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WEEK BY WEEK
Bread upon the Waters
HOW many months are vouchsafed to us before a final showdown with Soviet Russia? Perhaps four or five, perhaps considerably longer. Either way, there is little...
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Through the Asian Looking Glass
All is not yet lost in Asia if we make an effort to see what the revolution is about.
By ROBERT C. NORTH
IN THESE times of crisis we like to believe that all...
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Double or Nothing
By THOMAS A. CLEMENTE
PUBLIC SCHOOL 39 was scheduled to have its annual Christmas party the day before vacation began. That day Sidney's mother came to school and asked that he be...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT
The CIO on Public Ownership
THE Chicago convention of the CIO must have seemed to the men at the press table like a dull and lifeless thing by contrast with the CIO conventions of...
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Communications
Sex and Morals
Washington, D. C.
TO THE Editors: Father de Menasce has written an interesting and provocative article on "sexual-ized morality" (The Commonweal, November 24) which...
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The Screen
VICKY AND HER BROOD
YOU may wonder as I did, when you see The Mudlark, just why English moviegoers were so antagonistic toward the idea of Irene Dunne's playing Queen Victoria. It is true...
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The Stage
The Tower Beyond Tragedy
JUDITH ANDERSON, having had one success with a Robinson Jeffers adaptation from the Greek —Euripides' "Medea"—has been quite naturally but not necessarily...
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Thud and Blunder
By CAROL H. WEISS
IT HAS been estimated that some 1,500 murders take place each week on the radio. This, according to Gilbert Seldes, does not include murders meditated or suspected...
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Of Note
Realistic Look
STRINGFELLOW BARR, former president of St. John's College in Annapolis and now president of the Foundation for World Government, is the author of a new pamphlet, "Let's Join...
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Books
Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays. George Orwell. Harcourt. Brace. $2.75.
THE special quality of George Orwell as an essayist may perhaps be conveyed through a series of approximations. He...
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1920s
1950
Vol. 053 Issue 008 (December 1 1950)
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