THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION ELECTION OF THE POPE THE HISTORIC words "Habemus Papam" brought joy to the...
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An Editorial Report Catholics and International Peace THE TERRIBLE fact of war, or the threat of it, has left its sad mark on almost every day of the last two decades. It follows that men in...
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The Voice of Boris Pasternak The very fact that he has been silenced in Soviet Russia indicates how much the totalitarian leaders dread him by HELENE ISWOLSKY EVERYTHING is unusual...
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On a Prize Crucifix by a Student Sculptor The cross of boy with man within is an Anguished one. The boy who made this curve Of Christ, the man who made this anxious cross Of Christ, stripped,...
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Is fhere a connection between the recession and the concentration of economic power? Economics of Power by LAWRENCE T. KING IN A RECENT SURVEY on the most important issues facing the American...
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OUT OF EAST GERMANY Flight to Freedom by GABRIEL GERSH HERR ERNST LEMMER, Minister for AllGerman Affairs in Bonn, summed up very neatly a situation which is causing growing anxiety in...
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THERESE Her features were those of a Roman martyr: her eyes shone cold and piercing and blue as sapphire hewn within the hour, her nose stood strong and heightened the beauty of saxon ...
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THE STAGE LORD ACTON IN ROME AT ONE TURBULENT passage in The Rivals, Mrs. Malaprop announces, "So, so, here's fine work, here's fine suicide, parricide, and simulation going on in the...
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THE SCREEN ABLE FABLES JOHN FORD has made out of "The Last Hurrah," a fascinating fable about an aging Irish-American mayor in a New England city who's a cross between a modern Robin Hood and...
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS Mass Media and Books by CLAIRE HUCHET BISHOP THE NUMBER of children's books which find their way to the screen, movies and T.V. is relatively small. Occasionally we have...
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