THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF ,PUBLICATION week by week, THE CANDIDATES A S POTENTIAL candidates for the Presi- dency...
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The Pool of Ignorance in every country there is some illiteracy, and in many countries there is almost no literacy at all by C. K. YEARLEY, JR. M ORE THAN twenty years ago Franklin Roosevelt...
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HERE AND THERE THE CHOICE L AST week I saw an advance showing of Stanley Kramer's production of "On the Beach," the film made from the Nevil Shute novel. The picture will be released in December...
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Publishing a daily is big business, in which only the well-heeled can survive Disappearing Dailies by TED LE BERTHON D ESPITE the vast numbers of us who listen to radio and T.V. news...
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"You'd lose your shirt. Several big city dailies are widely read here. They're all Republican. Our local merchants don't advertise with them; they do advertise in our little semi-weekly. But if you...
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COUNTERPOINT BLUE RIBBON PIONEERS T HE PROBABILITY is slight that any county in any State has a more beautiful setting for its annual fair than Santa Cruz County, Arizona, has at the crossroad...
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THE SCREEN ASK ANY GIRL OR BOY I N JUNE, "Ask Any Girl" brought Shirley Mac- Laine to New York as a career girl looking for a job or a husband or both. The film was a bright bit of froth that...
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the key to the plot is in the flashbacks exposed as the various witnesses take the stand. It seems Sir Mark and his friend were in a German P.O.W. camp and escaped with another man, a struggling...
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BOOKS Religion, Culture and Contemporary Life THEOLOGY OF CULTURE. By Paul Tillich. Oxford University Press. $4. By LEONARD F. X. MAYHEW C ULTURE, considered as the total complex of the...
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Indeed, the explosion and its fury, unleashed upon us on the first page, are never really justified in terms of the characters they de- stroy. Mr. Humes provokes a com- parison with Conrad, Malraux,...
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