THE Commonweal week THE WORLD AT CHRISTMAS Fear not; for behold I bring you good tidings o] great joy that shall be to all the people. T HE TEMPTATION to despair of the...
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glories, its living traditions and cultural treasures. The "common good" includes all of these and something more besides--something more profound, more concrete and more human. It includes,...
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FROM ITALY Conversation in a Graveyard O NE of the rear tires exploded with a noise like a shot, echoing loudly in the narrow silent val- ley. I stopped at the side of the road and...
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT New Men for New Times THE other day I heard a labor leader telling a union convention that he thought Phil Murray and Bill Green died of broken hearts because of the...
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THE STAGE I'VE GOT SIXPENCE A N appalling week commenced with John van Druten's disastrous raid on the moral preserve. Mr. van Druten does not usually travel in such exalted paths; his proper...
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Two Poems for Christmas Christmas, 1951 IFOR THE CARMELITESJ A SHES of paper, ashes of a world Wandering, when fire is done: We argue with the drops of raint Until One comes Who walks...
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THE SCREEN YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN T HE smartest thing that Producer Hal Wallis did after deciding to make a movie out of William Inge's play "Come Back, Little Sheba" was to cast Shirley Booth...
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OF NOTE THE PRIMACY OF CONTEMPLATION T HE Walter Farrell Memorial Volume of The Thornist, 'From an Abundant Spring" (P. J. Kenedy. $7.50.), contains an essay by Gerald Vann, O....
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BOOKS Spiritual Vagrants Seeking a Night's Lodging REPORT ON THE AMERICAN COMMUN- IST. By Morris L. Ernst and David Loth. Henry Holt. $3. By WiLL HERBERG O N the basis of some...
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