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THE
Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION
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PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S ADDRESS
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S first address to the...
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Sources of Humanism
"NOT ALL THE LIBERAL UTOPIAS OF THE CENTURIES DESTROY MAN'S UNUTTERABLE CERTAINTY THAT HE IS A CREATURE"
MICHAEL NOVAK
LIBERALS, WRITES Will Herberg, are essentially...
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Exiles from the Caribbean
JOHN FICUEROA
YOU ARE a West Indian, living in a basement flat in London. In the morning paper you notice that the Australian Government is offering to pay the passage of...
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PROPOSITIONS SOUTH OF MONTAUP MOUNTAIN
A: There, all's silence, . music before sound of music, at the same center where silence is sleep taking breath, and we see ourselves simplified by adoration;...
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ROLE OF THE UNIONS
Post-Mortem on the Labor Vote
JOHN C. CORT
REMEMBER when the AFL and CIO merged into one big united labor movement of nearly 15,000,000 members? At that time, only a year ago,...
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HERE AND THERE
THE RELIGIOUS REVIVAL
WHAT HAS been called the "revival of religion" in American life has been doubted, denounced and acclaimed. But there is something there, and it does not lend...
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THE STAGE
MUSICAL NOTES
MR. AL CAPP'S Dogpatch fantasies of innocence and experience have not been translated into the Broadway idiom without pain: "Li'l Abner" (at the St. James) has diminished in...
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LADY OF THE GENESEE
(For the Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of the Genesee, Pifjard, N. Y.)
The moated hills monastically close in This gracious valley of her smile Who planted here of her own patrimony...
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FIFTEEN-YEAR JOURNEY
The World in Thurber's Fables
GERALD WEALES
JAMES THURBER'S fifteen-year journey from Fables for Our Time (1940) to Further Fables for Our Time* has taken him, as it has taken...
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Vol. 065 Issue 014 (January 4 1957)
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