The Commonweal week by week FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION T HIS IS a season for prestige advertising in the metropolitan newspapers. Various mass media are taking occasion to demonstrate ways in...
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Mission of the Press "THE CATHOLIC PRESS IS OFTEN UNPOPULAR, NOT FOR WHAT IT WRITES, BUT FOR ITS PROFESSION OF FAITH" FEDERICO ALESSANDRINi T HE MISSION of the Catholic press is to serve the...
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"A DEFINITE, COHERENT OUTLOOK" Journals of Opinion ROBERT C. HARTNETT G ENERAL discussions about the purposes and workings of the American Catholic press, such as are annually occasioned by...
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"CONTINUING DIALOGUE" A Columnist's Lot DONALD McDONALD F OUR YEARS ago I began writing a weekly column for the Catholic Messenger of Davenport, Iowa. Today, the column appears in...
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THE SCREEN VALENTINES FROM ABROAD M OVIE theaters as well as audiences are now welcoming films from other countries. The newest batch, though interesting to selective moviegoers, is...
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THE STAGE PIRANDELLO O F THE four great dramatists who have given us the most profound versions of modern life in histrionic terms--Ibsen and Shaw, Pirandello, Chekhov--Pirandello alone has...
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COMMUNICATIONS "CATHOLIC INTELLECTUAL RESPONSIBILITY" Cincinnati, Ohio T O the Editors: I read with the greatest interest the excerpts from the article in Thought by Father Ellis, reprinted in...
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SHORT STORY Zeal J. F. POWERS S OUTH of St. Paul the conductor appeared at the head of the coach, held up his ticket punch, and clicked it. The Bishop felt for his ticket. It was there. "I...
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BOOKS Impersonal Ironist of the Single Vision TEN NORTH FREDERICK. By John O'Hara. Random House. $3.95. By JOHN F. SULLIVAN O NE of the reflections to which a reading of John O'Hara's new...
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