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tion, the Communists made a mistake when they attacked the emperor system, but that was soon 0 Morning Stars dropped when they realized that the average Japanese was wedded to the emperor system...

ALL YOUR IDOLS (March 1947)

541 All Your Idols HARRY SYLVESTER THE REVEREND Patrick Maguire could not get used to the blue-and-gold-striped tie. When he had found it necessary or at least advisable to wear a tie...

TOURIST NOTES (February 1947)

466 Tourist Notes HARRY SYLVESTER ONLY the Constellations were leaving the ground that January evening in New York, so you managed to get onto one of them, bv.t the plane just sat there while...

Along the Pan American Highway (September 1946)

September 13, I946 THE COM controversy is in reality not at all basically a quarrel by pedantic professors over the breeding of wheat and tomatoes. That the basic principles of heredity,...

Graustark and the Indians (August 1946)

Graustark and the Indians Report o.n Guatemala Harry Sylvester I T IS ALL THERE, ready to Hollywood's hand, lacking only apprehension by the silk sport-shirt boys from the West Coast,...

A NOTE ON CRITICISM (March 1945)

562 THE COMMONWEAL March 23, 1945 A Note on Criticism Harry Sylvester CATHOLIC criticism has been generally unfavorable toward our best writing talents because of the personal...

Timeless Mexico-Enough and to Spare-The Road to Foreign Policy-Democracy Begins at Home-William Sidney Mount-Slavery and Freedom-The Roots of the Tree (October 1944)

40 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1944 More Books of the Week Timeless Mexico. Hudson Strode. Harcourt. $3.50. THIS IS a popular but rather well-written history of Mexico. The author,...

COMMUNICATIONS (February 1944)

Communications FRANCO'S PRISONS PEACE WITH GERMANY New York, N. Y. To the Editors: Would you permit me to make two clarifications in your columns-the first personal, and relating to my article,...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK A Certain Measure-Crusade for Pan-Europe -The Duke-All Year Round-Malta Epic (December 1943)

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...

ON MEXICO (July 1943)

On Mexico By HARRY SYLVESTER NOT many books written this year or even next will be more valuable than Miss Brenner's on the Mexican Revolution,* not only to anyone interested in the fact that...

CABEZA DE VACA AND HANIEL LONG (February 1943)

Cabeza de Vaca and Haniel Long A remarkable book revivi- fied in a remarkable...

CITY ON A MOUNTAIN (February 1942)

February x3, x942 THE COMMONWEAL 4o9 reason within him which transcends that which is only animal, because it is attached to that which is universal. The tradition is a hard one to live by, and...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK The Young and the Immortal-The Fortunate Lady-Anthony Wayne-What Is Democracy-Democracy in American Life (October 1941)

Books of the Week A Pair of Novels The Young and the Immortal. Isabel Currier. Knopf. $2.50. THERE have always been people who, through inner or outer circumstance, have found it difficult to...

COMMUNICATIONS (May 1941)

Communications NEGRO SEMINARY New Hope, Pa. TO the Editors: I am surprised at Father LaFarge's misunderstanding of certain incidental remarks in my article on the Negro seminary at Bay St. Louis....

NEGRO SEMINARY (April 1941)

Negro Seminary The Techny Fathers persevere at their task of preparing colored priests. By Harry Sylvester THE ONLY Catholic Negro seminary in North America is located at Bay St. Louis,...

GRAHAM GREENE (October 1940)

October 25, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL shall give life to the revolution of the living person and the living community against the avarice and disorder of individualism. Individualism has penetrated and...

CO-OPS ON THE CHESAPEAKE (December 1938)

Co-ops on the Chesapeake By HARRY SYLVESTER ST. MARY'S COUNTY is the tip of the peninsula which lies between the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. On St. Clements Island, just off its coast,...

Dynamite in Alabama (September 1938)

September 30, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 573 ment — do it, the association, which represents most of organized medicine in this country, was widely criticized by the public for producing no alternative...

A REVOLUTION DOESN'T COME OFF (June 1938)

A Revolution Doesn't Come Off By HARRY SYLVESTER DURING the twenty-four hours we were on Saturnino Cedilla's ranch, tacitly under guard, last March, we saw the General twice. During every minute...

TEACHER IS WONDERFUL (April 1938)

April 15, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 677 Like many of the Mexican schools this one had been an old convent, and the faded, pastel masonry of the outside was weathered and broken in places, but inside the...

Ernest Hemingway: A Note (October 1936)

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A NOTE By HARRY SYLVESTER SOMETIMES in Paris after the war and before he had had any recognition, Heming-way was quite hungry. Although, among other things, he had written and...

Sylvester, William

Symanski, Edward Alan

Synnestvedi, Sig

Synnott, Finbar

Syski, Alexander

SZELISKI, VICTOR VON

Szeptyckyj, Andrew

Szilzgy, (Mrs.) Elaine

Szostkiewicz, Adam

SZPAK, ALINA

Szpak, Robert Fleet and Alina

Szumowski, Margaret C