THE
Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION
-week by week-
NOT SO SMALL FAVORS
AT THIS WRITING, the United Nations Emergency Force...
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The Eisenhower Court
"SEEMINGLY WITHOUT CONSCIOUS DESIGN, MR. EISENHOWER HAS CONSTRUCTED A COHERENT LIBERAL MAJORITY ON THE COURT"
WILLIAM V. SHANNON
IT IS ONE of the striking ironies of...
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ARAB MILITARY STRENGTH
Behind the Myth
GUNNAR D. KUMLIEN
WHAT WAS PROVED by the Suez conflict? One thing that was conclusively established, according to many European observers here, was the extreme...
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HERE AND THERE
CONTROVERSY, NO SOAP
LAST NOVEMBER George Rosen wrote an article on TV censorship in Variety which was summed up in a recent issue of Information Service, a weekly publication of the...
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FRANCE AND THE FUTURE
Crisis of Belief
WALLACE FOWLIE
ALL OVER France, the question of Algeria is the inescapable subject of discussion. There is not much doubt that the majority of the French want...
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THE STAGE
MISS BANKHEAD vs. HENRY JAMES
MISS TALLULAH Bankhead's late adventure in the Jamesian climate was marked by a note of giddy pathos not without precedent in our experience. The artist as...
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THE SCREEN
PRETTY AS A PICTURE
MOVIES may not be better than ever, as the slogan says, but they certainly are prettier. Although the three new films under discussion this week are rather uninspired...
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COMMUNICATIONS
"THE NUN IN LITERATURE"
Washington, D.C.
TO the Editors: One nun in literature who came instantly to mind while reading Mrs. Holzhauer's intelligent comment on "The Nun in Literature"...
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BOOKS
The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
THE INNOCENT. By Madison Jones. Harcourt, Brace. $4.75.
By THOMAS F. CURLEY
THIS IS a first novel. If it were sexually sensational enough to attract wide...
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