 1927)
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WE ARE a generation which has walked across the earth and through much of time. It was not until we approached manhood that the whole cargo of the renaissance had been unloaded and surveyed....
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New Men of Letters
(April 1927)
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NEW MEN OF LETTERS By GEORGE N. SHUSTER HAS the writing of biography changed notably owing to new psychologies and altered perspectives? Does the critical acumen of today compare favorably...
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(April 1927)
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639 BOOKS Mother Philippine Duchesne, by Marjory Erskine. New York: Longman's Green and Company. $4.00. Mary Aloysia Hardey: Religious of the Sacred Heart, 1S091886, by Mary Garvey. New...
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(March 1927)
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than Fejevary's son. Silas is dead; his son, a weakling of the soil, is already an aging farmer with a monomania for corn. But Silas's granddaughter, Madeline, whose mother was a Feje- vary, is now...
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The Symbol of the Dante Award
(March 1927)
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March 3 ~ , I927 THE COMMONWEAL 573 THE SYMBOL OF THE DANTE AWARD
By GEORGE N. SHUSTER I T IS, perhaps, the most striking intellectual char- acteristic of our age that so many "defenders of...
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(March 1927)
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526 BOOKS The World's Debt to the Irish, by James J. Walsh. Boston: The Stratford Company. $2.50. THERE is always something a little ungrateful in self-congratulation at the benefits we derive...
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(March 1927)
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497 BOOKS Verses New and Old, by John Galsworthy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $1.50. White Music, by Arthur Truman Merrill. New York: Harold Final. $1.50. Hours in Arcady, by Charles...
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(February 1927)
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441 BOOKS The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Poppies and Mandragora, by Edgar Saltus. New York: Harold Final. $2.00. Personae: Collected Poems of...
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The Art of Beuron
(February 1927)
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432 THE ART OF BEURON By GEORGE N. SHUSTER IN SO far as art is to serve religion in the United States, it must very likely reckon with circumstances which grow out of the fact that our time is...
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(February 1927)
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386 THE COMMONWEAL February 9, I9~7 BOOKS Political and Industrial Democracy: x776-I9a6, by H/. Jett Lauck. New York: Funk and ICagnalls Company. $2.oo. ETT LAUCK does not write of...
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Jacques Copeau
(February 1927)
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February 9, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 381 JACQUES COPEAU By GEORGE N. SHUSTER THE evening before his return to France, JacquesN Copeau saw that the Theatre Guild production of The Brothers...
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All Sides of a Question
(February 1927)
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February 2, I927 THE COMMONWEAL 349 ALL SIDES OF A QUESTION
By GEORGE N. SHUSTER T HE question to be asked here is this: What do we have in mind when we talk of a Catholic liter- ature?...
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Books
(January 1927)
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BOOKS
This Believing H/orld, by Lezvis Brozone. New York: The Macmillan Company. ~3.5o. T HIS is a book in the Van Loon tradition, written in a turgid, would-he impressive style, and...
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Books
(January 1927)
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Belasco production of What Never Dies was exerting its in- fluence. For according to its theme, the spirit of romance is a thing unfettered by encroaching years and grey hair--in fact, the author...
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The Cross of Malta
(January 1927)
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260 THE COMMONWEAL January I2, x927 THE CROSS OF MALTA
By GEORGE N. SHUSTER W HEN, after the epochal Armistice of I918 had been signed, the Red Cross throughout the world gathered to view...
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(January 1927)
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246 BOOKS Episodes in the History of England, by Arthur J. Ireland. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $2.00. History of England, by George Macauley Trevelyan. New York: Longmans, Green...
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(December 1926)
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the Dybbuk has entered into her and speaks through her lips, one must have the peculiar sense of heating a man's voice come through the mouth of a woman. Miss Ellis encompassed this illusion with...
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(November 1926)
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80 THE COMMONWEAL November 24, 1926 BOOKS The Reformation in Dublin, by Myles V. Ronan. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $7.50. FATHER RONAN'S monograph upon the sorry beginnings...
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Books-For the More or Less Youthful
(November 1926)
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18 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1926 BOOKS-FOR THE MORE OR LESS YOUTHFUL JUVENILE BOOKS OF 1926 FROM out of the children's preferences let the selection be made of the best juvenile...
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(November 1926)
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644 THE COMMONWEAL November 3, 1926 ...
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(October 1926)
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614 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1926 THE...
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The Conclusions of Max Scheler
(October 1926)
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October 20, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 579 THE CONCLUSIONS OF MAX SCHELER ...
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(October 1926)
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October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 53 BOOK S The Young Delinquent, by Cyril...
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Books-Fact, Fiction, and Philosophy
(September 1926)
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September 29, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL ...
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(September 1926)
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September 22, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 47 failed to ring true to common experience....
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(September 1926)
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September 8, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 429 1n b ALTMAN & CO. Gentlemen's Clothing and Furnishings Collectively, New York clubmen form one of the most smartly dressed groups of men in the...
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(September 1926)
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September I, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 409 BOOK...
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(July 1926)
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270 THE COMMONWEAL July 14,...
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(July 1926)
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248 THE COMMONWEAL July 7, 1926 three of the remaining members should be sufficient to...
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A Most Excellent Don
(June 1926)
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June 30, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 21 A MOST EXCELLENT DON By GEORGE N. SHUSTER IF THERE is...
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(June 1926)
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19o THE COMMONWEAL June 23, 1926 its lack of full spiritual insight, than in the general direction...
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(June 1926)
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162 THE COMMONWEAL June i6, 1926 not give a bad performance. He had his very fine...
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(May 1926)
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78 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, 1926 of even fairly good actors nowadays. They forget that...
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(April 1926)
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(April 1926)
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6io THE COMMONWEAL April 7, 1926 BOOKS Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor Reaction, by James Arthur Muller. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4,00. IT would be inconceivable, were not Dr. James...
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Books
(March 1926)
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BOOKS Social and Diplomatic Memories (1QO2-IQ19) Volume HI, by James Rennell Rodd. London: Edward Arnold and Company. VERY soon after the war, when diplomats were not very popular and, in...
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Books
(February 1926)
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386 THE COMMONWEAL February 10, 1926 BOOKS The Diplomatic Relations of Great Britain and the United Statesj by R. B. Mowat. New York: Longmans, Green and Company. $5.$0. IN reviewing this...
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The World's Cardinal
(February 1926)
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344 THE COMMONWEAL February 3, 1926 THE WORLD'S CARDINAL By GEORGE N. SHUSTER BORN near Waterloo and himself the foremost spiritual figure in a greater conflict, Cardinal Merrier is at...
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(January 1926)
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BOOKS Development of Our Knowledge of Tuberculosis, by Lawrence F. Flick. Philadelphia: $7.50. WHILE in our generation consumption has ceased to be, in Defoe's picturesque phrase, "the...
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Books
(December 1925)
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192 THE COMMONWEAL December 23, 1925 BOOKS BOOKS ON MIRACLES OF BOOKS on this subject and of short accounts of special cases there is no lack, and it would be impossible to set down...
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(December 1925)
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BOO K S Memories of Ninety Years, by Mrs. E. M. Ward. Edited by Isabel G. McAllister. New York: Henry Holt and Company. $5.00. IT WERE unkind to bear upon this book with the light of too...
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Grace (verse)
(December 1925)
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Grace Like one who thirsts for dizzying wine I caught love up— Now comes your beating heart to mine, A loaf, a cup. George N....
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The Winnowing of Womanhood
(October 1925)
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October 28, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 6IX of continental Europe, which will gradually impress opinion with the results of the growing Catholic strength. Just as those old-fashioned Protestants, who...
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Father Tabb and His Tradition
(September 1925)
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September 23, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 473 FATHER TABB AND HIS TRADITION By GEORGE N. SHUSTER A NATIONAL literature is always the naughty child of tradition* And tradition in the United States...
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(September 1925)
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456 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1925 BOOKS La Conversione Religiosa, by Sante de Sanctis. Bologna: Zanichelli. IT is really a noteworthy social phenomenon that for the contemporary...
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Aveduke and Ames
(November 1925)
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406 THE COMMONWEAL February iS, [925 or the trivial cannot obtrude; and where the scale...
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The Return of Herman Bahr
(December 1924)
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December io, 1924 THE COMMONWEAL [27 THE RETURN OF HERMANN...
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Shuter, Bill
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Sicari, Stephen
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Sicotte, Sid
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Siedenburg, Frederic
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Siegel, Fred
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Sigal, Clancy
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Sigal, Leon V.
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Sigcrson, George
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Sigmund, Paul E. Jr.
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Signer, Michael A.
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Silva, Alvaro
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