The COMMONWEAL
VOLUME XLVII October 24, 1947 NUI~BER 2 THE WEEK 29 APPETITE FOR FAILURE 30 COMMUNISM IN ITALY Max Ascoli 32 SEUMAS MURPHY THE BRIGHTER SIDE THEORY OF PRAYER...
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3o THE COMMONWEAL October z4, 1947 met and there are regions in other lands where crops continually prove inadequate. The vagaries of wind and weather are never sufficiently predict- able, and...
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Communism in Italy
Max Ascoli T HE MOST AMAZING thing about Italy is that it had not been discovered by the National Association of Manufacturers as its promised land. There "have not been...
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October 24, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL know how to be real democratic parties--they always overdo it. Or perhaps in Italy the communists have fallen into the same mistake as fascism: They have as-...
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Madonna and Child, and "After Mass," both limestone statuettes botween three and four feet high, show the same two dimensional tendencies.9 "After Mass" is a peasant woman, wearing one of the heavy...
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4o THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1947 complained hitherto that Labor did not keep its election promises. Now they are complaining be- cause it does." "How far has nationalization been halted by the...
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October 24, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL II III The Stage & Screen II I ,-II @ im Man And Superman M AURICE EVANS and Company ar~ delivering the comedy portion of Shaw's "cerebral caper," an...
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THE COM author's grotmdplan. They are too cardboard to be real, and yet not gay enough to be comment. David Folkes's costumes: o.k. In respect of Mr. Evans's announced intention to pre- sent the...
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THE COM author's grotmdplan. They are too cardboard to be real, and yet not gay enough to be comment. David Folkes's costumes: o.k. In respect of Mr. Evans's announced intention to pre- sent the...
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THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1947 change in the weather" that even supposed experts were carried a.way to the point of ext~laining to their optimistic compatriots just how this "change" had come...
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when she strove to be civilized and to commune with Europe on the basis of tucking the shirt in. It took a Karl Marx, borne along on the shoulders of Ghengis Khan---call him Sinbad the Sailor...
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