The Death of the Pope BY THE WORLD at large Pope Pius XII will undoubtedly be most warmly remembered for his concern for the persecuted and neglected and his unflagging efforts for peace. His...
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Poetry and Contemplation: A Reappraisal by THOMAS MERTON AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ten years ago I wrote an article called "Poetry and the Contemplative Life" which was published first in The Commonweal...
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The Journey of Thomas Mann by RICHARD GILMAN IT WAS FITTING that Thomas Mann should have lived to such an accredited age, the age of tribal heads and wizards, but not that death should...
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Literature and Doctrine by DANIEL J. CALLAHAN OF THE VARIOUS advertising stratagems employed by publishers, perhaps none is so persistent as the assertion that here is presented the "truth":...
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WHEN DEW DRIPPED SILVER When dew dripped silver from each peach-blown bough I knew to me life had been gentle. Now as the evening tells her coronal of stars a touch of your departed presence...
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THE SCREEN THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD FILM-MAKERS have many ways of looking at war. Three current movies, although by no means all-inclusive, illustrate three different...
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COMMUNICATIONS C. S. LEWIS AND SPACE Newport, R. I. TO THE EDITORS: In your issue of September 26th, Mr. Charles M. Herzfeld gives us a clear and apparently well-informed summary of the...
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BOOKS Matter-of-Fact Confession of a Non-Penitent LOLITA. By Vladimir Nabokov. Putnam. $5. By THOMAS MOLNAR THERE MAY yet develop, in literary and legal circles, a "Lolita case,"...
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