THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week. A MATTER OF VALUES T HE BELITTLING of Soviet accomplishments and...
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The Southern Moderate "There usually comes a time when the moderate can state a few hard facts and make some modest proposals. Perhaps such a time is at hand." by WALKER PERCY T O THE MODERATE...
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perhaps the loss is not. One hopes that the South's genius for graceful and humane relations between people may not be forgotten in the coming urbanization. What must take place if we are ever to...
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I T IS NOT easy to criticize anything as uniquely worthy and important as the conference at Tioumliline. Still, it was not perfect. One was left wondering, for example, if the theme of the...
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sion. This is a weakness in the AFL-CIO constitution. But this being so, it must take effective action or stand condemned as either 1) cowardly, or 2) tolerant of corruption, or 3) both. By...
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much for him, Brando's acting changes. He becomes less stylized, more quiet and thoughtful. Perhaps this is what Director Joshua Logan had in mind to indicate the growth from petulant boy to man....
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ment and upheaval, but to render it estheticaUy is surely to insist on some definition and heightening of tone: if Mrs. McCullers wishes to impose a catastrophic reading on the theme, she has...
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HERE AND THERE NUCLEAR WAR AND A DISTINGUISHED group of scientists, political experts and theologians met in New York recently to discuss ethics and foreign policy, with special reference to...
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BOOKS Strange Tales, Marvelously Told LAST TAL~ES. By Isak Dinesen. Random House. $4. By EDWIN KENNBECK W HATEVER IT IS that Isak Dinesen does in her tales, she often does it marvelously...
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