The Commonweal week by week FOREIGN AID I T IS ominous that 1956, an election year, has begun with an acrimonious debate over foreign aid shaping up between the Administration and important...
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FRANCE TODAY A Question of Confidence "PEOPLE WHO SET A VERY HIGH PRICE ON THE INTELLECT FEEL AN EXAGGERATED MORTIFICATION IF SOMETHING IS "PUT OVER' ON THEM" DONAT O'DONNELL I WAS trying to...
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The Task Ahead LUIGI C. LICUTTI T HE speaker was a young man, with grave, ascetic features and dark, deep-set eyes. "The most important person in the Philippines," he said, "is the Filipino...
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Church Militant GRAHAM GREENE A S WE drove out of the Reservation in Father Donnell's old tinpot of a jeep we passed the Archbishop in his Cadillac. It came to rest a few yards off, between the...
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THE SCREEN SEE HOW THEY RUN A T the end of the year the reviewer can get as personal as he wants and choose the ten movies that he likes best. Nobody but nobody can push him into preferences;...
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THE STAGE DARKNESS AND DEVILS M R. Eddie Dowling's production of the Abbey Theatre success, "The Righteous Are Bold," by the Irish dramatist Frank Carney, is most distinguished and interesting...
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COMMUNICATIONS "CATHOLICS AND ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM" Montreal, Can. T O the Editors: Thank you for printing Bishop Wright's apology for "the wild, living intellect of man" [De~mber 16]. The...
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BOOKS The Limits of Art ANTHONY BAILEY T HERE are some writers who, in one sudden flash of particular insight, provide us with a remark that can be applied with equal effect to other subjects....
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And Ever the Twain Shall Meet THE HONORABLE PICNIC. By Thomas Raucat. Translated by Leonard Cline. Decorations by Lorraine Combs. Viking. $3.50. By WILLIAM DUNLEA F OR the sake of...
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