The Commonweal week by week PUPIL OR SCHOOL? T HERE is one question on which we find ourselves greatly at odds with certain American journals of a normally sympathetic bent of opinion. We...
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Trade, Aid and the Farmer "THE POSTWAR DECADE OF RECONSTRUCTION IS OVER, AND WE ARE NOW CALLED UPON FOR A NEW TYPE OF WORLD LEADERSHIP" MARTIN E. SCHIRBER and EMERSON HYNES T HE contrast...
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LABOR The Bottle Over "Right-to-Work" A FEW weeks ago a "right-to-work" bill was considered by a committee of the Massachusetts legislature. Father Francis McDonnell, chaplain of the...
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THE SCREEN BOY MEETS GIRL, 1955 R OMANCE in the movies now is a far, far different thing than it was some twenty or even ten years ago; but even now it is not often that we get a wonderfully...
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THE STAGE THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH I T would seem that Mr. Christopher Fry's new play has, at its center, a place of resistance, a curious intransigence which no pressure can quicken into life....
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HERE AND THERE ALL THIS AND L AST week on this page some harsh things were said about Senator Matthew Neely's attack on the President's church-going habits. I would not like to see that...
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THE MONEY-MAKERS Art and the Boxoffice WALTER KERR T HE notion that the common customer might come back to the theater if the theater took some pains to please the common customer is, in our...
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BOOKS An Attack on the New Orthodoxy of Literature THE EMPEROR'S CLOTHES. By Kathleen Nott. Indiana University Press. $4. By JOHN W. SIMONS M ISS Kathleen Nott, heretofore known chiefly as...
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