THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week A LIBERAL MAGAZINE? THE ARTICLE by August Heckscher in this issue...
|
Crisis of Freedom "ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE CONDITION, NOT ALONE OF LIBERTY, BUT OF EVERYTHING WHICH AS CIVILIZED MEN WE HOLD DEAR" AUGUST HECKSCHER IN ONE SENSE freedom is always in...
|
ERA OF CHANGE The Parish Pattern MICHAEL FURLONG AMERICAN PASTORS seldom write about their work. They lack the time, or the inclination, or both, and most of them are not, in any case, willing...
|
THE SCREEN NO CHOO-CHOO TO CHATTANOOGA ANOTHER OF THOSE fine westerns on the aman-must-stand-up theme is to be found in "3:10 to Yuma." It is set in Arizonia in the midst of a drought,...
|
OF NOTE SILENCE AND SHAME WHEN DOROTHY DAY was imprisoned in New York, not long ago, The Commonweal deplored the fact that scarcely any Catholics raised their voices to protest [July 26, Aug....
|
SAINTE-BEUVE Prince of French Critics? MARTIN TURNELL CHARLES MAURRAS once wrote, "It will perhaps be our criticism which most fittingly will last longest. A Sainte-Beuve and a Renan will...
|
COLMAN THE HERMIT Colman of Galway, Pledged to be Addict of chosen poverty, Living single in his wattled cell, Yet had creatures To serve him well; Kept three friends To cheer his...
|
BOOKS A Synoptic View of Criticism ANATOMY OF CRITICISM: FOUR ESSAYS. By Northrop Frye. Princeton. $6. By VIVIAN MERGER READING this book constituted for me an experience that I hope is...
|