The Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week ISRAEL AND ANTI-SEMITISM T HE DANGER of war in the Middle East is...
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The Secularization of Culture "POST-CHRISTIAN THOUGHT CONCEIVES THE WORLD DEVOID OF ANIMATION OR DIVINITY, AN OBJECT REDUCIBLE TO THE PROCESSES OF ABSTRACT SCIENCE" THOMAS F. O'DEA I N THE...
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FROM FRANCE Crisis in Algeria ROBERT BARRAT T HE ALGERIAN crisis daily becomes more and more of a national drama, of even greater gravity than the Indochina affair. Vie~am, more than twelve...
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WORLD OF THE MYSTERY Crime and Criticism JOHN P. SISK MYSTERY stories, like golf, are not spoiled for the highbrows because the lowbrows like them. Once, reading them was something you did on...
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THE SCREEN OPUS, OPERA p ERHAPS the most amazing thing about "The Last Ten Days" is that such a good film about Hitler and the clique surrounding him should .be made in the first decade after...
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THE STAGE THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT T HE INTERIOR world of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya is of a difficult and troubling beauty. Its external profile solicits us with the images of familiar languor:...
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COMMUNICATIONS "THE LAST HUNT" Wastlington, D. C. T O the Editors: While there may be " . . . no doubt as to who wins at the end of 'The Last H u n t " . . . " [March 16] your movie-reviewer,...
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BOOKS A Perceptive Report on Varied Cultures RED, BLACK, BLOND AND OLIVE. By Edmund Wilson. Oxford. $6.75. By GERALD WEALES p EOPLE who have met Edmund Wilson say that he is a prodigious...
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