THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week "SHOULD MR. EISENHOWER RESIGN?" p RESIDENT EISENHOWER'S rate of...
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The Gallup Poll ,on Religion Some months ago the GaIlup poll conducted surveys on religious beliefs and practices in the United States and Britain. People were asked to state whether they...
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But I prefer to think that this, like other parts of the poll, is a sign of a certain healthy (also emotional) rejection of human autonomy. What we have then is certainly not "secularism," but...
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its explosive potential could rock Africa and the world The NighCmare of Mau Mau by J. L. BENVENISTI I N MARCH of this year a very important thing happened in Kenya. Eight African members...
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THE SCREEN A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE A LTHOUGH it is a war film, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" is no ordinary war movie. It has no elaborate battle scenes, for instance. But the fine script that...
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blow up the bridge at any cost; to the young Canadian who wants to prove himself. Few films manage to have such an exciting finale and yet emphasize the futility of war at the same time. One is...
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HERE AND THERE THE MORAL TRAP I HEARD a physicist ask, with anguish, "How do you get people to understand what another war will mean?" We say another war will mean neartotal devastation, but...
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BOOKS Literature as a Reflection of Man's Place in the Universe THE COURT AND THE CASTLE. By Rebecca West. Yale. $3.75. By ANTHONY BAILEY T HE COURT and the Castle, Miss Rebecca West's...
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