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WEEK BY WEEK
This Christmas
ONLY a Dawson or a Toynbee would venture to estimate the relative importance of the various periods of human history and measure them against our own. For we are now...
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Defeat in Korea
The larger issue remains, and the need for strong U. S. leadership is more urgent than ever.
By WALDEMAR GURIAN
IN The Commonweal of October 13 I wrote: "The possibility of war has...
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FROM ENGLAND
"Any Questions?"
AMONG the weekly radio features in the southwestern section of England is one called "Any Questions?" Half a dozen men (not always the same men), well mixed as regards...
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SO THEY TELL ME
The Ordeal of Dean Acheson
IT MAY be a fact that Dean Acheson has, in the words of the Republicans, "lost the confidence of the country," and it may be that the removal of Mr....
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Communications
Blood, Sweat and Tears
New York, N. Y.
TO the Editors: Your editorial (Dec. 15) "Blood, Sweat and Tears" is for me a perfect example of that secularism which the Bishops of the United...
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The Screen
What Did Ya' Have in Mind?
MOVIE fans looking for real cinema values are going to be disappointed in two very expensive properties just turned out by Hollywood. Harvey and Born Yesterday...
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The Stage
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
AS AN OLD MAN
PHILLIP PRUNEAU'S first produced play, "The Cellar and the Well," takes place in something like a tenement district on the south side of Chicago. In...
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Of Note
"Colored Institutions"
A RECENT issue of Interracial Review (20 Vesey Street, New York 7) carried this editorial:
On October 23 it was announced that the National Association of Colored...
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In Our Dialect
By GIUSEPPE MAROTTA
WHEN my mother saw me serve at Mass she wept as if I had been ordained to the priesthood. She was proud and pleased, and above all hopeful that God would look with...
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Books
The Year of the Oath. George R. Stewart, in collaboration with other professors of the University of California. Doubleday. $2.
THE Year of the Oath is well named. The professors at the...
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1920s
1950
Vol. 053 Issue 008 (December 1 1950)
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