The Commonweal week by week A MODEST ACHIEVEMENT D URING the 1952 campaign Mr. John Foster DuUes wrote a letter to The Commonweal in which he criticized the "negative" containment policy of...
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Belief and the Writer "THE SUCCESS OF A RELIGIOUS NOVEL DEPENDS ON A VERY DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN THE MAN WHO BELIEVES AND THE MAN WHO WRITES" MARTIN TURNELL T S. ELIOT's essays on the...
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THE FEAST OF STEPHEN T HAMES, mortal hubris beggars us. Once more Christ God at Stephen's side is asking blood. Who shall outface the fierce Child and restore the right hand of our darkness from...
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The Italian Novel Today "'EVEN AFTER THE WINTRY SEASON OF ITALIAN FASCISM THERE ARE WRITERS WHO WORK" LUIGI ROSADONI V ARIOUS American Catholic friends who have come to Italy have asked me: How...
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THE STAGE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE THE Merchant of Venice" has long wanted reconstitution. Thumbed fretfully by all of us in school--how wisely Shaw refused his work to the academic...
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THE SCREEN ROGER I T was a pretty glamorous moment at New York's Paramount Theater the other day when the newsreel ended and the new screen expanded to its enormous sixty-four foot width to...
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HERE AND THERE McCARTHYISM REVISITED S ENATOR McCarthy seems to have been retired to the back pages since the historic censure action, despite several drastic, and somewhat pitiable,...
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COMMUNICATIONS "THE MORALITY OF NUCLEAR WAR'" Highland Park, IlL T O the Editors: I thoroughly enjoyed Father Drinkwater's courageous article on "The Morality of Nuclear War" [March 18]. I...
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BOOKS The Mysticism of Thomas Merton AELRED GRAHAM T O judge from the Catholic press, the Church's activity today is as vigorous as it has ever been. The theologians, within the framework of...
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The Artist-Intellectual and the World THE LION AND THE HONEYCOMB. By R. P. Blackmur. Harcourt, Brace. $5. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN rll E fundamental dilemma of l t h e artist in conflict with...
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