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IN TIME of war, it is thought, everything becomes expendable-natural wealth, personal careers, youthful ambitions, above all human life itself. In every war the...
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IN ISRAEL
The Community Adventure
The collective settlements of Palestine were born of harsh necessity but survive as practical idealism.
By THOMAS SUGRUE
THE collective agricultural settlements of...
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IN WESTERN EUROPE
The Communitarian Movement symbolizes man's attempts to work out his own salvation.
By CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP
IT IS (time to realize that we are facing in the world today a new...
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The West Coast Looks at the Far East
The future of the United States, says the Coast, may depend on giving more attention to the Orient.
By HARRY W. FLANNERY
PEOPLE on the West Coast, being nearer...
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SO THEY TELL ME
Mr. Pegler's Ignorant Bliss
PSYCHOLOGICALLY American history is difficult to explain. Most of us think of our country as a democracy, and patriotic orators speak on proper occasions...
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The Stage
TWENTIETH CENTURY
WHEN Gloria Swanson scored an enormous personal triumph in "Sunset Boulevard," there was always the nagging possibility that her comeback was as much the result of...
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The Screen
"DARK, DARK, DARK AMIDST THE BLAZE OF NOON'
WHEN THE English take themselves in hand and decide to make a good film, they can make a very good film. The Boulting Brothers, who gave us...
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The Sale
By JOE DEVER
PEACE, it's wonderful in Colorado's San Luis Val- ley. After two years in the shrill, feverish embrace of the Chicago Loop, it is a deliverance into a land of Cana, rich with...
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Of Note
Laymen in the Missions
A PAMPHLET entitled "The Laity Look Eastward," published by the Grailville center at Loveland, Ohio, tells of the new school of missiology established by the Grail a...
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Books
Beyond Humanism. John - Ryan. Sheed & Ward. $3.
Julian
JOHN JULIAN RYAN'S work on the idea of a Catholic college had an especially good chapter on the teacher. This new work is on the same...
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