THE Commonweal week by week THE CATHOLIC AND MODERN LITERATURE T HOSE Catholics who are concerned with lit. erature and the broader questions of religion and modern culture have had some reason...
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The Tyranny of Technics TO REJECT THE "NON-OBJECTIVE" AND THE EMOTIONAL AS "UNREAL" IS TO DESTROY THE CLAIMS OF ART LEWIS MUMFORD B Y now every intelligent observer knows—as Mr. Arnold Toynbee,...
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FROM ITALY The Controversy Over Chromosomes S CIENCE seems gradually to be losing its freedom. Not only is atomic research enslaved by power politics, but even the science of genetics is more and...
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THE STAGE CANDIDA THIS newest production of George Bernard Shaw's comedy does not suffer from Olivia de Havilland's simpering, schoolgirlish performance alone. It is one of the worst all-round...
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THE SCREEN THE FRENCH MARRYING KIND FROM France has just arrived the kind of a little movie that we seldom make in this country. In the first part of "Edward and Caroline" we see an attractive...
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From a Little Office of Saint Francis Assisi By WILLIAM ALFRED TIERCE: FAITH FOR Christ's sake, help me pay the cost This losing battle never lost Puts cheapened heart to, tricky sense, Shined...
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COMMUNICATIONS CATHOLICISM OF JOYCE Ithaca, New York MO the Editors: I have just seen the survey by Sam I Hynes of "The Catholicism of James Joyce" (THE COMMONWEAL, February 22nd), which is in...
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Baroque Art And Poetry MARTIN TURN ELL IN The Lost Childhood Graham Greene discusses Richard Crashaw. "Crashaw's style," he writes, "if it occasionally has the beauty of those 'marble plains,' is...
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ANOTHER KIND. By Anthony West. Houghton Mifflin. $3.50. By SEYMOUR KRIM OST of us know Anthony West for his New Yorker book-reviews—urbane, chatty, perhaps a little on the slick side. We might...
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