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CHRISTMAS, 1956
FOR MOST American Catholics, as well as for most Americans generally, Christmas this year will be a time for counting blessings. The nation is at a peak of prosperity...
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The Treasures of Christmas
"THE MOST POWERFUL MEDICINE AGAINST SHALLOW SENTIMENTALISM, WHICH BREEDS SECULARISM, IS THE WORD COMING ON WINGS OF GRACE"
H. A. REINHOLD
THE ROMAN celebration of the...
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FEEDING THE HUNGRY
Challenge to Abundance
A. NEVETT
FEW INDIVIDUALS, let alone nations, succeed in excluding considerations of personal gain from their actions. And when it is a question of wealth...
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ABBE PIERRE
Priest of the Immediate
DOROTHY DAY
WE NOW have the words of Abbe Pierre in print, but he himself did not write a book. The Rag Pickers of Emmaus, which Kenedy published early last year,...
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THE STAGE
MR. BERNSTEIN CULTIVATES HIS GARDEN
VOLTAIRE'S Candide moves through its intricate dance of chaos-the mutilations and autos da fe, the venal skein of duplicity and vice and ineradicable...
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THE SCREEN
CRAZY, MAN, CRAZY
AT THE YEAR'S end the studios usually pop up with their flashiest musicals to put audiences in a gala mood. This year, however, they are presenting three of the most...
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A POEM
On the leafless winter vine Pinned into a paper peak, each cluster Now waits for Noel and Old Night When one by one twelve grapes Are eaten as the hour strikes . . To the lips the very...
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HERE AND THERE
EVERY CHRISTMAS
THEY have set up the big tree in Rockefeller Plaza; the skinny street-corner Santa Clauses are out again and above the low mournful sounds of New York traffic their...
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Epilogue, Songs of the Spouses, Complaint of Love
(After Solomon and after the Seventh Unicorn Tapestry.)
The Bridegroom's Song: How lovely are her feet And the joint of her jeweled Thigh. Her belly...
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MARIANNE MOORE
In the Grand Tradition
BETTE RICHART
A MAJOR POET has given us a new reason to weigh a timeless question: what is the experience of poetry? Is it more, or less, than life? More, or...
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Vol. 065 Issue 010 (December 7 1956)
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