Commonweal week by week NATURE OF THE CHALLENGE F AILURE to capitalize on the disparity between the utopia promised by the Communists and the realities of life in the Soviet Union has long...
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The Age of Advertising THE ADS ARE A FORM OF MAGIC WHICH HAVE COME TO DOMINATE A NEW CIVILIZATION. MARSHALL McLUHAN M OST people must by now have seen the original advertisement featuring a...
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by the othc~ iteam around them. A~d ao ad ha~ its meaning by itself. Anybody can prove this simply by cutting one out of a magazine and studying it, or by stopping and looking cardully at one....
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THE SCREEN RIDING, RIDING L IKE Alfred Noyes' highwayman, Laurence Olivier charges through "The Beggar's Opera" with a gusto that i~ a pleasure to behold. Whether he be courting the ladies...
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OF NOTE AUTHORITY I N a recent issue of Blackfriars (St. Giles, Oxford, England), Archbishop Roberts, S.J., writes "On Commending Authority." Formerly Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Bombay,...
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anomalie~ which, had I not seen, I could hardly have believed. To take only one example, fill recently there was, or perhaps even is now, a port where certain dispensations for the benefit of...
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A Criticism POETRY AND THE AGE. By Randall Jarroll, Knopf. $4. By PATRICK F. QUINN B OOKS about modern poetry have been appearing with such frequency of late that it wig soon be difficult...
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