The Commonweal week by week RELIGION AND EDUCATION T HE recent statement by the members of the American hierarchy on the role of private and church-related schools in America should be...
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The Case of Ezra Pound "IT IS ONLY PRUDENT TO REMIND OURSELVES THAT ONE ROOM AT ST. ELIZABETH'S IS A CLOSET WHICH CONTAINS A NATIONAL SKELETON" SAM HYNES T HIS month Ezra Pound completes his...
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THROUGH CARTOONISTS" EYES Changing Britain MICHAEL P. FOGARTY I AM not sure how often Americans see the work of British cartoonists. In the Thirties, when I was young, the most famous...
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LABOR ABROAD Voices from the Philippines T HERE were six of them and among them you could see examples of most of the racial strains that make up the Filipino native: Malayan, Indonesian,...
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TWO POEMS By Sona Raiziss CONSCIENCE The wind imports a flash of heaven toward the squalor of stained walls and the closed memory around the living. Murderer, you crack the axe down on the...
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THE SCREEN JENNIFER'S DOVE, JOAN'S BEE p ERHAPS the strangest thing in cotmection with "Good Morning, Miss Dove" is that American film makers, after the successful English production of...
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COMMUNICATIONS MARRIAGE IN NORWAY Washington, D.C. T O the Editors: Last January 14 The Commonweal, in an editorial on "Marriage in Spain," remarked: "In Norway, for instance, it is...
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FROM THE DEAD SEA Battle of the Scrolls JOSEPH A. FITZMYER ''THE greatest manuscript discovery of modern times" had to await the eminently readable prose of Mr. Edmund Wilson to be...
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BOOKS Ordeal and Achievement THE INMOST LEAP. By Alfred Kazin. Harcourt, Brace. $4.75. By JOSEPH M. DUFFY, JR. W HEN he was twenty-seven Alfred Kazin published a precociously bold and...
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