WEEK BY WEEK
Our Isolationists
THE traditional isolationism of the American Midwest reflects much more than an ingrown sense of geographical security. Friendliness is one of the leading...
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Asia Without Roots
Secularism, imported from the West, has left a spiritual void.
By MAX FISCHER
LATELY the wheel of history has been turning too quickly for the human understanding to follow. The...
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FROM HONG KONG
The Church in China
UNTIL 1912 the Chinese Emperor was considered by his hundreds of millions of subjects as a descendant from heaven; the religious head of the nation, with the right...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT
0 Come, All Ye Faithful
"THE great scandal of the 19th century was that the Church lost the working class."
These words of Pius XI are quoted and requoted, but here in America we...
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Communications
Paradise Enslaved
North Hollywood, California
TO THE Editors: Mr. Rorty ("Paradise Enslaved," December 1, 1950) must have been the victim of a dull and infuriating double feature (a...
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The Screen
WOULD YOU HIT A WOMAN WITH A CHILD?
ON looking over the list of films of 1950 (the year during which Hollywood complained bitterly about business and adopted for its slogan: "Movies are...
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The Stage
BLESS YOU ALL
THE company of this new Harold Rome-Arnold Auerbach revue play it with an oddly uncertain air, as though they were perfectly willing to do the numbers but weren't quite sure...
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Of Note
Eric Gill
FATHER DESMOND CHUTE, an English secu-lar priest who is a member of the Dominican Third Order, is writing a series of articles for Blackfriars (St. Giles, Oxford, England) on Eric...
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The Rutgers Affair
By JOHN COGLEY
IT is doubtful if "Cumberland Street," a short story which appeared in the Rutgers University Antho last fall, will find a place in the new anthologies. But even at...
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Books
Prize Stories of 1950. Edited by Herschel Brickell. Doubleday. $3.50.
IN THE preface to this collection, one of the judges, Hamilton Basso, says that most of the stories share a common theme:...
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