Holy Week, Easter and a Torn World PERHAPS even over here the Masses and other ceremonies of Holy Week rather than Easter Itself this year seemed more in tune with a Christianity suffering in so...
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IN HIS Treatise on Temperance, Saint Thomas discusses the virtue of studiousness and the vice of curiosity. The virtuous pursuit of learning must not only be moderate, but rightly motivated....
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^ CW IFE IS Itself an escape of the spirit I i into flesh and back again," says Mr. — Yeats-Brown In one of his books. But in the language of the Upanishads (Hindu Scriptures) it is the striving...
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THE FIRST TIME I can remember hearing of Ralph Borsodi was in the brave, bold days of the deep depression—about 1931 or 1932. It was a time when Americans were not afraid of ideas, because few...
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THE CIVIL LIBERTIES COMMITTEE is joining with all its well known energy and its wealth of practical experience in publicity and propaganda in the fight against the McLaughlin Bill which is to...
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RURAL LIFE New York, N. Y. TO the Editors: I read with interest John Harrington's letter re rural life in your March 22 issue. I note that he seems to be advocating the confiscation of economic...
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Liliom IT IS twenty years since "Liliom" was first given in New York, yet it is today as fresh as it was in that far-ofF happier time. There are those who brand Ferenc Molnar as a mere...
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Of Dalliance Treads SINCE Producer-Director Gregory LaCava thought enough of "Primrose Path" to make a movie from it, I wish he had tried a little harder to make a good picture. "Primrose Path"...
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Lyons on Stalin Stalin. Eugene Lyons. Lippincott. $2.50. THE FACT that it is now smart and profitable to belittle everything Rjussian is practically the only possible justification for this...
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THREE INTERESTING and encouraging news reports come to us from the South. The first annual meeting of the Southern Conference on Catholic Activities will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 12....
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