THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week, REVIVAL OF LEARNING? I F THE SUCCESSES of the European...
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A United Europe: Dream or Nightmare? The idea of European unity has preoccupied men far back into history. Now it seems at least possible that such unity may come within our lifetime. Would this...
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rent objectives, but the spirit behind it, and it is here that there is most that is encouraging to report. The Napoleons and Hitlers, the Bolsheviks and Jacobins who have tried to unite Europe...
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HERE AHD THERE ANYONE LISTENING ? L EADING American Catholics, like Monsignor John Tracy Ellis, Father Walter Ong and Father John Cavanaugh, have called attention to the fact that Catholic...
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Thornton Wilder's distinction as a playwright is that banality emerges as one kind of truth Unfashionable Optimist by GERALD WEALES T HORNTON WILDER'S recently issued Three Plays* might have...
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luctan,t maiden, the drunken servant, the interfering vice. The strength of the play lies, however, in the fact that, even while they retain the force of philosophical generalization, the...
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Mario Lanza, looking a bit thinner .and singing at his best, gives out with a plethora of numbers ranging from grand opera to modern tunes, and he is frequently joined by various members of the...
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and, often, some fierce light--Miss Booth's suspicious, bunty little girl, hung about with a curtain of faded hair, is full of terror indeed----~but the role patently engages only a stray corner...
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BOOKS The Innocence and Sincerity of a Regular Guy SOME CAME RUNNING. By James Jones. Scribners. $7.50. By WILLIAM J. SMITH I HAVE read this novel in its entirety--a claim that some...
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