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ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS
THE RECENT resignation of Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister after only twenty-one months in the post and the appointment of Harold Macmillan as his successor...
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Education and the State
"THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE PROGRESS OF UNIVERSAL EDUCATION HAS COINCIDED WITH THE SECULARIZATION OF MODERN CULTURE"
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON
IT SEEMS to me that most people are...
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FREEDOM IN THE UNIVERSITY
Assault from Within
LAWRENCE PODELL
ACADEMIC FREEDOM is defined in Webster's New International Dictionary as "Freedom of a teacher, especially a college or university...
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IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The Teacher Shortage
JOSEPH H. FICHTER
EVERY FIRST GRADE in every elementary school has given the community at least six years notice when it would be ready to enter school....
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HERE AND THERE
ACADEMIC FREEDOM
IN HIS BOOK Heresy Yes, Conspiracy No, Sidney Hook states flatly that there is no academic freedom in Catholic colleges. Professor Hook's opinion, echoed in Robert...
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THE SCREEN
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
ALTHOUGH truth is often stranger than fiction, it doesn't necessarily make a better movie. "The Wrong Man" is based on a true story, on events that happened to a New...
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THE STAGE
VALEDICTORY
MR. ROBERT Sherwood's posthumous comedy, mounted by The Playwrights' Company in a production of considerable opulence, is a pallid conceit provoked by the legend of Mrs. Robert...
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COMMUNICATIONS
ANGELA THIRKELL
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
To the Editors. Oh dear! Miss Dachine Rainer is a Very Clever young woman, and No One could admire her work for The Commonweal more than I;...
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BOOKS
A Great Dramatist's Approach to Autobiography
MIRROR IN MY HOUSE: The Autobiographies of Sean O'Casey. Mac-millan. 2 Vols. $20.
By DAVID H. GREENE
MOST OF us already know that the Irish excel...
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