THE Commonweal week by week THE PASSING OF THE VISIONARIES IF America has any mystique, an essential part of it is practicality, a quality long associated in the public mind with the...
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The Bowery Today BECAUSE "IT IS EASY TO SLEEP ON ANOTHER MAN'S WOUND." AN EVERINCREASING NUMBER OF AGED AND UNSKILLED WILL END UP ON SKID ROW JOHN McKEON THE man bled quietly. Sprawled full...
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FROM FRANCE The Current of AntiIN THE heat of their election campaign Americans doubtless paid little heed to certain remarks of Edouard Herriot which had terrific repercussions over here....
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PROM MALTA An Island of Catholicism DOUGLAS HYDE SOUTH of barren, volcanic Sicily, right out in the Mediterranean between Europe and North Africa, lies the rocky little Catholic island of...
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THE STAGE THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH MR. George Axelrod's scabrous title refers to that seasonal recklessness which, convention would assume, afflicts men about to enter on middle life. One such...
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THE SCREEN GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS IT is interesting that several European film makers turn up at this time with movies suggesting that youngsters are smarter than their seniors, or, to...
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COMMUNICATIONS "INDO-CHINA DILEMMA" St. Paul, Minn. I HAVE just received your November 21 edition of The Commonweal, and I am greatly interested in your editorial, "Indo-China Dilemma." There...
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BOOKS A Critic, Not a Reviewer THE SHORES OF LIGHT. By Edmund Wilson. Farrar, Straus & Young. $6.50. By FRANK GETLEIN PERIODICAL literary criticism •*• becomes increasingly rare. What we...
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