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THE Commonweal week by week THE STATE OF LIBERALISM I T is ironical that the word "liberal," which was originally applied to free-wheeling individualism in matters social, economic and...
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The Meaning of Majority Rule "FREEDOM" CAN LEAD TO TYRANNY AND DISASTER OR TO ORDER AND HAPPINESS, DEPENDING ON HOW IT IS CONCEIVED JOHN H. HALLOWELL I T is an accepted and distinguishing...
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rather to liberate that capacity in the service of God rather than of self. A balanced view of man will recognize the necessity for institutional checks upon the abuse of power, the necessity for...
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tice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do." It is here—here and in the...
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THE STAGE THE MALE ANIMAL T HERE are two moments in the current production of "The Male Animal"—both of them hard to describe precisely — which seem to me to achieve perfection in the way of...
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habits nowadays is to suppose that a rational equation is an adequate stage substitute for an intuited sense of the movement of things, and the fact that "The Victim" was rationally interesting...
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The photography and local-color touches in Duvivier's movie are outstanding, and although the plot mechanics are more than a little contrived you really feel that Paris as well as its people is the...
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Witness: Whittaker Chambers JOHN COGLEY IN the opening pages of Witness (Random House, $5.) Whittaker Chambers writes, "It is a terrible book. It is terrible in what it tells about men. If...
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time." It is the self-vision which accounts, I think, for what often seems close to maudlin self-sympathy but is really self-wonder. When he talks about himself as Witness, it is as if the man were...
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1950
Vol. 056 Issue 004 (May 2 1952)
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