LommonweaJ WEEK BY WEEK The Long Road GOODNESS diffuses itself, Aquinas taught. In a way, as it is with the rotten apple, the same might be said of evil. And here is the unavoidable...
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Labor and the Isms Unions still accept "the American Way" but may be driven to change. By FRANCIS DOWNING IT WAS the belief of Lord Acton that history is not economically determined, but is...
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The East Looks to the West The silent example of Western freedom is not enough: men need ideas too. By CHARLES MALIK IT IS FAIRLY easy to work out a critique of Communism. The doctrine...
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FROM ENGLAND The Minor Vices ANY "serious-minded" visitor from England to the United States or vice-versa can hardly escape making comparative observations of the addiction of the people of...
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Two Poems by Jessica Powers THE BLOOD'S MYSTIC RACE girds that moment when the spirit halts To watch the Magdalen In the mad turbulence that was her love. Light hallows him who thinks upon...
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The Screen "AH, DID YOU ONCE SEE SHELLEY PLAIN?" EVEN when handling biography, film-makers realize that the play's the thing; no matter how interesting their central character is, unless the...
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Of Note Catholic Action in America IN the May II issue of The Catholic Messenger (Cosgrove Building, Davenport, Iowa) Donald McDonald presents an interview with Father Leo Trese, author of...
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200 THE COMMONWEAL The Burden of Gold By DANIEL-ROPS TOO much attention cannot be paid to men of goed will who are conscious of the dramatic situation in which humanity finds itself...
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Books The Main Stream of Music and Other Essays. Donald Francis Tovey. Oxford. $4.00. IN books on art one can generally perceive definite well-known trends. First there is the type of...
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