The Commonweal week by week WISHING WON'T MAKE IT SO S INCE his return from Switzerland, President Eisenhower's popularity has reached giddy heights. An unprecedented majority of Americans...
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Politics in a New World "WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF FLUX, AND OUR ASSERTION OF VALUES MUST BEGIN WITH THIS FACT" MICHAEL HARRINCTON I N a fant, astic, yet suggestive, essay published at the turn of...
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FROM SYRIA The Enemy Is Within Damascus m CITY as fine and lovely and old as Damascus ought not be background for the unfortunate political history of modern Syria. This oldest of the world's...
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THE STAGE THE AMERICAN STRATFORD I WOULD have wished, in this notice, to celebrate the dramatic achievement of the Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut: to recognize and salute the...
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COMMUNICATIONS "BELIEF AND THE WRITER" North Easton, Mass. T O the Editors: In a recent letter to The Commonweal [July 22] James J. Greene sets aside the "larger thematic points" of Mr....
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OF NOTE REVISING THE UN CHARTER I N an address to a local chapter of the United World Federalists which was inserted in the Congressional Record by Representative Melvin Price of...
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BOOKS The Return to Liturgy H. A. REINHOLD T HE liturgical movement, now in its fifth decade and by now worldwide in extension, has a few dates that should go down in its history as...
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Stories from the Spirit of this Age THE COLLECTED STORIES. By Isaac Babel. Edited and translated by Walter Morison. Introduction by Lionel Trilling. Criterion. $5. By HENRY POPKIN I SAAC...
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