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The Commonweal week by week NO ROOM A S the Christian world moved solemnly toward the celebration of Christmas, a ritual of a different sort was under way in Washington. There a Senate...
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Christmas: Anno Domini 1955 "OUR HISTORICAL SITUATION IS ONE OF GREAT EMBARRASSMENT FOR CHRISTENDOM" H. A. REINHOLD IN the stream of our Christmas consciousness there arc visible currents that...
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IN CENTRAL PARK Memories of War ALICE SAXON "WHAT shall we play today? Bad men or good men? . . . . Bad men." This exchange, never varying in its conclusion, was the daily ritual of a group of...
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THE STAGE THE LARK "SOME nights, when I am feeling depressed," Jean Anouilh has written of Joan of Arc, "I try to be rational and I say: the situation-social, political and military--was ripe...
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A PRELUDE: FOR THE FEAST OF ST. AGNES O Small St. Agnes, dressed in gold With fire and rainbows round about your face: Sing with the martyrs in my Mass's Canon! Come home, come home, old...
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THE SCREEN MOURNING BECOMES MAGNANI S INCE "The Rose Tattoo" was written for Anna Magnani in the first place, and she could not play it on the stage, we are doubly fortunate in having her in...
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COMMUNICATIONS "CASE FOR THE FARMER" New York, N. Y. T O the Editors: Mr. James Hearst, in his article, "Case for the Farmer" [November 18], writes as though the farmer were the only one at the...
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TEN YEARS LATER The Decisive Mr. Truman WILLIAM V. SHANNON THE natural tendency of the historian, it has been said, is to set a seal of approval on the past. Nowhere is this temptation to give...
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BOOKS The Fruitful Ambiguity in Newman's Thought THE IMPERIAL INTELLECT" A STUDY OF NEWMAN'S EDUCATIONAL IDEAL. A. Dwight Culler. Yale University Press. $5. By FREDERICK D. WILHELMSEN THE...
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Vol. 063 Issue 009 (December 2 1955)
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