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		––THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and  the Arts THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week PRESENT STATE OF THE UNION T HE PRESIDENT'S State of the Union...
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		The G.O.P. in the Midwest No meaningful appraisal of Midwest politics is possible unless one first discards the unrealistic image of Midwest Republicanism that is widely held by VICTOR C....
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		Today all the signs point to the coming of a new age Ireland's Angry Young Men by MICHAEL P. FOGARTY A MAN CALLED Fogarty who claims to be casting a foreign, impartial eye over Ireland...
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		HERE AND THERE POINT OF NO RETURN W E ARE at a dividing point in the history of the world. Again mankind has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Whatever happens in the...
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		Siegfried Sassoon has always hed a small but enthusiastic body of readers Rebel of Another Generation by NEVILLE p ARLOR-MAIDS .have a habi't of .announcing visitors in ,tones that are exactly...
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		throughout his work there are ,these entries that seem to have slipped from a poet's notebooks into his prose volumes, volumes whose publication has tended to eclipse temporarily ..the poet...
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		a vaudeville idea of rusticity, which is vulgar when it is not patronizing, and which, if it reflects a personal conception, is a serious comment on Miss Harris' sensibility; if she has adopted...
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		this situation is not very well thought out. Even though the passing plane turns out to be American, the men label Alan a coward; and Alan, himself, gets over his reluctance toward fighting when...
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		BOOKS A Satisfying Confrontation of Mystery THE SIBYL. By Par Lagerkvist. Translated by Naomi Walford. Random House. $3. By PHILIP DEASY O F THE TWO memorable novels of Par Langerkvist...
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