THE Commonweal week by week THE ILLUSION OF OMNIPOTENCE T HE concept of crusades is one that maay Americans find congenial, squaring, as it does, with important elements in our...
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EUROPE AND AMERICA Dream and Nightmare ANTI.AMERICAN FEELING IS WELL ON THE WAY TO BECOMING A NEW EUROPEAN 'ISM'. HANNAH ARENDT W HAT image does Europe have of America? Whatever it may be, it...
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ALCIDE de GASPERI The Man Who Saved Italy KEES van HOEK ONLY a simple crucifix hung on the bare wall beside Alcido de Gasperi's desk at home in his Castel Gandolfo study, above the...
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THE SCREEN JUST THE FOLKS, MA'AM M OVIES, it seems, are getting more folksy than ever. This isn't necessarily bad--especially when the movies themselves are good, like a new Italian import,...
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THE STAGE TWO MASTERPIECES I N the heat of a languid, dilatory summer, two plays have quickened to a positive theatrical life. At the Greenwich Mews Theatre (141 West 13th Street), an agreeable...
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COMMUNICATIONS "ANTI-SEMITISM TODAY" New York, N. Y. T O the Editors: Mr. Herberg, in his article "AntiSemitism Today" [July 16] and Mr. Manfred George, in his commentary on it [Aug. 13],...
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BOOKS Who Will Shape Tomorrow? GEOFFREY ASHE There was an old man ol Peru Who dreamed he was eating his shoe; He woke in the night In a terrible Jright, And found it was perfectly true. T HE...
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Spenking the Racial Agony of His People TELL FREEDOM. By Peter Abrahams. Knopf. $4. By OANIEL M. FRmDENBERG T HE spate of good books flowing from the Union of South Africa today present a...
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