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THE
Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION
-week by week-
THE AMERICAN DREAM
AMERICA has a new cultural hero-the TV quiz winner-in...
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States a generation or two ago, religious conflict raged openly. The real Nun was an arresting figure by virtue of her novelty and others' superstition; her peculiar commitment within a hated...
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AMBIGUITY AND MISUNDERSTANDING
Religion in Toynbee
J. N. MOODY
ARNOLD TOYNBEE occupies an unusual position in the intellectual world. None would question his competence. His learning is attested to...
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EXPLORING DIFFERENCES
Experiment in Conversation
JOHN C. CORT
IT IS COMMONLY believed that in Boston, "the home of the bean and the cod, the Lowells speak only to Cabots and the Cabots speak only to...
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HERE AND THERE
THE USES OF PLATITUDE
FOR YEARS Americans lived in splendid isolation from the world's problems and thereby avoided many painful moral decisions. An American does not have to be very...
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THE STAGE
THE CLIMATE OF ILLYRIA
THE SHAKESPEARWRIGHTS, an ensemble whose work I have insufficiently noted, are offering for a limited engagement in the chapel of St. Ignatius Church their spirited...
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THE SCREEN
A WEAD IN A GARDEN OF CLICHES
THE OPENING scenes of "The Wings of Eagles" show John Wayne, as Frank Wead, a young Navy flier, trying to impress an Army officer (Kenneth Tobey) with his...
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Critics' Choices of Catholic Books
JAMES FINN
THE Catholic Approach to Protestantism. By George H. Tavard. A. A. Harper. $2.50. Because Catholic-Protestant relations in this country tend to receive...
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Vol. 065 Issue 018 (February 1 1957)
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