THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SECOND YEAR OF PUBLICATION .week by week MR. STEVENSON AGAIN T HE DEMOCRATIC national convention did one...
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Christianity and Civilization "TO SPEAK OF CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION IS NOT TO SPEAK OF A MYTH, NEITHER THE NOSTALGIC MYTH OF A NEW MIDDLE AGES, NOR THE DREAM OF A KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH." JEAN...
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The American Worker EDWARD A. MARCINIAK I N ALMOST every industrialized nation of the world, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, the official workers' holiday is the first day of May. But in the...
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PYRRHIC VICTORY Elections in Japan MURRAY POLNER A MERICANS in Japan saw many strangely familiar sights during the recent elections. In the larger towns and cities most candidates...
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THE SCREEN ONE MAN IN HIS TIME F OREIGN FILMS, even those not of the best, usually have some following in this country, and a couple of new releases, though not world-beaters, deserve...
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THE STAGE PASSION AND SOCIETY I N THE middle range of the Shakespearean canon is a darkly potent and most disquieting play, "Measure for Measure." Out of favor with earlier generations, its...
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COMMUNICATIONS "WAGES AND PRICES" San Antonio, Texas T O the Editors: Father Schirber's first point on wages and salaries [Aug. 10] is that "a rise in wages made possible by a rise in the price...
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BOOKS Frank, Lucid Appraisal of Controversial F. D. R. ROOSEVELT: THE LION AND THE FOX. By James MacGregor Burns. Harcourt, Brace. $5.75. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON I T IS over a decade since...
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