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Alas, Poor Island AN ISLAND, geography books tell us, is a land area surrounded entirely by water. And no man, Messrs. John Donne and Ernest Hemingway remind us, is an island to himself. Nor, alas,...
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Boom and Depression Barbara Ward* THE United States in 1946 and 1947 was without peer in the world and its economic strength was unique in the entire history of mankind. No community had ever...
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Brick Courtyard I have taken nothing from the rain; Nothing, No gain at all, All day long it has beat upon my courtyard Counting each brick with a tattoo call. In my neighbor's earthen...
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Progressive Higher Education VIVIAN MERCIER MARK TWAIN wrote what is to my mind the best book on "progressive education," though I doubt if he had ever heard the term used when he wrote it. The...
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Communications DOCTOR JUNG Pawtucket, R. I. TO the Editors: It would be unfortunate if the last word on the question of Dr. Jung and the Nazis, as discussed in The Commonweal recently, were to...
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CATHOLIC INTERNATIONAL NEWS Chilean Catholics Start Crusade for Housing Santiago de Chile, 9/10 (cip)-A "People's Crusade" for the solution of "the gravest social problem of the hour," the lack of...
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The Stage & Screen Sundown Beach IT IS DIFFICULT to understand why the ingeniously promoted Actors Studio-headed by Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford-should have chosen Bessie Breuer's play in the...
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THE SCREEN Gold Is Where You Find It THERE's a pleasant surprise in store for you in "The Luck of the Irish." You might expect this title to be attached to another of those technicolored-green...
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Books Of Flight and Life. Charles A. Lindbergh. Scribner. $1.50. THIS BOOK is the story of a man's passage from faith in the unlimited power and benefit of science to a belief in the necessity of...
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Vol. 048 Issue 021 (September 3 1948)
THE WEEK
