The Commonweal week by week Our Debt to President Eisenhower I T is almost impossible to imagine Dwight D. Eiserthower as a Frenchman, an Italian, an Englishman, for his image is essentially...
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Crisis in Afghanistan "WHEN AFGHANS FEEL LONELY AND BITTER, THEIR THOUGHTS CAN ROAM NORTH TO RUSSIA" CHRISTOPHER RAND T HE other day in New Delhi an Englishman, a former colonel with long...
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MONDAY'S VISION I SAW a gust of birds rise in a hurry of gale like a moment mountain into the sun, an avalanche of disappearance; they caught my breath: I had to scale a new alp in the...
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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT A Life for a Life? VICTOR C. FERKISS v IOLENCE on a mass scale is one of the distinguishing marks of the twentieth century. The holocaust at Hiroshima, *,hthe mass...
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THE STAGE THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH M R. Thornton Wilder's millennial comedy remains the ]eu d'esprit of the contemporary repertoire. "The Skin of Our Teeth," with its fey, lyrical presence, its...
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THE SCREEN IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT p ERHAPS I approached "The Night of the Hunter" with too great expectations. I had enjoyed the unusual novel by Davis Grubb, which alternated a poetic...
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OF NOTE PATRIOTISM AND RELIGION T HE September 16 issue of the St. Louis Register (4532 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis 8, Mo.) carried an editorial differing with The Commonweal's recent...
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BOOKS The Lesson of Captain Dreyfus WILLIAM CLANCY H ISTORY has its moments of universality when, through some individual drama, the perennially basic issues of man and society are...
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Thomas Mann's Last Novel CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, CONFIDENCE MAN. By Thomas Mann. Translated by Denver Lindley. Knopf. $4.50. By HENRY POPKIN F ELIX Krull embodies equally the qualities of...
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