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 Vol. 071 Issue 001 (October 2 1959)
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Vol. 071 Issue 002 (October 9 1959)
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Vol. 071 Issue 003 (October 16 1959)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 Week by Week
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THE Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION , week by week ...... LACK OF PROGR~.SS REPORT T WO YEARS AGO the...
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Theology and Literature
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Murchand, Bernard G.
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Theology and Literature In the renewed dialogue befween liferafure and theol- ogy, it is the latter, perhaps, which sfands to profit most by BERNARD G. MURCHLAND T HE RELATIONSHIP between...
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Isaiah's Coal
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Nims, John Frederick
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Mass," he says, "is the key to a Catholic art. It de- fines the relation of grace to nature, and the relations of the Catholic artist to the world. But this stand- point, in effect, disparages any...
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Arrivederci, Roma
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Cogley, John
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HERE AND THERE
ARRIVEDERCI, ROMA
E ACH TIME I have left this city, the City, eter- naUy urban, eternally beckoning, it has been with the solemn resolve to return. But it would be foolish...
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The American Pattern
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Hynes, Sam
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The uniqueness of American experience is reflected in our literature The American Pattern
by SAM HYNES I T HAS BEEN nearly two hundred years now since Cr~vecoeur asked "What is an...
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Reading Dante with Ionians
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O'Gorman, Ned
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writers--perhaps only Henry James--have had the critical capacities for such an examination of tl~eir own relation to their inheritance as Americans. The Territory Ahead is a book of institutions...
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The Language of New York
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Burnham, Philip
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COUNTERPOINT THE LANGUAGE OF NEW YORK A PERSON who once lived in New York City a long time and then moved far away finds his visits back to town more interesting every addi- tional year...
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Bertolt Brecht: Anti Hero
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Cook, Bruce A.
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Whatever his politics, he was preeminently a playwright Bertolt Brecht: Anti-Hero
by BRUCE A. COOK I N 1947 Bertolt Brecht told an interviewer that he thought he would remain in his Santa...
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The Stage
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Hayes, Richard
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Brecht had apparently made an irrevocable choice. When he arrived in East Germany in October, 1948, the blockade was already four months old; the lines were drawn; the Cold War had begun. Still, a...
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The Screen
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Hartung, Philip T.
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bears too heavily on him, cheerfulness--as it did with the failed philosopher--keeps breaking in. The consequence of all this is a delight as impressive as it is humane and rare: sophisticated,...
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Budapest: A Poem
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McCallister, Claire
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BUDAPEST New York, December 1956 Dust in the fog dropped opal and down the East River Night setting fire to the bridges would drown what we knew: Out over the halls ringing eloquence taller...
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Books
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~OOKS Marcel Proust and the Dragon of Time PROUST: The Early Years. By George D. Painter. Atlantic- Little, Brown. $6.50. By RICHARD GILMAN I T WOULD seem to take a high degree...
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Vol. 071 Issue 004 (October 23 1959)
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Vol. 071 Issue 005 (October 30 1959)
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