The Commonweal week by week WATCHING THE WORLD GO BY D EMOCRACY, of its very nature, involves risks. We are reminded of this fact when we consider the latest stage of the competitive...
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The Offshore Islands "THERE SEEMS TO BE ONLY ONE WAY TO SAVE THE NATIONALISTS FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN FOLLY" HAROLD C. HINTON I T WILL soon be fighting weather again in the Formosa...
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CRISIS IN FRANCE Beginning of the End? JOHN CAXTON T HE WORD 'crisis,' like many other things in France, is inflated: a fit of indigestion or of petulance, the fall of a government, any...
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THE STAGE CITIZEN WELLES I DO NOT belong to the generation for which Mr. Orson Welles appears to have been a traumatic experience, and hence I was able to approach his production of "King...
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THE SCREEN WATERMELON AND HAM O N THE surface, "Picnic" is a comedy, a hilarious affair that sends audiences into gales of laughter as they watch the effect of a handsome and well-built bum...
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COMMUNICATIONS "JOURNALS OF OPINION" Washington, D.C. T O the Editors: One of the opinions of Father Hartnett, in his article on "Journals of Opinion," [February 10] calls for comment, perhaps...
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ARABIAN FORERUNNER Philosophers of Anxiety JAMES KRITZECK HE NATURAL role of twentieth-century , , Tman, General Cummings tells Lieutenant . l _ Hearn in The Naked and the Dead, "is anxiety."...
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BOOKS The Literary Psyche of Modern Italy MODERN ITALIAN STORIES. Selected and translated by W. J. Strachan. Philosophical Library. $4.75. By WILLIAM DUNLEA T HESE short stories are...
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