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The Week
The Japanese Atrocities Release
THE American people have not yet recovered from the horror of learning what cruelties the Japanese soldiery had inflicted upon the brave defenders of Bataan....
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American Radio
A discussion round proposed legislation
Norman Thomas
ASK THE average American if he would like substantially to change the American radio system and he would probably answer, no, why...
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Last of the Intellectuals
The world before the war, the world which failed to save itself ...
Roger Caillois
WE WERE a certain number of intellectuals, separately at work here and there; we were...
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The Stage
The Cherry Orchard
IT IS difficult to sort out the credits and commitments behind this Chekhov revival. Produced by Margaret Webster and Carly Wharton, starring Eva Le Gallienne and Joseph...
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The Screen
The Song
Just as its title implies, "The Song of Bernadette" is a hymn sung in praise of the girl who was chosen to be visited by Our Lady. It has the earthy and story-telling qualities...
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Latin American Pattern
HARRY LORIN BINSSE
SAMUEL PUTNAM, who has spent a considerable part of his life translating classics-this is his twenty-fifth full-length book translation-has, with the help...
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Editors' Choice
Home Is the Hunter. Gontran de Poncins. Reynal. $2.50. Russian Cavalcade. Albert Parry. Ives Washburn. $3.50.
Master and Servant
AN OLD SERVANT returns to a French country house in...
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More Books of the Week
Lessons of My Life. Rt. Hon. Lord Vansittart. Knopf. $3.00.
THE WORD "Vansittartism" must have been coined to designate the style of Lord Vansittart's writings about the...
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The Inner Forum
Man and Democracy
IF THE IDEAL of democracy is pursued back to its ultimate foundation, will not its origin be found in the Christian doctrine of the dignity of man, the inviolable...
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1920s
1940
Vol. 039 Issue 016 (February 4 1944)
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