THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week CATHOLICS IN THE UNIVERSITY T HE TROUBLED relations which exist...
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Saints, Pilgrims and Artists J. D. Salinger deals, not with public questions, but with private character. The personality is at grips with a problem almost too strong for it. The problem is...
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Camus refuses to confuse what he desires with what he believes to be true The Isolated Man by ANTHONY BAILEY T HE FRENCH AND the Germans have in common a tradition, in which literature and...
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"Others shrewdly noted that the author had portrayed himself and his acquaintances . . . . A Hero Of Our Time, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of an individual; it is the aggregate of...
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The widow of Dylan Thomas tells of living in the shadow of a colossus A Fierce Confession by BETTE RICHART I N HER FOREWORD to John Malcolm Brinnin's Dylan Thomas in America, Caitlin Thomas...
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HERE AND THERE VARIETIES OF ANTI-CLERICALISM T HE OTHER DAY, out of the blue, a ~iend anti-clencat. The friend was asked: "Are you . . . . 9himself a priest. I did not answer fight away...
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THE STAGE DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS T HE VISION of Nathanael West's "Miss Lonelyhearts" commands by its hallucinatory stillness that crawling sense, as in a Breugel pastoral, of violence,...
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suspense which mounts, scene by scene. Flashbacks to the P.O.W. camp in Korea add to the revealing evidence, and so do the telling Performances of the leads and of the good supporting cast....
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BOOKS Calm, Wise Stories of the Human Comedy DOMESTIC RELATIONS. By Frank O'Connor. Knopf. $3.50. By WILLIAM JAMES SMITH M OST OF THE stories in this latest collection of Frank O'Connor's...
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